Fielding runs two-day residential courses to 'enable you to become absolutely certain that financial abundance is within your reach, and create a practical, step-by-step action plan to help you unlock the key to your financial freedom'. All sorts seek help from Fielding, from people who genuinely don't have any money (despite the £795 course fee), to millionaires who want more. But they all have one thing in common - a negative attitude to money.

She cites a Harley Street dentist who earns buckets of money, but never has any left at the end of the month to pay the gas bill because he has no concept of cash flow. The dentist's father 'took money very seriously, so he went in exactly the opposite direction', she says.

One of the first steps is to ask clients to define how much money they think they need to be wealthy. Fielding then helps them assess their outgoings, spot unnecessary expenditure, and identify ways of earning more income. 'When people start to feel more positive about money, they get less clingy and realise they don't need as much as they originally thought,' she says.

Needless to say, Fielding's attitude to money is 'completely balanced'. She was born in a two-up, two-down in the East End of London , and started squirrelling money away in building society accounts at an early age. She worked 'like stink' to put herself through college, and earned enough in her gap year to buy a £4,800 house in Burgess Hill to live in during her time at Sussex University.

She trained as an accountant with Price Waterhouse, left in 1987 and has worked in financial services-related jobs since. She decided to start wealth coaching after realising that she had 'very unusual financial beliefs, an awareness of money management that was not common'.

Seven years on she is a millionaire and enjoys it. 'My lifestyle is not frugal. I spend lots of money on clothes and holidays - I've got the whole of August off. I drive a Land-Rover, but I'm just about to get a BMW convertible to run around in. We're having an eight bedroom Sussex barn built. Being wealthy is about being happy.'

She finds money a 'real turn on', yet says it is not her top priority. 'I have lots of money and I love it, but I love my children more. Money isn't everything.'

She even turned her back on it in 1993. 'I walked away from a first marriage, a house in the Sussex Downs with a swimming pool, basically with just the money in my purse. I probably gave up over £300,000. I didn't want anything from the past, and I knew I could build it up again. There is so much available to everybody