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The Emotional Currency with Larissa Steffen · Groove with Portia

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an individ you, who I will say is on a mission to no pun
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intended, reduce the worry warts syndrome, and add more wealthy warriors through financial
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wellness. So welcome founder of Worried to Wealthy, our Money and Debt Coach,
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Miss Larissa Stephen. How you doing today, Larissa I'm doing great.
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How are you doing today? You know, Larissa, I'm around like a
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doughnut. Every day is great. That ends in Why so, Larissa,
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I always love to start off my conversations with gratitude. What are you grateful
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for today? I'm grateful that we still have nice weather in Idaho. Yeah,
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you know, I can definitely relate to that here in Ohio because normally
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around this time of year, I mean considering I still have on short sleeves
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and not a fur or mink coat sometimes or a rain jacket that's insulated,
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So I could definitely relate there, Larissa. You know, I'm grateful for
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the life that I've cultivated right by making some I know, just for a
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little history for our audience who is tuning in, Larissa. I met Larissa
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through the other podcasts I used to co host the SOFL Conversations. Larissa came
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on the show and we talked about mindset and limiting beliefs when it comes to
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money, and one of the things that I shared was being grateful for my
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debt, right because a lot of us have this negative connotation or thought pattern
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when it comes to our debt. But what I've learned to do in the
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last couple of weeks or months since this episode came out with Larissa and myself
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and our co host Dawn, is to learn to forgive myself for the mistakes
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that I made with my money and also see the benefits. Right that debt
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has a lot at me. Right, I have a college degree, Right,
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some of us, some of our credit card debt has allotted us to
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travel or meet new people and embarking mastermids that we may have not have been
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able to if we didn't have money available. So I would challenge our audience
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today to shift our mindset around debt money. And that's kind of what Larissa's
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going to show us today. So Larissa, you know, as always I
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love to really touch on kind of your journey. Right as entrepreneurs, there
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tends to be a lot of grief that comes on the entrepreneurial journey. And
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I know because you used to be an advisor, you know, I'm sure
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that this pivoting into the space of being a money and debt coach in you
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know, and moving away from that advisor position, there came probably some grief
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and change in community and you know, your support network. So Larissa,
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how are you navigating the grief journey that comes from being an entrepreneur. You
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know. I actually I feel like I've kind of moved past that stage,
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which I'm so grateful for. But it was really hard because the people who
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I was advising with didn't really agree with financial coaches, right, because generally
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a financial coach is meant to replace the advisor and allow people to understand how
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to do things themselves, and of course they don't like that very much.
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But I've been able to find a new community, and this new community really
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is dedicated to actually helping people and to helping our world move forward in a
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good, ethical, productive way. So I really just dealing with that grief
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was finding the new community, finding where I actually felt I fit in,
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because I honestly didn't fit in with the advisors either. I mean it's mostly
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older men, right, Oh yeah, I mean especially in arenas like that,
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right where they there's this stereotypical, let's be honest, white shirt,
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button down tie. Maybe they're part of the two pay club potentially. I
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mean, just throwing it out there. I mean, Larissa, you can
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elaborate more because you sat at it every day. In comparison to me,
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I came from the television world, where there's some stereotypical routines that you see
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there. Obviously, the young get the opportunities that sometimes the more experience do
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not based on looks. I gotta go there, so I can admit that
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you probably know a lot more than us when it comes to that. And
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Larissa, I want to ask this too. When you made that pivot from
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the space of advisor to obviously a money and debt coach, what was maybe
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how did you even discover right that support system? Because sometimes we're in our
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own heads so much that inner critic is like, oh, you're not going
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to find anybody who resonates with your message. How did you do that?
