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Love, Trust & Money: The Conversations Nobody Teaches Us How to Have · Rock My Finances

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  Speaker 3: It's not about the zeros, So what is it all about?
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  Speaker 3: Let's find out. Now. Here's your host and weekly friend,
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  Speaker 3: Jennifer Jose.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, welcome back to another wonderful episode. Today, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about love, trust, and money, the
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  Speaker 1: conversations that no one teaches us how to have. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: most of us are taught to balance a checkbook, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even pay a bill, and maybe save, and they always
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  Speaker 1: say day for retirement. So who cares about retirement when
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  Speaker 1: you're nineteen, twenty twenty one and twenty five, thirty thirty five? Like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't think of those things, right? And I remember
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  Speaker 1: in high school, they told us how to write a check.
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  Speaker 1: No one was teaching us how to actually manage money
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  Speaker 1: or what does that even mean. Nobody talked about compound growth,
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  Speaker 1: Nobody talked about saving money for now and for retirement
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  Speaker 1: for later in life. Very few of us were even
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  Speaker 1: taught are taught how to talk about money, especially with
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  Speaker 1: someone that we love. No one taught us how to
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  Speaker 1: discuss debt without shame. No one taught us how to
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  Speaker 1: discuss spending without judgment or financial fears without creating some
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  Speaker 1: type of conflict. Yet money touches almost every part of
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  Speaker 1: our relationship. It influences decisions about where we live, how
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  Speaker 1: we travel, when we retire, how we retire, whether we're
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  Speaker 1: going to help our children out how much are we
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  Speaker 1: going to help our children? What kind of future are
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  Speaker 1: we going to create together? I mean all the way
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  Speaker 1: down to are we going to shop at Whole Foods
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  Speaker 1: or Costco or Walmart or write Trader Joe's, Like do
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  Speaker 1: we care about health? Do we care about spending money
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  Speaker 1: on organic food? It could be literally, is that like
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  Speaker 1: what kind of gas we put in our car? Every day?
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  Speaker 1: The car says that it needs the higher octane? Are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do that? Are you going to go
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  Speaker 1: for the inletted the cheap one? Like it is in
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  Speaker 1: our face every day, like at least ten to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: times a day. So today we're going to explore the
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  Speaker 1: connection between love, trust, and money, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give you simple daily practices that you can start using immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Just strengthen both your finances and strengthen your relationships, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what life's all about, right, We're here for our relationship.
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  Speaker 1: So part one, money is often a trust issue. When
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  Speaker 1: many people think of arguments about dollars, it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the darros, y'all. It's about trust. So when a partner
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  Speaker 1: hides spending, the issues are not the purchase, it's the trust.
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  Speaker 1: So that's The biggest mistake people can make is hide.
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  Speaker 1: It's just lends into more issues around trust, and it
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  Speaker 1: just gets the big mountain bigger and bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 1: When one partner refused to talk about money, when they
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  Speaker 1: just don't even want to talk about finances, it isn't
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  Speaker 1: about the budget, It's about trust. They don't trust their
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  Speaker 1: partner is going to be safe to have a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with them. When one partner feels left out of financial decisions,
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  Speaker 1: the issue isn't the investment account, it's actually trust. Trust
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  Speaker 1: is created when people feel safe, So we need we
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  Speaker 1: all need to be able to feel safe to ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one. We actually need to feel safe to make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all like we're gonna make mistakes. We've all made mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in the industry for decades. I've been a
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  Speaker 1: business owner for thirty something years. I still make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gonna happen. We need to feel safe to
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  Speaker 1: be honest and be honest about how we feel, honest
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  Speaker 1: about our past mistakes, honest about what we really want
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  Speaker 1: going forward. I'm an a number one code of penalty
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  Speaker 1: and recovery for decades, right, but to be able to
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  Speaker 1: share what I really really want and when I really
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  Speaker 1: see my future, that could be embarrassing to share that
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  Speaker 1: with someone our new partner. So with money without trust
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  Speaker 1: comes battle. It comes like contentious conversations and guess what.
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  Speaker 1: It spills out in all areas of our life. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it builds out in our sex life with our partners,
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  Speaker 1: bills out on our parenting relationships with our kids. Even
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  Speaker 1: for me, it fills out on the eight hundred number
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  Speaker 1: that just they call me and try to sell something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just mean to them and I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: mean to be mean to you, but I'm doing this
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  Speaker 1: right now or whatever. It comes in all different shapes
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  Speaker 1: and sizes. So daily practice number one, ask yourself every morning,
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  Speaker 1: what can I do today to build trust instead of fear. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you live alone, I'm talking to myself right well,
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  Speaker 1: the first thing I can do is make my bed.
