May 7, 2024

Finding Emotional Mastery in Your Finances

Finding Emotional Mastery in Your Finances

Join Divya Parekh as she sits down with financial expert Erin Gray to explore a holistic approach to money management. In this engaging conversation, you'll learn how Erin challenges the traditional focus on just the mechanics—like bookkeeping, taxes,...

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Join Divya Parekh as she sits down with financial expert Erin Gray to explore a holistic approach to money management. In this engaging conversation, you'll learn how Erin challenges the traditional focus on just the mechanics—like bookkeeping, taxes, and investments—and emphasizes the importance of addressing the emotional aspects, such as the fear, guilt, and shame many of us feel about our finances. Discover how to become aware of your feelings and beliefs about financial relationship.

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And let's bring in our guests. Malcolm

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maren Hi, thanks for having me. I would, sir, just as

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you mentioned earlier, it's just a
coffee chat, a conversation between two friends.

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And let me ask you this,
do you recall any positive moment?

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Are a positive person that left a
positive mark on you that you even to

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this day, like you know,
you think about that moment or that person

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and you are filled with positivity.
I think there's a lot of people that

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any one specific person I think I
want to go to where when I was

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kind of in that state of a
little bit of struggling finding someone's podcast and

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listening to her and listening to her
mindset and just kind of devouring her podcast

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for lack of a better word,
and that was something that was really helpful

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in a time of like that,
I you know, needed to hear the

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message. And I think that that
was that was like a pivotal point for

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me. That's a powerful story,
and it goes back to what I was

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saying earlier is that so many of
us think, oh, I don't have

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anything to offer, and just listening
to a podcast, and it can make

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such a difference in someone's life.
And similarly, how you're showing up for

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yourself, how you're showing up for
people and your sphere of influence, how

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you're showing up for the humanity.
It does make a difference. So when

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you were a young girl, what
would you say were your interests? I

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loved to swim, And you know, one of the things is I've kind

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of like picked apart and taken time
off and really slowed down and allowed myself

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to reflect, like there are parts
in my childhood that you know, like

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we remember sometimes the painful parts,
you know, and asking my parents or

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my like what did I really love? And I loved roller skating and I

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loved to swim, and the swimming
and the ocean in all parts water is

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something that I still love to do
every day. And that was something that

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like to reconnect to her during my
time off, like what did I love

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to do and what do I love
to do? And it's yeah, it's

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swimming in all forms, ocean,
pool, water sports, all the things.

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Yeah, water has a beauty of
its own and especially ocean since you

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mentioned about it. It is just
so vast and hold such an ecosystem within

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itself that it's just fascinating to me
that what appears on the top is not

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it's what it all has. And
similarly, be as human beings are like

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that. So as you grew up, what direction did your life take?

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I think, you know, as
I was younger, like you know,

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five, seven, eight, something
like that, I think, you know,

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little Aaron did all the things.
And then there was a pivotal moment

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in life that I experienced with my
parents in their financial situation around the age

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of ten, and I think that
that had a profound impact on me in

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the way that I viewed money and
things of that sort. And you know,

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after that it was very much So
I think I was focused, Like

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I say that I've worked since I
was like twelve, you know, Like

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I asked my mom the other day, I'm like, why did I work?

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Like she was like, because you
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the things that you wanted to do. And so, you know, reflecting

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and like having such compassion for little
Aaron that maybe yes, had a childhood

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right, but like now being able
to really do the things that I want

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to do, play the way that
I want to play, and yeah,

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really really being intentional with how I
spend my time now. And I think

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that that that probably was how I
spend my time now is a reflection because

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I think of maybe how I did
not get to do that when I was

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a kid. Yeah, and as
a child, the way I see it

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is, you know, children are
like open canvas and life paints their life

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experiences, just paints these memories and
these pictures on their brain and that it

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can just go in different directions.
So would you be open to sharing,

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Like you mentioned that at a very
tender age of ten, you experienced something.

