Only 69% Of People Have More Than $1000 Savings: The Freemans
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
I was taught that I was supposed to save as much as I could and that brought me security. Hence why we talk about what is your meaning of money as a couple, as a couple, but even as an individual inside of your relationship. Is it for security? Is it for status as a for enjoyment or control, and for me, I went to my engineering job, I earned a salary and it was all about stockpiling. It was about making that savings account as big as possible because it brought me a sense of security and can I say that I had a lot of enjoyment around money? No, not really at all. And when I went to purchase by invest into things like clothes or shoes, it was very difficult for me to actually kind of let go actually as I think about this. Contributing and giving to other people was very difficult because now with my mindset stockpiling for security, I always saw items from myself or giving to others as reducing what I had.
Questions asked in this interview
What does money really mean to you?
Are you thinking too short term about money and what you want to experience?
In this episode you will learn:
Setting up money buckets
How to shift your mindset around money to attract more.
Quotes:
"Saving and enjoying money happen at the same time!"
Resources:
Connect more with The Freemans at www.MeetTheFreemans.com and follow them on instagram: @meet_thefreemans
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Tune in to hear inspiring and unique interviews with couples around the world |
| 0:08.5 | and hear how they create a thriving relationship in business, health, spirituality, |
| 0:14.7 | communication, intimacy, family, and more. |
| 0:18.9 | We are your hosts, The Freemans, authors of the book The New Power Couple, |
| 0:23.5 | speakers and marriage mentors. Let's get started so you can fulfill on your dreams as a couple. |
| 0:36.5 | What we found out on Friday is that 69% of people have less than $1,000 saved. |
| 0:44.3 | And now we don't mean for this to sound like a guy co-commercial with some statistic. |
| 0:48.3 | That really is important to pay attention to that. |
| 0:51.3 | And I remember the first time I started to have someone talk to me about |
| 0:55.4 | my finances because my relationship to money was, all right, how much do I have to pay my bills? |
| 1:01.7 | And then how much after that can I maybe have some spending money or save that for a vacation? |
| 1:07.9 | It wasn't in my programming or my mindset to be thinking long term. |
| 1:11.6 | Aaron, did you grow up really thinking about savings? |
| 1:15.6 | What was the lesson you were taught? |
| 1:18.6 | You know, for me, actually, funny you say that it was totally about saving. |
| 1:22.6 | That was my main goal. |
| 1:23.6 | I was taught that I was supposed to save as much as I could and that brought me security. |
| 1:28.3 | Hence, while we talk about what is your meaning of money as a couple, not as a couple, but even as an individual inside of your relationship. |
| 1:36.3 | Is it for security? Is it for status? Is it for enjoyment or control? |
| 1:43.3 | And for me, I went to my engineering job I |
| 1:46.4 | earned a salary and it was all about stockpiling it was about making that |
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