Maria Wendt's I Love Money and Money Loves Me Review: Is It Worth It?

Maria Wendt is best known for her business and marketing courses, but I Love Money and Money Loves Me is something different — a conversational course about her personal approach to manifesting wealth, built after years of audience requests. This review answers the practical question: is it worth your time and money, or is it just feel-good manifesting content you could find free anywhere?

What you actually get

This is deliberately not a tactical, do-the-homework course. Wendt frames it as sitting down with a friend over coffee while she shares what's worked for her over a decade of practice. You get her core three-step framework, a set of supporting concepts (calibration, detachment, creating space, debt-freedom, playfulness), vision-board walkthroughs, and an extended commentary on the Paul Santisi "Money Manifest" audio she credits with her first seven-figure year. The honest expectation to set: it's mindset and philosophy, not a step-by-step system.

What's genuinely good

The biggest strength is Wendt's honesty about what this is. She openly says it's all anecdotal, that she's not trying to prove manifesting is real, and that you don't have to believe in it for the ideas to be useful. That framing is refreshing in a genre full of absolute claims, and it lowers the pressure that trips up a lot of beginners.

Several ideas are genuinely practical regardless of where you land on manifesting itself. The emphasis on becoming debt-free as a foundation is sound personal finance dressed in spiritual language. The gratitude-list "vibe reset" is a real, free, repeatable tool for interrupting anxiety. The point about learning to receive — that if you deflect compliments you'll struggle to accept bigger things — is a sharp observation. And the distinction between a casual skeptic (give them space) and an active suppressor trying to keep you small (stay quiet around them) is genuinely useful life advice.

Wendt's willingness to be a beginner is also a strength. By positioning herself as expert in money but novice in love, she can speak to the doubt and learning curve a beginner feels, which makes the material more relatable than a pure success-story pitch.

What's weaker or missing

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The honesty cuts both ways: because Wendt repeatedly says this is anecdotal and unprovable, there's no evidence base here, and several claims are presented as universal truths ("a skeptic can never attract," money as "low vibration") that you're asked to take on faith. If you want rigor or science, this isn't it — and she says so herself.

There's also significant repetition, especially in the back half. The Paul Santisi audio commentary spans many lessons and the same affirmations and concepts — "money is a renewable resource," "love people and use money," "this or something better" — recur heavily. Some of that repetition is intentional (affirmations work through repetition), but it does mean the second half covers less new ground than the first.

Worth flagging neutrally: the framework's logic can feel circular. Attachment is said to block manifesting, and if something doesn't arrive it's reframed as "something better" being on the way — which means the model can't really be disproven. Whether that's reassuring or frustrating depends on what you're looking for. And the recommended audio resource is freely available on YouTube, so part of what you're paying for here is Wendt's curation and commentary rather than exclusive material.

Who it's for

This course is a strong fit if you're drawn to the law of attraction and want a grounded, low-pressure, practical take from someone who's actually built wealth — rather than rigid rules or hype. It's especially good if the mindset side of money (scarcity, guilt about wanting more, fear of declaring goals) is what's holding you back. It's a poor fit if you want evidence-based methods, concrete financial tactics, or a step-by-step business system — those live in Wendt's other courses, not this one.

The verdict

For the right person, I Love Money and Money Loves Me delivers what it promises: a warm, honest, practical philosophy for changing your relationship with money, with a few genuinely useful tools (debt-freedom, the gratitude reset, learning to receive) embedded in it. The main caveats are the lack of any evidence base, the heavy repetition in the second half, and the fact that its central resource is free elsewhere. If you want to decide whether the full course is worth it for you — or you just want the entire framework distilled into something you can read in under an hour — our complete summary is below.