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So what was that pivotal moment?
Yeah, my dad is I mean,

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I would say my life right has
been an entrepreneur, and I think

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that he made some you know,
decisions that we know, he made some

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decisions that impacted you know, his
his business. And I think in looking

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back now, he was doing it
from he wanted to empower me, right,

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Like he wanted to teach me about
money, He wanted to teach me

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about responsibility and those types of things. And also now that I'm a parent,

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like a ten year old just doesn't
have the capacity right to understand all

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of that. And so I understand
where the message was coming from, right,

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It was coming from love, it
was coming from empowerment. And at

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ten years old, right, like
you pick up on energy, you pick

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up on not just words. Right. And so the message, the overall

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message that I received was like money
is a very serious thing, right,

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and so that is kind of what
I took moving forward it and it did

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help me, right, It helped
me, you know, with my career

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that I had. It helped me
with saving and investing, and also now

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knowing like, Okay, money isn't
serious, it's you know, it's meant

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to you know, we can have
fun with it. We can circulate it.

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We don't have to hoard it.
We don't have to you know,

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scrimp and save and save all of
it, you know, like it It's

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okay to circulate it and move it
around. And it likes to be loved

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on. And so I'm grateful for
that, you know, like I said,

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like, I'm grateful for the message
and also now understanding like I can

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have a different relationship with money.
M h. Absolutely, And what a

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beautiful way to put it. Erin
that you took the message and rather than

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just taking it as it came,
you evaluated it that how it would show

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up in your life. So you
mentioned that, you know, you have

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had career and money. Tell us
a little bit about that. Well,

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I mean, I think I absorbed
the message that I received for a long

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time, right, Like the message
that I changed, or the message that

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I received isn't the message that I
live by now. And that's only been

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over the last you know, four
or five years. But for a long

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time, it was like serious,
right, Like I say, you know,

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like I loved a checklist life,
right like you hear, like you

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go to college and you get good
grades, and you make money, and

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you say for retirement, and you
make sure your child's education is paid for,

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and you like, you know,
working on paying off the mortgage,

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like all of the things that Western
society kind of boasts about, like these

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are the things that will make you
happy, right And I did all of

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those things, and I did them
from a place of like inadequacy within myself.

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I did it from a place of
and not aware right like at the

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time, right like, I just
did it from the place of like if

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I do this, then I'll fill
X, right, and we know that

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like nothing will ever make you feel
any way, and so I kind of

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had checked all the boxes and then
I was like, well, wait a

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second, like I'm not very like
the I'm not exactly happy. You know.

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I was just living for that next
moment, and I think that you

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know, the illusion that like if
you have X amount of money, then

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you're going to feel safe, or
then you're going to feel fulfilled, or

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then you're going to feel happy like
that. I totally bought into that until

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I got to that place, and
then I realized like this isn't this isn't

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what I want for my life,
and so really starting to pick apart what

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do I want? How do I
want to live? How do I want

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to be with my money? And
you know, for a long time,

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I say like I did not feel
safe with money, right, Like I

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thought that if I could get to
a certain point, then I would feel

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safe. But I kept moving that
goalpost, right like we would get to

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a certain amount and then I would
then I would save more, right,

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And then what I realized was like, oh wait a second, Like moving

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the goalpost isn't changing anything, right, like this is and I don't think

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I had language for it at the
time, right, But like, this

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is an internal job. This is
something I've got to because no matter how

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much money you have, if you
continue to accumulate it and you still feel

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actually more fear is what I felt
than less fear. And so really working

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on that over the last several years
to really be at peace with money,

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to have a different relationship with money, you know, knowing money can come

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and go like that's okay too.
That kind of that has been definitely my

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growth of like using money, having
fun with money, things of that sort.

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Yeah, No, definitely you pointed
out a few good things, actually

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several that even though you reach the
goalpost and you'll dive into that a little

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bit, it didn't change anything because
that relationship with money was internal, not

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external. So tell us, like, you know, externally, when you

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mentioned that you reached a certain point
in career, what did that look like?

