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Grieving a Stillborn Child With Winter Redd

Trigger Warning: this episode talks about stillbirth and some graphic descriptions of birth.

Winter Redd, host of the podcast Still A Part of Us, comes on the show to talk about how one year ago she and her husband had to bury their stillborn child. She talks about what the costs were – both at the hospital and for the funeral – how she grieved, and how the power of community was the saving grace during such a trying time.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • How far along Winter was in her pregnancy when she couldn’t feel her son’s heartbeat
  • What she had to pay in medical costs and funeral bills
  • How a stranger changed how she viewed using money to help her community
  • How Winter wants to remember her son Brannan and the legacy she wants to leave to the world

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Quitting a Toxic Work Situation with Michelle Jackson

 Michelle Jackson, founder of Michelle is Money Hungry, comes on the show to talk about the time she quit her extremely stable job without a backup plan and bought a one way ticket to Australia to recuperate from job related stress. She talks about how she managed to still pay off — get this— over 30 different debt accounts, how she found work afterwards, and the one question she asked herself before making such a drastic life change.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What exactly are values and how they relate to your financial life
  • How the same values can play out differently for different people
  • How to budget using your values in during leaner times
  • Why financial experts aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Why Values Are So Important to Money

This week’s episode is all about why your values with your finances are more important than ever. It sounds like some hokey concept that only people with tons of money can do, you know we have time to think about what really matters to us. But I assure you it’s not. While it’s vague, using values as way to guide your financial life is going to help you, whether you’re coming to grips with your current money situation or your bank account is stuffed to the max.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What exactly are values and how they relate to your financial life
  • How the same values can play out differently for different people
  • How to budget using your values in during leaner times
  • Why financial experts aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Financial Costs of Coming Out with Cait Howerton

Cait Howerton, financial counselor and coach, comes on the show to talk about the time she left for college and her parents finding out she’s a lesbian. She chats about how she was still able to afford college, what the true costs were for her after she came out, and how her money relationship has changed since fully becoming part of the LGBTQ community.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Cait didn’t feel comfortable talking to her parents about her sexuality growing up
  • What happened when she came out and not by choice
  • What some of the opportunity costs are even though Cait is financially stable
  • What it really cost her to move away from home
  • How Cait reconciled with her parents, although their relationship isn’t the same as before

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Removing Money From Your Self Worth

This week’s episode is all about removing your self worth from your net worth. As in, you’re still a person of value whether or not you have a lot of money or earning power. In general, society teaches us that we need to constantly produce or have proof of wealth in order for us to feel good about ourselves. So let’s dig a little bit deeper about what this means and how can we start to remove our financial situation from our self worth.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What exactly is self worth and how that ties into our financial life
  • Why social media isn’t the source of all our problems
  • What happens when we use money to measure our sense of self
  • Tools to start removing self worth from your net worth

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Mormonism, Money & Motherhood with Elyssa Kirkham

Elyssa Kirham, writer at Brave Saver, speaks about the conflict she felt as a member of the Mormon church when it came to becoming financially secure. She talks about how growing up, she was taught being a mom is her only goal in life, why wanting to work is frowned upon, the conflict she felt at wanting her own version of financial freedom, and why it’s ok for moms to want something for themselves. 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Elyssa had a fatalist approach when it came to her working life
  • The conflict she experienced growing up seeing her mother work at a young age
  • Why it’s unusual that she decided to graduate early from college
  • How Elyssa found a community of similar women
  • How Elyssa’s views on money has changed since leaving the Mormon church

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Tackling Emotional Spending

In this week’s episode, we’re talking about *cue dramatic music* emotional spending. Whether you’ve had a bad day at work, or you’re just feeling down for whatever reason, some of us, myself included, turn to retail therapy. Now a few dollars here and there isn’t going to hopefully break the bank, but it can cause a bunch of mental anguish and of course your financial situation down the line. So let’s talk about the good and bad parts of emotional spending are, some practical ways to deal with it and forgive yourself for past mistakes.

There is a lot of information packed into this episode, but don’t worry about scrambling to take notes down, I’ve created the tips I’m about to share in a pretty downloadable guide. To download it, head to beyondthedollar.co/spending

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What does emotional spending even mean, and why it’s not always negative
  • Using short term solutions to get you to stop spending
  • What is important long term to curb emotional spending
  • Why novelty and pattern interrupts are crucial to help assess your spending habits
  • How Sarah spent $500 in one month on junk food

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Adopting Through the Foster Care System With Melissa Becker

Melissa Becker seems like one of those rare folks who wants to adopt multiple children at once, especially foster children in the U.S.who have siblings and don’t want to be separated. After her traumatic first adoption experience  (we’re talking about having to fight for her rights to maintain a stable home for a special needs child), she turned to private adoption.

That isn’t easy either. There’s the waiting. and the disappointments at not being picked. Once she was in “competition” with four other families to adopt a girl with a heart defect and well, let’s just say that didn’t end well.

That’s why I’m so thankful Melissa came on the show to talk about her experience adopting four children, two from the foster care system and two through private agencies. She chats about how much she spent (we’re talking tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers fees alone), her mental health during that time and what she’s most thankful for throughout the whole process

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Melissa decided to adopt
  • Why Melissa had to go to court after adopting her first child, and what it cost her
  • What went through Melissa’s mind when she had to deal with mountains of paperwork
  • Her thoughts on private adoption agencies and why she went that route even though she would rather adopt through the foster care system
  • Why she started looking into grants and the frustrating process when asking for money
  • What it felt like to meet her children for the first time
  • What Melissa would say to some who is interested in adoption

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Feeling Those Feelings Around Money

In this week’s episode, it’s just me and you, talking about how to help you navigate your feelings when it comes to money. I’m here to talk to you about the overwhelming emotions you may currently be experiencing. Believe it or not, it might actually be grief — trust me it’s a lot more complicated than you may think. So, I’m sitting right here with you , chatting about how grief can manifest in different ways in your financial life when you’re adjusting to a new way of living. So you’ll learn what it means to process your emotions, why it’s ok to do what you need to do to take care of yourself, stop thinking you’re failing, and why community is more important than ever.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why those negative feelings around money may be a form of grief
  • How grief can manifest into negative financial behaviors
  • Why it’s important and crucial to feel those feelings around money, without judgement
  • How you can work through your feelings of grief around your finances
  • How you can cultivate a sense of community to help you become more resilient

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Music by Donovan Dorrance

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Uncoupling Your Finances with Nicole Antoinette

Nicole Antoinette, host of Real Talk Radio, comes on the show to talk about her experience going through the uncoupling process, where her and her ex sat down with homemade vegan pizza while mapping out how they were going to divide their assets on a Google spreadsheet.. We go over why navigating paperwork was fairly messy even though what they went through was Nicole calls the “easy version” of divorice (*hint* it had to do with the house). She also chats about some of her concerns post-divorce, her reason for embracing the van life for now and her hopes moving forward.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Nicole and her ex decided to separate
  • What were some of the first conversations after agreeing to a divorce
  • How open Nicole was talking about money
  • How it was both easy and hard for Nicole to uncouple her finances
  • What prompted her decision to move into a van
  • What Nicole is still trying to figure out as far as her finances go

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Music by Donovan Dorrance