Financial mistakes happen, but some of them are more catastrophic than others.

Today, bestselling author and financial expert Nicole Lapin is sharing some of the biggest financial mistakes she's made, including the one that literally, quite literally, cost her everything.

So you can avoid them too.

A single disaster can wipe everything out if you're not thinking ahead financially. If I could go back in time,

Torrey, I would have just walked through my house, walked through my office, and documented everything.

Nicole Lapin is the host of the daily personal finance podcast called Money Rehab and is a New York

Times bestselling author. She has written several books on personal finance, including her most

recent book,

The Money School, 12 simple lessons to master financial markets and investing. The best antidote to shame is truth. And to be really, really honest, and like look at those numbers, finally,

because they're not as bad as you probably think. This is a powerful conversation about learning

from your mistakes,

prepping for the unexpected, un-austraging yourself from burying your head in the sand,

and giving yourself grace when life does not go according to plan. So anytime somebody's like,

how do I create millionaire kids? I'm like, well, how are you with money? Are you hoarding? Are you

spending like crazy? Are you hiding purchases?

Like, they're watching everything that you're doing. Let's get into it.

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