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Deep and Honest Conversations About How Money Affects Our Well-Being

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Managing Emotional Triggers For Impulse Shopping

This week’s episode recaps Sarah’s conversation with Alyssa Davies last week, which dives into what really might be going on when you are shopping impulsively, even if it’s not a full-fledged addiction. Plus you’ll learn how to recognize your emotional triggers and how to achieve balance when it comes to your shopping habits through reflection questions. 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What might be going on when you purchase a lot of the same items
  • Why impulse shopping isn’t something to be ashamed of
  • How to start recognizing emotional triggers
  • How you can start learning to spend money for your own joy

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Overcoming a Shopping Addiction With Alyssa Davies

There’s this popular joke/meme in the U.S. that refers to this major chain store Target, that if you go inside, you experience a shopping blackout. You want to buy rolls of toilet paper and you walk out with ridiculous items like a dinosaur flower pot or a Lego keychain you never thought you needed, until right now.

There’s shopping sprees and then there are shopping sprees. Sometimes, it can turn into a problem

Alyssa Davies shares her experience of being addicted to clothes shopping in her early 20s. She goes into how she knew it became a problem,the emotional triggers leading her to spend all that money, and what she does now to ensure she has balance and trust when spending money

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • The real reason why Alyssa bought new outfits whenever she went out
  • How Alyssa discovered she needed to change her financial situation
  • How Alyssa’s relationship to money has changed over the years
  • What Alyssa would tell her younger self about her financial journey

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Spending Money Out of Love

This week’s episode recaps a conversation with Kassandra Dasent last week, where she shared her experience flying to another country to be at her mother’s deathbed before she died of COVID-19. It’ll dive  into what it means to be a financial caretaker, the exact feeling Kassandra felt when she was able to drop everything to be with her mom knowing she can pay for whatever it cost, and questions you can ask to help you cultivate those same feelings yourself. 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What it means to spend money with love and no regrets
  • How you can begin to get your finances together to spend according to your values
  • Why it’s important to have conversations with aging parents about money
  • What does anticipatory grief look like and work through it

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Quarantine, Spending $10,000+ (USD) and Grieving Her Mother

Kassandra Dascent shares her harrowing experience flying from the U.S. to Canada smack dab in the middle of the COVID pandemic to be by her mother’s death bed. She also goes into detail exactly how much she spent, how she was able to pay for it all in cash, why she has no regrets and what this experience has really taught her.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Kassandra does not regret paying for her late mom’s long term care and funeral
  • What was Kassandra’s mom’s legacy to her and her family
  • How parents can set their kids up for financial success without money
  • How to start using money as the value you and others will receive

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How To Use Money as the Final Filter

This episode dives deeper into the phrase “use money as the final filter”  and how last week’s guest, Jason Vitug uses this to make his money decisions. A lesson learned where he regretted not so was pushing off a flight to save money, only to not be able to see his late 97-year old grandmother before she passed. You’ll learn questions you can think about on how to move beyond the question of survival once you have the financial means to do so. 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What using the final filter really means
  • Examples of how to successfully use money as the final filter
  • Why it’s important to take care of money basics first before thinking beyond the numbers
  • Four questions you can ask to start shifting away from thinking about money purely from a numbers standpoint

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Using Money as the Final Filter with Jason Vitug

Jason decided to save a few hundred dollars (even though he could more than afford it) back at the end of 2019 on flights to the Philippines to see his 97 year old grandmother and pushed the trip to the spring of 2020. Well, we all know what happened, a global pandemic and Jason never got to see his grandmother before she passed.

He comes on the show to talk about the regret and raw emotions he feels about the financial decision he made that led to him not seeing his grandmother before her passing, why we need to use money as the final filter since so many of us default to savings, and how we can move beyond the question of survival once we have the financial means to do so.
 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • The real reason Jason and his mother decided to save money on their flight
  • What regrets and emotions he’s still dealing with from this one seemingly small decision
  • How we can start to spend money with purpose
  • What it means to talk about money beyond mere survival and the numbers
  • How using money as the filter helps to break the taboo about money

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Giving Up Alcohol With J.D., Katie, Marcus, and Scott

This season finale looks at how alcohol affects your financial life (it’s not what you think) and how giving up our vices offers us one of the biggest opportunities to learn about who we are and what we need to thrive. This episode features four people who come from seemingly different walks of life – J.D. Roth, Katie Holte, Marcus Garrett and Scott Maderer. While on the surface it seemed like the journey all four of them went on felt like worlds apart, the humanity they discovered in themselves, the lessons learned, and what it meant in their financial lives and beyond wasn’t all that different.
 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • When all four noticed their relationship with alcohol wasn’t healthy
  • How these four folks decided to give up alcohol
  • How much all four saved after not buyng alcohol
  • What the biggest lessons learned were
  • What your vices teach you about your financial life and beyond

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Recovering from Addiction Within a Relationship With Brianne Davis-Gantt And Mark Gantt

Brianne is a recovering love addict, and one of her beliefs was that her prince will come and take care of her – to the point where she would hoard her money instead of spending it. Mark, well he happily took on this role, even in the midst of his spending addiction. They both come on the show to talk about their individual addictions, how it affected their finances and what it really took for them to turn it around. Plus, the conversations they have now that their son is in the picture.
 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • When both Brianne and Mark started treating their individual addictions
  • How both their addictions got themselves into a financial hot mess
  • How Brianne and Mark were able to get on the same page financially and the types of conversations they had to get there
  • What the biggest lesson they’ve learned since becoming parents
  • How they learned to help each other out despite battling their individual addictions

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Managing Finances as an Orphaned Teen With Carter Colfield

Doing internet searches can literally save your financial life. That’s what happened to Carter. At 16, he was more concerned about where he was going to live, how to pay for college with no financial help from his parents, and the biggest one of all, grieving his parents who died within two years of each other. He talks about how his experience  growing up in a dangerous neighborhood -South side of Chicago to be exact – plus his parents’ deaths lit a fire under him to to get a better handle on his money and ultimately his life.
 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • How Carter grew up and who he looked up to as a positive role model
  • Why Carter moved in with father after his parents separated
  • What happened the moment he found out his father died within two years of his mom
  • Why he’s grateful for internet searches
  • What he hopes other learns about money and mindset

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Don’t Be a Burden On Your Kids With Rosemary Bointon

Rosemary is a UK citizen who has lived in over 13 countries and retired in Portugal. She’s very well aware that there are lots of issues to worry about, like healthcare and contingency plans if something were to happen to her, and her children had to take care of her. She chats about talking about navigating estate planning challenges because her children are in one country and she’s in another. You’ll also learn how you can prepare your finances so you’re not a burden on your loved ones.
 

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Rosemary’s unique lifestyle may pose challenges in her estate planning
  • Why looking at currency and political fluctuations is important when retiring abroad
  • Why your legacy could mean someone giving up part of their financial life
  • How Rosemary intends on supporting her and her husband without relying on her children
  • What Rosemary wants people to know about the types of considerations to think about as you’re aging

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