First I want to say a big hello and offer a warm welcome to everyone from Emma Chamberlain's

podcast who is now part of the Afford Anything Community. Welcome! I had an amazing conversation

with Emma on her podcast for those of you who haven't heard it go listen to the

Emma Chamberlain podcast she is so inspiring and so much fun and we had a brilliant

discussion about money, about some of the internalized messages that we are led to believe, including money negativity.

We're taught that money is the root of all evil. We're taught to be ashamed of having money. We're taught that money is the root of all evil. We're taught that rich people are

greedy. We often internalize these messages and then we very subtly self-sabotage

ourselves. Because in a society that gives us conflicting views about money, in a society

that often reduces money to either something to be worshipped, i.e. the people on Instagram with the

Lamborghinis and the flashy lifestyles, or something to be disparaged, i.e. the pendulum swing that states that not only does money, quote unquote, not

matter, but that those who have it are greedy, like the cartoonish versions of Montgomery

Burns and Scrooge McDuck that we see in the media, right,

Ebenees are Scrooge. You know, we see money simultaneously glorified and

vilified. Those are between the Lamborghinisies and the Ebenezer Scrooge.

Those are the two stories about money that we are told

through most of the media that we consume.

Money is either something to be idolized or something to be feared. It is rare

that we ever encounter media that gives us a healthy relationship with money that says we encourage you and empower you to be

wealthy, not for the sake of flashing Lamborghini photos on Instagram,

but rather for the sake of expressing your values,

your best life, your priorities through this medium for the sake of living in the way that you want to live

and having that lifestyle be enabled by the freedom, the choice that money allows you.

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