Episode 31: What's more valuable than money with spiritual guide and life coach, Amanda Grace

In today's episode, I am interviewing Amanda Grace. Not only is she a former client, but what truly captivates me about Amanda is her remarkable intellect. We will delve into a topic we touch on in every episode: money. However, today we're going beyond the surface and exploring Amanda's personal relationship with money. Together, we'll venture into the profound aspects of money often overlooked in conventional personal finance podcasts. We aim to delve beneath the surface and examine the thoughts, feelings, and emotions surrounding money. We'll also explore the social constructs associated with money, empowering you to connect deeply with your financial journey. So, without further ado, let's dive right in.

Key highlights

[00:00:00] Introduction to today’s guest and topic: Amanda Grace talking about her relationship with money

[00:01:53] Why Amanda decided to start working on her money

[00:03:27] Financial education is not a part of the school curriculum

[00:06:27] What money represents to Amanda beyond the practical uses

[00:08:32] How growing up without money has impacted Amanda’s life today

[00:11:17] Strategies that have helped Amanda improve her relationship with money

[00:14:34] Amanda’s advice to emotional people that don’t identify as logical

[00:19:33] Trying to make money with an emotional background relationship with money

[00:28:32] What is most valuable to Amanda?

[00:29:47] Example of Amanda’s client who wanted to declutter

[00:35:37] Can money buy happiness?

[00:44:13] Amanda’s advice to anyone with a scarcity mindset when dealing with money

[00:46:26] How to connect with Amanda

Notable Quotes

• ● I bought things to feel good about myself and like I was good enough. I had never felt truly worthy of money, so I used money as a tool to get there, and what I found was, ultimately, it only perpetuated my sense of worthlessness when I tried to use the money to fill that hole.

  ● Keeping in check with money facts has given me a structure that makes it feel safe for me as an emotional person to make money decisions based on facts.

  ● I have a beautifully rich emotional life, but without solid ground, at some point, you're going to get tired out there in the ocean, and you're going to drown. So having that life raft of a system, a procedure, facts, because one thing is, the great thing is that the figures never lie.

  ● Having a read on the numbers every week gives me some time to experience other emotions like contentment and peace and not just the urgency and panic that is necessary for me to make money.

  ● It's up to me how much I make, but there will always be a cost. And so that helps me stay in line with my values, and I am not willing to pay certain costs. I'm not willing to pay the cost, for example, of integrity.

  ● Money is not the most valuable thing, and it's up to me what I spend, and it's up to me what I make, but at what cost? So that's where I'm at with money right now, and it’s also allowing money to provide for me in a very basic and functional way and honor the emotional way I meet life.

  ● Trade-offs don't necessarily exist with money; you can have it all. You can be generous, altruistic, and incredibly rich, charge a lot of money, and provide value.

  ● I think we have to be very careful with our definitions of what success is. I experienced my father dying from cancer three weeks after his diagnosis, and I know that the definition of a successful life is being able to die happy.

  ● When we look for true happiness, it comes from that underlying current. It's not necessarily derived.

  ● Happiness for me is not feeling anxious but just feeling present and content with myself.

  ● It is not our fault that we don't know how to organize money or allocate it or that we don’t know it's not the most valuable thing. All I know is that it will never, ever change unless it is addressed and looked at.

  ● The closer in relationship I am with my money, the more calm I feel. And the further away I am in my relationship with my money, the more distressed I feel.

  ● When you take care of your money and love your money, your money takes care of you, and your money loves you. So having that intimate, warm relationship with your money is truly the solution, regardless of your starting point financially.

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