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So Glad You Asked
Money Mindset March - My Personal Journey
In this episode of So Glad You Asked, Jean Madison dives deep into her personal journey with money mindset. She explores the beliefs and experiences that have shaped her relationship with money, from her early career in the non-profit world to building her own coaching business and navigating the financial realities of motherhood.
Jean shares candidly about:
- Overcoming limiting beliefs about money: Discover how Jean challenged the narratives that held her back, such as "money is evil" and "you can't do good in the world and make money."
- The power of manifestation: Learn how Jean incorporates manifestation practices into her life and business, and how these practices have helped her achieve her goals.
- Balancing income goals with ideal life vision: Jean discusses the importance of aligning your financial goals with your desired lifestyle, and how to avoid compromising your ideal life in pursuit of arbitrary income targets.
- Navigating the financial challenges of entrepreneurship and motherhood: Hear Jean's honest reflections on the ups and downs of building a business while raising a family, and how she prioritizes flexibility and time freedom.
- Recognizing the importance of your current life stage: Jean emphasizes the value of aligning your financial goals with your current life stage, whether it's raising young children, pursuing specific passions, or preparing for future aspirations.
- Understanding money as a reflection of self-trust and self-esteem: Jean explores how our feelings about money often mirror our internal beliefs about ourselves and our capabilities.
- The importance of self-trust in achieving your goals: Jean shares how building self-trust is essential for personal growth and making a positive impact on the world.
- Prioritizing time, space, and freedom: Jean discusses how she has prioritized time, space, and freedom over high income during the current phase of her life.
This episode is for you if:
- You're interested in exploring your own money mindset and identifying limiting beliefs.
- You're curious about manifestation and how it can be used to achieve your goals.
- You're an entrepreneur or aspiring entrepreneur looking to balance income goals with your ideal life vision.
- You're a parent navigating the financial challenges of raising a family.
- You are interested in how self trust and self esteem relates to your financial situation.
Resources mentioned:
- Denise Duffield-Thomas's Money Bootcamp: denisedt.com
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Welcome back to so Glad. You Asked a podcast where we have conversations on career leadership and living an intentional life, and conversations with me, jean Madison, certified Gallup Global Strengths Coach and founder of Whole Human Co, where I'm focused on intentional career life and relationship coaching, as well as organizational and team development and well-being. Join me as I answer questions I'm asked by my clients and audience, as well as personal experiences and growth opportunities that I feel we could all learn from. If you have a question or topic suggestion you'd love to hear discussed here on the podcast, visit my Instagram at JeanMadison underscore, comment your questions here on the podcast or tap the link in the show notes that says send questions here to email me directly. Now let's dive into today's episode.
Speaker 1:All right, everyone welcome to Money Mindset March. If you are on my email list, you already know that, or follow me on social media or anywhere, you already know that the focus of this month is all about money mindset. This is a topic that I realized I do a lot of personal work with for myself money mindset for myself, as well as work with my clients, both nine to fivers, entrepreneurs, people who are really just looking for like life coaching. It doesn't matter. This is always something that we talk about. But in that realization I saw that I was really doing all of this work behind the scenes, both personally and with my clients, and I've never actually talked about it. I've never talked about money and money mindset in a more broad way. And so when I kind of sat back and I asked myself why I haven't talked about this topic very much or at all, this is really what came up for me. One, I'm not a multimillionaire, so I can't talk about this stuff. Two, I haven't met all of my income goals all the time in my business, so no one really wants to hear about this topic from me. And three, it's not my niche, it's not my expertise, so I better leave it be. That's fair. You know, if you are coming to me because and listening to this episode because you want to learn how to be a multimillionaire, that's you're probably not. That's not the place. This is not the place for that. That's not what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1:But I have realized that, even though I have those excuses, those excuses in and of themselves are examples of why money mindset work is so important to me, because all of those beliefs, all of those excuses are related to my money mindset and my feelings about myself and my work and how I show up in the world world. And so for me, you know money mindset is a really important topic in my life and how it relates to my work at Whole Human Co. A lot of the concepts I've learned in doing this work really play into the work that I do with my clients. Now, the way I see this connection happening between money mindset and my work is that, at the end of the day, my money mindset is