Intentional Holiday Spending for Greater Joy with Bright Dickson

Live Happy Now

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The holiday shopping season is here, and for many people, that creates stress and anxiety. This week, host Paula Felps sits down with Bright Dickson, co-host of the Money and Mindset with Bright and Brian podcast, to talk about how we can change our approach to holiday spending for less stress and more joy. In this episode, you’ll learn: Some of the things to consider before you start buying presents this year. Why setting an intention about how you want to feel can help in your gift-buying decisions. The power of choosing experiences over gifts.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 495 of Live Happy Now.
0:09.5	With the holidays barreling toward us, the holiday shopping season is about to hit full speed,
0:14.5	and that can bring a lot of stress.
0:17.2	This week, I'm sitting down with Bright Dixon, who, along with Brian Ford, hosts the Money and Mindset
0:22.4	podcast. As a teacher and student of positive psychology, Bright brings a unique perspective to the way
0:28.2	holiday spending affects us. And in this conversation, we look at a few different ways to approach it.
0:33.9	Let's have a listen. Thank you for joining me on Live Happy Now. Thanks for having me, Paula. I'm so glad to be here.
0:40.3	I love your background. This is a very interesting combination for me. You have married positive
0:47.0	psychology with finances. Tell us first how that all came about. So when I finished the work with the Master Resilience Training Project, which is sort of what I used to do with Karen Ravich at the University of Pennsylvania, I needed a job.
1:05.3	I learned about this job at a bank and that they needed some help with leadership development and they wanted to
1:11.4	incorporate positive psychology into their teachings there. So I joined that and a few years later
1:19.3	this idea for the podcast came around. And that's where it really sort of all came together.
1:26.6	It was really exploring sort of what is this intersection of how we think about money, how we feel about money, and how we think and feel generally and how we think and feel about our lives.
1:39.7	And I hadn't necessarily thought of it directly like that before.
1:46.3	Of course, I'm like any other person.
1:48.3	I've got feelings about money.
1:49.9	I've got feelings about how I feel about money.
1:52.1	The feelings of the feelings of the feelings of the feelings have feelings, right?
1:54.9	We really just sort of dove into it organically.
1:58.7	And what we found was that there was so much to talk about around this
2:05.0	intersection of how you think and how you feel. And what we found is there are just endless ways
2:11.2	to explore this and think about it and apply it to your own life. So what is the thing that you
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