Yes, “Millionaire” — Hear Us Out
If you’re managing your money carefully and still feeling like you’re running in place, you’re not imagining it — and you’re not alone. Which is exactly why we’re recommending a book with millionaire in the title.
Because Bola Sokunbi‘s Clever Girl Millionaire: A Guide to Redefining What’s Possible, Turning Ambitions into Actions, and Dreams into Millions isn’t a book about getting rich fast. It’s a book about getting your financial footing — for real, for good — starting wherever you are right now. And honestly? That’s exactly the book this moment calls for.
Who Is Bola Sokunbi?
If you haven’t encountered her at one of our Conferences yet, you’re about to become a fan. Sokunbi is a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI), bestselling author, and the founder of Clever Girl Finance — one of the largest personal finance education platforms for women in the U.S. She’s been featured on Good Morning America, CNBC, Forbes, and BBC, and her work has earned the Distinguished Personal Finance Content designation from the National Financial Educators Council.
She’s also the author of an entire shelf worth of practical financial guides — Clever Girl Finance: Ditch Debt, Save Money and Build Real Wealth, Learn How Investing Works, Grow Your Money, The Side Hustle Guide, and Choosing to Prosper, among others. She’s built a whole ecosystem for women who want to understand money without needing a finance degree to do it.
Clever Girl Millionaire is her latest — and it’s the one that ties it all together.
So, What’s It Actually About?
Sokunbi opens by doing something rare in personal finance: she acknowledges that building wealth is harder for women. We earn less on average, we’re more likely to step away from the workforce for caregiving, and we’ve historically had less access to the kind of financial mentorship that gets passed down quietly in other circles. She names this clearly, and then she gets to work.
The book is organized around three pillars: mindset, action, and longevity. She starts with the inner work — identifying the money beliefs you picked up along the way, and which ones are quietly sabotaging your decisions. Then she moves into the practical: spending with intention, tackling debt, building an emergency buffer, and getting comfortable with investing even when the markets feel uncertain (spoiler: they always feel uncertain).
She also dedicates real space to recovering from financial setbacks — job loss, medical bills, a market downturn that hit your retirement account harder than you expected. Sokunbi approaches all of it with what she calls clarity and compassion: assess what happened, build a realistic plan, and move forward without shame.
That last part — without shame — is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this book. And it’s one of the reasons we wanted to put it in your hands.
What You’ll Take Away
- The “millionaire mindset” isn’t about arrogance — it’s about intention. Sokunbi reframes wealth-building around confidence and deliberate choice. You don’t have to earn a six-figure salary to start. You have to start making decisions on purpose instead of by default.
- Your money story is running the show whether you read it or not. One of the book’s most useful early sections is about diagnosing the beliefs you inherited about money — from your family, your culture, your past experiences. Once you can name them, you can decide which ones to keep.
- Setbacks are not the end of the story. Sokunbi gives a genuinely practical framework for rebuilding — not a pep talk, but a step-by-step process that acknowledges reality without wallowing in it.
- Small, consistent actions compound. We know this intellectually. Sokunbi makes you feel it. The book is full of concrete, low-barrier starting points for saving, debt repayment, and investing — because she understands that what most people need most is a place to begin.
- Wealth isn’t just a number. It’s a life you design. Clever Girl Millionaire keeps returning to this idea: the goal isn’t a seven-figure bank balance for its own sake. It’s the freedom, security, and options that financial stability creates. That reframe is worth the price of the book alone.
Why We’re Recommending It Right Now
Sokunbi’s whole career has been about breaking through financial paralysis — and doing it in a way that meets women where they actually are, not where a finance textbook assumes they should be.
This isn’t the moment to stop thinking about your financial future. It might actually be the most important moment to start. Clever Girl Millionaire is a warm, smart, practical guide for doing exactly that — and if you find yourself wanting more when you’re done, Sokunbi has an entire library waiting for you.
Get the Book
Clever Girl Millionaire is available now wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, and Books-A-Million.
Explore Bola Sokunbi’s full book series and free financial courses at clevergirlfinance.com.
