You might not have seen that, um. So the first autobiography i want to talk about is elton john's, um, one that came out, i think, maybe, i don't know, two thousand and 19, two thousand and 20, something like that. And it's called me. And he talks about how, you know, he had a massive drug problem when he started making money, and he spent a a lot of money, obviously, on drugs. But then, as he became more sober, he started spending on, uh, flowers and extra houses and art. And didn't even really look ever about how much money he was spending until he's accounted. I sat him down and said, hey, you're, you're going to run out of money now. And that's when he had to tour, and he had to do albums to basically pay for stuff. Um. Now, you might think, cool. Well, elton jon, that's not a very relatable story, right, of him spending 200 thousand dol lars a week on flowers and things like that. But actually, what was really interesting about the book is that when he got a handle on those things and he started looking at where he was spending money on, it actually didn't change his behavior so much about what he spent it on. He was just more aware of what was going out as well as what was coming in, and being a little bit more mindful about some of the business deals that he was he was doing. And so again, i don't want to think that this is a unrelatable lesson for us, because how many times? And how many people do you know who spend more money than they earn, or don't look at what is coming in? So i know i've done that before. In the past. I've spent money, um that i didn't really have to make myself feel better. I've spent over spent on things to make myself feel good. I have not wanted to look at my bill. I went through a big stage in my twenties where i never opened my credit card statements, and i just didn't want to look. And so i i quit. I related to that quite a lot. And so if you know anything about the money archetypes, so i'm certified in sacred money archetypes, an amazing course by kendal somehok. And this is the celebrity archetype. I have friends who are celebrity archetypes who spend more money than they have, who don't, um, keep an eye on their finances. I have been places with friends who wear designer clothes, and then their credit card, uh, gets declined because he, he forgot to pay the bill, or they, they didn't realize they didn't have any money in their account. And so we can learn from like elton's lesson there.

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then here's what is really cool, once he got a handle on how much was coming in and out, he still spends money on things that bring him joy. And he talks about that um about how it brings him joy to give gifts. It brings him joy to have flowers in his house every day, and fresh flowers. It brings him joy to buy outrageous things for his family, and to spend money on things that bring his whole family joy, like vacations and, um, like football. He's a big soccer fan, for example. And then i actually went to his concert. He came to newcastle, where i live. And what i noticed was he, he did his show, and then like a minute after the show, he just flew off in a helicopter. And it was amazing. And i was like, why wouldn't he stay locally? And i thought, well, he probably just wants to, while he's in australia and touring so much, he probably wants to have a home base with him and his family and his kids. And then he can just get on a helicopter. It's like 30 minutes to sidney from new castle in a helicopte, and then he'll be home in the same bed, his kids will be there. And so it was like, money buys him convenience as well as everything else. So if you are a celebrity archetype, and by the way, you can find out your mine archetype. I've got a quiz that you can take. It at denise d t dot com, slash quiz, and you can find out if you're a celebrity archetype. And the big lesson for celebrities is that you're allowed to be do and have everything you want guilt free, as long as you keep an eye on your money and you um, like, don't just bury your head in the sand.