358: My Top 3 Money Mistakes (AKA Lessons)
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Lessons, not Mistakes: Transforming Your Relationship with Money
In this episode, Tonya Leigh discusses reframing money mistakes as money lessons. She shares three personal money lessons she has learned and how she has grown from them. The first lesson involves being scammed by a store in Aspen and realizing the importance of not making purchases out of pressure or scarcity. The second lesson involves selling stocks during the market downturn in 2020 and learning the importance of understanding investments and seeking expert advice. The third lesson involves hiring an interior designer and not thoroughly reading the contract, leading to unexpected costs and the importance of asking questions and understanding financial agreements. Leigh emphasizes the need to forgive oneself for past money mistakes and focus on designing a wealthy self-image. She also promotes her upcoming workshop, The Money Garden, where she will teach participants how to nurture and enjoy their financial garden.
Episode details:
00:55 Money struggles and self-image.
06:11 Living a rich life.
09:30 Stop beating yourself up.
16:08 The pressure to buy.
23:41 Learning from financial mistakes.
26:09 Ask questions about your money.
30:41 Money garden workshop rendezvous.
Quotes:
"What if there are no money mistakes, just money lessons?"
"But don't let someone pressure you into buying anything ever."
"Don't make decisions out of scarcity because it's just going to keep perpetuating scarcity."
"Because what I know is that mistake is really just a lesson."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever made a mistake with money? |
| 0:04.4 | And perhaps you're still beating yourself up for it. |
| 0:08.0 | Maybe you sold a house right before the market went up. |
| 0:11.5 | Maybe you sold some stock as the market was plunging and you lost a lot of money. |
| 0:17.6 | Maybe you made an investment, maybe you got ripped off. |
| 0:21.1 | But what I know is that if you're an adult, at some point you've made what some consider |
| 0:27.1 | a money mistake. |
| 0:29.1 | And in this episode, I want to offer a different way of looking at it. |
| 0:33.2 | What if there are no money mistakes, just money lessons? |
| 0:36.8 | I'm going to be sharing three of mine in this episode, so let's dive in. |
| 0:43.8 | Welcome to the School of Self-Image, where personal development meets style. |
| 0:48.2 | Here's your hostess, master life coach, Tanya Lee. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello my dear friends. |
| 0:55.3 | I am a little frustrated right now because I recorded this entire podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | And then I lost it. |
| 1:03.6 | I don't know where it went. |
| 1:06.8 | It's a mystery to me, but it was there and then it was gone. |
| 1:12.1 | And so even though I frustrated when things like this happen, I'm like, okay, there is |
| 1:16.6 | a reason that that happened. |
| 1:19.1 | And I meant to tell it in a different way. |
| 1:21.7 | I meant to say something that maybe I didn't say in the previous one and just trust that |
| 1:27.0 | the universe always has my back. |
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