Lacy Garcia
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108 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Lacy Garcia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People say this to me all the time. They're like, I'll go look for a new advisor once I get my act together. Wait a second. Would you say, I'm not feeling well. I'm going to wait till I feel better and then I'm going to go to the bathroom.
Two thirds of all Americans today report that they feel like they're living paycheck to paycheck. And I was in a really dark and challenging place, both on a personal level, on a financial level. Instead of looking at where you're not, take a moment and acknowledge where you've come from, everything that you've accomplished.
That is gonna be what enables you to then figure out exactly where it is you wanna get to.
The number one thing is.
Ileana, it's wonderful to be here with you. If you had told me 15 years ago that I would be sitting here, having started TrustTheLaw.com and having had the experience that I have, I would never have believed you. But I think that both my professional, but really my life experience, if anybody who is listening right now has ever had their life really blow up in their face,
Somebody who was a type A planner. It wasn't quite a wake up overnight, but it felt that way where I was all of a sudden in this quarter life, call it midlife crisis, where all of a sudden my marriage was ending unexpectedly. A lot of things that I had thought were reality in my life were all of a sudden not what I had thought. And I was in a really dark and challenging place.
both on a personal level, on a financial level. And also at the time, my career was helping to propel me forward, but I had found myself, I was in financial services and here I am then actually acting as an advisor to other people, but then struggling financially. on a deeply personal level and not being able to get connected to the people that I needed.
So I felt like we all hear about imposter syndrome. I felt like an imposter. And at the moment, fast forward, it was five years later that I started Willow, but I hadn't realized that that experience that I was having, At the time, it felt so, I was so ashamed, couldn't believe I wouldn't have wanted to share it with anybody.
But frankly, I realized that actually so many, not just women, but so many people have been in similar circumstances and through that and struggling to figure out and get the answers and get connected to the right financial professional. And then wondering why is this so hard? I'm like, maybe I made some mistakes and maybe some things happened very differently, but I'm asking the right questions.
I'm trying to do the right things. Why is this so hard? Maybe it's not me, actually. Maybe that there's a different way And maybe there should be a different path than feeling like you have to be judged or you have to have your act together when you're going and trying to put a financial plan together.
In fact, actually, you should be connecting with somebody who's coming and helping you and helping you to identify those areas that make you feel really stuck or scared or confused.
Two-thirds of all Americans today report that they feel like they're living paycheck to paycheck. And when you look at people who are earning $100,000, $200,000 and more, obviously we're dealing with the high cost of living, inflation, all these uncertain markets, all these things, right? And coming out of COVID and just everybody is feeling it.
I feel in many ways, so many people, and I'm sitting here speaking as somebody who's technically a zennial, I'm in that Gen X, the millennial, I sort of... But, you know, anyone in their mid-30s to 50s to 60s is really feeling this, right? We're in that sandwich generation. We've maybe achieved so many things, but in other ways, we don't feel like we've achieved things. We're raising our children.
We're taking care of our parents. There's just so much. And I think so many women feel this constant state of overwhelm, not just women, but men too. But to your point, I think that you'd be surprised, but the majority... of people who are seemingly very successful, have their act together, high-income learners are first of all worried, am I going to be okay?
And they feel they're just not doing everything that they should be doing, that there's so many things that they should be doing better, that they haven't saved enough for retirement, they're not investing the way that they should. They feel like there are things in their life that they thought would have been easier, that they thought they would have been able to afford.
And it's a real struggle, right? Especially when people are losing their careers unexpectedly overnight. They're losing their jobs or the amount of change that's happened in the markets. And it's a real crazy time, right? And I feel like I think some of the emotions are fear. overwhelm, panic.
I feel like those times that are those dark and those challenging, if you take a moment to just take a step back and rather than just blaming yourself, but actually looking at it and thinking about it and trying to like have perspective about it, you actually realize, okay, take a breath. You know, take three deep breaths. A, you're going to make it through this.
You've been through things that are so much harder. But then also like what you're experiencing, you're definitely not alone. You are very much not alone. You're in the norm. I mean, you're in the majority Americans who are struggling with all this right now and educated and successful. And we're not talking about how we're talking.
And the first thing is just to acknowledge it and to take a breath. acknowledge it, try to breathe through it. And then I always say, then think about what you want, right? And write down your goals. Get to that place where you can clear your mind enough that you're like, okay. And if you don't know what it is you want, that's beyond normal. It's a process. You have to just take small steps.
Don't focus on, okay, maybe you've all of a your job and you're trying to figure out what to do next. And it's like, the only thing you can do is just breathe and put one foot in front of the other. Guess what? That's success. I agree. I agree. Or you've just started a company and we all hear about the success stories of entrepreneurship, but the reality is 90% of it is really, really hard.
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