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How did you go about finding other like minded people who are in your niche
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now? So, when I first actually made that pivot, there was a
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group of financial coaches who had like an online community that I was able to
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join through Instagram, so I was able to connect with other people in the
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online coaching space. It really helped that I already did have coaching clients because
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I never really totally liked the advising space. I hate paperwork. I'm allergic
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to paperwork, and it's all paperwork, So I was not really that into
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it, and I was taking more coaching clients than I was advising clients anyways,
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and just finding those places where there really are so many financial coaches online,
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more than I thought there were, so I was able to really kind
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of put myself in there really quick. And then I started to discover,
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like, oh, I actually have a background in psychology, Like my background's
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not really in finance, it's in psychology, and I started to understand how
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I could use that to really help people understand the behavioral side of money,
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because really that is the most important part there is. I'm glad that you
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segued into that, because, as we both know and have heard throughout our
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journey, it's mind over matter, right, and the risks. I'm curious
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for your journey, right. Obviously, you've made a unique pivot from being
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this worried, anxious person of spending a dollar to having lots of credit card
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debt and then paying it off and finding a new way of having not just
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well financially but all overall. Right, and so there is I'm curious what
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steps did you take to kind of find empowerment and healing by addressing your financial
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situation. I think the biggest one for me was admitting that a lot of
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it did have to do with my mental health. I was in living in
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the San Francisco Bay Area, and I was always anxious, was so anxious,
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I couldn't really eat without getting nauseous, and I just didn't really like
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the environment of the city very much. So finally understanding like, Okay,
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I'm spending a lot because it does make me feel better, right, I'm
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going to Target, I'm going to Starbucks because it's fun and I like it
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and it makes me feel better. But then knowing that, oh, this
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debt is actually what's going to keep me here, because how am I supposed
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to move out of state if I have all of this debt, Like credit
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card debt's not conducive to a big move. So that was really the big
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pivotal moment for me where I was like, I need to change my habits,
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we need to stop putting stuff on credit cards, we need to go
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into paying it all off. And then understanding from it being my mental health
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that the emotions were really the things triggering me to spend, and understanding how
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to redirect those emotions into a more productive way. Laris, I'm curious,
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what was that emotion for you that really you do you think was kind of
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the trigger for you? Was it that emotion of abandonment? Was it like
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not feeling as though there was a void that need to be filled? Can
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you elaborate on that? It was definitely a void that need to be filled
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of just like I'm not happy with my life right now, So what can
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I be happy with? And how can I make that happen? You know,
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Larisa, I'm glad that you touched on that because I feel like a
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lot of that stems from our childhood, right from the way we grow up.
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Like I think me and you were around the same age. So when
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we would watch TV and watch Nicked Night, or when we watched like Lizzie
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McGuire, we'd see the lives that they had, even though it was reality
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TV for us back then, but right, but think about how that affected
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how we wanted our lives to be the nice houses on Rodale Drive and having
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a car at sixteen, going out with your friends and you know, doing
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whatever adventurous stuff that they used to do, because that was the life that
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they depicted, so we thought that that should be our life. Too,
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and Larissa, when I think even back then to my childhood, right,
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I was, I'm a big music junkie. I mean, I know we
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kind of started the conversation off glad that our audience couldn't hear me singing that's
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a whole, another whole another day. I'm not gonna go there. You
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know. I used to watch the different music videos throughout the day and when
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I would watch just their storyline, right, what comes to my mind right
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now is corn Like. I love the music video for Thoughtless because it took
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place in high school right where there was the kid who was the outcast as
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then he couldn't fit in right, and I think he was trying to fill
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a void, you know. And I think about, as it pertains to
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our conversation today, right, a lot of people who are struggling with finding
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their wealth language per se, there's a void that they're trying to fill.
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And so Larissa, for our audience who's tuning in, maybe what tip can
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you leave with them of maybe really reconnecting with that inner kid to help heal
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their financial situation. I think the biggest thing is, as you were just
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talking about, being aware of what it is you're trying to create in your
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life and what you think is normal. Often that comes from the TV we
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watched as we were younger, but also, how did your parents interact with
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money and what kind of things did they tell you about money growing up,
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because that really does impact your spending habits as you get into adult hood.
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I have most of my clients, when I asked them like, Okay,
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well, how was your childhood, They'd be like, oh, I couldn't
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have things like sugary cereals, we couldn't do extracurricular activities. And I'm like,
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okay, so is that why you're overspending? And usually they say,
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yeah, that's it. Well, Larissa, I'm glad that you brought that
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up about how our parents interacted with money and had conversations about it, right
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because I can say from my household, I kind of got the impression that
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all loans are bad, like, don't take any loans, They're all gonna,
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in a sense, imprison you. And now I'm learning that I'm learning
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that it's not that way and unlearning the way that I was taught. And
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I gotta be honest, like it's nerve wrecking. It's very nerve wrecking to
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really peel back the layers of indoctrination when it comes to understanding money. And
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then when you're in a sense going into different places like a bank or something.
