The Overcoming Overspending Podcast

What are the predominant thoughts and emotions that you hold around debt? Are they mostly negative, or positive? I know for so many women in my community, including myself in the past, debt and the decision to take on debt was one that was very moral in nature. I viewed debt as something bad, and I made myself wrong for being someone who had taken on debt in the past. Because of that, my past expe...

What are your favorite thoughts to think about money? Do you even have any? Do you intentionally create the thoughts and beliefs you want to have about money based on what will help you create the financial results you want or do you let your brain run on default? Over the past couple of years I have identified, adopted, and practiced my favorite thoughts to think about money, one of which is "Tha...

Are you winning or losing with the purchasing decisions that you make? Many of us don't even realize that when we are spending money, we are making an exchange of value. We get so numb to swiping our credit cards that we forgot to evaluate if we're making a positive winning exchange with our money or a negative losing exchange with our money. The truth is that every time you spend money you are gi...

Many of us rely on the black and white "rules" of money that we feel we "should" be following to inform our financial decisions. When we do this, we create lives and financial realities that don't reflect our purest desires but rather a version of our life that is based on obligation. But what if instead, we could use another tool besides these restrictive money rules to guide and inform the way w...

It's impossible to create the financial results that you want without experiencing discomfort. We are all programmed to believe that we can make choices with our money and with our spending where we can avoid discomfort altogether. We can't. Discomfort is coming along for the ride whether you want it to or not. With discomfort, the question isn't "Will I feel it?" . The question is rather "When wi...

Have you ever thought about what you're buying yourself and what you're creating for your future self when you're not spending your money? For those of us who love to shop and spend, we view having and saving our money as the opposing force to what we really want. We think that having your money is boring, restrictive, and unnecessary. But what if I told you that wasn't the case. What if I told yo...

Do you struggle with overspending? Do you find yourself using your money and spending as a way to avoid feeling negative emotions? Do you often find you're spending money you don't have or spending money on a whim? Are you not making the progress towards your financial goals you want because of your spending habits? If so, this episode of the podcast and my new program, Overcoming Overspending are...

What do you believe to be true about you? The thoughts that you think about yourself are the most important thoughts you think because they form your self-concept. Our self-concept feeds how confident, worthy, and capable we feel when it comes to managing our money at the highest level and it's constantly either working for you or against you. The truth is, you are a self-fulfilling prophecy. The...

Have you ever felt ashamed over a past money decision you've made? Maybe you bought an item impulsively, you spent money you didn't have resulting in debt, or you bought an item you didn't get any use out of. If you've felt shame about your past spending choices you're not alone. Shame is a deep-rooted and prevalent emotion that keeps us trapped in secrecy and judgment and if not dealt with proper...

What's the best money you've ever spent? A time when you spent your money on an item, service, or experience where you felt good spending the money in the moment and you still felt amazing about the purchase a week, month, or year later? This is what I call "money well spent". Money that is spent where the value or result that you get from what you bought is more valuable to you than the money tha...

You're being lied to. Every day, each of us consumes false messages from consumer culture that are fundamentally untrue. These messages have one goal and objective, which is to get you to spend your money on things that you don't really need in order to create an emotional state you deeply desire. The lies of consumer culture are everywhere, and they run deep in our programming in how we think abo...

Your brain is not wired for balance. Your brain is wired for polarization. Your brain loves black and white all or nothing thinking and in all aspects of life, your brain wants you to pick a side and to not entertain that the opposite could be true. This is what quiets the cognitive dissonance between possibilities and creates the certainty that your brain is always seeking. This is even true in t...

In this special bonus episode of The Money Love Podcast, I'm taking you through the personal highs and lows of 2021. From getting cars stolen to losing (multiple) jobs, to selling & buying houses, car accidents, and surgeries... 2021 was never short on surprises and challenges. However, it wasn't all bad. There were some pretty exciting beginnings last year as well that I'm excited to share with y...

For the first time in a long time, I'm starting out a new year without any goals I'm working towards. I decided that I'm going to try something completely different in 2022.  The truth is, I set some big, scary, crazy goals in 2021 and I didn't come anywhere close to hitting most of them. Like, I missed the mark big time . And then, I used missing the mark as a reason to beat myself up and I felt...

Do you create your thoughts on purpose? Or do you let your thoughts run on default and be based on past programming that isn't serving you? The sad reality is that most people don't realize that the quality of their thoughts will determine the quality of their lives and are the catalyst of every result they desire to create. Many adults live in a state of emotional childhood, attributing their emo...

What would happen if you stripped away all the judgements, all the opinions, all the interpretations from your finances and you evaluated your current financial situation simply by the facts and the numbers? Doing this brings you into a place I call your pure financial circumstances, which ultimately is a place to rest from and escape the never-ending emotions, judgments and opinions we place on o...

Does your spouse's spending choices drive you crazy? Or maybe they make you scratch your head in confusion with what they choose to spend money on? If this sounds like you, you're not alone. The truth is, most couples don't have similar or even complimentary money backgrounds and personalities which can lead to differences in spending, saving, and earning choices. The good news is, these differenc...

What is the correlation that you make between your material wealth and your emotional wealth? Do you believe that one is dependent on the other? That in order to reach the highest levels of emotional wealth you must also achieve immense amounts of material wealth? The strong and positive correlation between material and emotional wealth is one of the most prominent, yet most damaging beliefs that...

How prepared are you for this holiday shopping season? Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us, two of the biggest shopping days of the year, and this week we are talking about how to maximize the sales and other holiday-related expenses so that you're coming out ahead and winning with your finances this holiday season. The sad reality is that 1 in 3 Americans will be taking on debt to pay for t...

Do you ever feel like you can't stop spending money? That you spend money without much second thought or consideration? If you do, you're not alone. The truth is when it comes to spending money, oftentimes we aren't thinking rationally, but rather are relying on more emotional and subjective thinking to drive our purchasing decisions. Many women don't realize their purchasing decisions are being g...

Are you a sucker for a sale? Do you feel like you struggle to say "no" when you're presented with a deal? If so, you're not alone. Many women struggle with resisting the temptation of a sale because we are constantly exposed to them coupled with the fact that our brains are wired to be enticed by sales. Because of this we often are making purchasing decisions that are more about "winning" and snag...

When you think of self-care, what do you think of? Consumer culture wants to tell us that self-care looks like bubble baths, massages, naps, manicures, and massages. In reality, these are often activities that we self-sabotage with because they provide distractions from our emotions, they don't solve the underlying problem we're facing and they end up moving us farther away from the desired result...

Do you feel that you're constantly self-sabotaging your finances? If so, then this episode of The Money Love Podcast is for you. Self-sabotage is actions that we take that move us farther away from a desired state or actions that we avoid that would move us closer to that desired state. It's all caused by our resistance to a future emotional state and is really the way our brain protects us from e...

Do you believe that you are enough? That you currently have enough? That there will be enough in the future to have all of your needs and desires met? Consumer culture that we live in immerses us in the message that we constantly need to be striving for more because our current state is inadequate and cannot meet our needs. We are all sold the message that our happiness simply lies on the other si...

When you think of your money would you say that it's happy, or unhappy? How do you feel when you receive money, have money, and spend money? As a society, we're all conditioned to have a range of negative beliefs and feelings around money which means we look to create more of it in all the wrong places and we manage it in a way that doesn't serve our financial futures. Money is energy, and as a so...