Whose Money Story Are You Living?

Reading Your Own Life with Swami Larry · Sep 10, 2026 · 12m · transcript

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My father was born during the Great Depression. He built a good life and rarely spent anything on himself, because he had learned early that money can vanish. My mother lost her father in 1943 and was raised by a widow counting every dollar out of necessity. She gave my sister and me everything and kept almost nothing for herself.

Neither of them sat me down and taught me any of that. I absorbed it anyway, and for years I thought the caution was simply who I was.

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