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Let's say, if you go to a bank and ask them, hey,
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I want to learn about credit, it's you know, you're nervous because
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there's this ideology that when you're an adult, you're supposed to know it all
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right. But as we both know, a lot of us have been so
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spoon fed that oh, this is all bad, like sugar is bad.
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Oh you can't have sugary cereals, or you can't you can't have to as
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peanut Butter leversa, what would you say was the conversation in your household growing
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up around money that you had to learn to heal. I would say in
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my household, it was a lot of we don't have the money for that,
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and telling me that we didn't have the money for that. But then
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also growing up in a way that I could see my parents did have money,
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like there was money being spent and more than I would say the average
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child's parents money was spending. And so then when they would say like,
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oh, well, we don't have money to buy you something for I used
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to ice skating, which is on its own and expensive sport, right,
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so that is proof to me that there is money there. But they would
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say like, oh, we don't have the money to spend on that,
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And while that might have been true, I could still see money going other
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places. So it was always about me understanding the difference between I really had
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to learn to understand the difference between a necessity and a want and where money
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actually should be going because I didn't get to make those decisions. I was
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just kind of told like, Oh, money's not going there, it's going
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to go here instead. I'm glad you touched on that, Larissa, the
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necessity versus the want, because I think we tend to have it lipped and
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when we reach a certain age and before we dive into that, Larissa,
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for our audience who was tuning in, if there interested in connecting with you
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and learning more about you, is there a website or a social media handle
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you can share with us today? Absolutely? So you can learn more about
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me at worried to wealthy dot com, or you can find me on Instagram
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and TikTok at worried to wealthy. Simple, short, sweet, simple,
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to the point, you guys, Larissa, you know, back to this
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conversation about obviously necessities versus a want, I really want to dive into this
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because I feel like there's again avoid being that's not being met. The reason
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why we have it flipped. We have all our wants on this pedestal and
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then all of our necessities down here. And let's be realistic, right,
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you know, I talk about grief a lot because a lot of us,
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when we're in grief, there's a want, right, and there's also a
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need that needs to be filled. And so, Larissa far audience, how
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do you recommend that if they're currently in some type of grief journey, right,
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whether their financial situation has literally went straight down like a roller coaster ride,
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or they're having other things that have transpired in our life that have brought
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forth a grief journey, how do you recommend that they find a blend or
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a balance between the wants and needs. For me, I think really important
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especially for people in any kind of emotional turmoil. Doesn't necessarily have to be
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grief, but you're in any kind of emotional turmoil, making sure that you
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are taking time before making purchases and allowing yourself to move through the emotion before
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the large purchases made. It can make a really big difference. When you
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wait just twenty four hours, you might change your mind on that purchase that
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you knew was probably more than you needed to spend, but in that very
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moment, you were ready to spend it. Right. I'm glad you brought
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that up, Larissa, about waiting. Right, who was it Thomas Edison
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or Abraham Lincoln that said if you're not sure, if you're wrestling with emotions,
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write a letter and then sleep on it. I think we almost need
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to go back to that, right, being more patient with spending and really
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evaluating, weighing out the pros and the cons right, because I think we're
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in a society where impulse spending gets a badge of honor a little bit,
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and not to be too political, but you know we have capitalism to thank
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for that one. They want you to spend your money, they want you
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to give them your money. Yeah, And I'll be honest, Larissa,
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sometimes I really have to like go into complete meditation mode right where I'm not
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falling into that I need to buy this. I need to buy this.
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I mean, because I'm a girl who loves her gadgets. I gotta say,
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I love my gadgets. I love obviously my cameras. I have over
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forty something. I love obviously my accessories to go with my cameras, my
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gimbals, tripods, everything you can think of, extra lenses. So I'm
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a gadgets girl. I mean a little quick story during Father's Day this year,
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right, I don't know why home depot. For Father's Day, you
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get all the necessities you need for your house, but for Mother's Day they
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want to sell you flowers and fruit fruit stuff. I said, you know
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what, from now on Father's Day, it's gonna be my holiday too,
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because I can get my house practically done for a deal instead of you know,
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shopping for Mother's Day with flowers and fruit fruit stuff. But but I'm
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gonna leave it there. I had to incorporate that because that goes to show
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you how, like just to how our society is. Right, the stuff
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that you really need, they sell it for Father's Day. But the stuff
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that you really don't need, that you can just buy it anytime. They
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mark it to you like you need need need, you know, And Larissa,
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I can agree though, like our society is so big on that,
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and I think we need to take more time to be patient, like really,
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really way out, do I really need this right now? And I
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understand like we get into these different binds, right, we're adults. Something
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happens to our car, we get some weird thing that happens in the house.
