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Your Path to True Wealth is a transformative guide that goes beyond traditional financial advice, offering a holistic and deeply personal framework for aligning your finances, passions, and life aspirations. Dr. Pettipas shares not only her extensive expertise, but also her authentic journey, illustrating how wealth encompasses more than just numbers—it’s about creating a life filled with purpose, abundance, and fulfillment. The innovative Compass Star model empowers readers to navigate life's challenges and uncertainties with clarity and confidence. Whether you are striving to manage daily finances, design a fulfilling career, or simply find more balance and meaning, this book provides actionable strategies and profound insights to help you achieve authentic success. A must-read for anyone ready to take control of their future and embark on a rewarding path to true wealth.
Dr. Ted Sun
Dr. Ted SunPresident & Founder, Transcontinental Institution of Higher Education (EU) and Transcontinental University (US)
This book is a game-changer for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of financial planning and abundance. It goes beyond traditional money management, introducing innovative concepts and actionable steps in all areas of abundance that flow through every aspect of our lives. The author beautifully explains how her Compass Star — the ultimate financial planning tool for life—can transform the way you manage not just your finances, but also your lifestyle, health, and overall well-being. By viewing money as a tool for creating harmony and balance, rather than as a source of stress or limitation, this approach makes financial abundance feel natural and attainable. What sets this book apart is its focus on the energetic flow of abundance in all aspects of life. It provides actionable steps for setting intentions and creating a financial plan that feels intuitive and empowering. The result? A life that flows with ease and grace, where financial decisions are made confidently and in alignment with your highest values. If you’re ready to shift your mindset and invite more abundance into your life this book is a must-read. It’s not just about money; it’s about embracing a whole new relationship with money and abundance. Highly recommended!
Angela Orora Medway-SmithThe Practical Mystic: Master Healer, spiritual teacher, author & divine channel.
Many financial planning books focus only on the money aspects of wealth creation. Cora takes a more holistic approach by emphasizing important life facets not to be overlooked. By getting your bearings first, Cora illustrates how you can begin your personal life path. Written in an easy style, this work reads like a friend sitting across a table while you discuss your life plans over a cup of coffee.”
Rosemarie Baker
Rosemarie BakerRetired Leader, Financial Services
"Compass Star is more than a book about finance. It is an all-round system that bridges across all the different aspects of our relationship to money, an important aspect of life that is rarely discussed in personal and professional conversations, and rarely written about in psychology books. Cora courageously invites the readers to embrace a new vision of money and wealth, to transition from a life in service of finances to finances in service of life. With real-life examples, practical steps and clear guidance, the book is highly recommended to anybody who wants to understand what is stopping them from being wealthy and start stepping towards financial happiness."
Alessio Rizzo, MA, MScPhychotherapist and Trainer. www.therapywithalessio.com
"Compass Star is a gem of a book. It helps readers to plan ahead to improve their lives adopting a holistic approach, acknowledging that material wealth is desirable but not the only goal in life. Similarly, it also argues that dreams often need to be funded somehow. In line with this, the book takes the reader through the basics of personal budgeting and financial planning in a thoughtful and approachable way. An inspiring, thought-provoking and altogether liberating book. A must-read for anyone serious about turning their dreams into reality."
Professor J. Andres Coca-StefaniakUniversity of Greenwich, London, UK
Cora’s commitment to continuous growth and learning shines through in the remarkable progress of her career and personal development. Readers of her debut book will discover practical, easy-to-apply strategies to improve and balance their finances, and much more.
Craig SkaugePresident of Olympia Trust Company
“Cora’s knowledge of the financial services industry is second to none. I learned almost everything I know from Cora.”
Benjamin Steinman CFP, FCSI
Benjamin Steinman CFP, FCSI
“I was impressed with her enthusiasm and with how quickly and successfully she developed excellent teaching skills. Cora is a natural teacher. Her students benefited from the impressive work experience she brought to them.”
Elaine Mullen
Elaine MullenAssociate Professor of English & Educational Developer at MRU

True wealth is not just about money, and so this book discusses more than just money. Yes money is important, but true wealth is so much more than just numbers in a bank account. Money is energy, like a battery to be used to facilitate or enhance something else; simply put money should support your life not the other way around.

How does that translate into personal wealth building and Financial Planning?

Financial planning gives you a map to achieve your goals and build wealth. However, just like in real life a map is not overly useful solely by itself; you need to have proper orientation, understanding on how to read the map and most of all you need a compass to help maintain direction and focus as you traverse the landscape your map represents.

Using my professional experiences as a Financial Expert, drawn from over 20 years of industry practice, I created a compass. My revolutionary new Compass Star model helps you focus and create true wealth by using your Compass Star to help guide you in building all your key elements of wealth called your PATH (Passion, Abundance, Time & Health).

This book is intended to help you first attain your vision and motivation by giving you a compass of holistic wealth, then build the skills to create your map or financial plan, and then overlay both to create the opportunity to apply those skills to your life.

In a changing world your map may become outdated quickly, but your compass will always point the way.

This book not only includes detailed explanations of the Compass Star model by a Certified Financial Planner, but is unique in that it also includes examples and clarification exercises for the reader after each chapter to help aid in key areas such as Wealth Building, Savings & Investment, Insurance & Debt, how to run your home like a business, how to eliminate externally imposed obligations, Financial Independence & Retirement, Wealth Protection & Managing Risk, Applying Compass Star to Career, Business or Domestic Work, and many more to ultimately increase prosperity across all aspects of your life.