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How Fear And Confidence Affect Our Money Decisions

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How does your fear around money affect  your decisions? What can we do to move away from fear and feel more confident in our money?

In this episode we sit down with Jen Hemphill, a Money Confidence Coach, an AFC® (Accredited Financial Counselor), and host of the Her Money Matters® Podcast.  Her first book Her Money Matters: The Missing Truths From Traditional Money Advice helps to fill the missing gaps for when you are financially stuck.

Jen has a unique perspective on how our money stories translate into fear around our money and how that affects our day-to-day decisions. We dive into how we can begin to shift our fears into being more confident in our financials lives. We also share how to incorporate self-care practices to relieve stress and fear (it doesn’t cost a lot, trust us!), ways to find the community to help you grow, and so much more.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What fear looks like in our financial lives
  • What is a past and present money story, and why those two are crucial when it comes to uncovering our fears
  • What does it mean to be confident with our money? How does that help us make better decisions?
  • How we tend to make poor choices when we’re maxed out on our “mental bandwidth”
  • Simple shifts we can all make to feel better about our money (hint: it’s not spending hundreds of dollars on self-care)

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How Can Money Help Us Create a More Meaningful Life?

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What is a meaningful life and how can money become a tool to create it? What happens when we’re so focused on making money we forget to smell the roses and appreciate life?

In this episode, we sit down with Leisa Peterson, founder of WealthClinic and the host of the Art of Abundance podcast. We wanted to have Leisa on because she has a unique way of combining mindfulness practices into her work with money. We dive into how to define what a meaningful life looks like, how you know if you’re using money to achieve it, and the work we need to do in order to find meaning around money and our lives.

Yup, it’s another vulnerable episode folks, as Garrett and Sarah dive deep into pivotal moments into their lives, how chasing money isn’t always the answer, what really is the secret to purpose and meaning in one’s life.

 

 

What You Hear in This Episode:

  • How Leisa approaches her relationship with money, and how it’s now has nothing to do with earning and saving
  • Some of the ways we unknowingly sabotage our happiness by treating having money as the end goal.
  • How your relationship with money can change as you work on creating a meaningful life
  • Common misconceptions of a what a meaningful life is and money’s role in it
  • Pivotal moments (including your rock bottom) that can help you shift the trajectory of your financial life
  • How Leisa’s upbringing influenced negative feelings she had with money, and how she released these “invisible scripts”
  • How anyone can start diving into their blocks to a meaningful life

 

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How to Practice Forgiveness in Your Financial Decisions

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Is forgiveness really that crucial to a healthy financial life? If so, how can we incorporate it into our daily lives?

We explore why forgiveness doesn’t mean talking about the “dumb” mistakes we make with money. In fact, it has nothing to do with forgetting the decisions we’ve made or the situations we find ourselves in. This time, Garrett is under the microscope as him and Sarah talk about who forgiveness is really for, how to let go of expectations, and exercises to practice forgiveness in our financial lives.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • The common myths around the concept of forgiveness and how they prevent people from moving on in their financial lives
  • Why it’s important to forgive and stop avoiding negative emotions (hint: it’s meant to help you)
  • How expectations with people, situations and actions lead us to spiral into shame, guilt and hurt
  • The simple steps anyone can implement today to start forgiving anyone and anything, particularly when it comes to money

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What Does Having “Enough” Money Look Like?

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What does “enough” look like in our financial lives? What is a scarcity mindset and how does it prevent from living our best lives?

We explore these questions and how the idea of “enough” has both prevented and helped us lead better financial lives. This episode, Garrett is under the microscope and shares how his fear prevented him from making a major life change that would’ve easily made him happier. Sarah also dives into how she approaches negative feelings, how society has taught us to avoid them, and what we can do when we feel the desire to continuously spend money.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • What the heck is a scarcity mindset and how it leads to poor decision making
  • The concept of instant gratification and our constant need to buy and consume
  • Where everyone needs to be seeking answers when it comes to financial and life challenges (hint: it’s not anything external)
  • What is really at the core when we use money to mask our feelings

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On Trust Funds and the Challenges With Being Rich – An Interview With Megan Gill

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Does being rich mean all your problems go away?

In theory, yes.

In reality, far from it.

We invited Megan Gill to chat with us about how someone with a large amount of wealth has to manage their relationships. It’s equal parts uncomfortable and uplifting as Megan shares the shame and guilt that comes with being a “trust fund” kid. She lays it all out there, from the need to hide in her shell, to working through the shame in therapy, and her desire to be seen as a valid member of society.

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • How Megan grew up surrounded by wealth and how she learned of her privilege
  • Her guilt at having more money and why she felt she’s had to hide it
  • The types of inappropriate questions others have asked regarding her status
  • How Megan plans on use her privilege as a force of good in the world

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Can Money Buy You Happiness?

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What does money have to do with happiness? Perhaps a better question to ask is, can money increase our levels of happiness?

We explore this question and how the idea of happiness has manifested in our financial lives. In fact, Sarah gets personal, sharing why she feels so emotional talking about her lofty income goal. She even shares a story about the time she hit rock bottom, which left Garrett saying “Oh, S(#T.”

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What You Hear in This Episode:

  • Why Sarah feels she needs to make more money to be happy, and her journey to discover the emotional connection to her lofty income goal.
  • What it actually means to be intentional with money and how that ties into our overall happiness
  • How using money to avoid tough life decisions can lead you down a dark path
  • The myth that having a lot of money can solve all your problems
  • The role gratitude plays when it comes to money and happiness

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