Maybe This Article Found You for a Reason
A strange little story about money, alignment, and paying attention when opportunity knocks
The other day I met a fascinating woman.
Have you ever met someone and just clicked?
Not in a romantic way.
In a spiritual way.
That’s what happened when I met Karen Baines.
Karen is in the UK. I’m here in the US.
We’re part of a shared community of like-minded creators, entrepreneurs, and spiritually curious people, but we had never really connected before.
Then she saw something I posted.
She reached out.
We Zoomed.
And I’ll be honest, I didn’t really know what she did before we got on the call.
I knew she was connected to business in some way. I later learned she’s a coach who helps people with their business sense, their entrepreneurial side, and their relationship with money.
But here’s the part that got me.
Karen treats money as energy.
The Strange Timing of It
Now, I know.
That may sound a little woo-woo.
And if you’re rolling your eyes slightly, I get it.
A few years ago, I probably would have rolled mine too.
But this didn’t feel random.
Because maybe ten minutes before our call, I had literally written in my journal about money being energy.
Not metaphorically.
Not casually.
I had been thinking about how money moves, how we relate to it, how we block it, how we chase it, and how maybe part of our struggle with money has less to do with effort and more to do with the frequency we’re operating from.
Then Karen showed up.
Out of the blue.
Talking about the same thing.
I don’t know what you call that.
Coincidence.
Alignment.
A nudge.
The universe tapping its watch and saying, “Are you paying attention yet?”
Whatever it was, it felt too specific to ignore.
And it came after I had just spent about a month inside an separate mastermind on entrepreneurship, money, business, and the idea that money is not just numbers in a bank account.
Money is movement.
Money is trust.
Money is exchange.
Money is energy.
That doesn’t mean you sit on the couch, light a candle, and wait for checks to fall from the sky.
Although if you figure that one out, please send instructions.
But I do think there’s something powerful about the way we show up.
The way we think.
The way we create.
The way we receive.
And as writers, artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs, I think this matters more than we sometimes admit.
When Money Enters the Room
Many of us have complicated relationships with money.
We want to create meaningful work.
We want to help people.
We want to inspire, teach, entertain, heal, encourage, or make someone feel less alone.
But then money enters the room, and suddenly everything gets weird.
We start apologizing.
We start shrinking.
We start pretending we don’t care.
We start telling ourselves that wanting income from our creative work somehow makes the work less pure.
And I don’t think that’s true.
I think it’s possible to care deeply about your work and still want your work to support you.
I think it’s possible to create from the soul without pretending money doesn’t matter.
In fact, I’m starting to believe the opposite.
The more aligned we are with our true selves, the more honest we become about money.
Not greedy.
Not desperate.
Just honest.
Honest about what we want.
Honest about the value of what we bring into the world.
And honest about the ways we might be blocking the very opportunities we say we want.
The Signal We Send
That’s what this conversation with Karen stirred up in me.
The idea that we are always broadcasting something.
Through our choices.
Through our beliefs.
Through the moments when we either trust ourselves or abandon ourselves.
We’re always sending out a signal.
And whether we realize it or not, that signal affects our work, our opportunities, and the people we attract.
Yes, I suspect it affects money too.
That’s why this conversation landed so strongly for me.
Because I’ve been thinking a lot lately about writers and creatives who feel called to do something more with their work.
Not just finish a book.
Not just write a post.
Not just publish something and hope people find it.
But actually build something meaningful around their gifts.
A body of work.
A message.
A business.
A life.
And that requires more than tactics.
Yes, you need strategy.
Yes, you need structure.
Yes, you need to understand publishing, marketing, audience-building, and all the practical pieces.
But underneath all of that is something deeper.
There’s the question of who you’re being while you build it.
Are you creating from fear?
Are you forcing something open?
Are you telling yourself you’re not ready, not qualified, or not visible enough?
Or are you aligning with the bigger part of yourself?
The part that already knows.
The part that can create, receive, and move forward without making everything so damn hard.
That’s the part I’m interested in.
For myself.
And for the writers and creatives I care about.
Why This Matters for Creative People
When you’re aligned with that part of yourself, your work changes.
You show up differently.
You create differently.
You make decisions differently.
You stop making money the enemy.
You stop making success suspicious.
You stop treating your creative gifts like they’re supposed to live in a tiny little box labeled “hobby.”
And maybe, just maybe, you begin to let more good come to you.
Which brings me back to Karen…
The Free Workshop I Signed Up For
Karen is offering a free mastermind workshop called 5 Steps to ExtraOrdinary Money.
It’s happening on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. EDT.
I signed up immediately.
Not because I think one free workshop magically solves everything.
Not because I’m handing over my brain and saying, “Yes, please, tell me what to believe.”
And not because I suddenly think money is only about mindset and nothing else matters.
I signed up because the timing felt aligned.
I signed up because the topic is exactly where my attention has been.
I signed up because I’m curious.
And honestly, it’s free.
So what do I have to lose?
If you’re a writer, creative, artist, coach, entrepreneur, or someone who feels called into a different relationship with money, maybe this is your sign.
Especially if you’ve been wrestling with how to create from alignment instead of fear.
How to stop treating money like something separate from your creative life.
I don’t know what you’ll get from it.
I don’t know what I’ll get from it.
But I do know this: sometimes something shows up at exactly the right time, and you either pay attention or you don’t.
I’m choosing to pay attention.
The workshop is free, and if you sign up but can’t attend live, you’ll still be sent the recording.
So there’s no pressure to be there at exactly 11:00 a.m. EDT.
You can sign up, receive the replay, and watch when it works for you.
Here’s the link if you want to join:
Maybe it’s for you.
Maybe it isn’t.
But if something in this made you pause, even slightly, maybe that’s worth listening to.
Because sometimes opportunity doesn’t arrive with a thunderclap.
Sometimes it arrives as a message from someone you barely know.
Sometimes it arrives ten minutes after you wrote the same thing in your journal.
Sometimes it arrives quietly and asks:
Are you paying attention?
I wish you the best on your artistic journey.
All the Best,
Rick Bettencourt,
The Worthy Writer
P.S. Here’s the link to Karen’s free workshop: 5 Steps to ExtraOrdinary Money.
Rick, Nice to meet you. Your words resonate with me and I’m looking forward to working with you!