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  Speaker 1: If I say I'm going to go to the exercise class,
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  Speaker 1: go to the exercise class, have my protocol, I have
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  Speaker 1: my collagen or my protein shape. After my exercise class,
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  Speaker 1: I tell myself, I trust myself to make the right
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  Speaker 1: decisions instead of fear. Fear creeps in when we don't
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  Speaker 1: do what we say we're going to do or respect ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So now when we're in a couple, we want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we share inform openly. You can ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: can I share information openly with my partner today? Tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth, even though it's very uncomfortable. Tell the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Include your partner in making decisions like, hey, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think about this? This is what I think? You know,
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  Speaker 1: without criticism, without judgment, just hey, what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe even have a couple conversations around something, so that
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  Speaker 1: it's not just I don't know about you, but I
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  Speaker 1: change my mind, right, I'm like, okay, with that education,
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  Speaker 1: that what I know at that point, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I would do. But the more I know, I might
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  Speaker 1: change my mind and have a different feeling about it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's include our partner in these decisions and ask
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  Speaker 1: questions instead of making assumptions. We take information in and
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  Speaker 1: we assume we think we know what they're feeling or thinking,
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  Speaker 1: but we really don't. We want to get asked clarifying questions.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm hearing you say is no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not right. Small acts of transparency create enormous trust over
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  Speaker 1: time and We want to just keep dropping pebbles in
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  Speaker 1: the trust bucket so that when something the stuff does
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  Speaker 1: hit the fan and you have to talk about money,
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  Speaker 1: you can and you have that relationship that you can Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Part two. Everyone has financial fears, doesn't matter, not about
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  Speaker 1: the zeros. Everyone has a relationship with money and an
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  Speaker 1: emotional relationship with money, and we all have financial fears.
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  Speaker 1: Even very highly successful people have money fears. Some fear
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  Speaker 1: running out of money, some fear losing their freedom, fear
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  Speaker 1: having too much money, like it's going to change their
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  Speaker 1: life too much. Some fear becoming dependent on someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Some fear repeating mistakes from the past. Many relationship conflicts
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  Speaker 1: begin because one person's fear triggers another person's fear. So
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  Speaker 1: when they do this, then they know that triggers their fear.
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  Speaker 1: So one partner might want to save more and the
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  Speaker 1: other one wants to enjoy life more. Neither is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is wrong. We just have to talk about why
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  Speaker 1: we're feeling the way we're feeling and doing what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: So simply responding differently to fears is all The lack
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  Speaker 1: of communication is the healthiest relationships create faith for both perspectives,
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  Speaker 1: Because what are an amazing life you could have? Right
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  Speaker 1: if you respect your money, it's flowing in. Your abundance
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  Speaker 1: is coming in and you're not just hanging on to
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  Speaker 1: it and saving it for anything, but you actually are
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  Speaker 1: making memories with life and enjoying life and traveling and
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  Speaker 1: seeing your friends and family and creating memories along with
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  Speaker 1: being respectful of money and knowing what's happening, right, we
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  Speaker 1: can do both. So here's your daily practice. When financial
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  Speaker 1: stress appears. Pause, trust yourself. What am I actually afraid of?
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  Speaker 1: Right now? Write it down? Get your money journal out,
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  Speaker 1: Write it down? What am I actually afraid of? Right now?
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  Speaker 1: Not what's my partner doing wrong? Why did they do that?
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  Speaker 1: And if they would have done this, it should have
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  Speaker 1: would it could? Right? No, Instead, we want to say,
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  Speaker 1: what fear is being triggered in myself right now when
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  Speaker 1: my partner does this? What fear is being triggered with myself?
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  Speaker 1: That's something we can changes ourselves. Right, Is this fear
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  Speaker 1: based on facts or something that I'm absolutely assuming, Like, well,
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  Speaker 1: if they just spent that, that means they're going to
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  Speaker 1: do this every week and we can't afford that every week.
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  Speaker 1: That's an assumption that I might be making. So is
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  Speaker 1: fear based on facts or assumptions? And what would help
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  Speaker 1: me feel safer? It might be, hey, this is making
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  Speaker 1: me feel very anxious when you go out and willing
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  Speaker 1: nearly spend Costco. You know we all spend more at Costco, right,
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  Speaker 1: so that conversation might look like, you know, let's when
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  Speaker 1: we when we plan on going somewhere, let's have some
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  Speaker 1: type of a spending budget. I don't like the word
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  Speaker 1: budget is it restricts. But let's have a spending plan
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  Speaker 1: for Costco and then we give ourselves a ceiling and
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  Speaker 1: that we promise each other that we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: spend over that amount, and if we do, there needs
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  Speaker 1: to be a conversation something like that. Just awareness reduces
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  Speaker 1: emotional reactions. It's awesome, okay. Part three. Communication creates connection.