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Yeah, we gotta get those those are necessities, right, we gotta
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really shift our priorities on that, right. And Larissa, you know what's
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coming through for me right now is just in general, how we're having this
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open dialogue about money, right, And let's be realistic, this is not
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a conversation that a lot of people are open to having in their household amongst
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their friends. I mean, even what entrepreneurship, right, I've noticed that
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entrepreneurs who are very confident in their financial decisions, they have no fear of
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sharing what they make, how they did it. And so, Larissa,
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for all audience who's tuning in wherever they're at in their journey, whether they
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are a corporate person or their entrepreneur, how do you recommend that we facilitate
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and have more open conversations around money, considering that it's so sensitive and in
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almost every household. Yeah, so for me. The thing that I always
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tell people is do it uncomfy. It's not going to be comfy at first.
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You're not going to want to have the conversation. But do it with
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people well who it matters. So if you have a partner, talk about
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money with your partner. Start there. If you have siblings that could really
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use some help from you, if you have financial information that they don't have,
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start opening up that conversation and that dialogue with them. It's amazing when
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you start just talking openly about money. How much people come to you and
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say, I actually really need help with this. Do you have information on
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it? And how many people you can help move forward with you. I'm
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glad you brought up, Larissa about having that money conversation with a partner or
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a spouse, because how many people literally avoid it like the bubonic plague.
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So many it's the third leading cause of divorce guys. So if you are
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not chatting money with your partner, you really need to start and do it
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uncomfy. They're your partner. If they're judging you, there are other problems.
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Yeah, I you know, little short, little digression. You know,
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as I'm in the dating world now I've been kind of having a little
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bit of dialogue with the different people that I go on dates with, right,
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And one of the things I kind of give him a little tests.
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So people who are tuning in, obviously you're getting an inside of how portion
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goes on dates, but I give them a little test in a sense about
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where they're at with their financial decisions, right, And a lot of times,
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Larissa, I'll be honest, when I hear some of their responses,
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it tells me a lot about where their priorities are at. Like I'll share
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one like there was there was a guy who I went to get ice cream
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with, Like we've known each other a long time, but I'm just seeing,
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like where we're at, you know, let's see what happens, right,
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And I asked him the question of well, you know you don't want
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to stay in corporate. He's older than me, he is, I'm thirty
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one. I think he's thirty eight. And I said, you know you
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don't want to stay incorporate. You don't have any kids rare, right,
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you know what I mean? Kids? But I said, but you know,
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where do you see yourself in the six months? Like what are you
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doing to really pave the way for what you really want. His response to
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me was, well, I just want to own something, and I just
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I mean, you see my face doesn't hide it, and I said and
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I just said, oh, okay, So I'm thinking, so you want
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to just own a mop bucket, like you know, like but again,
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like what you just said, like really having honest conversation. And then again
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maybe he was just saying that to me because that he didn't really want to
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disclose, which is fine. But at the same time, in my mind,
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I'm thinking, m yeah, that's awkward turtle moment. But I'm not
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gonna I'm gonna let me. Let me tell you something about men and money
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that I think is going to help you out. If a man has money,
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he's making money, and he knows what he wants to do with it,
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he will talk to you about it forever. I've been around a lot
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of wealthy man of my time, and they will not stop talking. Yeah,
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he tell you, Yeah, he was a little too tight lit Molly,
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And I'm like, okay, And that's a good tip to know,
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loriis so for our audience who's tuning in. If you're in the dating world,
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if somebody is really passionate about where they're gonna put third dollars at They'll
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tell you, oh yeah, and I agree. You know, I agree
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with that, Larissa, right because I you know, I had a good
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friend of mine. I've never really had anybody asked me like why I became
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an entrepreneur, But I had a good friend of mine asked me like,
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hey, did you know you were ready to take the sleep of fan?