a direct reflection of how I feel about myself, about my work, about the things I put out into the world, what I believe is possible for me and really an easy way for me to see where I'm holding myself back. And I take all of that and I would say the same things in working with my clients right. It's a great way to see how are they holding themselves back, what are the beliefs they have about themselves that are keeping them from taking action toward the goals that they have for their life, for their work, for their relationships, et cetera, et cetera. So here are a couple of yes and no's I just want to share before I dive into my story around my work within Money Mindset, because there are some words, there are some topics, there are some beliefs in kind of this world of Money Mindset that I think can be really triggering for people. I think that people don't like, and that's okay. You don't have to agree with everything I say here today. You don't have to like everything I say here. It's not a hundred percent of who I am wrapped up in this particular podcast episode. This is a piece of my life and my work that I'm sharing, um, but I've also worked with a lot of clients where certain things in certain language within this world around money is uncomfortable and triggering. So, yes, manifestation is a big part of the money mindset work.
Speaker 1:Manifestation is also a word that many people have issues with, understandably, and, yes, I personally like to work within thought patterns of manifestation. So, some of the things, if you've learned from the really woo-woo side of manifestation, yeah, I like to do some of those things. I do Hand up, guilty or not guilty. No, I do not believe that people bring bad things upon themselves because they don't manifest right or they have negative thoughts. That's really important. I want you to hear that. I do not believe that people having bad things happen to them, bring that upon themselves because they don't know how to manifest and because they have negative thoughts.
Speaker 1:Yes, I do believe there is power in positive thinking 100%, and I also believe it's a privilege to have the time, resources and safety to focus on having a positive mindset. Okay, no, I do not subscribe to think it and it will be 100%. Yes, I still listen to subliminals and I do affirmations and I practice EFT and still listen to subliminals and I do affirmations and I practice EFT and I daydream and I visualize and I do vision boards and I have little reminders that pop up on my phone to remind me of my goals and that I've accomplished them, right? So why I'm going in this like yes, no, back and forth, is because I want to convey the point that, as usual, my view of this particular topic and my approach to money, mindset, manifestation, et cetera is nuanced. I do all of the things that I've learned in money, mindset manifestation, et cetera money, mindset, manifestation, et cetera and I also don't look at really challenging and negative things that have happened in the world and think, well, they must've just brought that on themselves as a society. They must just not think positively enough, right? I don't believe that, and I also think that it can change your individual personal life and experience of life by focusing on positive thoughts.
Speaker 1:So, that being said, manifestation will inevitably come up in these conversations. So I just want to touch on it because I know and have worked with several clients who do not like the term manifestation, and that is totally fine. But for the purpose of these conversations and the fact that this is probably going to come up, I just want to define that word for you in the way that I'm using it and the way that I embody it, and that is manifestation. Manifesting to manifest equals making dreams, goals, real goals, making dreams, goals, real Manifest, like manifesting in my education and my coaching, simply comes down to a define your ideal life. B set clear goals. C take a line to action. D make shit happen.
Speaker 1:And these are not my words necessarily. I mean those are my words, but this is not like a unique thought that I'm having. This is something that I've learned through the people that I've surrounded myself with when it comes to conversations around money and mindset, but what it really comes down to is you have to take action to make things happen. Quote unquote manifesting is just figuring out what you want and then actually taking action toward it and believing that it's possible. I think the believing that it's possible piece is maybe the more not physical, not easy to kind of grasp piece of it, set goals, take action. That's easy. Believe that it's possible.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's how we're thinking about manifestation this month, as I know it will inevitably come up in these conversations. I don't want you to get wound up about that particular word. If there's other language that I use that feels triggering, that feels like it brings something up in you, send me an email and let me know, because I would love to know and be able to unpack that a little bit in future conversations on money this month, because everybody has a different understanding of this work. Everybody has different experiences with this work. Everyone is at different stages in this work or maybe not even in it at all, and that's why you're listening, because you're like huh, that's interesting, I hadn't thought about it like that. So, that being that, we've gone through all the logistics, all of the language and specifics, now for the majority of this episode.
