Lauryn Williams

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Life Kit · A financial planner's advice for spending without guilt · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

A lot of times people come to me and they're like, oh my goodness, I spent $6,000 on travel last year.

I'm a bad person.

Actually, the narrative should be the value is to be able to see my family.

In order to be able to do that, I need to travel.

And so let me organize my budget so that there is a space for travel so I don't need to feel guilty when I spend $6,000 a year on travel.

Now, when we look at the budget, we do look at the other things like what does your rent look like?

What does your car note look like?

And let's go through all these other pieces of the puzzle.

Because like I said, the general reason you're coming is that you feel guilty because of the overspending.

But maybe it's like, I don't need a two bedroom apartment.

I just got one because I thought, you know, it was only 300 bucks more.

But you're not using that other bedroom at all.

And so now we have 300 bucks a month, which is almost $3,000 a year or more than $3,000 a year that we can redirect to the travel budget.

And so it's really about building a budget that is in line with your values so that you can feel guilt free with the things that are important to you.

Yeah, I always tell my clients, you need to separate your mistakes from your self-worth.

A mistake does not say who you are.

A bad financial decision does not define your character.

And so we need to, like you said, revamp what we're telling ourselves, the narrative that we're saying, and fix that to say, I am allowed to enjoy the money that I earn.

I am allowed to spend money on travel to see my family because that is important to me.

And then you work through, like I said, the other piece of the puzzle of like what you don't value and you throw that stuff away so that you can feel really good about everything.

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