97: Should You Feel Guilty for Having "Wealth?"
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Should you feel guilty for having more than others?
This isn't a new question, but it came up on my recent trip to Guatemala with Pencils of Promise, an organization that helps villages provide sustainable schools, clean water and sanitation. These are very remote and poor villages that lack many of the modern "comforts" we have here in the U.S.
So when this question came up again, it got my wheels turning. Should I feel guilty? My answer was no, but I quickly let my thoughts put doubt in my head. Should I feel bad about this? Once I was able to reframe these thoughts I stuck to my original answer and here's why.
Without excess wealth or having more than others, we can't help anyone else. We need those extra resources, connections etc. to do great things. The only time you should feel guilty is if you have excess wealth and you're not doing anything to create more of it. Or of course, if you're playing small… that doesn't serve anybody.
We've been gifted multiple opportunities so we can help others. My trip to Guatemala was proof of that. That's why I came home more excited and even more inspired to do more.
"Home represents opportunity."
I plan to use the excess leverage and opportunities I have to create more positive change in the world. And I can't wait for you to do the same and live up to your fullest potential, too.
In This Episode We Talk about:
- Whether or not you should feel guilty about having more than another
- The infiniteness of money and wealth
- Using excess leverage to create change
Resources:
Pencils of Promise
http://PencilsOfPromise.org
For more stories and tips on becoming unapologetically wealthy, follow me @Chriswharder on Instagram and check out fortheloveofmoney.com.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:08.6 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:16.5 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:21.2 | in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome back everybody to another amazing mini episode of For the Love of Money episodes that I like to call my two cents and today we're gonna address |
| 0:41.0 | the question of should you feel guilty when you have more than somebody else. |
| 0:46.3 | And actually we're going to address it in a big way. |
| 0:48.1 | We're going to talk about should you feel guilty when you have a lot more than somebody else. |
| 0:53.6 | You know, many of you are listening to this podcast |
| 0:56.0 | because you're pursuing big goals. |
| 0:58.1 | You're pursuing large amounts of wealth and success, |
| 1:01.2 | and you're trying to become unapologetic about it because once you do |
| 1:05.2 | then of course you're going to be able to attract them and go out there and get them that |
| 1:08.9 | much faster and I really had this question posed to me this week while I was in Guatemala. |
| 1:17.0 | Now a little backstory, Lori and I went to Guatemala this past week to check on some schools that we built with Pencils of Promise, such an amazing |
| 1:24.4 | organization, check them out. And while I was there, we're visiting all the different villages, |
| 1:30.7 | you know, very remote, very, very poor villages that are scattered around Guatemala. |
| 1:37.8 | And after visiting all the villages, we had kind of a free day, and had asked me they said are you going to |
| 1:44.4 | feel guilty as you fly home and land in Los Angeles and drive through Beverly |
| 1:50.5 | Hills to your beautiful home in Santa Monica, which for those of you who have been here in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills in the west side of LA, it's very, very affluent. |
| 2:02.0 | And I thought about the question for a second and I realized, |
| 2:05.0 | no, like I have zero guilt. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Harder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Harder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.