Speaker 1:I really just want to talk about my personal experience, my personal money mindset journey. In future episodes. We're going to talk a little bit more about some specifics and some challenges. I've seen some things I've worked with with clients, some questions that you all have brought to me about money, but I think it's important to start with my own experience and let you all know brought to me about money. But I think it's important to start with my own experience and let you all know where I'm coming from. Sound good, let's dive in. So my personal journey with money mindset, changing the way that I think about money, trying to bring more money into my life really started in 2016. Now, I'm sure I read things before this and manifestation was probably something I understood before 2016, but 2016 was really the turning point for me. This was a moment in time where I was finally making a pretty good salary. I had lived at home for a while because I was traveling so much for my job, but I had finally moved into my own apartment and I was really in this moment in time where I felt like, for the first time, I was independent with an asterisk on that. We'll talk about that later, but it all really started with this money boot camp with Denise Duffield Thomas.
Speaker 1:Now, again, if you're on my email list. You learned a little bit about her this week. I share her work with all of my clients. I really love her. Now, I would say she is probably a specific taste. She is Australian and she works mostly with women and she's just very unapologetically her, and I think that's what I like so much about her and about learning from her. One of her books is called Chillpreneur and another one is Chill and Prosper. She's very much about how do I make things easier, how do I make life easier and make money doing what I'm good at, et cetera, et cetera. So I like that. I'm all about how do I make things easier. I'm all about making sure people are doing what feels good for them and aligned to their vision for their life. Um, she's actually the first person that I I participated in an ideal life visualization with. So my ideal life visualization that I do with clients is very much based off of what I learned from her and bootcamp almost 10 years ago. But I joined her bootcamp.
Speaker 1:I don't really remember the exact reason why I was like, yes, this is the thing I want to do, but yeah, in my memory at the time I was struggling because I was in a nine to five at a nonprofit and while I was making a decent salary like I really was, I was making a decent salary I had a lot of stories around money, like money is evil, you shouldn't want to make more money, you can't do good in the world and make money. Like how dare you be an international studies and social justice studies major working for an education nonprofit and think about money? God forbid. I also just had these stories because throughout my life, anytime I said, oh, I want to work for the United Nations, oh, I want to work for an NGO, oh, I want to work for a nonprofit, I won't even say well-meaning people because they're just like adults who don't think before they talk would say like that's great, but you're not going to make any money doing that, you're not going to make money at a nonprofit, you won't make money in that chosen career path.
Speaker 1:And so while I was making perfectly enough money for myself at the time, I was very happy in my life, I just had all of these stories and beliefs that I wasn't good enough and I wasn't doing enough because I wasn't making money, but that I was never going to make money in my chosen career path. So I had to choose. I either needed to leave and go pursue a different career path or I just needed to accept that I was never going to make any money and I was probably just going to be below average income for the rest of my life, but I was going to be happy because I was working in the work that I wanted to do. Those felt like the only two options and I also had this feeling, or a lot of feelings around this deep seated need to be completely independent, and that's why I said asterisk earlier.
Speaker 1:Because I was living on my own. I was, you know, paying my own rent, I was paying for my student loans and things like that. But my parents supported me a lot. Um, I think that period of time was probably the period of time where they were supporting me financially the least. Um, but they would still help me out in certain situations. Right, like getting my car, they helped with half of the down payment. Um, you know, there were just lots of little moments where it was like this is cute, like, look at you. You know, there were just lots of little moments where it was like this is cute, like, look at you, you bought a new car, but like you didn't do it entirely by yourself, so it doesn't count. Like, oh, you moved into this apartment. Well, you know you're getting help with the rent, so it doesn't count. There were a lot of things like this and I still have a lot of feelings about this. I still have a story for as we move on in the years here. But just know that this was kind of the basis for the beginning of my money mindset journey.
