Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. I'm a little sleepy tonight. I'm recording this later than usual actually. It's 9 pm which is crazy. I had a full day with my family. It's the weekend and it's been amazing. May and June is so crazy for my family in a really beautiful, fun way. You it's my birthday and then it's my anniversary in June 1st.
And then it's my daughter's birthday and then it's my husband's birthday June 13th and then it's Father's Day. So it's just like a wild, wild time. Obviously super fun, super fun to celebrate all the things. Tomorrow I'm leaving to visit my parents in Colorado and so I'm fitting this episode in knowing it's gonna come out on Friday, knowing that I really won't have capacity to create a podcast episode this week.
Last weekend for our anniversary, Wesley surprised me and it was so fun. He set up for my sister to come watch the girls. He like drove me to Park City. That's when he told me the whole plan. So he had booked a hotel, booked us a fancy dinner. I guess it's like at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse which was on property at our hotel in Hotel Park City.
He booked us massages for Sunday morning. We went to the Kesha concert. All of this was a surprise to me. It's like, it was just like really delightful and I was thinking about this based on what we're gonna talk about today, which is all about money. So you might be like, why are you telling me about your May and June being full of celebrations and stuff? And it's like, this is why.
Because we were able to have a really nice weekend that memories that'll like be with us when we're like 85 year old sitting on our porch like, remember when we were in our 30s, you know? And it just like enhances our life and I was thinking about this because I have clients across the spectrum as far as like money mindset goes, right?
I have clients who are in the beginning of their money mindset journey and they are unlearning stuff. Many of you listening to this can relate. You're like unlearning stuff from your parents, from your upbringing, from your community, how the world talked about money in your childhood.
So whether it was like, things are expensive, money doesn't grow on trees, be careful with money, you have to hoard money, you have to protect money, money is scarce and you have to work really hard for it. Whatever stories you picked up from your childhood, like you might listen to a podcast like this or other podcasts or read a book or get coaching and you're like, oh, like there's a lot here, like there's a very different way to think about money. That was for sure was my experience. I grew up with a mixed bag.
I love my parents so much and I was very confused. Sometimes we like couldn't flush the toilets and then we were like going to Disney World and sometimes we like couldn't upgrade things in our house but then we were like going out to eat. I was very confused and probably because they didn't have a great money mindset upbringing and like that's real for almost everyone I've ever talked to, right?
Like I think all parents want their kids to have a better money relationship than they had and so I think overall, you know, things get improved generation to generation but for most of you listening, you are like the transformational person. You're the key character that like does the work to change the money story. I know I am in my family. The financial reality for my daughters is going to be different than it was for me.
I've been thinking about this, like I said, I have this like romantic getaway with Wesley that is like completely funded by the money that Wesley and I make. I hesitate to share this stuff because like I don't want to like be like braggadocious. That's like something that I don't want to be like, look how much money I make. Like that's not the point because like the point is I figured out how to make money and so can you.
So Christmas time, me and the girls and Wesley, my parents come, my sisters come, we go to Disney World over Christmas, like literally go there on Christmas Day. We pay for the most expensive pass so that we could go for like every park so that we could go to basically the front of the line for every single ride, right?
It's called like Premier Lightning Lane and I was thinking about this because it's not like a cheap choice but I was thinking about like why we do the things that we do, why I make the money that I make, same for Wesley, and how we use the money that we make is rare compared to a lot of people. The way that I talk about money is uncommon but my results with money are uncommon. My life is uncommon.
I don't stress about money. Some of you are like, yep, me too. I don't really stress about money. Some of you like that feels foreign to you on a level that like I understand because like that's how as a young mom, as a new working professional, like that's how I felt about money. Like I was always stressed. I remember like I was flipping things on eBay. I would wake up at 3 a.m. and teach English to kids in China.
I would flip things on eBay and I was like transcribing videos on a company called Rev.com just to make ends meet and I remember begging and pleading with God that if he could just like help me figure out how to get out of this mess, like I would do whatever he asked. Like I remember that prayer. I am very familiar, I should say.
I am very familiar with what it's like to be stressed about money and so for me to say now that like money is easy and that I don't stress about money and have that be very real, that is like my lived experience, that I don't stress about money because of these beliefs that I'm going to share with you.
