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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

On this week's episode, we'll feature some of our favorite clips from interviews we've done with financial planners,

advisors, and retirement researchers over the past year. In next week's episode, we'll include some of our

favorite excerpts from our interviews with portfolio managers and other

investment specialists.

Over the past year, we had a number of conversations about financial wellness and the best way to find it.

Author and Financial Coach Tiffany Aliche discussed how financial shame can prevent people from

finding the solutions to their money problems and how her own

financial journey helps her empathize with other struggles.

One of the things I learned from making so many financial mistakes, and I think for all the

financial professionals that are listening, is that you know that your clients come to you

riddled with shame. And you know that shame shield solutions.

You know, it is very hard to open that bank account, start paying down debt, you know, start budgeting.

If you can't even open up the envelopes that are coming in the mail, the pink and the red ones to say like, you're late or you're behind. And I know for me, after I made all these

financial mistakes, I didn't want to tell my parents. I didn't want to tell my friends.

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