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I said, hex no, No, my soul knew I was ready for
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something more. But as far as the action steps that I took, absolutely
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not. Did I have all the hundred k thousand dollars in the bank,
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hecking all. I really just had a belief I had savings and I ran
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with it. And we have to, you know, emphasize to Lariska that
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risk is part of the financial journey. Absolutely, yes, it is just
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really weighing out where the risk goes is where the wisdom comes in to play.
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Yes, I always tell people high risk could being high reward, but
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high risk is still high risk. So it's important to understand the level of
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risk that you are taking on. I agree with that, and I think
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more people need to weigh out what their risk is right instead of going based
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on influencer risk, because let's just put it out there, a lot of
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influencers have a team who's working behind the scenes for them, versus in comparison,
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if you are a solopreneur or if you're just starting out, don't have
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a team of seven right next to you. So really weighing out kind of
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based on what industry you're in, what can really help without breaking the bank.
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And that's another thing, Laris, I'm learning, like as an entrepreneur,
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it's not so much about all the money you spend, it's about the
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money that you're able to keep because and that was another thing, like I
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was hearing a lot in my beginner's entrepreneur journey, Oh you have to spend
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all this money, And I'm like, but there was always this belief in
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my heart, like, no, no, I don't think that's right.
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And elaborate on that, Laris, I want your take on that. Being
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a money and debt coach, like, I'm sure that you hear so many
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different myths. What would you say is like one of the top three myths
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that you often hear about money as an entrepreneur, I think one of the
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biggest ones is that you should be reinvesting everything you make for the first couple
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of years. While it is important to improve your skills and sometimes things like
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a business coach maybe a team member could really help you out, it's also
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important to get paid. We do have to live. So one of the
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biggest ones that people think that they just should keep spilling out all the money
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until they feel like they are ranking enough instead of paying themselves. And let's
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see, what are some other good ones? I think, yeah, I
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think another one is that a lot of people think that you should be taking
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on debt to start a business. While it absolutely is an option and if
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you have the backup plan behind it, it can make a lot of sense,
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it doesn't always make sense to put that coaching on a credit card because
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I have worked with several entrepreneurs who come to me and say, well,
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I've been in so many coaching programs and I'm not making any money and now
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it's just sitting on this credit card. Like that's a tough spot to be
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in. Oh, Larissa, you literally just said what I read on Somebody
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who I follow on Instagram literally just made a post about that how they've kind
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of lost their faith a little bit because they were investing in all of these
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business coaches, success coaches, coaching programs, whatever, and their business is
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stagnant. And I agree, Like, if you've got a plan, then
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the debt can work for you, right, But if you don't, then
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I think that there's always an alternative to just start where you're at. I
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think we forget about that, Larissa in our journey right to start using what
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we already have, and then we obviously upgrade and replenish as we go.
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Right. Like for you, Larissa, You're background is being a obviously financial
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advisor, so you were able to really, in a sense, just hey,
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I'm coming next door, and then you just stayed there. Yeah,
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and the same with me. My background is in production. I used to
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be a TV producer, and so once I left the network, I was
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able to really take those skills. It took a little bit, took a
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little bit of road to you know, get there, but I was able
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to really pivot and start using all those skills to really funnel my production business.
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Yeah. I think one thing a lot of entrepreneurs forget is that some
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people are just really good at marketing, they might not actually have the best
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product for you say it louder for the people in the back. And I'm
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not judging. I've worked with people like this, Okay. I have worked
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with a coach who was charging I thought way too much, and so I
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went into a group program instead of a one on one. I met people
30:00
later who worked with her one on one, and they were like, she
30:03
didn't really have much to offer. She didn't have strategies to give me.
30:07
She just was like, no, you just need to you need to go
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viral. That's all you need to do. Go viral. But she's not
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telling you how to do it. She's not telling you the steps to take.
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She's just like, no, you should just be able to figure it
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out. Oh you're not mentally healthy. Figure that out, Like that's what
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we paid you for that part, that part right there. And you know,
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again, no shade to anybody, but it's just like at the end
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of the day, as entrepreneurs, right, each person who we meet,
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right, there's a book that I always referenced, The Game of Life by
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Florence go Wilshin, and she always says in the book, man is not
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your enemy, man is not your friend. For a man is your teacher.