My life is different because I did the work on my beliefs about money, my stories about money, what I think I'm available for, you know, how money is actually created, if it's good to have money or if it's bad to have money, like all of these things. I did a deep excavation of my psyche and I'm going to invite you into that because it can change your life.
When you're willing to question your beliefs about money, if money is not working the way that you want it to be working in your life, like this is the conversation that I like if you were sitting in my office right now together like and you were on my couch and we were talking, like this is what I would want to share with you if you're struggling with money right now is like the way that you were taught about money, the way that you're thinking about money is not helping you.
And so the first thing that we have to confront is that money is your mirror. I've said this throughout the years but I learned this for myself. This isn't just like me shouting it from the rooftop, it really is like this is what I've learned. It's like this is the stuff that I had to go through and like I come back bearing this message for you is that business is not testing you, life is not testing you. I really thought that.
It wasn't until I started studying consciousness that I realized like life is not testing me, life is reflecting me. So money is a very powerful mirror for your consciousness, for your psyche, for the way we're going to talk about like the value you create, what you're capable and I would say like you can tolerate receiving the wisdom and the pathways and the light that you're sharing in the world and how you let that come back to you.
What you ask for, we're going to talk about that too, like I'm willing to ask for money aka sales because you don't get what you don't ask for and that's like an energetic thing but also like an action thing. But mostly like my consciousness around money has absolutely transformed and so when I think about you know my family memories, being in Disney World, being in Magic Kingdom, being in Epcot on Christmas, like the memories that I get to keep for the rest of my life because of money you guys.
Money funds the dream life is one of my uncommon thoughts about money. Money funds the memory making. You don't have to like love Disney World for this to apply. It could be like a boat, it could be a trip, it could be groceries that you don't have to think about you know spending the money when you go to Costco or when you hit the grocery store.
It could be help that you want to hire, it could be upgrading things in your home, buying your kids clothes. I mean it could be basic fundamental living stuff but it could also be like luxurious stuff. This trip that I'm thinking of in Christmas time like it was a big investment of time and money and I'm grateful we did it but it's also like evidence of empowering myself around money and so like I said that's one of the thoughts.
Money funds my dream life. Money funds my memory making. Okay it's like a foundational piece of creating that. Money is easy. I don't need to stress about money. Stress is not required. So one of the things that I see in a lot of my clients this is one of like the mega patterns that I see is that there's this belief that stressing about money makes them responsible with money and what I always help them see is like you can be responsible with money without stressing about it.
That's called attention and awareness. Having attention and awareness about money is important but you don't need to stress about it to prove that you're responsible and like that is a huge code deep in our patterns, deep in our childhood wounding, deep in like how we learn to operate in the world. Like we learned that stressing about money is responsible because most of us watch the adults in our lives stress about money.
And we created this connection, this meaning that that must mean that that's how you take care of money when you're an adult. You stress about it. That means that you care about it. It's like no that's not required. Attention and awareness, sure. Caring about it, sure. Attention to detail, sure. Stewardship, sure. All those things I love. Those words are stuff that I resonate with but stress about money is not required.
Stress about money is not required and stress about money does not make me responsible. I can choose to take care of my money without any stress. It can be because I love it. It can be because I care about it, because I'm interested in it, because I take care of it, because I want to see it grow, because I'm like it's like a garden that I want to expand but that doesn't mean I need to stress about it. Stress is not required.
Money can be fun actually. That's another thought I have. Another thought I have is that my ideas make me rich and a lot of you are afraid to claim that but I really believe that, right? The ideas that I have in my mind literally make me rich by publishing it online, by coaching my clients, by writing a book, by publishing articles on Substack, by publishing this content, by posting on social media, by writing emails.
Like my ideas make me rich and if you are in the wisdom economy and you're listening to this episode, whether you're a coach or a consultant, whether you're an artist or a creative or an intuitive or an energy worker, like whatever, wherever you are in the world, if you use your ideas, the mental plane primarily, so it's like you're not doing physical labor, you're doing mental labor.
