Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. All right, everyone, welcome back to the show. Today we are going to do a topic

that is something that makes me cringe from the inside out, makes me want to throw up a little bit

because we're talking about money and money literacy.

And I know that if you're like me, that might make you deeply uncomfortable, which is why we have a very good guest on today, Nicole Lapin, who is the host of money rehab and somebody

who knows the life of living paycheck to paycheck and now teaches, lives, breathes giving that financial illiverty to

somebody to other people, especially women, which I think is really cool. So thank you so much

for being here, Nicole. Thank you so much for having me. So how did, like, tell me your story.

How did you get into being into money? Because that sounds like the worst. If I'm honest,

I don't even like to think about. If I get an invoice in the mail, I like get, I break out into

sweat. It's like I don't like the subject. I know it's important. I know it's like both the

giver of my stress and the thing I avoid the most. So I want to know how did you face something that is oftentimes so

stressful head on into the point that you now talk about this all the time? Well, we have to

reframe that into being the source of power because that's what it really is. Money is amazing.

And I didn't always think that way. I grew up in an immigrant family, super broken home,

like just used cash, never talked about money, didn't have the Wall Street Journal on the kitchen counter.

My boyfriend in college said he wanted to be a hedge fund manager. I thought he wanted to be in gardening.

So when I tell you like, I know, I know these feelings. I was that

girl. I didn't open my credit reports. I didn't open my taxes. Like, I was completely clueless.

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