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And so what I took from that is always had the student for life
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approach to when you're learning, because entreprene nship is a journey of learning,
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right, So you're gonna encounter people who are good at marketing and you get
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into their program and you didn't get anything out of it. But I think
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realistically you kind of did. You learned what you don't want. Yes,
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you might have gotten some new connections that you may not have been in connection
31:18
with before. And I know that that's happened to me a few times.
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Like I've gone into different masterminds that maybe the person who's running it I don't
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really mesh with, but I've met so many other cool people who I'm like,
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oh my god, these people are amazing. We thought the same way.
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So I think at the end of the day, like even if you
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make a quote unquote mistake, there was a miracle within the mistake. Per
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se Absolutely I learned. I never want anyone to feel that way about my
31:47
coaching. So I'm not going to oversell myself. I'm gonna sell you exactly
31:52
what You're gonna get that part. That part right there, I think you
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know, as being entrepreneur and Larissa, I think you can kind of agree
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like we became entrepreneurs to really help to really make an impact, right where
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systems have failed so many people. Right, Like me as a producer,
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I mean I do a multitude of things, right, I mean I get
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to produce obviously, podcasts, I get to shoot commercials. I get to
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do some speaking engagements here and there. I get to do some little fun
32:21
videos in that, and also teach because I used to want to be a
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college professor and my mom was also a teacher for thirteen years for children with
32:30
unique learning needs. So I've always wanted to be one. But I'm like,
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I can't see myself being a traditional classroom, and so I get to,
32:37
in a sense, do it organically by just being me, right,
32:43
showing people, Hey, you know, think about this when you're doing your
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podcasts, do this on a topic that you really love, Right, I'm
32:49
always growing out different ideas. That's just how my brain works, you know.
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So I think what we have to always remember is that there's always a
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bigger picture. Right. There's even though this one stop might have quote unquote
33:06
hindered us, but really it hurled us forward because we took the lead to
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even be in there. I'm sorry, my dog is injured and he is
33:15
barking. Right now, I understand. We look the fur kids, they
33:20
are welcome. I have a furry upstairs, and I get it. You
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know, Luis, I gotta say, you know, I thank you so
33:27
much for coming on and really giving not just of course me because I know
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the work that you do, but also giving our audience a new way to
33:36
reframe their mindset around money and you know, building wealth and also giving ourselves
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permission to make mistakes, but also being open to learn from them, right
33:50
and not overspend right, get to the no pun intended. Get to the
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root cause of why right, why you're overspending? What's the void that you're
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needing to feel? Is it something from your childhood? Right? You know,
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what does that really look like for you? And so, Larissa,
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before we conclude, can you once again share your social media again for our
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audience who wants to connect with you and learn more about you. Yeah.
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So I am on Instagram and TikTok at worried to Wealthy or you can find
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me at worried to Wealthy dot com. Excellent At Larissa, you have left
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us with so many nuggets and I always love to say this question for last,
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what words of inspiration, Larissa, can you leave with our audience today,
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especially if they were someone who was once in your shoes, who was
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obviously in the financial space, and they knew that they wanted to give more,
34:42
but they were kind of a little too timid to take that leap of
34:45
faith. What words of inspiration can you leave with our audience today? I
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say, always go for progress over perfection. And you know perfect my thing
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is perfect is the enemy of done. So just take the leap, get
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things done. It doesn't have to be perfect. No one else will notice.
35:07
Larissa Lery took the words right out of my mom I tell my clients
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that all the time. My podcast clients like it doesn't have to be perfect.
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Even when you're first starting your podcast journey, your first episode is not
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gonna come out the way that you think. And it's happened to me.
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Guys, for my audience who's tuning in, you can go on my YouTube
35:29
channel right now and find the first ever episode A Grew a Porsche that aired
35:34
in October of twenty nineteen. You can go and find it. It's still
35:37
there, and I keep it there for a reason to show my progress over
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time, because I can't tell you, Larissa, how many times I wanted
35:45
to quit. I wanted to give up. Nobody was sharing my fire,
35:49
nobody gave my show a listen, nobody even cared that I was on the
35:52
air. But I still stuck with it, and here I am today.
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Here I am today, almost over two hundred episodes in I'm still here.
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Well, everybody, that was our money and Debt coach Larissa Stephen, that
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you heard from And that concludes another episode. It grew a Porsche season number
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two. Thanks for listening, Peace and hair Grease. Everybody, Thank you
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