Jen Smith: "Money Habits: Habits That are Costing You and Habits That Can Save You Money"

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Are your money habits helping or holding you back? In this session finance expert Jen Smith reveals why managing your finances doesn’t have to feel like calculus—and how small, sustainable habits can make a big difference. Discover the surprising connection between mindset and money, the real reasons behind impulse spending, and why “try before you buy” might be your new favorite rule. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, guilty, or just plain tired of complicated budgeting advice, this session will help you find out what habits are costing you, which ones can set you free, and make you ready to take simple steps toward increased financial confidence. FREEBIE for all: EASIER THAN TAKEOUT Emergency Meals download Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. Jen and her husband paid off $78,000 of debt in 2 years and bought a house on a combined income of less than $90K. Jen didn’t want to change her spending to pay off debt and opted for side hustles instead. She quickly took on so many that she contracted shingles due to stress. FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now on to
0:33.9	our special session.
0:43.6	Music Now on to our special session. Jen Smith, a warm welcome to the Moore for Mom's Conference.
0:47.2	I'm so happy to have you here.
0:49.4	Oh, thank you so much for having me.
0:51.8	You're here today because I feel like managing our money well,
0:56.8	feels like you have to have this calculus level ability and not just the numbers,
1:02.2	but also there's so many moving parts to it. There's also so many options and ways to
1:07.8	budget, save, invest, and even spend your money.
1:12.3	Today, we're going to go a little bit of a different route, but still in ways that influence
1:17.6	all those things.
1:18.5	And we're going to be talking about money habits.
1:21.7	And the idea that there even is such a thing as money habits.
1:25.3	And that's actually where I would like to start.
1:28.7	Is there such a thing? And if so, that's actually where I would like to start. Is there such a thing?
1:35.6	And if so, what is it? And how is this working in our everyday lives? Yeah, absolutely, there are money habits. And I think I try to compare our money habits kind of to what we think of as like health habits.
1:45.8	For women in general, we're much more familiar with like health habits than we are money habits. But it's just,
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