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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

235. Everyone Needs A Prenup & Other Money Mistakes: A Conversation with Dr. Bonnie Koo

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Education, Philosophy, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Marriage and money. Opinions on these two topics certainly run the gamut. But whether you’re currently married, planning to get married, or marriage is the furthest thing from your mind, women’s relationship to money can be a tricky thing to unpack. And there’s good reason for this: the patriarchy has had its hands in women’s relationship to money since humans have roamed the earth.

So, how do we begin to understand some of the thoughts we’ve long held when it comes to money, and shift them if we want to? Tune in to this week’s episode as board-certified dermatologist and wealth coach Dr. Bonnie Koo and I take a look at prenups, the twofold reason women tend to make less money than men, the importance of contracts in marriage and money, and more.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:27.0

All right, Mike Chickens.

0:28.9

This is like the week of Money Talk.

0:30.9

I did an interview with the Pursuing Her Purpose Podcast I think it's called

0:37.2

all about money mindset and today we are talking with one of my favorite money coaches Bonnie Coo MD also a graduate of the

0:46.7

Advanced Services Coaching. She is a wealth coach, a physician, soon to be a

0:51.6

master coach,

0:52.9

and the founder of Wealthy Mom MD.

0:55.0

Her mission is to teach and empower women

0:57.4

with a cognitive tools to create wealth.

1:00.3

She is a CEO and a thought leader

1:02.0

on the topic of wealth for women, and she has a book out called Defining Wealth for Women and that is what we are going to talk about. I love the subtitle to this book. First of all you specify that it's a noun which I find very helpful. I like to know my book titles and then the subtitle is peace, purpose and plenty of cash.

1:19.0

So can you like start us off by just telling us kind of how you came to write the book like how did this become

1:25.9

your topic and then what led you to want to write the book about it?

1:29.6

Yeah so I think you just wrote a book so you know it's a I have not written a book I have only signed a book contract so the hard part is like still to come.

1:38.8

Yeah, so I actually had the idea to write a book when I was just starting out my business and it would have been a very different book.

1:45.3

It was going to be like a female, like a woman's handbook of money so it's going to have a lot of how to do things and specific things like if you're a single mom and

1:55.6

pre nups and things like that which people don't talk about in general. In fact, I find that if you bring up a pre nup,

2:00.8

people usually bash you and say you're just thinking your marriage is going to end even though the

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