Your ideas make you rich and so what I love about this is that I have unlimited ideas. I am not limited in my ideas which means I am not limited in how I make money and this is actually something that I learned from Brooke of the Life Coach School many, many, many years ago. She had a podcast episode called The Three Assets or something like that, I think it's Three Assets or The Three Assets and she talks about mind, time and money.
In that episode, the number one asset that she believed she had was her mind and I immediately resonated with that. I believe that. I believe my mind is my number one asset and so this is important because my mind is my number one asset, it is the number one thing that I invest in, time and money. I use my time and my money to invest in my mind through coaching, through books, through courses.
I spend more on my mind than I do most things in my life, more than my car, more than my home sometimes. Over years, that's absolutely true which is uncommon but the amount of money that I make because of that is also uncommon because the way that Brooke taught me in that episode that changed my whole life, mind is number one.
Then she invested in her time, she wanted to get her time back and then she used money to make money. So use time and money to expand your mind, use your mind and money to get your time back and then you use your mind and your time to multiply your money where your money makes you money through investing, right?
It's kind of like her philosophy and like I just adopted it so I started investing in myself first, in my mind through courses, through teachers, through mentors, through my own coaching, through books. As you guys know I've read hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books at this point. I've also taken dozens of courses like I am a student of the self-knowledge industry.
What I sell, I also participate in and I think some of you know or maybe you did in the past or some of you need to be reminded like if you want to be excellent in this industry, participate in it. Coaching is an apprenticeship based industry. A lot of people don't like this, they call it an MLM. I'm like no, it's like an apprenticeship based industry. Like the way that you learn to grow your coaching business is to learn from a coach who's doing it. You don't get to go to Harvard to learn how to build a coaching business. ‘
You can't go to your community college to learn how to be a mentor, be a life coach, right? Like you have to learn from people in the field. It's an apprenticeship based, so investing in your mind means coaching, courses, books, ebooks, podcasts, right? Audio series, like this stuff, the stuff that you're doing right now. And I've been doing that for years non-stop.
Doesn't mean I always have the same coach, doesn't mean that I'm always buying courses, but if you look at my track record of the last eight years, I have consistently and frequently invested in one-on-one coaching, masterminds, courses, programs, calls, voxer, books, like consistently. And so my mind has become my biggest asset. And I would say, Brooke, as you use the word mind, I might use the word consciousness, right?
Like I have expanded my consciousness around money, around business, around myself, around life, around the universe, around other people, to the point where like I move with certainty in my business, knowing how to create money. I don't hope to make money. I know I will. And I have trained myself to believe that. I have trained my body to take the action. I've made myself good at business and anyone can learn it.
Anyone can do this. It's not something that's reserved. No one is born with entrepreneur DNA. No one. It's a stack of learnable skills. And if you're committed to the practice of learning the skills and applying it and doing the thought work, right? Expanding your beliefs, challenging old patterns, expanding your consciousness, your wealth consciousness, you can do this.
And so all of this is, I would say like the fruit of seeds that I planted a long time ago with money mindset work, with wealth consciousness work. Your mind or consciousness is your number one asset. The second thing, like Brooke, she said in that episode, I use my mind to get my time back. Time for me is more valuable than money.
So the way that Brooke teaches this in the three assets episode, which I really love, obviously I'm teaching it now because it like has made that level of impact on my life. The number one asset is my mind, my consciousness. The second asset is not money. It is my time. I use money to expand my mind and to get my time back, which means I have people that support me in my home. I have a house cleaner that comes.
I pay people to do stuff all the time. I pay to save time. I pay for the best flights. I pay for convenience. I have my groceries delivered because I want my time back. When I think about spending time with my kids, we always look for how we can get our time back, not how to save money. And like, this is something that fundamentally changed for me. When I was struggling with money, I was always looking how I could save money.
Now that I would say, expanded my mind, like it's using money to get my time back. And that's how wealthy people think, right? They use their money to get their time back because time is a non-renewable resource. Money is an infinite resource. I can always make more money. I will never be 33 years old again. My kids will not be 10, 8, and almost 6 ever again. I only have this one summer with them. Wesley's turning 38.
