It took me four years for to say out loud the reason I spend money is because I do not like the way I look.

No one wants to say that out loud but it was until I could recognize it, address it, and then change it did I start to see progress in my finances.

Hey it's Marie Forleo and welcome to another episode of the Marie Forleo Podcast and MarieTV, the place to be to create a business and life love and I'm so excited about today's show why because we're talking about one of my favorite topics, money and yes I know it's a touchy subject I know it can be really painful and really scary for a lot of us but this is how we learn and this is how we rise above in fact.

My guess today is an expert who's helped millions of people take back control over their financial lives.

Kumiko Love is the founder of the budget mob, a community of millions of women on a path to financial fulfillment.

An accredited financial counselor Kumiko has been featured everywhere including Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN, CBS, The Washington Post, and Real Simple.

For first book, My Money, My Way is Available Now.

Kumiko thank you so much for being here and congratulations on your book, very well done, it was fantastic.

Thank you.

So let's start with your journey.

I'm so curious, how did you go from being a divorced single mom who was eating dinner on the floor with your son and you had right over $77,000 in debt to being someone who runs a business teaching other people.

How to manage their money?

Well, it has been a journey, a very long journey.

I really started sharing that journey publicly in 2016 and ultimately throughout the last 10 years, this has really been a self discovery journey for me.

I kind of had to step away from this mindset of, oh my gosh, nothing is working to, you know what, I'm not failing at everything.

There are some areas where I am succeeding and was really kind of like a game of operation.

I was pulling things apart, I was digesting what was working, what wasn't working, learning more about myself.

You know, what type of learner I am, what clicks in my head.

I learned I'm a visual learner.

I am motivated by seeing things visually.

And that was in going through this self discovered the self discovery journey of learning more about myself is what ultimately led to me being successful with my money today.

And so were you working in finance at the time, like what was your understanding of money period?

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