May 12, 2026

Why You're Still Stressed About Money

Why You're Still Stressed About Money
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In this powerful episode, Divya Parekh talks with financial wellness expert Candice Schultz about how money stress is often rooted in mindset, identity, and past experiences—not just finances. With 25+ years of experience, Candice shares how confidence shapes financial decisions, why successful people still feel stuck, and how to break patterns of anxiety around money. Learn how to build a healthier relationship with money and create lasting financial confidence and alignment.

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Good morning listeners, So thrilled to be here with you

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on this Tuesday morning. And I know, yeah is everywhere,

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Well, let's welcome our guest Candice.

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Good morning.

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Welcome Candace, and thank you for joining us. Soan you

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for having me absolutely so share with us as to

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what was it that got you into the financial health business.

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Actually, I started off pretty early on.

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Money to me was something that I think as a

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child actually caused my family a lot of stress and

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so living with that, I think I needed to figure

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out as a child, I was wondering I needed to

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figure out how to earn money in order to solve

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this problem that I experienced as a child. And so

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when I was in school, I majored in finance and

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got my degrees and started off as a financial planner

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very early on to learn everything I needed to learn

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about money in hopes that whatever I needed to know

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in order to improve my life I could use and

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then also help others to do the same.

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No, definitely, and some of those lessons stay with us

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from childhood.

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So absolutely, they actually are very early. Our childhood shapes

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us absolutely.

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So just yesterday, I had one of my clients talk

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to me, and unfortunately, the young gentleman was laid off

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and he was making good money and yet he has,

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you know, some credit card debts and some savings and

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a couple of months of sever in Spain, and then

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he was so stressed out. So you know, before people

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get into that place, the financial anxiety can definitely impact

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the interviews he's going to give. So the financial anxiety

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can crush people sometimes. So tell us where does that

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financial anxiety usually stem from.

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Financial anxiety is very real and a lot of times

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we feel it immediately in our bodies and then it

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starts to show up a lot of times and just

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stress in our lives. But it stems a lot of

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times from uncertainty. You know, we're human, so uncertainty is

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definitely one of those things that causes stress, fear of

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the you know, fear of the unknown causes stress, not

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knowing what to do, not knowing if you have a

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plan that feels good. So a lot of those start

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to come in together when it comes to money, because

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money touches so many things, you know, it's touching our livelihood,

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our needs, our wants, our relationships, everything.

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So when we.

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Get to that core of those feelings and we don't

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really have that plan forward that we feel good about,

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I think stress just naturally comes with it.

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So it tell us that, I mean, we cannot avoid

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fun actually anxiety completely because life can throw curveball uncertainties, there,

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changes happen, layoffs, or it can be natural disasters, it

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can be anything. So how can people plan, not only

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financially but emotionally, How can they bring that alignment into

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the lives.

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So a lot of times we have two things happening.

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We have things that are fully in our control that

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we can change, and there's those things that are happening

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that are completely out of our control and they're always

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going to be happening in our financial world. In order

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to actually bring it into how do we deal with

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like that anxiety, that human side of it. Is always

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going to be there. We're trying to train ourselves to become,

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like to say, like anti fragile, and in order to

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become anti fragile, we have to expect that this is

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actually going to happen. So we have to develop a plan,

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a practical plan, but then also an emotion plan. Both

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of them need to be addressed because we know we're

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going to go.

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Through waves of life.

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But we actually have the financial plan and the emotional

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plan working together.

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It won't always be perfect as life hits us.

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But it will be able to maneuver back to that

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core of how we're training ourselves to become a little

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bit more at peace as we move through life, and

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that core value of having those two things.

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Working together from the very beginning.

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M definitely, so I re you're talking about that bringing

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emotions and the finance piece together because the emotional piece

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is tied to the identity as well. For example, I've

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had a client who grew up in a very poor household,

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so even though he's a financial wealth advisor himself, he

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just can't let his life the whole lot. So they

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ended up in a managed counseling session.

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So can you shed some light around the identity.

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You talk about that identity piece, how does that impact

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the financial decisions?

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You know, this is a big one because we spend

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so much time talking about the logical side, the numbers

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of money, and yes that makes sense, but we as

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humans don't always function off numbers and the identity piece

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of who we are. The goal is to build systems

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around things.

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That work for us.

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But the issue is what works for me might not

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work for somebody else because of how we grew up.

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Our childhood is a big one.

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What our beliefs are, what our habits got developed in

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our childhood. So even in marriages, we always see like

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you have one spouse that has one set of childhood

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experiences versus another. Habits are very different, beliefs are very different.

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So then they start to come together and they have

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to build a system that actually works together. And that

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system won't always they won't always agree on each other's systems,

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but it's important to understand them and to actually just

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work within them because those are more workable than trying

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to change the other person to adopt another system.

