Reflecting & The Truth About Student Loans They Never Told Us

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Is your inner critic louder than your inner nurturer when you think about past money mistakes? I’ve wrestled with reflection that felt like punishment instead of growth. This conversation on student loan debt, financial shame, and reclaiming self-authority explores how we begin to shift toward healing. Mental Health isn’t separate from money. And when we face our past with compassion, we start living with more financial clarity and emotional strength. Workshops & Programs: BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE WITH NIKKI:⁠ https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries⁠ 30 DAYS TO PEACE:⁠https://EmotionalBadass.com/peace⁠ NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops⁠ EMOTIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING: ⁠https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/strength⁠ FREE MORNING ROUTINE PDF:⁠ ⁠⁠https://EmotionalBadass.com/morning⁠ Services & Content: WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1 :⁠ https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching⁠ PATREON: ⁠https://Patreon.com/emotionalbadass⁠ WEEKLY NEWSLETTER:⁠ https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter⁠ PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK:⁠ ⁠⁠https://getpatternscapes.com⁠ GUIDED MEDITATIONS: ⁠https://shop.emotionalbadass.com/collections/meditations-and-mantras⁠ Follow us: YT:⁠ https://www.youtube.com.com/emotionalbadass/⁠ IG:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass/⁠ FB:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass⁠ TIKTOK:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the show. This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist. And'm excited because this is the very first time in all the years that we have been doing the show since 2018, that we are doing a throwback episode.
0:39.5	We are re-releasing the episode I did years ago about student loan debt. Student loan debt is in the
0:47.5	news again as the government is doing a big push to collect after everything that was done to pause or delay student loans through
0:56.9	COVID. It's now 2025. Before COVID, I released an episode about my own student loan debt journey.
1:06.4	Now, if you are new to me or new to the show, I want you to know that the reasons that I share my
1:12.1	story is because humans have been learning from story since the beginning of time. And in
1:18.2	our most recent modern history, what I think has shifted is we have learned from science
1:24.1	and study and academia instead of sitting around the fire sharing wisdom amongst our loved
1:32.2	ones. I think we need both of those things, not one or the other. My podcast, my work, I have a
1:40.6	higher education, I have a master's degree, But I very much value and see that what's
1:45.6	missing in the mental health conversation is real connection and real human to human sharing of
1:52.7	how we grow wisdom, the mistakes that we make all along the way. All of us are born little bitty
2:00.3	babies, right? We are going to make so
2:03.2	many mistakes. With this student loan conversation in the news again, I thought it was time to have
2:10.0	our very first throwback episode, our very first re-release every single week since 2018. We have put out brand new content. This is the first time we're
2:21.5	re-releasing. I want you to know that if you're listening to me, you are a deep person. There is
2:28.0	absolutely no doubt. So when you listen, it's not just about listening to the topic at hand.
2:35.8	In today's episode, the offering I have for you is to be able to look back and reflect with me. It's been quite the
2:42.0	experience to do this podcast and to see myself grow year after year after year. What I was
2:49.6	uncomfortable with earlier, what I'm now more comfortable with,
2:52.6	just by putting myself in front of a camera and in front of a microphone and giving myself
2:57.3	permission to be a beginner as a podcaster, be a beginner as an introvert putting herself out
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