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  Speaker 1: Don't we all want more connection? When people listen to
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  Speaker 1: respond and you're not really hearing, so we want to
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  Speaker 1: listen to understand. When discussing money, people often prepare their
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  Speaker 1: defense before the other person's even done speaking. This creates distance,
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  Speaker 1: creates anger, frustration. Healthy communication begins with curiosity. Imagine replacing
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  Speaker 1: this is that's a terrible idea with help me understand
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  Speaker 1: your thinking. Imagine replacing with you always overspend with what
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  Speaker 1: feels important to you about that purchase. Curiosity lowers defenses,
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  Speaker 1: right judgment raises them. So here's your daily practice. One
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  Speaker 1: each day, ask someone that you love or ask yourself
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  Speaker 1: tell me more about them. You could do that around
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  Speaker 1: any issue whatsoever, and then listening to understand, not to judge. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me spit this out there. You're never going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to understand me one hundredcent. You haven't lived
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  Speaker 1: in my shoes. You haven't lived in my life. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you, but you haven't and I haven't in yours.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't have to agree with you to understand you.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't have to know everything about that to
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  Speaker 1: understand that. That's how you feel, period, Like that's just
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  Speaker 1: the way it is. You don't need to You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to agree with everything to understand everything. Like, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't understand that, So it's wrong. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people do that. We want to not do that. We
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  Speaker 1: want to just listen. We do not want to give advice,
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  Speaker 1: We do not want to correct. That is so aggravating
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to share from your heart. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it starts simple, like when you're just sharing a story
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  Speaker 1: that you both rat and then one spouse is always
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  Speaker 1: correct in the other's spouse. Okay, that's literally criticism and
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  Speaker 1: a put down. It doesn't matter if you're right, if
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  Speaker 1: it was black instead of blue, Who cares. This person
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  Speaker 1: is telling a story. That's where it starts. So let's
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  Speaker 1: not do it there on the basic story and let's
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  Speaker 1: not correct someone, take a breath, look at yourself. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you might see it differently, it doesn't matter. They're telling
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  Speaker 1: a story. Show them that you value their words, that
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  Speaker 1: you value their understand they're they're thinking of things. By
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  Speaker 1: understanding them, we're not fixing or correcting, we're just listening.
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  Speaker 1: Listening is the highest form of respect. And when we
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  Speaker 1: can't even listen to someone or even their silly little story,
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  Speaker 1: we're literally telling them that we don't respect them and
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  Speaker 1: we don't value them. Like it is like a dagger
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  Speaker 1: to the heart when we're interrupted and when we're corrected.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how I feel. So y'all know someone in
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  Speaker 1: your life feels the same way. Okay. Part four. Financial
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  Speaker 1: honesty creates intimacy. Don't we want to you know into me,
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  Speaker 1: see right, I want you to see me. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we're in relationships is so that we can have an
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  Speaker 1: intimate relationship. And we want emotional intimate, spiritual intimacy. We
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, have the whole gamut. So many
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  Speaker 1: couple share a bed, a home, and a life, yet
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  Speaker 1: their financial worlds they hide and they hide their fears.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they're afraid of being judged. They're afraid of
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  Speaker 1: disappointing someone appearing irresponsible. Seek reci creates distance. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want that distance. The worst thing you could do is
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  Speaker 1: having ships passing in the night, not even knowing each
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  Speaker 1: other and not even talking about money, because next comes divorce,
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  Speaker 1: right comes no sex, no talking, then divorce. So we
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  Speaker 1: want to have honesty because that creates intimacy. You don't
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  Speaker 1: build trust by being perfect. God bless us all. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way. We do not need to be perfect. We
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  Speaker 1: just need to be truthful. And if your partner doesn't react, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's your job to heal yourself. That's not their job
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  Speaker 1: to heal you. It's our job to heal ourselves. And
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  Speaker 1: then come back and say, last time, I would appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you last time when this happened. I'd appreciate you answering
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  Speaker 1: me this way because that hurt my feeling like we
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  Speaker 1: have to own our responsibility, but we got to heal
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  Speaker 1: ourselves because they might not be able to do what
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  Speaker 1: we need them to do because they're being triggered.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So here's our daily practice each evening, ask yourself, is
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  Speaker 1: there anything I'm avoid discussing with my partner. If the
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  Speaker 1: answer is yes, write it down. You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: solve it immediately. You might need to hash it around
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but just simply acknowledge it. Like there is.
