This week’s featured book, Unapologetic Wealth: Rewrite Your Money Story from Any Beginning by Marcia Dawood is worth reading!
“Unapologetic Wealth arrived in my life at exactly the right moment, and I have a feeling that is true for most women who pick it up. Heidi Richards Mooney, Publisher Women of Wisdom Magazine
Marcia Dawood has written something rare here. This is not a book about budgeting or financial formulas. It is a book about truth — specifically, the quiet, inherited stories we carry about money, worth, and whether we truly deserve the success we have worked so hard to create.
What struck me most was how gently but powerfully Marcia dismantles the guilt and hesitation that so many women feel around wealth. She doesn’t just give you permission to want more, she walks alongside you as you discover why you were reluctant to claim it in the first place. That is where the real transformation lives.
I found myself nodding, reflecting, and at times pausing just to sit with what I had just read. The concept of wealth as something that encompasses time, freedom, legacy, and confidence, not just a number in a bank account, shifted something fundamental in how I see my own financial journey.
If you are a woman who has achieved, who has built, who has contributed and yet still feels an inexplicable discomfort fully owning your financial power this book is your next step. It belongs not just on your shelf but in your hands, with pages marked and margins filled.
About the Book
Unapologetic Wealth challenges the deeply ingrained money beliefs that quietly shape women’s financial lives — guilt around earning, discomfort with wanting more, and the pressure to stay small even when success is earned. Best Ever You Rather than offering traditional financial rules or generic advice, Dawood takes a deeply personal approach, helping women identify the emotional patterns and inherited narratives that have been silently influencing their relationship with money for years.
The book introduces a more expansive, values-driven definition of wealth — one that includes time, freedom, confidence, and legacy alongside financial resources. Dawood also explores what she calls “financial fluidity,” a flexible, intentional approach to money that evolves as life changes. Best Ever You Whether you want to speak up in salary negotiations, invest with intention, or simply feel at peace with your financial decisions, this book offers the tools to do it on your own terms.
About the Author
Marcia Dawood is an early-stage investor who serves as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, a venture partner with Mindshift Capital, a member of Golden Seeds, and the chair emeritus of the Angel Capital Association — a global professional society for angel investors. Amazon A TEDx speaker and host of The Angel Next Door podcast, Marcia holds investments in over fifty early-stage companies and funds, and is also an associate producer on the award-winning documentary Show Her the Money. Amazon
She is the author of the multi-award winning book Do Good While Doing Well: Invest for Change, Reap Financial Rewards, and Increase Your Happiness, along with its accompanying workbook. Amazon Unapologetic Wealth is her second book and a natural, powerful evolution of that mission.
Why This Book Belongs in Your Wealth Library
This is not another budgeting book. Unapologetic Wealth goes straight to the root — the stories we tell ourselves about money and whether we deserve it. For women who have worked hard, achieved much, and still feel an inexplicable resistance to fully claiming their financial power, this book is the permission slip they didn’t know they needed. It is equal parts empowering, practical, and deeply human. Every woman building a life, a business, or a legacy should have this on her shelf.