Speaker 1:I participated in Denise Duffield Thomas's money bootcamp and I've been a part of that bootcamp for the last decade. I'm actually going through it again right now. I do it every year. I do the activities frequently. I love her bootcamp. I love it. I really, really do. So I'll put the link to that. I think she's actually, if you're listening to this, like pretty close to when I published this episode. I think she's actually launching a live bootcamp in the next like two or three weeks. So if you're interested, that would be super fun. I'm going to try and participate live for that.
Speaker 1:But I just it worked for me. It aligned with who I was and where I was and the beliefs I wanted to hold and the beliefs I did hold, and it still does to this day. So I do encourage you, as you're kind of going on your own money mindset journey, to figure out, like, who are the people who align with you, who make you feel good, who make you feel hopeful? There are a lot of money people out there who just don't make you feel good. Right, going back to that feeling of like well, if you're not manifesting it, then you must be doing something wrong. You must be wrong, you must be bad. I don't subscribe to that. I don't want to be around and listen to people who talk like that. Personally, if that works for you and that's motivating for you, great, but that's just not not for me. So that was 2016. I started that.
Speaker 1:I kind of continued working on money mindset stuff through her boot camp for the next several years, but one of the big things I felt stuck on is, like she works with a lot of entrepreneurs. I was not an entrepreneur at the time, so I really didn't understand, like how am I supposed to actually like bring in more money when I have a consistent paycheck? Really didn't understand, like how am I supposed to actually like bring in more money when I have a consistent paycheck? And this is kind of getting at that point that I made earlier that money mindset is not just about money, and I didn't really realize that at the time. I hadn't really embodied that completely, and it's really something I didn't embody until the last couple of years. So it was a little confusing. Right, I'm doing all this money mindset work, I'm doing all this manifestation work. I'm doing all of these things but like I'm not in control of my income, so it just felt kind of weird. But looking back now, I can see a lot of the ways that that planted seeds. I can see a lot of the ways that it changed my thinking and that it just made me more open to different opportunities and different income streams or whatever it was. So it really was the beginning. It was the seed planting, it was the cultivation that led to where I am now.
Speaker 1:But let's just fast forward to 2020. In 2020, I started a yoga teacher training. I really didn't have any intentions of teaching yoga at the time, or I wasn't sure if I wanted to teach yoga, but I had been an avid practitioner for years. I love, love, loved yoga and it was a really good opportunity and I was super excited about it as I got through the training and got towards the end of it, I really started having this thought of like well, it would be fun to teach and it would be a nice like additional income um, nice like side income for me, side hustle where I could make some more money. And having learned about my money, mindset stuff and been doing the bootcamp, it was like, oh okay, well, this could be a way that I could be a little bit more in control of my income by having a side hustle. Well, we all know what happened in 2020. I finished my yoga teacher training from my guest room, I guess in my condo. It was virtual. I shifted my whole thinking to teaching virtually. Sam and I moved across the country.
Speaker 1:I started to enter severe burnout at work, so I started trying to figure out how yoga could be my full-time income, mostly just teaching online. So I built lots of offerings. I did a lot of online business education. I went back through bootcamp again. I built out my Mindful Bride program, which was mostly yoga, but started to weave in some of these coaching themes. Obviously, that's where I am now and really throughout that whole year, I just kind of had this nagging voice in my head that was like A you got to get out of this current nine to five. B you love yoga, but I'm not really sure how this is going to work as a full-time gig. And C, like coaching, coaching, coaching, coaching, coaching.