I don't get this time back with him. Money, I will always be able to make more money. In fact, one of the uncommon beliefs I have is like, whatever I spend, I make more. Whatever I spend, I make more. So I'm going to spend my money to get my time back. There's a great book called Die With Zero. I think it's by Bill Perkins. I highly, highly recommend you read it.
It is a thought exercise on how to use your money and the proper timing and how to think through life events because most people save so much money for the end of their life and they don't need it. And they miss the opportunity to use it when they needed it and when they wanted it and when their bodies were capable. The best time for me to use money to travel with my kids is now. Is now.
Because after they graduate high school and after they get married and after they start their lives and after they leave my house, I don't get this time like I do now. And I only have a short window. I have eight summers with my daughter, my oldest daughter. Holy crap. That's making me weepy right now. So yeah, time is way more valuable to me than money.
But I had to really open my eyes because most people are taught that money is more valuable than time. And that is like a poor mindset that keeps you in lack and scarcity. Number one asset is your mind and your consciousness. So invest accordingly. Number two asset is your time. Invest accordingly. Like I love paying for mentorship because they collapse time for me. Like I'm obsessed with this.
If I could pay someone for a course who could teach me to do something, a skill that I don't have, I want to pay that deficit down so that I can collapse time because time is more valuable than my money. My mentor, I love her because she saves me time because she's living in a way that I want to live. And so she can save me time. Having my house cleaners come, they save me time.
In fact, I'm going to give you like a frame, like a scene from my life. My house cleaners came on Monday. It's summertime. So my girls are home. My house cleaners are cleaning my house. I finished my call with a client and I went outside with my husband and we were watching our girls jump on the trampoline and old me would have really struggled with that. I would have felt guilty as crap that my house cleaners were inside cleaning my house.
But I realized like this is what I envisioned when I envisioned my business. My house cleaner is grateful for my business. She loves me. She really does. And she loves my family and she's the sweetest and she's been with me for five years now, which is crazy. We have a great relationship and she's followed me to every house that I've lived in, which is so fun. But I'm sitting outside enjoying summer. I'm watching my kids play.
I'm not thinking about cleaning my house. And I have my time back and me and my husband can enjoy the afternoon. He was off of a work call. I was off of a work call. Our kids are like giggling, playing on the trampoline. I'm trading my money for time. And what's funny is when I free up my time, I make more money. And so I love distributing money. One of the thoughts that I have, another uncommon thought is money allows me to create my own micro-economy.
I wrote that down years ago as something that I wanted to create. And I totally have that. I have many people that I pay for support, whether that's for my podcast, for my business, for coaching and mentorship, house cleaning, grocery delivery. I'm trying to think of other things. People that I've paid for all sorts of things. People to move us. When we moved to this house, I definitely paid for people to move us.
I pay to learn skills. I pay for people to edit my podcast episodes. I pay for software. I pay for Kajabi every month so that I could deliver an amazing client experience. I pay for Tessa to come and cook for my clients because I don't want to think about that or stress about that. I pay for a coworking space that I can host my clients in a beautiful location.I'm constantly using money to get my time back, to elevate my experience.
Money is meant to be used to enhance our experience. It's not meant to be hoarded. We only hoard money when we're worried it's going to run out. One of the things that I have shared with my clients through the years too is your mind is the golden goose. Money is the golden eggs. Sometimes we get obsessed with the golden eggs because we feel like we need to keep them or protect them or hoard them.
But you only feel like you need to hoard them if you are worried that the golden goose is gone. But you are the golden goose. Your mind is a center of divine operation. Your ideas make you rich, right? One of the thoughts that I already shared with you. Your mind is the golden goose. Money is the golden eggs. Don't get them confused. We don't want to kill the golden goose because we're trying to protect the golden eggs.
So if you think about that, like investing in your mind, it makes a lot of sense because it will keep producing the golden eggs. Another thought I have is money expands the choices available to me. This is one of my favorite reasons for making a lot of money is because I have more choices and it's not about greed. It's not about I'm better than anyone. It's just like I care about choice.
