Best of 2023: Manisha Thakor | Money Zen: The Secret to Finding Your Enough
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the latest episode of The Unmistakable Creative Podcast titled 'Money Zen: The Secret to Finding Your Enough', we are joined by Manisha Thakor, a seasoned financial expert and the Founder of MoneyZen LLC. With over 25 years of experience in the financial industry, Manisha offers a fresh perspective on our relationship with money and success.
Drawing from her book 'MoneyZen', Manisha explores the personal, cultural, and societal forces that often lead us to the false belief that we can never have, do, or be enough. She shares her journey of overcoming toxic behaviors around work, money, and prestige that once threatened her relationships, health, and career.
In our conversation, Manisha introduces 'MoneyZen' - her joy-based approach to living a life rich in both financial health and emotional wealth. She shares inspiring stories of individuals from all walks of life, their struggles with the 'Never Enough' syndrome, and their path to finding their 'enough'.
Through Manisha's insights, listeners will learn how to break free from the hamster wheel of constant striving and start living a life fueled by authentic joy, connection, and meaning.
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like there's a very black and white kind of narrative around more versus enough. |
| 0:10.0 | The phrase I like to use and the way I've come to think about this question you're |
| 0:17.4 | posing is why don't we just give ourselves permission to achieve less. The notion behind this is there's stuff in life |
| 0:28.0 | that's important to us. There's stuff in life we have to do just to keep our life going but most of us are running around so |
| 0:36.4 | busy that we're not living the one way that we can address this issue is to let go of these flawed self-worth |
| 0:47.6 | anchors and replace them with an authentic definition of how we want to value our self-worth. I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built driving businesses, written |
| 1:13.8 | best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out |
| 1:17.5 | our 500 episode archive at unmistakable creative.com. Creative. |
| 1:26.0 | Munisha, welcome back to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:28.0 | Srani, it's great to get to talk to you again. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you back here. You and I had probably one of those conversations that I feel like I have quoted and revisited hundreds of times over the past couple of years. You have a new book out called Money Zen, which we will get into, but I wanted to start by asking you, |
| 1:47.6 | what did your parents do for work and how did that end up shaping and influencing where you've ended up with your life and career? |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, so my dad was born in India in the and wound his way into business and ultimately became the CEO of a Fortune 500 company |
| 2:18.6 | and not at the lower end of that. |
| 2:22.0 | So his whole career has been in finance |
| 2:24.9 | and his biggest, like my biggest money career memory |
| 2:30.5 | with my dad, he and I still laugh about it as I was 11 years old and he |
| 2:35.2 | sat me down with his financial calculator HP12c and showed me how if I |
| 2:42.1 | compounded my babysitting money out and my investments grew at six, seven percent after |
| 2:48.0 | inflation, how much money I'd have at age 65. |
| 2:51.6 | And when I saw those numbers, I like I'm all into this this money stop. |
| 2:57.2 | My mom has been a teacher all her life and I'm really proud of her. |
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