432 - The REAL Reason You’re Struggling with Money with Lewis Howes

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Feeling stuck in your finances? Tired of living paycheck to paycheck? In this powerful conversation, Lewis Howes breaks down the exact mindset shifts and daily habits you need to create financial freedom—no matter where you're starting from.

@LewisHowes, New York Times best-selling author, keynote speaker, industry-leading show host, and former pro-athlete, is this week’s guest on the show! Lewis’ new book, Make Money Easy is available at Make Money Easy Follow Lewis on Instagram and subscribe to his podcasts “The School of Greatness” and “The Daily Motivation Show”.

WHAT’S COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

00:51 - The #1 money mistake keeping people stuck

3:54 - How to start from nothing

8:25 - Lewis’s most embarrassing money mistakes

13:03 - The $120k crypto investment that went all wrong

15:28 - Dark secret about “angel investing” no one tells you

17:05 - 3 keys to change your relationship with money

23:50 - How to discover your money mission

29:16 - 2 money habits of the rich and successful

30:19 - How to be generous when you have nothing to give

35:28 - The magnetic habit

35:57 - Shocking insight into Lewis’s personal finances

39:40 - Money as energy

40:36 - The biggest money lie to STOP believing now

42:18 - Ignore this terrible advice!

44:20 - The hidden costs of success

46:20 - 3 big fears holding you back

48:16 - The gap between knowing and doing

55:10 - #1 action to change your money for the better

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0:00.0	Something broke inside of me. I go, what? It felt like fake money.
0:03.6	I used to steal almost every day for about a year and a half.
0:06.3	I think I invested something like 120 grand in some crypto thing and lost it all.
0:11.7	The more I give, the more I earn, whether this year or the next year, it always comes back.
0:15.9	You know, money is an energy, and I want to feel good with my money.
0:19.2	Most people struggle with money. All of us do. It doesn't
0:25.2	matter who you are, where you come from, education level. None of that matters. We all do.
0:31.5	The fact that three and four Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, and that also is not
0:36.9	dependent on your income because whether
0:38.7	people are over six figures or very, very little, still same cycle. So many people don't have any
0:45.3	savings and they feel so stuck. You say it doesn't have to be this hard. What do you think is the
0:50.3	biggest financial mistake that's keeping people stuck.
0:59.3	Yeah. Biggest, it kind of depends on where each person's at, I think, financially. But I would say understanding their money personality style. People are not clear on what their unique style is.
1:06.2	They have a style. They act in accordance based on their beliefs, their behaviors match those beliefs,
1:12.9	but they're not sure why they think and feel that way around money.
1:16.8	And when you can start to analyze and remember and recall your money story, all the different
1:22.0	things that happened growing up, the things we saw our parents do around money, did they fight,
1:26.5	did they love each other? Was it,
1:28.0	did it flow? Did it feel scarce? Did it feel abundant? When we start to reflect on our money story
1:33.5	and analyze our money wounds, that's when I think we can just have a better sense of why we show up
1:40.2	the way we do. And when we have that wisdom and that knowledge, then we have better
1:44.4	information on how to change our money style so that it works in our favor and not against us.
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