The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Diane Kennedy (Author), David Finkel (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007

It's an event so popular, it's sold out up to a year in advance. It's an experience so powerful, participants willingly pay the $30,000 ticket price- and return again and again. It's a place where dreams are made, expectations are exceeded, and multimillionaires are born. It's the Maui Mastermind, the most exclusive wealth retreat in the world, and its secrets have been kept behind closed doors- until now. <br.It's your turn to become a Maui Millionaire. For the first time, Maui Mastermind founders David Finkel and Diane Kennedy share the key steps to creating and maintaining great wealth that they have taught to their elite clients. The Maui Millionaires reveals just how easy it is to become exceptionally rich by creating consistent income streams, networking with other like-minded individuals, and giving back to the community. The authors teach you the Maui Wealth Leverage Strategies- five life-altering techniques that you can start applying today to build tremendous wealth. You'll see how, by changing the way you look at money, you can practically guarantee your financial freedom. Maui Millionaires don't just have money- they have a healthy balance in all areas of their lives. You'll see how, as a Maui Millionaire, you'll have money PLUS: Freedom to enjoy it Family and friends to share it Health to fuel it Meaning to magnify it Peace of mind to sustain it You'll learn about the awesome power of a Mastermind Group, one of the most powerful tools for building a healthy and successful life. You'll also hear the real-life success stories of the authors and their Maui Millionaire clients, which will inspire you to live the life you've always dreamed about.Take charge of your financial destiny today with The Maui Millionaires- and join the exclusive ranks of the richest, happiest, most fulfilled people in the world.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Being invited into a secret gathering of millionaires in Maui is intriguing, yet as investment experts David Finkel (The Real Estate Fast Track) and Diane Kennedy (Loopholes of the Rich) point out, distinguishing millionaires as an elite group is the first barrier to be broken down. After challenging readers to question their beliefs and limitations about money (or "upgrade your wealth operating system" as they put it), the authors move on to their "25 keys to dreaming big," including instructions on how to build a group of mentors who will help make your dreams come true. Charitable giving and strategies for leaving a legacy round out the final chapters. While most of these ideas won't be new to self-help readers or Oprah fans, those who haven't considered the impact of negative childhood lessons about money or current limitations to dreaming bigger may find the book fairly insightful. For those who have encountered these ideas before but haven't implemented them, the exercises and suggestions provide a concrete call to action. Until readers have built enough wealth to attend the actual Maui Millionaire event (priced at $30,000), this book—and its frequently referenced online tools——provide a decent insight into millionaire thinking. (Nov.)
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Being invited into a secret gathering of millionaires in Maui is intriguing, yet as investment experts David Finkel (The Real Estate Fast Track) and Diane Kennedy (Loopholes of the Rich) point out, distinguishing millionaires as an elite group is the first barrier to be broken down. After challenging readers to question their beliefs and limitations about money (or "upgrade your wealth operating system" as they put it), the authors move on to their "25 keys to dreaming big," including instructions on how to build a group of mentors who will help make your dreams come true. Charitable giving and strategies for leaving a legacy round out the final chapters. While most of these ideas won't be new to self-help readers or Oprah fans, those who haven't considered the impact of negative childhood lessons about money or current limitations to dreaming bigger may find the book fairly insightful. For those who have encountered these ideas before but haven't implemented them, the exercises and suggestions provide a concrete call to action. Until readers have built enough wealth to attend the actual Maui Millionaire event (priced at $30,000), this book—and its frequently referenced online tools—provide a decent insight into millionaire thinking. (Nov.) (Publishers Weekly, September 25, 2006)  --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140010341X
• ISBN-13: 978-1400103416
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,503,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What I wish Rich Dad/Poor Dad had done better, October 31, 2006

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Show -N- Tell "Will" (Southeast, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free (Hardcover)

Understand that I wouldn't even have cared about this type of book if it had not have been for Mr. Kiyosaki.

With that said, I have to say this is an excellent book on many levels. It is divided into 6 parts. Part I: Upgrade your Wealth Operating Systems deals with changing beliefs. Better than average use of some NLP techniques to "reframe" your poor beliefs about money. It works from identifying the beliefs, weakening, removing and replacing with better beliefs. Again, this isn't an overnight process.

Part II: Dream Big! Imagine David Swartz's book Magic of Thinking Big in three chapters or less.

Part III: Mastermind Your way to millions! Great material on MM groups, better than alot of what I've seen in other books devoted completely to the subject (sorry about that Joe V.). Makes suggestions that I wish previous MM's I had been part of had utilized.

