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For women who know they are meant for more and have waited far too long

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Hi guys, welcome back to the show. I am really excited for today's episode we're going to be talking all about money so have you ever felt a weird energy around money like maybe you have

felt like there wasn't enough of it or you just weren't meant to earn a lot of it

or maybe you've earned it and you've lost it you're not able to keep it or save it or

maybe you feel like once you get money it might run out. I know I certainly have. We all have a money story, right?

So for me, I grew up without money. My dad was a total deadbeat, he was a drug addict. He sold drugs. He left my mom when my brother

and I were six and eight. And she had to raise us on her own. He didn't give any child support.

She worked two jobs and she barely made ends meet.

I will never forget the day my mom told me that she used to carry the same light bulb from

room to room until she got paid because she couldn't afford to buy a new one. And that story broke my heart.

I remember one time on Christmas Eve,

Con Ed called the house.

They were threatening to shut the lights off.

There was one day that I came home

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