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I don't necessarily know if it was
careers. Much like at the time,

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I was working in my family's water
and wastewater construction business, so I

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was helping them, you know,
run you know, a forty plus year

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business, you know, with plenty
of employees and all of that. It

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was more so the dollar amount and
like assets and things of that sort,

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and realizing like, oh wait,
like we have more money now than we

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did five years ago, and I
still actually I feel more insecure, I

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feel more scared, I feel more
fearful. And so it was actually when

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my husband and I we lived in
Texas at the time, and we were

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flipping a house and I think I
had I never went to the doctor,

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but I think I had a panic
attack like I was having and even though

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we had money, we were making
money, like my body didn't feel that

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way right, like that fear of
like exchanging large sums of money and things

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of that sort. And so that's
when I really realized, like I've got

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to do something with my relationship with
money because as I can't continue like I

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think it was thirty I don't know, thirty eight, thirty nine, I

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can't continue to like live my life
for the next forty fifty years in this

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feeling a state of stress and fear
and worry. And yeah, it felt

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like sometimes all consuming is what it
felt like. M Yeah, that's very

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telling that if you're okay, I'd
love to do it. Little exploration of

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what you said that you had large
sums of money and that brought on more

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fear. And what do you think
was behind that? Yeah, I think

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subconsciously, I think a lot of
the things the messages that I received as

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a kid, right, like holding
on to money, like money is something

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to be you know, like it's
a serious thing. And I don't know,

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like at ten, like I don't
remember having those conversations, right,

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I remember certain events that occurred.
I remember how I probably I felt when

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was realizing that, you know,
and this takes slowing down, right,

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something that really like has talked about. I don't think a lot like in

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Western society, right, but we
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way to, you know, cover
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this goes deeper than like you know
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deeper. What I mean is like
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and money, you know kind of
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thought work around it. Like this
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does not feel safe, like being
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really starting to do some somatic work
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because I was already doing the mindset
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start to, yeah, feel what
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way to cover up all of the
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you mentioned that you know you were

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feeling in the body. So let's
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our audiences as they're watching us,
they're thinking about it and exploring their relationship

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with money. So what are the
pointers? What are the some of the

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things that they can get started on
to figure out what kind of relationship do

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they have? Yeah, I think
just by you know, slowing down and

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asking yourself questions like how do I
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How do I feel if you're a
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when I look at my P and
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know, how do I feel if
you you know when it comes time for

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payroll? How do I feel when
you know the market if you're invested?

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I like tense up and I'm all
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this is just the way that the
markets go. Like how are you

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feeling in your body when you know
when your kid comes to you and asks

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you for something or it's considered a
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you feel when money is coming in? And how do you feel when money

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is I don't say coming in and
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this takes this takes some slowing down, right. I think we're where we

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how you know when I am I
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have, or do I think that
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wanting more from a place of like
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have more, give more, share
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some questions and getting curious is I
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that definitely makes sense. And here's
what I'll share that I remember like one

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of the times in my childhood where
my father had been caught in some family

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business and we had gone through some
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times, I remember how the situation
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and then how it impacted my perspective. And you are absolutely right,

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Like, you know, it's finding
about like doing that little research, being

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that journalist and investigating how your relationship
is with money. And so once let's

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say people find out what is the
relationship with money, what do they do

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after that? Yeah? So I
think one celebrating that, right, Like

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I think sometimes we are like okay, now we know, now what do

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we need to do. It's like, okay, that can just be for

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a little bit, right, Like
we can just celebrate like, oh,

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we've noticed what our relationship has been
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want to be with money? Right? Like? And I think, you

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know, I have lots of thoughts
around the self development world of like,

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you know, we want to fill
abundant we want to but like if our

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body doesn't feel safe, we can't
think, you know, like mantras and