Part IV: Build to Level 3 wealth and enjoy a Maui Lifestyle. Okay, after awhile even I got tired of the phrase "Maui Millionaire." However, these chapters talk of how to get started (wherever you are) and move toward a Level 3. Level 3 goal: Converting large parts of net worth into secure income streams and solid, long-term investments. Lev. 2 goal? build assets and financial skills. Lev. 1 goal? Build solid base of financial and investment skills. Part III introduces some formulas for measuring your progress that I just L-O-V-E! They summarize it as a "Wealth Scorecard" which works wonderful for the MasterMind groups.

Part V: Tap into Maui Giving to Create a Legacy that Lives Beyond You! I particularly enjoyed the chapter on using leverage to sustain giving beyond my liftetime. It had great questions for evaluating Nonprofits/charities.

Part VI: The Final Inch. More about giving, which is summarized by "We're saying don't let saving stop you from giving." Shares a quick stretch your money belief exercise on giving.

Online stuff associated with the book: Wow! 5 star plus!

Summary: If you are currently in a MM devoted to improving your business/financial life, then this book will offer several tools that will easily propel you toward something possibly better than you had previously dreamed of. *****

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Important Subject Matter Poorly Expressed, November 26, 2006

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Paul Strauss (Naperville, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free (Hardcover)

About a third of this book is a re-wording of T. Harv Eker's material in "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind". Harv calls your money program (the ideas and worldview we have about money that influence, affect, attract, or push money away in our lives) "wealth files"; In this book it's your "Wealth Operating System"- same idea. I'm not complaining where they add value to the ideas expressed by Eker, but he's never even credited or mentioned in the book; nor by the way is Robert Kiyosaki- the man who arguably gave Kennedy her 'big break' with the original "Loopholes of the Rich" book. But I digress-- another third of the book consists of testimonials from the retreat, and short stories inserted by the authors- often about stuff that happened on the Wealth Retreat itself. And the final third of the book is a mish mash of rehashed classic success literature points, metaphysical theorum poorly stated, mental meanderings, and musings that really do the main topic a disservice- and I dare say it amounts to the reason all too many people *** think *** (incorrectly) that mindset, spirituality, and metaphysical laws are mere "fluff" or "psycho-babble".

The importance of the subject matter- most of it being mindset required to get wealthy cannot be overstated, these two authors just didn't do much to add any new ideas to the field. The "Mastermind" concept used by the "Maui Millionaires" is not a new concept, either yet no credit is given to Napolean Hill of "Think and Grow Rich" who arguably was the one who mainstreamed the concept.

If you're a marketer, copywriter, direct sales business owner, seminar business owner, a coach or other industry, you'll immediately recognize the book as "long copy" for the mastermind itself. The book can be summed up as a not-so-subtle brochure for their $30,000 "Maui Mastermind" events which they tout as the number-one mastermind event in the world which "often sells out a year in advance", etc. etc.

It doesn't bother me per se because I probably spend that much each year on similar events, memberships, courses, and other educational and motivational stuff to keep me sharp- and it's always worth three to five times that amount or more. I respect and applaud the effort in fact- I just hope that they'll do what any good sales copy-writer would do periodically and re-write the thing well.

In short, it could have been done with excellence, the sales points much more clever and compelling, and frankly I expected better due to the big names and I just didn't get it.

36 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Provocative Approach, but not for me, December 21, 2006

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Craig L. Howe "The Pointed Pundit" (Darien, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Maui Millionaires: Discover the Secrets Behind the World's Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free (Hardcover)

The Maui Millionaires' attend a five and one-half day seminar, a self-proclaimed "world's most exclusive wealth retreat. Held on the Island of Maui, the attendees, who pony up $30,000 to attend, learn the authors' six secrets for building wealth.

1. Upgrade your wealth building strategy.
2. Dream big.
3. Surround yourself with other big dreamers.
4. Build wealth that provides the freedom to enjoy.
5. Create a legacy.
6. Seek the support, accountability and couch to ensure your dreams are achieved.

Not many people could or would dispute the authors' plan. But I would be lying if I did not say the book has no appeal for me. Instead of allowing the weight of their arguments motivate action, the authors bombard readers with commercial sales pitch after sales pitch for their $2,500 coaching sessions and their $30,000 retreat.

If you can ignore the commercials, the book offers some interesting points, intriguing exercises and illuminating case studies.

I could not and did not finish the book.