Mary Ann Stenquist

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Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X · How to Stop Overspending w/Mary Ann Stenquist · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

So speaking of the kitchen appliance or the calendar, the unmet need was control.

It was, I wasn't organized and I was needing everything.

I was needing support and we can spend a lot of money in pursuit of this help and support, but I didn't even need the calendar first.

I needed to establish a routine at home.

I needed to ask for more support from my kids, from my husband, and he was more than willing to do it.

but I didn't recognize that that was the issue.

I thought that it was, I didn't have the calendar.

So recognizing the need behind it and not feeling shame.

And that's what I love so much about, I call them my spending types.

They're not labels.

They are ways to help you identify what need is not being met and what need is like your primary emotional need that you tend to buy to try to fill.

And it takes away the shame and it also gives you tools because not having an emotional need being met is fixable.

And it doesn't feel that way when you're just buying, buying, buying and don't know why.

Sure.

I have found that really starting where we both start with the values, getting them motivated, helping them realize and just asking yourself, even right now, just sit and ask, does my spending align with my values?

And even simpler than that, if someone were to look at my spending, not knowing anything about me, would I give an accurate picture of who I am and what I value?

And when I asked myself that, I was appalled.

If someone looked at my spending, they would see a bunch of clothes and apparel.

They'd think that I was just self-absorbed, that I only cared about my appearance, that I could care less about my family.

That was so far from the truth.

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