How to Stop Overspending w/Mary Ann Stenquist
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Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X
31 min
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
welcome to the wealthy after 40 podcast the show for gen x women and couples who are ready to ditch financial stress and feel confident about retirement i'm your host daylene higgins money coach and retirement strategist to help you gain clarity and confidence with your money by creating a spending plan that aligns with your financial goals and dreams so you can spend intentionally save consistently and feel at peace about your future Join me every week to understand your money, simplify your decisions, and take intentional steps toward the life you want.
So, Marianne. Stenquist is going to be joining us. She is a spending coach and she works with clients who struggle with emotional overspending. Now you might be wondering, is this me? Is this not me? Listen to this episode. We discuss it. If you're still not sure, please reach out to one of us and we will direct you as to what the challenge could possibly be and help you find a resolution.
Who is Mary Ann Stenquist and why does she coach emotional overspending?
You will find both of our links down in the show notes. We both have a workshop, so please sign up for one of those as well. But I welcome you to the episode. Welcome to the episode, Marianne. I'm so excited to dive into the topic of spending. So let's start with who you are and who you help.
So my name is Marianne and I am a spending coach. I am actually a speech pathologist by trade, but a spending coach by calling. I am Through many different roads, I found myself struggling with overspending, and I was unable to work as a speech-language pathologist due to the new road and journey my life took. And so I found myself overspending, found myself really struggling with that, and I had to do my own research. And in that research, I found that there's an emotional reason for why we buy speech And so as a spending coach, I really try to help people align their purchases with their intentions and not their impulses.
Yeah, I love that. I help people budget their money with their value so that they can get more enjoyment out. So we're tackling it just from two different angles. And I really love that. So I, before we jumped on, I know I said, I help people understand like overspending may just be a control issue. They're not budgeting or planning correctly. So really tactical. That's my nature. I'm very tactical, very practical. But yet there's been times I'm like, they're still overspending, even doing what I consider to be the simple pieces. So let's dive into overspending from your side and your view.
And I love that you acknowledge that there's a tactical and practical view, but there's a missing component. And that's exactly what I found was missing when I was trying to just make a budget. Everything looked good on paper. And it was like, oh, wow, I'm meeting all my goals. And I'm putting $600 towards savings. This is amazing. And then that didn't happen. At the end of the month, I'm like, where did the money go? It looked so perfect on paper.
And then
So it was really frustrating. I was trying to understand why. So I thought it was the budget. And I kept trying to fix, I kept trying to change the budget, a different budgeting approach, a different app, and it didn't fix my overspending. And that's where I've really discovered that overspending is not always a budgeting problem. It's a spending problem. You can, the numbers can look perfect and you still overspend, but why? And I like to think of it as, Money management is a balance between saving and spending. And if you don't spend within the limits that your budget outlines, you won't be able to save. So no matter how much you refine your budget, if you can't stick to that limit within the month, your budget's not going to work.
And that's a lot of what... happens, is we're not looking at our budget all the time. We're not thinking about it or looking at it at the store when we have that cute blouse, that kitchen appliance. It's not top of mind. And so my approach is really helping you in those moments, making those aligned decisions that will make your budget work. Yeah, I love that.
I, yeah.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–1:36
2
Who is Mary Ann Stenquist and why does she coach emotional overspending?
1:36–10:33
3
Why does Mary Ann say budgeting alone isn't enough to stop overspending?
10:33–28:10
4
What is the 'power of the pause' and how can it stop impulse purchases in the moment?
28:10–31:16
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X
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