Beyond The Dollar

I chat with Marc who is the founder of VitalDollar.com and has been self-employed for the past ten years buying and selling websites.  We chat about how to balance a growing side hustle, career and a relationship. He gets candid about his journey to self-employment while married, the types of conversations he had to have with his wife so they were both on the same page, and what’s changed since they have kids.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• The turning point when Marc decided he wanted to work for himself
• What kinds of conversations Marc had with his wife as he transitioned into self-employment
• The downsides of trying to juggle self-employment, side hustling while being there for a family
• How Marc has learned to maintain his work schedule by having honest conversations with his wife

Questions to Ponder:

• What’s one conversation you can have with your partner today that will move you toward your financial and life goals? How will you start the conversation?

*remember, let me know in the comments below your answers! If you’re a social media person, come find me on Instagram (@beyondthedollar) and send me a DM or comment on any one of my posts. I read every single one!

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide
• Vital Dollar
• Follow Marc on Twitter
• Follow Vital Dollar in Pinterest
• Fabric – Free wills and family finance resources
• Freelance Writing Kickstart – use code BTDLISTENER for 10% off course

Rich Jones and Marcus Garrett, hosts of the popular podcast Paychecks and Balances join me in this episode. We chat about the differences between the idea of outward success and how it’s not always cracked up to be. We also get candid about our feelings on how others respond to our upbringings or our “advantages” in life and it’s merely our parents looking out for our best interest.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• What Rich and Marcus felt like growing up, being perceived as more “successful” compared to others
• How their experiences affect how they talk about money or interact with other people IRL when it comes to money
• The idea of “success” and feeling like it’s less acceptable to talk about the struggle to get to where both Rich and Marcus are
• How they’ve both found gratitude and non-judgement in their situations

Questions to Ponder:

• What are you grateful for?
• What’s one hardship you went through and in retrospect helped you thrive in your financial situation?

*remember, let me know in the comments below your answers! If you’re a social media person, come find me on Instagram (@beyondthedollar) and send me a DM or comment on any one of my posts. I read every single one!

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide
• Paychecks and Balances
• Freelance Writing Kickstart – use code BTDLISTENER for 10% off course

In this episode, I chat with Joel and Matt, hosts of the How To Money Podcast. We go into how they became close friends  -sharing their life and intimate details about their financial life. We discuss why it’s so crucial to find people around you that you can trust to have these emotional conversations about money, what to share and not share when first talking about money, and where to go find support systems even when you feel like you don’t have any.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• Why Joel and Matt still feel that money is still more taboo
• How they’ve opened up or started conversations with friends
• How does hanging out with people help you with your financial habits
• How Joel and Matt have made talking about money fun
• How their friendship helped each other in their financial lives
• Is it possible to get FOMO when NOT talking about finances?
• What Joel and Matt recommend when someone is nervous how can they start conversations about money without “rocking the boat?”

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide
• How to Money podcast
• Freelance Writing Kickstart – use code BTDLISTENER for 10% off course

Questions to Ponder:

• What is your current priority when it comes to your financial life, and who can you approach so you can share this, thereby starting a support system around your money?
• How can you start talking about money just by sharing your life goals or interest?

*remember, let me know in the comments below your answers! If you’re a social media person, come find me on Instagram (@beyondthedollar) and send me a DM or comment on any one of my posts. I read every single one!

This week’s guest is Melissa Burton, a non-diet Registered Dietitian Nutritionist that empowers women to break free from diet culture and finally feel positive about their relationship with food and their bodies. We chat about the current state of diet culture and how it leads us to spend money because we don’t’ feel like we’re enough. We also talk about why diets don’t work, leading us to spend more, and how we can look within ourselves to help make better food choices so that we can empower ourselves in our entire lives, including how to be more mindful when it comes to spending money on food.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• Melissa’s definition of diet culture
• How the current view of diet culture leads us to make mindless decisions around our finances
• Melissa’s experience with diet culture and how it led her to feel like she wasn’t enough and spending gobs of money
• How marketing, psychology and the effect messaging has on the relationship that people (especially women) have with food
• What we can do when faced with messages of us being not enough
• How we can use money in a way that supports our bodies and even help others rediscover that they’re enough
• What is intuitive eating and other types of non-diets

Questions to Ponder:

• What can you spend money on today to feel GOOD about your body?
• Or, what’s a purchase or financial decision where you feel like you’re enough, and it’s not simply to be skinnier, but helps you feel healthy inside and out?

*remember, let me know in the comments below your answers! If you’re a social media person, come find me on Instagram (@beyondthedollar) and send me a DM or comment on any one of my posts. I read every single one!

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide
• Freelance Writing Kickstart – use code BTDLISTENER for 10% off course
• Follow Melissa on Instagram
• Follow Melissa on Twitter
• What Happened When I Started Intuitive Eating
• Melissa Burton
• Intuitive Eating
• We’re Proud & Saddened To Share Kelsey Miller’s Final Anti-Diet Project Post
• How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million
• Goop
• Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop has been accused of peddling pseudoscience. She’s not having it.
• Hashtag Authentic Episode 61: How diet culture is stopping you from playing bigger, with Laura Thomas
• The Mindful Diet: How to Transform Your Relationship with Food for Lasting Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
• Health at Every Size community

Welcome back to season 4! If you haven’t heard the news, Garrett is no longer co-host of Beyond The Dollar so if you’re new here and hear a male voice in previous episodes, now you know 😉

In this episode, I brought on my close friends and money mastermind group, Jackie Lam – an advocate for freelancers, Kate Dore, who is studying for her certified financial planner designation, and Taylor Milam, and English teacher who freelances on the side. We chat about how we met, how we became so open to talking about money (both in our business and personal lives), and what we feel others can do when looking for a support system around their finances.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

• How our humble little group started (it had nothing to do with our personal finances) and how we grew to be money BFFs
• What topics we talk about and how we cultivated a supportive environment
• Challenges that come with not having people around you to chat about money openly and honestly
• Pros and cons of free and paid money masterminds
• What Jackie, Kate and Taylor feel are the questions you need to ask when talking to others about money

Questions to Ponder:

• What do you hope to get by talking openly and honestly about money with friends?
• How and where will you seek these people out?
• Are you wanting something more structured (like a formal mastermind or accountability group) or just looking for a safe space to talk about whatever comes up with your financial situation?
• How will you make sure you enforce boundaries for all involved?

*remember, let me know in the comments below your answers! If you’re a social media person, come find me on Instagram (@beyondthedollar) and send me a DM or comment on any one of my posts. I read every single one!

Resources:

• The Ultimate Guide to Money Mindset Mastery
• Values Based Spending Guide
• Freelance Writing Kickstart – use code BTDLISTENER for 10% off course
• Hey Freelancer
• Cashville Skyline
• Fincon – where we all met
• Lola Retreat
• Season 3 episode 6 – How Our Mental Health Affects Our Finances