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you know, constantly repeat things if
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to have to play with different ways, right, Like maybe it's meditation,

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maybe it's breath work, maybe it's
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with when the feeling comes up,
right, Like, we aren't taught how

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to be with our feelings, and
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right like, literally an emotion passes
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but a lot of us feel it
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you can tap, there's lots of
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to release some of that because you
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and emotion, and sometimes they get
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say stuck, you know, because
that feels a little disempowering, but it

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just the energy hasn't moved, right, And sometimes we just need to move

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the energy. And so really,
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kind and compassionate with ourselves, right
because a lot of a lot of our

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relationship with money was formed at a
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caregivers or our parents, or by
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of our beliefs around money aren't even
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do I want my relationship to be
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want to feel on a daily basis
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yourself and also going back to what
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important to look into how you want
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when you have your core values,
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been outlined by your family, by
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your peers. Because I have so
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that I feel so behind, I
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we find out that are not even
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them. These are people who they
study doing it. Oh now they're VP

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the director and I'm only manager,
okay, So it's almost like you're not

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even comparing apples to apples. It's
comparing apples to oranges. And then that

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comparison can take the joy. As
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joy. I like what you mentioned
about having that compassion. So in your

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career, I recall you sharing that
you had been a financial planner at one

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point in time. So tell me
what led you to get into that and

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what led you to getting out of
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like my upbringing, like I wanted
to be empowered with money. I

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liked it. I liked the finance
part of it. When I say it

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was easy, like I thought I
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I was kind of going down that
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the sciences weren't necessarily like I didn't
enjoy that, but when I got

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into the finance part, like business, it was very I loved all of

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my classes. And so, you
know, empowering people obviously, you know,

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with their money and being able to
make decisions and all of that.

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you know how to manage your money and

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grow your money and all of that
like that was that was also a desire

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of mine, and so yeah,
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like a servant's heart and wanting to
help people and empower them, and

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so financial planning, you know,
was was I really liked when I got

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into my courses and started taking them
and I enjoyed it. And so what

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you know, a lot of business
building, right is sometimes can be and

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it's different, right, I think
it's different for me now, but like

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back then, right, I totally
subscribed to like work hard, and I

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was working a lot of hours,
and even after five or six years in

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they had made some changes and with
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I didn't know if I wanted to
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week. Now Aaron now knowing what
she knows now, right, like she

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could have made a lot of different
choices, but I kind of had burnt

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myself out, you know. And
I think because I was at that place

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of like getting to the like sufficiency
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It was always like when I get
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actually relax, then I can write. But as I already said, right,

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I kept moving the goalpost and so
that is probably one of the reasons

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where I just was like, I'm
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of it became for me like obviously
my awareness now right, like this was

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all internal, like it wasn't fun
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change in wanting like what do I
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back to evaluating your life, right, like valuating what success was like and

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not looking outside of myself of like
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like you were, we're teaching all
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save and all of these things,
and then yet like a lot of us

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are going to the bar on Friday, Like there's something you know that is

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not matching up here, right,
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You know? And so really just
deciding like what do I want My

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husband and I were thinking about,
you know, maybe having a kid,

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and so like did I want to
work that many hours? So it was

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really a point where like what do
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I did not want to do that. So yeah, so it sounds like

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it was a turning point in your
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did you decide to do? I
think I for like maybe a week or

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two, I did nothing. I
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then that's when my dad approached me
and said, in a very like nonchalant

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way, like, do you want
to come and help me? I have

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some you know, I need some
help with and you know, as a

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business owner, like there are things
in your business that you kind of like

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hold close to your vest right,
and so the he was like, you

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know, I want someone that I
can trust, that I can you know,

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have someone look after some of the
things. And it started as very

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I say innocent in the sense of
like, hey, come and like help

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me with a couple of things.
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diving in and really, okay,
there's lots of changes that need to be

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made. And so yeah, part
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I hadn't you know, sat with
and dealt with any of the internal stuff

