Grow your faith. Find your rhythm. Feel more like you.
This book club makes it simple (and fun!) to live with more clarity, confidence, and peace—one good book at a time.
First Session:
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Every Wednesday at 8:30 pm ET / 7:30 CT / 6:30 MT / 5:30 PT
In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel Cruze shines a spotlight on the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to others. Then she unpacks seven essential money habits for living the life we really want--a life in line with our values, where we can afford the things we want to buy without being buried under debt, stress, and worry.
What Amazon Has To Say…
“The Joneses are broke.
Life looks good, but hidden beneath that glossy exterior are credit card bills, student loans, car payments, and an out-of-control mortgage. Their money situation is a mess, and they're trying to live a life they simply can't afford. So why exactly do we try so hard to keep up with the Joneses?
Are we really living the lives we want, or are we chasing someone else's dream, just trying to keep up appearances on social media, at church, and in our community? Why are we letting other people set the pace for our own family's finances?
In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel shows you how to buy and do the things that are important to you--the right way. That starts by choosing to quit the comparisons, reframing the way you think about money, and developing new habits like avoiding debt, living on a plan, watching your spending, saving for the future, having healthy conversations about money, and giving.
These habits work, and Rachel is living proof. Now, she wants to empower you to live the life you've always dreamed of without creating the debt, stress, and worry that are all too often part of the deal.
Social media isn't real life, and trying to keep up with the Joneses will never get you anywhere. It's time to live--and love--your life, not theirs.”
"We are spending money we may or may not have just to keep up with a life we think we are missing out on. And that is ruining not only our emotional lives but our financial lives as well."
About This Book
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Something has changed in the last decade or so. Our culture has shifted to make us constantly surrounded by public displays of other people's best moments and nicest things. Keeping up with the Joneses has always been a trap to fall into, but these days the Joneses can be people we've never even met in real life. Social media gives us a carefully curated highlight reel that can make real life look boring and inadequate.
We find ourselves caught in the cycle of pining after someone else's life, becoming discontent with our own, and then spending our money on whatever will allow us to keep up the external trappings of the people we want to be. This cycle steals our joy and won't satisfy us. It drains our paycheck, too.
Fortunately, it is possible to move past the comparisons. Once we take our focus off the Joneses (who may actually be broke!) and put it back onto our own lives, we can start to turn things around with our life and money.
This book is for anyone who has ever felt the cultural pressure to compare their lives to what they see on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. It's for anyone who has ever felt that something about their life (job, house, vacation, clothes, car, school, stroller, etc) is inadequate next to someone else's.
If you're tired of playing the comparison game and you're ready to focus on building the life you love, this book will show you how.
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Learning and growing together is such a beautiful way for women to collaborate and support each other. Love Your Life, Not Theirs points out how the comparison game tends to change our relationships with other people and makes us feel like we are losing when others are winning. This robs us of the ability to celebrate other people's accomplishments and show up for them with love and support. Reading this book with a community will help us immediately put what we're reading into practice, by celebrating and encouraging each other on our individual journeys. We'll have the support to build contentment and satisfaction in our own lives, which will allow us to not feel threatened by other people's success.
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How to live the life you've always dreamed of without creating the debt, stress, and worry that are all too often part of the deal.Rachel Cruze outlines these seven money habits as tools to set yourself up for success and happiness:
Quit the comparisons
How to be content and grateful, and start focusing on what you value instead of what you think you need to value to fit in
Steer clear of debt
How to change your thinking and habits around debt so you aren't enslaved to payments anymore
Make a plan for your money
How to live within a budget that actually gives you freedom to thrive
Talk about money (even when it's hard)
How to be intentional and deliberate in talking about money with your spouse so you're a team (and what financial accountability and support looks like for someone who's single)
Save like you mean it
How to equip yourself with confidence and options when life happens or you're approaching expensive stage-of-life events
Think before you spend
How to discern the difference between needs and wants, and make decisions that help you get closer to your desired destination
Give a little...until you can give a lot
How to have the most fun you can have with money: living a lifestyle of outrageous generosity that blesses everyone involved
Ultimately, you will learn how to take control of your money and let it work for you to live the life you've always wanted. You will learn how to change the direction of your life, one decision at a time. You can can stop worrying so much about what everyone else seems to have, and you can be more satisfied, more excited about the life you're living.
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No! The Rising Tide Fellowship has at least one book club happening year-round. We all want to read more and grow, but we need some accountability and fun!
The Rising Tide Fellowship has created a space for women to read new books together and slowly implement what we've learned each week.
We also keep the replays of each session of each book, so if you missed it, you can go back and see the replay!
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Click here to purchase the book through an Amazon Affiliate link (we earn a small percentage from each purchase, no cost to you).
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Emma Savageau is a Ramsey Preferred Coach and has completed Ramsey Solutions Financial Coach Master Training. She is the founder of Red Gazelle Coaching. Emma encourages and equips women and families as they overcome obstacles to achieve financial freedom. Joyfully fostering hope and confidence through coaching, she helps people develop the skills to beat debt, build wealth, and end the cycles of money stress in their lives for good.
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“I cannot adequately express how this book club has changed the way I think.”
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