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  Speaker 1: The secrets create shame, So we want to see if
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  Speaker 1: there's anything that we're we're hiding. I do this with
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  Speaker 1: my girlfriends. I have a soul sister group, and I
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  Speaker 1: want them to know like almost everything about me, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so there's sometimes when I'm ashamed of something, or
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  Speaker 1: if I'm finding something like oh wow, I haven't said
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  Speaker 1: that to anybody because that's embarrassing or I could be
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  Speaker 1: wrong or I'm not perfect, I will say the words
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  Speaker 1: to them and say I don't need any feedback from
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  Speaker 1: this because I just need to say it out loud,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes we just don't say things out loud, and
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  Speaker 1: it feels so good when we do. So awareness is
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  Speaker 1: the first step to honest conversation. Okay, Park five. Gratitude
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  Speaker 1: changes money conversations immediately. So a lot of couples finish
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  Speaker 1: focus on what's wrong and what happened in the past,
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  Speaker 1: not enough income, savings, progress the problem. The attention goes
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  Speaker 1: on what we're focusing on. So I'm a big believer
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  Speaker 1: in law of attraction, so I don't want to focus
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  Speaker 1: on all of that. So when you focus on lack,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get lack. When you focus on appreciation,
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  Speaker 1: guess what you're going to get more appreciation. So gratitude
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  Speaker 1: changes the emotional tone of money conversations. Here's your daily
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  Speaker 1: practice every day share one financial appreciation examples. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for working so hard today. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for paying attention to the small details. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for supporting our family. Thank you for keeping your business
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  Speaker 1: running and always trying to come up with new ideas
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  Speaker 1: and new marketing ideas to get more people to come
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  Speaker 1: into your business. Thank you so much for driving and
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  Speaker 1: commuting to get to work and to come back. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for helping us save money by cooking
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  Speaker 1: on Sundays and taking your lunch to work. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being responsible and investing our money and talking with
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  Speaker 1: the financial advisor and the financial planner and the insurance
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  Speaker 1: guy and the Jack gud Thank you. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: so many ways that we can say I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that small acknowledgment, strength and relationships. Part six,
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  Speaker 1: Create a shared vision.
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  Speaker 3: I have all my.
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  Speaker 1: Clients have a mission for their household. You have kids,
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  Speaker 1: Bring the kids in on the conversation. Each family needs
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  Speaker 1: a mission. So we're going to create a shared financial vision.
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  Speaker 1: Money works best when it served a purpose like we can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying this to a client the other day.
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  Speaker 1: When we want to save, we save for retirement. Who cares? Right? However,
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  Speaker 1: if I save for scaling down that house and having
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  Speaker 1: my gourmet kitchen for the rest of my life that
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  Speaker 1: I can cooking in my sixties, seventies and eighties when
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  Speaker 1: I feel like cooking, that's different than saving money for retirement.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Saving money to travel the world a month at a
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  Speaker 1: time and save money for that, and instead of saving
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  Speaker 1: for retoilrement, I'm actually saving for staying in Italy for
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  Speaker 1: three months when I retire, like, how fun is that
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  Speaker 1: going to be? That's very different than souving for retoirement, right,
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  Speaker 1: especially a lot of business owners, We're not going to retire,
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  Speaker 1: or might scale back and have more fun and have
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  Speaker 1: more free time. But retirement really just doesn't make sense, right,
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  Speaker 1: So we want to not just focus on the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: The healthiest couples focus on more than the numbers. They
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  Speaker 1: focus on what the numbers make possible. So the zeros
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  Speaker 1: make life possible. We want to look at experiences, the
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  Speaker 1: feeling of freedom, the feeling of security, traveling, giving giving
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  Speaker 1: is very important to me. What causes do I want
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  Speaker 1: to make a difference in? So I also handle life
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  Speaker 1: insurance right. So I have clients that come to me
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  Speaker 1: and they want to do charitable giving. Well. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: doing a small donation each week, we do a life
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  Speaker 1: insurance policy. So they will be sending millions to their
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  Speaker 1: charity when they pass. So it's not just about the
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  Speaker 1: small things, but you can literally change your charitable organization's
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  Speaker 1: lives if you do more giving planning.
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  Speaker 3: I call it.
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  Speaker 1: We want to talk more about our family, or we
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  Speaker 1: can be those grandparents that are around all the time
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  Speaker 1: for the gains and the gymnastics and the plays at
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  Speaker 1: school and all of that. Well, what will that take
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  Speaker 1: to do that? Do we live by all the grandkids?
