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Bright Yellow Happiness: Finding Fulfilment from Financial Ruin
From Investor of The Year at 24 to $5.8 million debt disaster three years
The true story of how losing millions of dollars made me RICH Kate looked like she had it all. At the age of 24, she owned 20 investment properties with her husband Matt and was crowned Your Investment Property Magazine's Australian Property Investor of the Year in 2012. Despite her financial success and popularity, she was deeply unfulfilled by it all. Like most of us, she sought her happiness externally. Three years later, Kate was a debt millionaire. Owing millions of dollars more on her properties than what they were worth, she was forced to find a more sustainable model for happiness - one that came from within. Kate takes you on a journey of self-discovery, where everything from her reputation to her own identity are at risk if she decides to embrace change. Despite looking financial rock-bottom in the eye, Kate shows you how she discovered joy and peace from within, teaching you why it's important to empower yourself and follow the callings of your soul. An adventurous, heartfelt and vulnerable story, this debut book will leave you inspired to start creating your own version of Bright Yellow Happiness.
The true story of how losing millions of dollars made me RICH Kate looked like she had it all. At the age of 24, she owned 20 investment properties with her husband Matt and was crowned Your Investment Property Magazine's Australian Property Investor of the Year in 2012. Despite her financial success and popularity, she was deeply unfulfilled by it all. Like most of us, she sought her happiness externally. Three years later, Kate was a debt millionaire. Owing millions of dollars more on her properties than what they were worth, she was forced to find a more sustainable model for happiness - one that came from within. Kate takes you on a journey of self-discovery, where everything from her reputation to her own identity are at risk if she decides to embrace change. Despite looking financial rock-bottom in the eye, Kate shows you how she discovered joy and peace from within, teaching you why it's important to empower yourself and follow the callings of your soul. An adventurous, heartfelt and vulnerable story, this debut book will leave you inspired to start creating your own version of Bright Yellow Happiness.
286 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2016
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June 9, 2017
This was the most poorly written book I have ever read. The story was mostly obscured by pop psychology, new-age mysticism, cliche and mixed metaphor ("I had my foot in so many pies", p.225). However... I'm giving it 3 stars because the author is obviously really trying to think more critically about her life, values and actions. She blames nobody but herself. As the reader, I can place blame, though. And I do. I place it on all those salespeople at the property investment seminars she paid money to attend. I also place blame on the banks, who saw the risk in all the interest-only loans she was taking out, and chose to loan the money anyway. Everyone was greedy. All are punished.
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