Speaker 1:Now, if you listen to my um about me episode, in the very beginning of the podcast, I told you that I think it was in 20, I think it was in 2016 or 2017 when I wrote my first coaching business plan, um, and had no real idea how that was going to become a thing. So this idea of coaching had been strong. Uh, fast forward to 2021, total burnout trying to figure out what I was going to do. Signed up for a coaching training certification. I completed that from the beginning of the year. I think I completed that in like August, but I decided to leave my full-time job in May, I believe, of 2021. And I told myself I didn't leave until July 4th or July, but I gave my notice in May and I told myself that I would replace my monthly income the same amount I was making at my nonprofit as a director, that I would replace my monthly income within three months of entrepreneurship or I had to find a new job. Oh, just a moment to like hold 2021 me in a big hug, and that was a valiant thought.
Speaker 1:Now, I didn't have a business before. It wasn't like I was taking a side hustle and turning it into my full-time thing, like I had nothing. I was starting from zero. As I've said in previous podcasts, would not fully recommend that, but it was where I was, it was what I needed and that was my goal replace my income in three months. That did not happen. It did not happen.
Speaker 1:I completed my coaching training shortly after I left my job. I started seeing clients, but like very few and far between very low amounts of money, um, but I had a really decent amount of savings that I had, you know, kind of worked on over the years. And one of the interesting money mindset things again going back to this idea of independence was at the time I was like adamant about being 50,50 with Sam on expenses here in Utah because I wanted to prove that I could do it and I wasn't dependent. This theme will continue to show up, don't you worry so fast forward to 2022, you know I was slowly building my business, but did I replace my income in three months? Six months a year? No, can't say that I did, and then 2022 came around and we were planning our wedding, and so planning our wedding was honestly, a part-time job for me.
Speaker 1:Like I put so much time and energy into that event and I do not regret a second of it. It was an amazing weekend, but it was one of those situations where not only did it take up a lot of my time and energy, the way that my life was, the way that my business was, I was able to take off like two to three weeks, maybe a month before our wedding, and two to three weeks, maybe a month after our wedding, and just not take clients during that time, or take very few clients during that time, because we also had a wedding two weeks before ours, a wedding two weeks after ours, bachelorette party three weeks before ours, all kinds of things happening and I just decided to take a pause and take the clients that I was currently working with, but I wasn't going to bring on any new people. And that was really where this idea of like, oh, I have this vision for my ideal life and then I have this goal for my income, and not to say that I can't make that goal happen while also having spaciousness and flexibility in my life, but I haven't built my business to that point yet, or I hadn't built my business to that point yet. So I had said what I wanted my ideal life to be, which was having a lot of flexibility, being able to go to the 9 am yoga class, being able to spend time planning and executing our wedding and traveling and, you know, being there for my friends and all kinds of things. And I was doing that and we were fine financially and I was still making some money.
Speaker 1:But, like, even though I was actually living out my ideal life, I was very much beating myself up constantly for not making quote unquote enough money. And so, fast forward to 2023, this is really where I started thinking about this of, like, okay, how much money does it actually require for me to live my ideal life? Like, how much money do I actually need to make? Because, up until this point, I've had these really arbitrary goals right, replacing my previous income. Then you go into the like $10,000 a month, $100,000 a year goal, which is the goal for every like entrepreneur starting out, and I'm actually going to talk about that in the next episode, but I didn't have a good why behind any of these numbers that I was putting out, I didn't have a plan for really how I was going to get there and it wasn't in alignment with the life that I wanted to be living. Like, sure, I would love to make $100,000 and live the life that I want to be living, but, like, the life that I want to be living is the number one, most important thing how much money does that require? Plus a little bit? And so this is. I started working on this with a lot of my clients. I started working on it with myself of like, okay, what is the real number that has a strong why behind it, that I can actually get excited about, that I can actually feel is realistic and that isn't going to compromise the life that I say that I want to be living. Now, again, I'm going to asterisk from the beginning of this episode.
