357: Flipping the Script on Scarcity
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How to Overcome a Scarcity Mindset and Embrace Abundance
In this episode of the School of Self-Image, host Tonya Leigh explores the concept of scarcity and how it affects our mindset and beliefs about money. She shares a story about a woman who had millions of dollars but still lived in fear of running out of money. Tonya also recalls her own experience in Costa Rica, where she encountered a village that taught her the true meaning of abundance. She emphasizes that abundance is not determined by external factors like wealth or possessions, but rather by our belief in enoughness. Tonya encourages listeners to flip the script on scarcity and embrace the feeling of abundance by believing in themselves and recognizing that there is enough for everyone.
Episode Details:
01:21 Abundance in a Costa Rican village.
06:24 Money scripts and subconscious beliefs.
10:23 Rewriting the money script.
14:21 Abundance and spending habits.
18:14 Creating a wealthy self-image.
22:32 Challenge your own thoughts.
26:36 The ingredients of a charmed life.
Quotes:
"I can earn money and it's safe to be generous."
"There are many, many, many different forms of wealth, and what good is a bunch of money if your relationships are terrible?"
"But what I know to be true, the more I do this work, the wealthier I become."
"The moment you say things like, I can't afford it, you are perpetuating a scarcity mindset."
"One, that your nine-year-old self will raise a flute to one day and say, well done, darling."
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| 0:00.0 | Do you find yourself living in scarcity, being worried about money, being worried that |
| 0:07.8 | there's not enough, being worried that you will not be okay? |
| 0:13.3 | If so, my friends, today's episode is for you because we are flipping the script on |
| 0:19.7 | scarcity. |
| 0:20.9 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to the School of Self-Image, where personal development meets style. |
| 0:30.7 | Here's your hostess, master life coach, Tanya Lee. |
| 0:34.9 | Hello, my dear friends. |
| 0:37.2 | I will never forget, years ago, coaching a woman who revealed to me that she had almost |
| 0:42.8 | $10 million in the bank, and guess what her biggest, biggest fear was. |
| 0:49.4 | Running out of money, she lived in scarcity. |
| 0:55.4 | That same year, I went to Costa Rica, and I took a lot of toys and shoes for the kids |
| 1:04.4 | that I was told would be in a village close to where we were staying, who were in need. |
| 1:10.3 | And I'll never forget going into this little village and the amount of joy, the amount |
| 1:16.4 | of love, the abundant feeling that those people gave to me. |
| 1:21.7 | I was the one going there hoping to help them, and they helped me more than I could ever |
| 1:26.6 | help them because they showed me something so, so, so important. |
| 1:31.8 | Abundance is a feeling created by the script that you have written yourself. |
| 1:38.8 | It has nothing to do with how much money you have in the bank. |
| 1:43.2 | It has nothing to do with the kind of car you drive, or the clothes you wear, or the |
| 1:48.6 | places you go, or the job that you have. |
| 1:53.0 | It is a feeling that almost every human that I've ever met is seeking, and it is the feeling |
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