And if I'm limited by money based on what choices I can make, like I'm not really free. And I took a course, let's see, this was in 2020 from Alpha Fem. Her name is Melanie N. Lair. And she said this quote that I just shared. She's like, if money is the reason that you can't make a choice, like you don't really know what freedom is, right?
Like if I'm looking at, let's say two cars, I have to choose the cheaper car because I don't have the money for the more expensive car. Like I don't actually really even understand what I would choose. And I'm not saying like you need to be like a bajillionaire. Like that's not what I'm really saying. But if you're always limited by money, you don't really know your choices. You don't really get to live your freedom.
And so I think we all have a responsibility to expand our capacity to make money. And that's going to look different for everyone. But I took that upon myself like radical personal responsibility. Like, yeah, like I want to be able to make choices based on what I desire, based on who I am, not based on what I can afford. That means I need to increase my capacity to make money, which I did and I have and I still am. I still am.
I don't think it's something I'll ever be done with. Here's another thought that I have that I think is pretty uncommon is like more than enough is the standard. Not just enough, not barely enough, more than enough is the standard. Like just see how that feels in your body. For me, it feels really good. But like there was a time where like that felt like impossible. I'd almost like laugh out loud like, huh, okay. Right.
Because I had memorized based on my childhood, based on college, based on my early married life, barely getting by or just enough is the standard. So, so much more than enough is the standard is like a very abundant thought for me. But like I had to learn how to vibrate at that level, I would say. I had to learn how to think that way. I had to learn how to operate that way.
The next thing I'll say, I've said this many times because I'm a business coach, money through other people, M-T-O-P, is an essential, I would say, truth to business, but also how the world really works, right? Where is all your money? Where is all the abundance? If money is an unlimited resource, where is it? In other people's bank accounts right now. It is not ethereal.
Abundance is like a spiritual concept, but money is a 3D concept. A lot of my clients find me in different ways, but this is one of the concepts that I think really resonates for my people. Abundance is a spiritual concept, but money is a 3D concept. And so you have to learn how to turn abundance as a spiritual principle into money, which is a 3D principle, which in my world, we do that through our businesses.
We do that through offers. We do that through relationships. We do that through serving other people, money through other people. So if you want to take the spiritual practice, the spiritual understanding, the spiritual laws of abundance, which are valid, and I teach them, but there has to be a pathway or a channel or a portal for that to turn into money, because money is the medium of exchange that we all use in the world that represents choices. I can use money to choose Disney World.
I can use money to choose hiring a house cleaner or hiring a coach or going on a vacation or upgrading my car or paying for books or whatever to make my life expansive the way that I want it to be. So familiarizing yourself with that. Let's say you want to make $30,000 next month in cash. That 30K, where it is right now, is in other people's bank accounts.
And so the best way that you can bring it into your bank account is through offers, through asking. I mentioned that learning how to ask for money has been an essential part of my journey. Learning how to receive money, learning how to be with money and hold money, all different skills. Learning how to make money is a specific skill. Learning how to keep money is a different skill than making money.
Learning how to spend money, learning how to invest money, learning how to give money, these are all different skills. Learning how to sit with money, all of these are different skills. And I'm still growing in all of them. I'm an internal student. I will never stop studying this stuff. To me, it's like expansion for life. I want to continue to expand my mind and my life.
That doesn't mean that I have desires for this mega corporation, but I want to keep growing. And so I want to keep growing in these areas that matter, and money is one of the best places. Because, like we talked about at the beginning, money is a mirror. Okay, I have my notes out. I want to just read some of my uncommon money thoughts that I wrote down. I said, we always have money for what matters most to us.
That's something that I teach my kids. Money is an unlimited resource. My time isn't, which I already went into. If I know how to help people, I can always make money. This is something that when I get confused, when I get nervous, when I'm wondering about my launch strategy, or how to sign my next client, this is something I come back to.
If I know how to help people, I can always make money, which is layered because you also have to be able to communicate how you can help people, which is like a meta skill in business. Here's the one that I think is spicy, but will resonate for a lot of you. I believe it's good for the world when I make more money, because I believe it's good for the world when good people make more money, and I believe I'm a good person.