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for myself, and so kind of
diving in and really helping. And it

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was during the two thousand and nine
and construction and all the things, so

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diving in and really, yeah,
making a lot of changes in there,

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got it so you helped your father
and then post that what helped you kind

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of get into the place where you
are at right now? Yeah, like

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you at the very first question you
asked, like right, like what you

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know? I started listening to a
podcast and just devoured her and started and

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I enrolled in her group program and
just started getting coached and changing because the

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real estate that flipping the house,
that was a pivotal moment for me,

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like I don't want to live like
this, and so getting coached and working

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on that, and then over the
years, then deciding I wanted to quit

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my family's construction business, and then
building up my coaching practice, and then

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deciding I just want to take some
time off because I had never really not

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worked, and so that was that
was what started as three months ended up

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being two and a half years,
I guess. And so during that time

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off is probably has been my most
profound because it has given me the time

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to reflect, It has given me
stillness, it has given me I've gotten

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so much clarity because I've had this
space to really like what do I want?

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You know, I knew I wanted
to help people financially in coaching,

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but like, how did I want
to do it, and what did I

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want it to look? I can
just allowing myself that time to play,

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like you said, you know,
you're asking you when I was a kid.

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So being able to travel and spend
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that I had always had on the
like at some point in the future list

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you know, doing that over the
last two years that has probably gotten me

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to where I am now. So
you mentioned about said something like, you

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know, rather than wait for the
future, why not implement it today?

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Because even in the future, all
you have is present. So you talk

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often about three D and five D. So can you tell us a little

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bit about what is three D aspect
of the finances and five D? And

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how can you blend the two together? Yeah, the three D, Like

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I just made up the term because
I'm like, people keep coming to me

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with these things and I'm like,
okay, So the three D like the

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three dimension right, like what we
can see and I know, like you

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know, like you think about your
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I know that you know you can't
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are the things that you do on
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But then the five D is like
how you feel. And so old Aaron

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was really good in the three D, but her five D muscle was not

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built up at all, right,
Like she still felt a lot of fear.

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She still felt you know, insecure
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she had. And so when I
talk about like blending the two, like

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I mean, I'm sure we've all
met somebody who has millions and millions of

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dollars and they still are either really
unhappy, unfulfilled, or you know,

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fearful right to let go of some
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say blending those, what I mean
is having a healthy relationship with your money,

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like how you feel with your money, and also being a good steward

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right of your money in your and
being knowledgeable about your finances. And so

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those are what I mean when I
say the two together. Okay, so

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now you know, let's say somebody
has done the checklist in the sense that

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like they know what is their value
in their lives, how do they want

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to live so and they know what
kind of relationship it is. So can

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you give a little few tips around
how can they have a strong relationship with

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money where they're not feeling insecure where
they're feeling secure with what they have along

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with because and to feel that security, you need a couple of things.

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So it's not just having like,
Okay, I'm good with money money circulating.

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It's also important to have a certain
amount of money that helps you live

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your life absolutely and at the same
time be secure with that. It's okay

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if I'm circulating it, if I
want to go on a vacation, doesn't

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matter what kind of vacation. It
depends on the style you want to live.

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You're okay with spending that, then
you're not coming into this nervousness or

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anything like that, because now you're
seeing that credit card bill, So how

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can you achieve that? Yeah,
I think, well, a lot of

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any money is just a reflection of
us, right, Like that's what I've

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really had to learn. Right,
So you're feeling inadequate about your money,

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there's some inadequacy that you feel within
right, Like you're feeling like money isn't

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good enough. There's some not good
enoughness that you feel within right, And

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so I always go back to,
like, how do you actually feel about

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yourself? Have you nurtured and taken
care of that inner child? Right?

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That feels not good enough that you're
comparing you know, you mentioned earlier about

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like we are comparing ourselves too,
and the brain naturally wants to do that.