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Absolutely.

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So, what are some of the mindset shifts that people

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can implement?

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I think one of the mindset is it doesn't have

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to be perfect. A lot of movement forward is where

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you can find a lot of peace. Also having a plan,

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you know, any kind of financial plan, and really making

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sure that you have the basics of saving spending. Why

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am I doing what I'm doing for what reasons? So

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that awareness factor. Being aware is actually a really great tool.

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I know sometimes people think facing the mirror sometimes facing

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those things that we don't want to face about ourselves.

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We all have those fun habits.

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I come fun, you know, but you know what I

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mean as far as just the human habits and we

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just have to face that we have them or when

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we're doing things that maybe are throwing us off course,

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facing the mirror is one of the best things to do.

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It is where the strength comes from. And a lot

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of people avoid that piece.

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So I highly encourage.

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Self awareness is one of the biggest things in money management.

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Definitely, and so many times what happens is that self

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awareness is there, and yet people know.

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What they're doing is.

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Not the right way to go, and yet their patterns

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take over them.

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As you mentioned, habits take.

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Over them, and then they still end up doing what

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they don't want to do. It any suggestions around that.

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I think when.

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You're going down a path where you know it's time

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to take a look at hey, this path isn't working

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for me, we just have to ask that really important

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question of what's holding us back or what.

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Can we change at this point in time.

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We have to first start changing with the vision of

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where we want to go, and then we have to

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try to create some type of habit that aligns with

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that vision, and so that alignment becomes really key.

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And I just that movement forward is those answers.

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So if you can move forward and you can keep

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moving forward perfect, if you move forward and you're starting

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to create those roadblocks, then you can access that step

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at that point in time of what do you need

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to move forward again? So each step could be a

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little different, but I would just challenge to when that happens,

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ask that question, make sure where you want to go

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and that action that you're doing, or in alignment. If

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you create a hurt, I'll try to figure out what's

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the next step to move forward again.

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Absolutely, So we've talked about the emotional side, bringing your identity,

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bringing your emotions into alignment. You have talked about a

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practical plan can you shed some strategies around that. I

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know you talk about seventy to thirty rules.

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So a seventy thirty or old to me is it's doable.

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Right. So a lot of times when I know we've

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heard like weight watchers, you know, monitor what you eat,

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do what you can in moderation, right, So in finances,

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it's creating seventy percent of the plan that you know

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that you're doing.

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Well in that thirty percent.

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We are human, We're going to explore, we're going to

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make some mistakes, we're going to learn. But if we

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do these seventy percent of our core plan working in

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the direction we want to work in, we can alter, course,

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we can learn, but that is definitely still taking over

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that movement forward and then we can adjust, we can evolve.

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If we shoot for those ninety percents, we shoot for

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those hundred percent, we're.

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Not a lot of times those beare a lot of stress.

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We're aiming for perfection and not real life, and that

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doesn't really work. It just causes more stress and anxiety.

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So we just need to we need something that's doable,

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that's real, that something that we can go after we

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know we can.

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Get definitely, so as you have talked about, like you know,

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seventy percent of now all of these like you people

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as they're thinking about their plan besides budget like you know,

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do you have any frameworld or suggestions for budgeting and savings?

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So yeah, so budgeting and savings has you know?

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I left at this one because cash flow is a

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very one of the most personal systems because so many

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people function very differently. Some are very much aware of

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every dollar going in and out. Some are very conceptual thinkers,

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they know generally.

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What's going in and out.

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So I think you first have to understand what your

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system that you're going to do. Then after that point,

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really set up some game plans on how much are

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you saving?

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Immediately?

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The biggest thing.

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then we're sometimes back into the do we have anything

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left to save? So I always learned from the very

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top is how much am I looking to save? And

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that's going in a different bucket, And then my spending

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category is going in another bucket.

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I have to manage my system that works for me.

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very interesting. We have very different and systems. That's okay,

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but we just have to make sure we have the system,

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but it's working for what we needed to do. And

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in the planning realm, managing cash flow is one of

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those areas. So what we spend, what we say, what

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we're giving, what's going in, what's going out. We have

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our system of being aware and doing that setup. If

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you extend the planning out, then after that we look

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at they call it like protection planning. Protection planning is

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insurance for the family home and auto insurance, making sure

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you're properly protected. We look at investments, you know, getting

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your money working harder than just sitting in cash accounts

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because that overtime concept in earning getting your money.

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trying to save for bigger moments in life, whether it's house,

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you know, college for the kids, retirements, and then legacy planning.

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the very first one you have to monitor is the

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actual cash flow, what's going in and what's going out.

