Hey this is Leo for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about the

psychology of money with the deep root of all your money problems. I haven't spoken to you much about

I haven't spoken to you much about my dad, but the story of my dad was very

instructive for me and understanding and shaping my relationship towards money.

My dad is a very interesting character and I don't have time to go into all the details of it but in a nutshell all my childhood and basically through my teens until I became an adult

the situation in my family with money was that my dad was the

main breadwinner and he was always off scheming and coming up with different business ideas.

He was very entrepreneurial.

And that sounds great, right?

Except the problem was, is that every time he came up with some new endeavor for how to make money

it would start off sort of promising and good and then it would collapse

and so then he would collapse and so then he was sort of a new endeavor and then it would collapse and a new endeavor and that one would collapse and every single time it collapsed and this happened over the course of 20 or 30 years, basically my entire life.

And I grew up in this situation.

And so although we were never poor, we were actually sort of like upper middle class, but

we had this sort of sign wave if you plotted our money situation over time it would be a

sign wave some moments it was a lot of money coming in and other moments we had so

little money that our electricity was turned off and we would have to

light candles in the house because we had no lighting or air conditioning. So that was interesting and

that whole situation ultimately led to the destruction of my entire family like literally that destroyed

my entire family.

And all of that came about because my dad basically was not conscious enough to recognize

the inner game of money and the psychological neurotic

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