Speaker 1:This conversation is very privileged. There's a lot of privilege that I have in having a partner who can support us when I'm navigating some slow times to have a home that we purchased, you know, at a time where it wasn't insane, completely insane, to purchase a home. So there's a lot of privilege in this conversation. I just want to recognize that. But I'm just hoping that this conversation overall will just help you look at your own life and situation and really think about where are the places that you have competing ideas, competing goals, where the numbers you've laid out for your life don't actually move you closer to the life that you want to be living or the ideal way that you've laid out for your life don't actually move you closer to the life that you want to be living or the ideal way that you want to be spending your time, et cetera, et cetera. So that was 2022,.
Speaker 1:2023 was actually my best year in business. Um, I was pregnant the majority of 2023, I had my baby in December of 2023. And I think, you know, had, had I not gotten pregnant and not had a baby, like I think I was on that kind of entrepreneurial upswing of it, would have kept building and kept growing. And you know, 2025 would have been like a super milestone year for me potentially and it's still. I actually think it's going to be a milestone year for me in many ways.
Speaker 1:But 2023, best year in business, worked with some amazing coaches, got some amazing support, actually built out like a business structure that worked for me. Um, you know, wasn't kind of just trying throwing spaghetti against the wall. I had a plan, I had a structure, I knew what I was doing. I knew the kind of work that I offered the people I wanted to work with all of it. Then I had a baby, and then 2024 was the worst year I've had a business yet. I was a new mom. I had again these ideas of like, okay, I'll be back to work in three months. And then she stopped sleeping at three months. So it was okay, I'll be back to work in six months. And I did come back to work Don't get me wrong, I did, but it was not a financial windfall in 2024.
Speaker 1:The clients I worked with in 2024 were amazing. There just weren't that many of them. I didn't have the capacity to build my, be public and do workshops and outreach and all these things. I was working in like one to three hour well, one to three hours total a day, basically. And so last year was really a year where this whole feeling of independence came back up again. It was really really wrestling with my need not only to be independent but to contribute financially to our family need not only to be independent but to contribute financially to our family, and I know there are lots of people out there that are stay at home parents. I know this in my brain and yet I was very cruel to myself throughout 2024 about my inability to effectively do both.
Speaker 1:Now that I'm on the backside of that, there are some things that I can look at and give myself credit for and recognize where I was able to live my ideal life. Even if I wasn't making my ideal income, I was able to fight for and maintain my breastfeeding journey with Isla. It was very, very, very challenging in the beginning. Had I had to go back to a nine to five job at three months, it probably wouldn't have worked, so I'm extremely grateful that I had that time. You know my personal choices when it comes to sleep and my child and her not being a good sleeper, and things I did want to do and things I didn't want to do. When it came to that Having the privilege of having a flexible schedule, being able to sleep in if I needed to I wouldn't have had that had I had a nine to five or even a really robust business to come back to, because I just wouldn't have had that flexibility.
Speaker 1:The clients I did work with were mostly moms last year, or just people who really understood my need for flexibility. I do not like to show up to coaching conversations unless I am feeling 100%, because you're paying me for my time, you're paying me for my ability to hold space, for my ability to ask powerful questions, and if I don't feel like I can do that, I'm going to reschedule, and that's just something about me that you know. We live in a world that's like never reschedule on your clients and I I do. All my clients will laugh and say, yes, she does, but that's because I want you to get the best of me. And so 2024 was hard.
Speaker 1:I had to really embrace this different role in my life. I had to embrace that maybe this was forever, but maybe it was just a moment in time. And, as we're seeing now, it was a moment in time. Right, it was a six months to a year time period where now I'm so, so grateful that I got to spend well, 10 full months as the sole caretaker or primary caretaker for my daughter. Then we got a nanny who would come two half days a week in October, and so you know, I've really had this privilege of being able to be there for her, raise her in the way that I want her to be raised, be very present with her. Yeah, it also means I didn't make a lot of money last year and this is part of the reason why I'm diving back into this money mindset work, because I want to find the flexibility to go through life and know that there are going to be years that are great, like 2023. And then there are going to be years that financially are not as great like 2024, but probably for good reason, and that it's okay and that's why I run my own business, because flexibility is so important to me and this kind of goes into some of my realizations in kind of the last couple of years is that I am focused on ideal life, both in my work and in my personal life. That's the goal, that's the lighthouse, that's the honing beacon, that's the top of the mountain. Is that ideal life vision?
