358: Breaking Emotional Spending Cycles And Redefining Your Money Story With Shang Saavedra
The Clever Girls Know Podcast
Bola Sokunbi
4.8 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Shang Saavedra @savemycents is the founder and CEO of Save My Cents, a personal finance education platform that helps Americans learn how to grow their financial wealth by addressing mental health. Shang finished saving for her retirement by the age of 31, and is America's leading expert on retirement.
Her insights have been published by Business Insider, CNBC, Forbes, Fox Business, USA Today, Time / NextAdvisor, Nasdaq, The New York Post, Kiplinger, and she has been named by Time / NextAdvisor as one of The 25 Most Influential New Voices of Money.
Her book, Wealth Is a Mindset, released January 2025 with Third State Books.
WHAT SHANG DISCUSSED:
- The importance of addressing emotions in financial decision-making.
- How early experiences, such as childhood memories of scarcity or privilege, shape adult money habits.
- The spending cycles and common emotional triggers that lead to unhealthy financial behaviors.
- Practical strategies for replacing emotional spending with healthier habits.
- Why many people overlook the emotional aspect of money and focus solely on numbers and logic.
- Steps listeners can take to start rewriting their money story today.
AND SO MUCH MORE
HOW TO KEEP TO UP WITH SHANG:
- Website: https://savemycents.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/savemycents/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@savemycents
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shangsaavedra/
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216282934-wealth-is-a-mindset
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Mindset-Change-Your-Money/dp/B0D94QCZL6/
- Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wealth-is-a-mindset/21633491
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. This is Bola Shokunbi. I'm the founder and CEO of Clever Girl Finance. |
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| 1:13.5 | today's episode. Hi, Shung. Hi, Bola. How are you? I'm doing great. Welcome to the Clever |
| 1:21.2 | Girls Know podcast. I'm so excited to have you here. You're going to be talking to us about how |
| 1:25.8 | wealth is a mindset and how to break emotional |
| 1:28.7 | spending cycles. And I think this is such a good topic because I think many people struggle |
| 1:33.5 | with spending cycles depending on where you are in your life, what's going on with your |
| 1:37.5 | emotions. I'm really excited to have you here to cover this topic with us. And before we |
| 1:42.5 | dive in, please tell everyone who you are and what you do. |
| 1:46.5 | Of course. My name is Sean Savedra. I run the company Save My Sense, which you can find |
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