Episode 410: The Emotional Side of Money & Healing Financial Trauma with Aja Evans
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Journey to Launch Podcast, I am joined by Aja Evans, a licensed mental health counselor, financial therapist and author of Feel Good Finance. Aja discusses her financial awakening in her 20s, which led her to explore and merge her interests in mental health and financial well-being. She highlights the importance of addressing money-related emotions and breaking down barriers to achieve financial independence. We explore topics such as financial infidelity, the challenges of entrepreneurship, the role of cultural and generational influences in shaping financial behaviors plus much more.
In this conversation, Aja shares:
- Her transition from general mental health counseling to focusing on the intersection of emotions and money.
- Why resolving emotional patterns tied to money is key to making better financial decisions and building confidence.
- Practical advice on improving self-worth, creating healthy money habits, and fostering open communication about finances, especially in relationships and families.
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| 0:00.0 | It's not just about stability and security, but it's also for enjoyment. |
| 0:05.7 | Like, you should enjoy your money, too. |
| 0:07.4 | But a lot of times, there are barriers that we don't realize that are coming up for people. |
| 0:11.6 | So taking the time to really sit and take stock of what's the emotion coming up for me |
| 0:16.9 | and what am I not enjoying about my life that I want to, but something is preventing me from doing |
| 0:22.3 | that. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufron, as a money expert who walks |
| 0:31.4 | her talk. |
| 0:32.3 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and and build real well join her on the journey to launch |
| 0:41.1 | to financial freedom in five four three two one hey hey journeyers i just want to let you know before the time passes that you can still |
| 0:57.6 | enroll in the map your path to financial independence six-week group coaching program that I have |
| 1:04.8 | going on right now. I'm enrolling new students and we want to keep this segment small. I always like to keep these group coaching programs small so that I can work really closely |
| 1:15.4 | with everyone who joins. |
| 1:17.2 | But in case you haven't realized or you haven't been on my email list, you haven't been |
| 1:21.0 | opening emails, I announced that I was running another session of this program. |
| 1:26.6 | The last time I ran this was in October, November of last year, |
| 1:31.5 | and it went so amazing. And so I'm running it again. And let me just give you a breakdown of what |
| 1:36.2 | this program is. Essentially, if you have been listening to this podcast, if you have read my book, |
| 1:42.9 | maybe you picked up my book and you haven't read it yet, |
| 1:45.1 | or you've been just really getting into what your life could be like, what it feel like, |
| 1:51.0 | the idea of financial independence intrigues you, but you still feel stuck. You need guidance |
| 1:57.1 | to help you get a plan in place. Then this program is for you. This program includes my |
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