Speaker 1:My clients and I and by I I mean like in my own personal experience as well as what I've seen in my client's experience we tend to separate this ideal life vision and income, and what I mean by that is we say, well, we need to, I need to make, I need to get a new job so that I can make $150,000 or I can make $200,000. And then I ask, like, well, what, what do you actually want your life to look like? And, spoiler alert, it doesn't require $200,000 for the most part, and actually pursuing that $200,000 job might make it so you don't actually get to live your ideal life at all. Now, it doesn't have to be that way and that's part of the positive thinking and manifestation and just like being very clear about your goals in the life you want to be living, so that you can find something that maybe pays you $200,000 and allows you to live the life you want to live. But I just think it's really important for us to put those two things next to each other and ask the question of, like, what does this job, this income, do for the life that I want to be living? Yeah, money makes life easier. Like I'm not going to sit here and pretend that's not true, but it doesn't change everything and it doesn't make more time. Um, necessarily, that's a longer conversation, but I I'm just trying to get at the fact that, like, we tend to separate these things in our minds. We have the ideal life and we have the income goal, and we haven't always made sure that those two things are in alignment.
Speaker 1:Another realization I made is that I have time and space and freedom to live life exactly how I want. So money, really, that is what it is, and that's okay, because for me, especially in this particular phase of life that I'm in, time, space and freedom is of the utmost importance. So whatever money I am making is great. Yes, I'd like to make more, but not at the sacrifice of the time, space and freedom that I have for my family at this moment, because my ideal life is more about space and freedom than things that require money right now, now. In the future, someday, my ideal life might require much more money. I might wanna do more traveling and I might wanna own properties and I might wanna do all these things that do require more actual cash, and that's great. I'll pursue that then, but it's been really important for me to recognize for myself the moment in time that I am in.
Speaker 1:This short period of parenting young children is really important to me and it's something that I want to dedicate my time and energy to. And I'm not saying that you have to feel that way at all. I have so many friends who have kids. We all have different approaches to parenting. They are all amazing. All of them are amazing parents. They all love their children deeply, deeply. You know I'm not by any means trying to say that, like, my choice is the only right choice, but it is the choice for me and it is what I want in my life right now. So I need to figure out the dollar amount in terms of income that supports that life not the life that maybe I wanted when I was 25, or maybe the life that I want when I'm 50, right. So, yeah, money mindset work can and should help open your flow of money and abundance into your life. Like that's obviously one of the big goals behind working on your money mindset, but it's also so much more than that, and that's what I've really found over the last two years or so in my own personal work and my work with my clients.
Speaker 1:So this month I'm really going to be diving into this topic from lots of different angles, because there are lots of different questions that you all have about this. Whether you use the words money mindset or not, how we feel about ourselves, what we believe is possible for us in our futures, like this is really important to me, I the. The mission or the belief behind my business is that imperfect people change the world. And in order to change the world and in order to be an imperfect person that changes the world, you have to trust yourself. You have to trust yourself to do that. You have to trust the decisions that you make, and a lot of times, the lack of self-trust shows up in money. A lot of times, the uncertainty we have or the lack of self-esteem we have shows up in money. So that's why it's so important for me to talk about this topic with you all, because it's not just money, but money is oftentimes the manifestation of the internal feelings we have about ourself, as well as society and structures. Obviously, you know that. I believe that, but there are ways that we can put ourselves in the best situation to succeed within the structures in society that we could.
Speaker 1:So I'll leave you with that for today's episode.
Speaker 1:We're going to dive into a lot more things in the next couple of weeks, so if you got something out of today's episode, please let me know in the comments and subscribe and rate all of the things with the podcast.
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