Mary Ann Stenquist

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270 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 31 Mar

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But I wasn't happy.

And so it doesn't matter if I wasn't that bad on a numbers basis.

I didn't feel good.

Yes.

And that's what I found is in my research, I was trying... I literally typed into Google, how to stop spending before it happens.

Because I was just...

I would just spend and the money has already been spent.

And it's like, how do I stop it before it happens?

And nothing came up.

And so, and when in my research, I, it would get to the good part of like, we spend to feel dopamine and then it would just stop.

And I'm like,

It's so much more than the dopamine.

I know it is because especially for me, shopping felt like a need and I'm like, this isn't a need, but it feels that way.

And in my research, I actually came across Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

The funny and ironic thing about it was I came across it on a sales marketing business webpage.

So they're teaching marketers how to use our emotional needs to

against us yeah and I was like this is it this is the reason and it really goes to unmet needs

Everything we buy is either a cope for something we're not getting emotionally.

It's a deflection.

It's whatever it is, but it comes to an unmet need.

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