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But what I always suggest is like
compare yourself to how you were yesterday,

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to how you were two years ago, to how you were ten years

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ago, right, like are you
evolving? Are you? Have you grown?

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In most always the answer is yes, right, and so with your

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with the it's it's not a sexy
answer, but it's like, how how

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do you feel about yourself? Have
you done some of that internal work and

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of you know, loving yourself unconditionally? Right like because a lot of us

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grew up with parents that that loved
us conditionally. If you do good in

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school, then you get X or
you know, and so have you given

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yourself the love? Have you allowed
yourself to play and enjoy? Like we

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were sent here to have fun and
enjoy ourselves. Life does not have to

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be a struggle. It doesn't have
to be hard. Yes, there's effort

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right in anything, but we're not
here to like trudge through and get to

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some point and then we're done.
And so how much you know, how

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much fun are you having? How
much goodness? I think it's also like

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what is our capacity to receive?
Right? Like we we have a you

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know, in the in the somatic
world, like they talk about window of

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tolerance, right like, there is
a window of tolerance that we also have

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for receiving, right like how good
can we allow it to get? So

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those are those are things that I
would start with of asking yourself like something

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is simple. You know, people
always say like you, I don't know

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if you've ever noticed, you go
out to dinner and someone they're like fighting

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over the bill, right like,
I'll pay all. But it's just like

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why can't you just you know,
like even just something something as simple as

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that, if your friend asks you
and they want to pay, then stop

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fighting, like receive that. I
think a lot of us have some difficulty

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with receiving. Yes, I think
some most of us do. And that

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is very true. And that brings
us back to what we started out that

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starting out with the kindness circle.
And what happens is that then you open

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your heart up and you open up
yourself to life and very quick story like

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yesterday, what happened was I had
a lot of a couple of systems breaking

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down. You know, a lot
of clients demanding attention. And what I've

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done is packed in intentional breaks throughout
the day. I took them, even

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though I was sweating it, but
I took it. And it's about being

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intentional about it. And sometimes it
may not play out as you want,

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but if you do it. And
then at the end of the day,

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I decided I'm going to call it
today. Yes, I've got a meeting.

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I'm going to have it over the
phone. And guess what I heard

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this bitter pattern of rain. The
skies had opened up, and I wanted

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to feel some rain drops on my
face. I opened the door, just

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walk out and there was this beautiful
rainbow that I haven't seen in such a

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long time. So what a beautiful
way to end the day. So,

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as you're saying, erin opening ourselves
to life, and you'll be surprised what

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life can bring for you. So
Aaron, share with us. You know

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how you are helping entrepreneurs now,
how people can connect with you. Yeah,

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they if they want to work with
me one on one, I definitely

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invite that. And or I am
currently having a small group cohort where I

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talk about like the three D and
the five D of money, where I

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bring in, you know, a
bookkeeper and a CPA and financial advisor so

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that you can ask questions and you
know, really understand that part of the

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of the money as well as you
know, the the five D part,

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right, like how we feel with
money, and we didn't talk too much

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about it, but I do.
I do help with you know, human

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design and like how we actually are
meant to move through the world. And

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so those are those are the two
ways that if someone wants to work with

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me, they can do that and
then they can you know, on my

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website or they can find me on
Instagram. I'm there some times at the

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Aaron Gray And could you share with
as your upside please? Yeah, it's

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generate a life well lived dot com
And what would you say is your vision

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for the coming years? Two?
Oh, that's a good one because it's

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like multifaceted. I think, you
know, to help as many entrepreneurs really

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change their relationship with money and feel
safe in their bodies. I think the

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world could use more people that have
money, have fun with money, give

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money, share money, and so
helping entrepreneurs have a lot of fun and

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have an amazing relationship with money as
well as bringing in as many facilitators as

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I can within the cohort to help
them and you know, grow their business

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and yeah, collaborate. That's beautiful. Thank you for joining us erin you

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know cleally enjoyed our conversation and dear
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