Classic Suze School: Are You Attracted to, or Repelled by Your Money?
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Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
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July 23rd, 2026. Welcome to the Women in Money podcast, as well as everyone smart enough to listen. Hi, everybody. Robert, the producer here. For today's classic Suzy School, we'll go back to November of 2023 and take on the question of do we attract or do we repel money? We'll have a brand new Ask KT and Suzy Anything episode for you this coming Sunday. And remember, if you'd like to ask a question for the podcast, all you have to do is email it to podcast at asksuzy.com. That's A-S-K-S-U-Z-E dot com. Or you can ask it in the Women in Money community app, which, of course, you can download for free at Apple Apps or Google Play. And now, here's Suzy.
It was many, many years ago, and I decided to do an experiment. And I had somebody gather a whole bunch of red roses, single red roses. and this was in New York, and they went onto the streets, and they were to offer strangers as they were walking by a red rose, just one red rose. And as I was watching, this person was offering red roses, and one person would take it, another person would come along, that person would take it. And before you knew it, all of the roses, I think she had two dozen, all of them were gone. The next part of the experiment was that she had approximately 24 $1 bills. Okay, same amount of bills that she had as roses. And she stood in essentially the exact same spot. And as people walked by, she offered them a dollar bill.
How many do you think took it? One person passed, did not take it. Another person passed, did not take it. After approximately 30 minutes of her standing there, not one person, and in New York, a lot of people pass you in a 30-minute period of time. Not one person took the dollar bill. I want you to think about this for a second. In a relatively shorter amount of time, 24 people took a rose and smiled. In a little bit longer period of time, 30 minutes, not one person took a dollar and I was just flipped out about that. I have to tell you, I talked about it everywhere I went when I gave a talk. I just didn't understand it. But then I started to realize people don't like to talk about money. People don't like to touch money.
People think that something's wrong with somebody who's giving a dollar away, but they'll take something that that dollar would buy, such as a rose, and that they're willing to take. And so many of us in our lives are like that with money, whether we know it or not. We don't mind touching what money can buy. We don't mind touching those things, whether it's our clothes or our furniture or our flowers or our gifts or whatever it may be. We don't mind showing that to everybody and saying, look what somebody got me. Look at what I just bought. That we don't mind at all. But yet, we don't like to talk about our money. We don't like to touch our money. We don't like to say to somebody, oh, look at how much money I just made.
Look at what I have, even though the couch that you may be sitting on may have cost you a whole bunch of money. That's not how you see it. All you see it as things. So when something becomes a thing, when money turns into a thing that has been purchased, then you will talk about it and touch it. But when money is just money, you tend to stray away from it. What is that about everybody? Think about in your own lives, and by the way, take out your Susie notebooks, you are so going to need it today. Think about that, everybody. What is it about money, your money that you work for, that you spend hours, maybe 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 hours a week working for? Why is it that you don't want to touch it, pay attention to it, or anything like that?
If you have your Susie notebook out, that is the question at hand. So what is it about money that repels you? Answer that question. And if the answer to that question is nothing, then I want you to answer the question, what is it about money that attracts you? Now, maybe you need to understand, well, how do I even know if money repels me? Do you look at your statements?
What experiment did Suze run to show people's reactions to money vs. gifts?
Do you open your credit card bills right away?
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