A Teacher
Lisa Nichols
Self-worth and abundant thinking
The transmission
Lisa Nichols (born May 18, 1966, in Los Angeles, California) is an American motivational speaker, author, and personal-development entrepreneur who reached a global audience as one of the featured teachers in The Secret (2006), the bestselling film and book that popularized the modern law of attraction.
Drawing on her own account of rising from poverty and single motherhood, she built a message centered on self-worth, mindset, and emotional resilience, which she delivers in a high-energy, story-driven speaking style rooted in the African American oratorical and motivational tradition.
Nichols founded Motivating the Masses, a training and development company, and wrote the New York Times bestseller No Matter What! 9 Steps to Living the Life You Love (2009) along with later titles such as Abundance Now (2016).
Her significance for mind-power lies in how she translated law-of-attraction and New Thought themes — belief, worthiness, gratitude, and emotional state as a creative force — into accessible coaching for a broad, mainstream audience, contributing to the transformational-speaking and coaching economy that grew in The Secret‘s wake.
What they gave
The Secret platform: As a featured teacher in The Secret, she carried law-of-attraction ideas to a mass global audience.
- Self-worth as foundation: Framed inner worthiness and self-belief as the precondition for outer abundance.
- Emotional state as force: Emphasized feeling and emotional energy, not just thought, as the engine of change.
- Transformational coaching: Built Motivating the Masses, helping shape the modern personal-development and coaching industry.
The line they stand in
Influenced by: The Secret and the law of attraction; New Thought prosperity ideas; the motivational-speaking tradition.
- Influenced: the transformational coaching and speaking industry; online self-help and money-mindset culture.
Revelations they taught
Essential Works
- No Matter What!2009
- Abundance Now2016