How to Rewire Your Brain to Overcome "Broke Baggage" with Claire Wasserman
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I'm Nicole Lappin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. It's time for some money rehab.
Hi, I'm Claire Wasserman, and I'm guest hosting for Nicole while she's out on maternity leave. My day job is running Ladies Get Paid, a coaching practice, podcast, and newsletter that helps you increase your worth inside and out. This episode is a little bit different from the other ones where I was coaching real women through their work and money challenges. Instead, today, I'm going to be coaching you. That's right, you and me a little bit. What we're going to be focusing on is how to relieve and release financial anxiety, or as I like to call it, broke baggage. Because here's the thing, there is a number in your bank account, and then there's how you feel about that number. And everything that I'm going to share with you comes from what I've seen, what I've experienced, and what I've learned. I run a community of 55,000 members who've exchanged more than 3 million messages. I've been in over $4 million worth of debt. Yes, $4 million. And I have a master's certificate in financial psychology because, quite frankly, I was sick of my own broke baggage.
Maybe let me define what broke baggage is real quickly. So broke baggage is this feeling that you never have enough money, no matter how much is in your account. Broke baggage is feeling guilty or uncomfortable to ask for more. Broke baggage is feeling like you're drowning and you can never get your head above water. In short, broke baggage is feeling like money controls you and not the other way around. Now, listen, I am not going to gaslight you and tell you that financial anxiety is all in your head because, quite frankly, money does make things easier. See, money buys you time. It buys you space. It buys you freedom. But not to be cliche, more money, more problems too, right? Or more money and the same problems. Because like I said, what is in your bank account doesn't matter as much as how you feel about what's in your bank account. If this is feeling resonant with you, welcome, you are in the right place. Now I'm going to say something that you probably won't believe at first, but if you stick with me, I'm going to show you how to do this. Okay.
Whatever is happening on the outside, you create your reality on the inside. So whatever chaos, money chaos is happening outside, you can protect yourself from the inside. Now, how do you do that? You do that by learning to objectively engage with your thoughts and emotions. What does it mean to objectively engage? Okay, so it is not controlling. It is not about trying to tell your thoughts and your feelings about money to shut the F up. Because trying to control your thoughts and emotions, it's kind of like trying to push a bouncing ball on the top of a pool. Every time you push it down, what happens, right? Tops back up. And with our thoughts and emotions, usually that happens at seriously inconvenient times and in inconvenient situations. So my intention with today's episode is to really give you practical exercises so that you can start to observe your emotions and thoughts about money in a nonjudgmental way and maybe even try to inject a little bit of compassion in there because, I mean...
Life is hard enough, right? Why make it harder for yourself? So let's face our broke baggage together, okay? We are going to talk about in the moment strategies that you can implement when you are starting to feel financially anxious. Then I'm going to go over ongoing work, deeper work that you can do to heal your relationship with money and hopefully drop that broke baggage for good.
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