Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show,

and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about you fending off this little rascal we call money.

No, I'm just kidding.

We love money here, but I obsess about it because it might feel like it controls you,

and we need to take back the control.

Fight the man, the money, so to speak.

Don't fight it, hug it.

Get aligned with it.

That's what I want to talk about today.

The magic is by giving every dollar a job, but exactly what are we dealing with? Really exactly

what are we dealing with? We're dealing with people that see money as something that controls their

lives. April of this year, there was a survey that came out.

58% of Americans, more than half,

said they feel like money controls them.

Not just it stresses them out a little bit,

they worry about it, which we know is ubiquitous

across all incomes, demographics, everything,

but that it controls them.

And when something controls you, it means you're kind of acknowledging you lack some power.

Is there anything worse than feeling powerless where you don't have control of a situation where, I mean, the worst you can think of is, I mean, the worst I can think of

is one of your kids going through something tough, maybe something like a medical emergency,

some kind of just where you're seeing them and you really are, you're seeing them suffer,

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