So I believe it's good for the world when I make more money. I think good things happen in the world when I make more money. I think, time out for a second. I love the dudes that listen to this episode, but for a moment, can I talk to the women and the mothers who are listening to this, which is the majority of my listeners, but I think the world is better when women and mothers make more money.
I think we do good things with money. I think we help kids, actually, just the other day, I saw these girls at a lemonade stand. I always, if I have cash on me, or if I'm in a place where I can actually buy the lemonade or the cookies or whatever they're saying, I always do. I love supporting small businesses, especially since I became an entrepreneur.
People come knocking on our doors, trying to clean our windows or mow our grass, or especially kids, especially kids. Me and Wesley always say yes. I love investing in people, and that's just like a micro scale, right? I love investing big too, because I have this abundance consciousness, where I believe when money goes out, it comes back.
When I invest in things I believe in, I think people invest in me if they believe in me, and I think it goes round and round, so it is good for the world when I make more money. I think important things happen when I make more money. I think I can take care of people because I make more money. I can be of service to my community in a way that I couldn't without money, because money is a resource.
Here's another thought I wrote down. It's normal and important to use big money for my mind, my heart, my life, my business, my family. I regularly invest, like I mentioned, in coaching and mentorship, but I also invest in things that light me up. I posted this on my Instagram stories a few months ago. Tegan, my oldest, wanted this loft bed, and she already had a bed. She didn't need the loft bed.
It was a couple hundred bucks and a lot of me and Wesley's time to upgrade her bed. I remember the delight on her face after we built her this bed, and it was like, yeah, this is why I have money, literally. I love delighting people in my life, but I also like delighting myself. Wesley took me on this romantic getaway because we use money to delight each other. That's not the only way.
We're not obsessed with money, but money is an important asset and resource in my life, and it is in yours too, and you don't need to feel guilty about that. I know this episode might bring stuff up for you guys listening. That's kind of the point. I want it to come up so that we can do the work on it. Money is meant to be used and not hoarded.
That's kind of what I mentioned with that book, Die With Zero, but a lot of other wealth consciousness books that I've read, the first money book that really changed the paradigm for money around me was Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, where I was like, I will never be rich working a job. I have to become a business owner or an investor or both, and now I do both.
I invest and I'm a business owner because money is meant to be used, not hoarded. I can't get rich saving the money that I make from my job, and that's like a mindset. That's like radical responsibility. The other thing that I wrote down is money is a mirror, which I got into. Money is just reflecting your consciousness. Money is neutral until I add or create meaning. You're in a down month, you get to decide what that means.
Someone just paid you $20,000, you get to decide what that means. It's been six months since you've signed a client, you get to decide what that means. Someone's charging 10 times more than you, you get to decide what that means. Your business made more money last year than it's making this year, you get to decide what that means because all your power lies in the present moment.
So the meaning that you assign is what happens next, and so learning how to think on purpose, learning how to clean up your thoughts and clean up your vibration and clean up your expectations and assumptions about money is the most important skill, I think, of any business owner. One of the things that I invest in, I would say, to get my time back is I have a CFO or like a, well, she does both.
So CFO, tech strategist, and bookkeeping all in the same firm. I love them. Caitlin is amazing. She's worked with me for many years now and one of the things that, this is kind of a funny thing, but one of the things that I appreciate about what she does is she reflects back my month. It's like a time capsule, right? She tells me what happened with my money, but I know my job is not to be consumed by what happened with my money.
My job is to be on the leading edge of my desires and be a conscious creator of how I'm creating money now. Not what happened with my money, what I'm creating now. And that's a mindset shift. So much of the world looks at the past about money and they wonder why they keep finding themselves stuck with money.
It's because they're looking at what happened, a record of the past, and they're trying to create something they never created before. It's like, yeah, then you have to use your imagination, which is not a word we often use with money, but this is the zone that a lot of my clients find me for, is because I help them look to the future and decide what their future to impact their present instead of their past to impact their present.
So your imagination, your vision, your dreams, possibility, potentiality, these are the tools of creating something you've never created before. So we want to be able to steward our money. So I'm not saying don't look at your money. I look at my money, I pay taxes, I have allocation on where money goes, and I don't let my past dictate what I'm about to do next, which is a skill. M-T-O-P, money through other people.
