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The Money Anxiety Cure – A Path to Financial Wellbeing
by Koorosh Ostowari
“Money fluctuates—your peace of mind doesn’t have to.”
Today, many of us face what I call money anxiety disorder—a modern epidemic that undermines our self-confidence, strains our relationships, and clouds our vision of the future. My own journey began when I migrated to the U.S. at the age of nine with my parents and sisters. Like so many immigrants, I chased the American Dream while struggling with fear, scarcity, and the pressure to “keep up.” For years, I lived with the constant anxiety of never being enough or having enough.
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What helped me shift was turning to creative expression through art and developing a more mindful relationship with money. Over time, I rewrote my “money story” to align with my values and intentions—finding greater peace, balance, and clarity. This journey ultimately inspired me to write The Money Anxiety Cure – A Path to Financial Wellbeing.
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While I went on to achieve material success as a San Francisco apartment designer, developer, and entrepreneur, it has been my creative and spiritual path that brought the deepest fulfillment. I am grateful to share the mindfulness-based tools that helped me—practical practices for reducing stress, cultivating financial wellbeing, and creating a more balanced, meaningful life.
THE ART OF LANDING
Coming Soon: A Transformative Memoir
An Immigrant’s Guide to Finding Home in America, and in Himself
By Koorosh Ostowari
In 1969, certain that American TV shows have taught him the secret of flight, an eight-year-old boy stands on a Tehran rooftop wearing his mother’s red tablecloth as a cape. His leap—and the hard landing that follows—becomes the perfect metaphor for the immigrant experience. It encompasses the audacious faith required to leave everything behind, the often painful collision with reality, and the challenging journey toward regaining your footing in a new world.
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The Art of Landing chronicles Koorosh Ostowari’s remarkable journey from pre-revolutionary Iran to becoming a successful entrepreneur, meditation teacher, and artist in San Francisco. But this is more than a typical immigrant success story. Through vivid scenes and unflinching honesty, Ostowari reveals what happens when Hollywood fantasies collide with American realities, when ancient Persian wisdom meets 1970s counterculture, and when a boy shaped by John Wayne westerns must forge his own definition of prosperity in a country that both welcomes and challenges him.
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This self-help memoir spans five decades and two cultures, taking readers from the streets of Tehran—where young Koorosh performed in drag on garden walls and broke into Marine World under the naïve belief that he might be able to train the killer whales in secret—to the meditation halls of Marin County, California, where he learned that the hardest journey is the one back to yourself. Along the way, we witness the dissolution and reconstruction of a family, the transformation of his mother from traditional housewife to real estate mogul, and one man’s evolution from toxic patterns inherited across generations to conscious choices that break the cycle.
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The lessons that will prove invaluable to its key audiences (immigrants seeking to thrive in the US, Americans seeking a better understanding of immigrant perspectives, and anyone navigating major life transitions), but what truly distinguishes it is the unique window it offers into a vanished world: pre-revolutionary Iran during the Shah’s modernization, when Western influence created the cultural tensions that would eventually explode into revolution, and eventually, into quite a few of the biases that shape modern American opinions about Middle Eastern immigrants. Ostowari’s childhood memories of drive-in theaters in Tehran, mini-skirts alongside chadors, and American oil workers teaching Persian boys baseball provide intimate glimpses of a society caught between worlds.
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But ultimately, this is a deeply American story—one of transformation, reinvention, and the possibility of starting over. Through scenes both comic and profound, Ostowari demonstrates that the immigrant experience isn’t just about leaving one country for another; it’s about learning to navigate between worlds while maintaining your essential self. His journey from Superman fantasies to Buddhist wisdom offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to build an authentic, integrated life.
© 2024 by Koorosh Ostowari