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Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips

Wealth Begins in Your Mind: Rewiring Your Money Mindset | Shang Saavedra (EP20)

Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips

Diane Boden

Parenting, Leisure, Kids & Family, How To, Home & Garden, Education

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This podcast is part of the Clear Intentions series of the show.

Is your mindset helping or hurting your financial future? In this episode, I spoke with the author of Wealth is a Mindset, Shang Saavedra, to explore the emotional and psychological side of personal finance. Shang shares her journey as an "accidental author" and reveals how financial freedom is about more than budgets—it’s about understanding yourself, past traumas, and ingrained habits. We discuss the impact of social media on spending, the importance of financial conversations in relationships, and how parents can set their children up for success. This conversation offers a fresh perspective on money, mindset, and lasting financial well-being.


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About Shang |

Shang Saavedra is the Founder and CEO of Save My Cents, an influential personal-finance website and social-media platform. Saavedra teaches readers the key habits and behaviors needed to become less fearful of money and live life with joy. Saavedra was named one of the "25 Most Influential New Voices of Money" by TIME/NextAdvisor in 2022 and is an Expert Reviewer and Contributor at CNET Money. She received her bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard and her MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Saavedra and her husband finished saving for their retirement by the age of 31 and now live a work-optional life in Southern California with their two boys and two cats.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:08.9

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1:03.8

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1:08.4

conversation because it's very easy for couples to start

1:11.7

attacking each other for doing something very different without understanding, oh, the reason why

1:17.7

my significant other acts this way is because they're thinking about this and maybe it's something

1:22.3

that I haven't thought about. And it started doing a social media diet, started I'm following

1:26.8

a bunch of influences that I didn't need to be following. And maybe for some of my friends who just had a lot of disposable income, I kind of muted them. Like, I like them, but I don't need to see every meal that they ate out on. Instant improvement in my mood. Like, I just wasn't like being bombarded every day with reminders of what I wasn't doing.

1:44.6

And that gave my mind the space to actually focus on, okay, what is it that you really want?

1:49.8

So much of what we believe and think about money actually settled pretty much like in our childhood.

1:55.7

And if we haven't gone back and revisited childhood and asked the tough questions of like, well, why is it affecting me today?

2:01.3

What am I doing about it? We end up going autopilot, just like letting our emotions rule our decision

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