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This is Optimal Finance daily episode 693.

You are not your money by Kristen Wong of the Wild Wong.com.

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You are not your money by Kristen Wong of the Wild Wong.com

A few years ago I lost a job and found myself stress shopping in the middle of the afternoon in the handbag section at

Marshals. Next to me a woman pulled out a name-brand bag with a security tag on it.

I couldn't help but notice her tailored top, her pencil skirt, her lubeton's.

Hair so shiny she could have been in a pantine commercial.

I shifted in my flip-flops and t-shirt and wondered where my life was going.

Yeah, I get that, a friend said, when I told her how I felt, jobless, aimless, worthless.

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