Mimi Bouchard

Mimi Bouchard, welcome to Money Rehab.

Thank you for having me, Nicole.

I'm so happy to be here.

Oh, boy.

I know, let's just get into it.

Okay, we'll dive right in.

My relationship with money was incredibly different to my relationship with money now.

It's been one of the biggest things that I've worked on over the past decade of my life.

When I was younger, I grew up in a household that was very financially stressed.

My parents are artists, and I was always around lack when it comes to money growing up.

There was always a lot of fighting around money, bankruptcies, and just...

a lot of negative energy towards money and wealth.

It gave me this feeling of deep insecurity as a kid.

And I realized when I was young, you know what, I don't want this type of future for myself.

It seems like all the fights, all the stress, all the anxiety, all the crying, all the tears comes from a lack of money.

So I really hope one day I don't experience that too.

So it was very different.

And I think to be totally transparent, it was the biggest motivator for me growing up to create my own future because there was such a negative context around it.

It's very motivating when you don't come from it.

It makes you realize that you want it quite badly.