Where is your future money right now? In someone else's bank account. And so your job is to serve other people and to clean up your thoughts, right? So that it can come to you. My ideas make me rich. I have three assets, my mind, my time, and my money, and the order of importance is in that order, right? Mind number one, time number two, money number three, thank you Brook Castillo.
Money is easy, stress is not required. More than enough is standard. Money fuels my dream life for me and my kids, for me and my husband and my children and my future grandchildren. Money funds my memory making. Money is meant to be used, not hoarded. Because whatever I spend, I make more, right? All of these are related.
Money expands the choices available to me. Money makes me free.
It's funny because money is mere, that means I have to feel free around money now, which is the work. Money allows me to create a micro economy. I can trust money. I can trust myself with money. These are other thoughts that I have. Like I said, I know that this episode might be activating and I hope it is in a good way.
I've really learned to be mindful of how I talk about money. I never say things are expensive. I don't complain about gas prices. I don't complain about food in Disney World. Like that was something me and Wesley joke about, like we don't complain about spending money ever. Like I'm grateful to be able to spend money. Money is a beautiful gift to make your life better.
The other thing that I'll share, I meant to write this down and I didn't but it's coming to me right now. If you're going to spend the money anyway, don't complain about it. That's like a rule that we have in our house. So like if I'm going to buy groceries anyway, I'm not going to complain about the price of eggs or the price of fruit. I'm just going to buy it. If I'm going to buy gas for my car anyway, I'm not going to complain about gas prices.
If I'm going to book flights to go to Disneyland with my sisters, which I am in July, I'm not going to complain about the price of the flight. Those are just some examples because how I speak about money says a lot about how I make money and my real relationship with it and whether I believe it's coming and flowing in or not right. If I always make more than I spend, whatever I spend I'm not going to complain about because more money's coming and like that's how I move through life.
And so like I said, I know these are some uncommon thoughts. I know that it might activate some of you. Some of you really need to hear this and you're ready for it. Some of you are not ready to hear this and I love you and you are ready to hear this because you're hearing it. It came at the perfect time, right? One of my mentors said this and I think about this a lot.
She says, I don't come uninvited and I think that way a lot about me. That sounds conceited. I think that way about me. But like it's kind of true. Like I don't come uninvited. There's a reason that this episode found you whenever it found you. Whether you found it in real time when I'm recording it in June 2026 or you found this in three years and this is an old recording at this point. It found you for a reason.
When people ask me how I find books, I laugh and I'm like, no books find me. And I would say that's true about my teachers and mentors too. Like I don't necessarily find them, they find me because I am on the path of growth and expansion and that includes abundance and wisdom and impact for me. Like abundance, wisdom, and impact are my big three for why I make money and why I have a business.
And so the people and the resources and the ideas and the podcast episodes find me as I'm walking the path. And I'm just going to put that in your court that like that's what's happening right now. It found you because on some level you're ready to hear this and you're ready to do the work on money even if you've done the work on money before. Like I've done the work on money and I'm still doing the work on money because life is an upward spiral.
You're going to bump into stuff at different levels of your own awareness throughout your life. So even if you've done a lot of money mindset work, what showed up for you today? What are you being invited to look at? What are you being invited to improve or expand? And everyone might have their own answer but like hopefully you know what it is for you. If I can help you with this, book a breakthrough call with me.
Itsambersmith.com/breakthrough and we can chat about your money stories and what you want to be believing in creating in regards to money. Because I'm a business coach, I do a lot of money work and it's really important. And honestly like it's changed my life because it's not just about money. It's not about getting rich in one dimension.
It's about getting rich in many dimensions. And that's what it's really about. The dimension of presence with your kids. The dimension of traveling if you want to travel. Of creating a micro-economy if you want to create a micro-economy. Being more abundant. Being a better giver, right? More money enhances all of those things.
And so I'm going to make the case that no matter how much money you're making, thinking about how to use money and to grow money and to have a relationship with money that serves you is always an important endeavor and important relationship to nurture. So that was a good one. Okay, thank you for listening as always. Thank you being an important part of my community here on the podcast. I appreciate you. I'll see you next time. Bye.