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  Speaker 1: I have a friend here that has, like she like
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  Speaker 1: so many different household five or six different households around
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  Speaker 1: the country that she flies and goes and sees all
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  Speaker 1: the grandkids and that's important to her. So is that
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  Speaker 1: important to you? And what does your uh when you're
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  Speaker 1: finally financially free instead of retirement, but you're financially free,
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  Speaker 1: what does your life look like like? Let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: We can always talk about the zeros, but we also
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  Speaker 1: want to dream. I always start my clients off with that.
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  Speaker 1: I start them off with dreaming, then creating their goals.
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  Speaker 1: Then we look at where they're at now, and then
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  Speaker 1: what do we have to do to get them to
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  Speaker 1: their dreams? And our dreams change as well. Right, So
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  Speaker 1: when people solely focus on zeros, the motivation disappears, and
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  Speaker 1: then they're going to start spending again and seek again
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  Speaker 1: and not really planning. So we want to focus on
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  Speaker 1: our vision and what money means to you. How does
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  Speaker 1: it feel? So here's our daily practice. Spend five minutes
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  Speaker 1: a day. I always have my clients to do it
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  Speaker 1: before they get out of bed. Like, as soon as
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  Speaker 1: you open your eyes, close them back again, because that's
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  Speaker 1: our dream like state, as close as we can get.
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  Speaker 1: And ask yourself what do I want my life to
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  Speaker 1: look like? When I'm creating a financial plan for someone,
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  Speaker 1: I say, what do I want my year to look like?
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  Speaker 1: One year? For now? When I wake up? What do
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  Speaker 1: I want it to look like? Who am I going
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  Speaker 1: to be when I walk into the room. What is
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  Speaker 1: my lifestyle going to be? Right? Then five years, then
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  Speaker 1: ten years, and then in the future. What do I
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  Speaker 1: want our relationship to look like? What do I want
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  Speaker 1: it to feel like? These are great, yummy questions, right,
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  Speaker 1: What does financial freedom mean to me? What does that
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  Speaker 1: mean to me? How's how am I going to feel?
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  Speaker 1: How's my body going to feel when I'm financially free?
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  Speaker 1: And what experiences matter the most? We might need to
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  Speaker 1: prioritize them, right, So what's the most important thing? So
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  Speaker 1: for me? I really do you know? I mean they
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  Speaker 1: talk about bucket list, but I really do want to
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  Speaker 1: go do the airbnb in Italy and be there for
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  Speaker 1: at least a month, if not more, and just hang
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  Speaker 1: out and cook there with the fresh food there and
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  Speaker 1: the pasta and vegetables, and you know, and have people
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  Speaker 1: come and go. You know, get an AIRBB with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of bedrooms so people can can spend a week
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  Speaker 1: like I love. That vision creates direction. So we need
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  Speaker 1: to have a vision. We can't have a really cool
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  Speaker 1: vision if we're still scared to death. So we have
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  Speaker 1: to get around our fear. Calm our field fear, heal
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in order to create our vision. Okay, number seven,
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  Speaker 1: last one. Love is not a financial plan, y'all, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm a financial plan. Love is beautiful, it's powerful, it's important.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the hardest truths. But love alone does
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  Speaker 1: not solve financial problem. Healthy relationships we need love for sure,
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  Speaker 1: and trust and communication and honesty and planning for the future.
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  Speaker 1: They all matter. The goal isn't perfect finances. The goal
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  Speaker 1: is creating a relationship with both people feel heard, respected
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  Speaker 1: and formed and valued and supported. So here's your last
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  Speaker 1: daily practice. Am I creating partnership with creating or am
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  Speaker 1: I creating pressure? Am I creating a strong relationship? And
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  Speaker 1: am I building this one conversation out of time? Your
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  Speaker 1: last closing exercise the seven day Love, Trust and Money
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  Speaker 1: challenge for the next seven days. Day one, Share a
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  Speaker 1: financial goal, Day two, Share one fear, Day three, Express
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  Speaker 1: a financial appreciation, Day four, Share your money, your money
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  Speaker 1: story with your partner, Day five, discuss a future dream.
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  Speaker 1: Day sixth review one area of funancial progress, and day
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  Speaker 1: seven celebrate all the things you're doing right okay quick.
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  Speaker 1: Day one, Share a financial goal, Day two, financial fear,
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  Speaker 1: Day three, Financial appreciation, Day four, your money story with
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  Speaker 1: your partner, Day five, a future Dream, Day six your
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  Speaker 1: financial progress, and day seven celebrate y'all. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy this. I want you to have a good
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  Speaker 1: time with this week, and then after day seven you celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: I want you all to be able to say I
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  Speaker 1: rock my finances.
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