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and what's going out, you're not going to be able

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to pinpoint as to where things are going. And if

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you don't know where things are going, you don't know

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what your spending habits are. So for example, one of

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my clients, she had meant the financial advisor and she

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was saying that, oh, I didn't even realize that I

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was spending six hundred dollars on subscriptions that I didn't

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even know of. So now we have talked about the

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cash flow, we have talked about savings, how can people

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make their money work hard for them?

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just setting up like a cash reserve, a lot of

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people have to determine what comfort level they really want

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inside the reserve position, because that's your liquidity in case

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anything were to come up. Once you kind of get

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secure cash reserve. Sometimes it's three months of expenses, it

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you have to figure out. Then it becomes let's learn

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a little bit more about the investing game, you know,

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whether it's investing in the market itself. Sometimes people will

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invest in real estate, they'll do other outside investments, but

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it's what can I do to make my money work

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for me? So as a planner and what I've done

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over the last twenty years, I've definitely leaned into the

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investing world. So it's mutual fun stocks, bonds, things like that.

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clients around. But at the same time, time is there's

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a rule of seventy two, and a lot of times

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that rule of seventy two says, whatever interest rate I

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am anticipating to earn. So if my investment earned seven

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percent every year, I would take seventy two divided by

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seven and I would.

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Get ten like ten point two.

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Ten years if it was earning seven percent or about

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seven percent. So from that standpoint, you could even see

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where time makes a big difference. So if you start

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with one thousand dollars and ten years, it's two thousand,

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another two it's four, and then you do that even

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bigger numbers. If you start with ten thousand and ten

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years now it's twenty, another ten, it's forty. So that

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rule of seventy two tells you the earlier we start,

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the more we can get our money working.

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For us longer.

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And that definitely makes sense.

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So a lot of times youngsters don't pay attention because oh, yeah,

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we're young. And of course there are areas, for example,

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roth hiring, you can grow your money. I know it's

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a limited amount of money, but still there are so

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many youngsters who will not contribute to that one case

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getting money. You know, my company is contributing to my paycheck.

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of the ways that people You mentioned that not everybody's

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going to be financially educated, and that's one of the

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reasons we bring experts like you so that people can

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start thinking. And if people were thinking of going to

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a financial advisor, what are some of the things that

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they need to look for that how do they know yep,

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I'm aligning with this financial advisor and this is the

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financial advisor for me.

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So financial advisors, they're they all could serve very different functions.

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financial planning, whether it could just be investments or even insurance,

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all the way to what they call certified financial planners

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that typically do like the whole.

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The whole game.

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Plan, right, So I would first start.

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To look at when I with when I talked to

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a financial advisor, is what service.

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For me?

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Am I getting the full game plan? Am I getting

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pieces of it? I think that's very important. I think

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how they work is also very important. Do they work

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with a team? Are they just solo? And then part

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of it is you really need to work with somebody

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that you're going to be very honest with. So it's

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not always it's not that person. If you don't feel

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comfortable with that person to be very honest with them,

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I'm not sure there might be the best fit for you.

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So there is a personal relationship that you have to

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feel like you're going to be open enough and honest

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enough to share your finances the best. The more they

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know about you, the better they can help you. And

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then also what resources and fees and stuff like that

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that they back up with. So you know, because you

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really want that partnership to work well, you want it

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to be a win win. So you want the transparency

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kind of all around.

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Absolutely, and that makes sense. So do you have any

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general tips for our audience.

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I think the most one is making sure that the

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habits I always left.

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The habits are.

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More valuable sometimes, and the skills that you have are

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more valuable sometimes, and the actual money itself, because you

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can always Once you have the habits, you can create

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the plans, you can create good things coming your way.

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But it's not always about the numbers. So I've met

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a lot of people who have a lot of money

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and they're not happy.

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I wouldn't say they're living well.

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Less but are so I think what you have to

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really make sure that we're doing.

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Having money is part of life's plan. We have to

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talk about it more, we have to integrate it more.

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We have to know that it's affecting our whole life.

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do money planning, and we want to do a system

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that works for us and who we are. That's the

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best way we're going to find that build wealth, live

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well together.

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And if our audience was looking to find you know

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more about where can they connect with.

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You so they can go to my website. It's www

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dot financially wealthy dot com. Wealthy is actually spelled.

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W E l L and so because that's the.

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Whole picture, is trying to bridge it back together of

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you know, wellness and wealth together. You know, I want

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it all, I want my I want my clients to

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have it all in. In order to do that, we

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have to dress who we are, our life and our

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money together. I feel like the integration is very important.

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and I do teach younger, the younger generation, the kids

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as well, So I do believe that's going to be

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a big in the future.

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I'm very passionate about that.

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the better the life's going to be. So absolutely latinos

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before up of us conversation.

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No, save smart and have some fun.

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Absolutely well, thank you for joining us and sharing some

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valuable tips, and thank you oneerful audience for being part

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