Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet and woman who loves to talk about money.

And I'm also someone who loves to talk about rethinking the way we do a lot of our day-to-day tasks and think about our own lives.

I've dedicated much space on this

channel and on this podcast to kind of debunking a lot of the sort of self-styled self-help

gurus who help you, quote unquote, live better, usually by following the exact way they do

things. Now it could be a matter of buying certain stuff,

often their own products, or it could be about getting up at 5 o'clock

in the morning and taking a cold shower before starting your day and not

looking at any device until like noon.

As someone who's never been a morning person doesn't like cold showers and

does start most days by scrolling Twitter on my phone. I obviously don't vibe with that.

But in general, I've always felt that it was less about finding a particular

guru who could direct you and more about becoming more present and content with

the person that you already are.

We do in life always want to be evolving and we've spoken before on the channel

about how it's most effective to compare yourself to your former self rather than to any other person.

But it's also important to remember that we don't always need to be changing.

We don't need to be constantly optimizing our own lives, often to the end of just having more hours in the day to work and be productive.

Sometimes it's okay to just be radically content, which just happens to be the name of the book

that my guest today released this April.

My guest today is someone I also had the pleasure of working with many moons and frankly

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