ON WHAT MONEY REALLY WANTS

Listening to the Energy Beneath the Numbers

For most of my career, I asked people: What do you want from your money?

Security. Growth. Freedom. Legacy. The answers varied, but the assumption was always the same—that money is a tool to be bent to our will.

I believed it too. If I built the right business, created enough wealth, hit the right number, freedom would be waiting on the other side.

But when I got there, something felt hollow. The business was thriving, the numbers stacked neatly on the page. And still I was restless. Still I feared losing what I had built. Still I was waiting for peace to arrive.

That was when I began to wonder: What if money isn’t only something we want things from? What if money also wants something from us?

On the surface, money looks neutral. Digits in a bank account. Portfolios. Spreadsheets. But in practice, it behaves like something alive. It mirrors our fear, amplifies our longing, reflects back our avoidance.

I’ve seen people with more than enough live in quiet panic, unable to let go. And others with modest means move through life with unexpected freedom, because they trusted what they had and knew what was enough.

And I’ve seen it in myself. The more I treated money as something to conquer, the more it seemed to slip through my fingers—not because it was gone, but because peace was always deferred.

Money, I realised, wasn’t asking me for control. It was asking me to listen.

What does money want?

I think it’s simple. Money wants to move. To flow. To be used with intention. When we hoard it in fear, it stagnates. When we spend it unconsciously, it leaks away. But when we use it with awareness, it multiplies—not always in figures, but in meaning.

Money wants to show us who we are. The way we earn, spend, save, and give is never just about economics. It’s a mirror of our values, our fears, our hidden stories. Sometimes what it reveals is uncomfortable. Sometimes it’s liberating. But it’s always true.

For me, the truth was this: I didn’t need more money. I needed a new story about it. One that wasn’t driven by fear of loss, but by trust in what I already had.

When I began to see money as energy—responsive, relational, alive—the weight shifted. It no longer felt like a master I had to serve, but a mirror I could learn from.

So perhaps the real question isn’t only: What do you want from money?

It’s also: What does money want from you?

To be seen. To be used with clarity. To support a life that reflects what you value most.

Because money doesn’t just measure wealth. It reveals it. And it whispers, if we let it: live.

This is the heart of The Conscious Currency, and the work I share every day with clients who are ready to step beyond chasing and begin listening.