235: How to be Eternally Optimistic about Your Finances with Matt Drinkhahn

Joining me today is Matt Drinkhahn of the Eternal Optimist Podcast and Pro Coach Advisors. Matt is full of information, enthusiasm, and excitement about understanding our numbers, especially surrounding financial literacy. Matt is going to share about his journey including some of his embarrassment at not knowing his numbers and then harnessing the power behind those numbers to scale and grow businesses. This is a fun enjoyable conversation, and I invite you to listen in and take notes.

Topics Mentioned:

• Financial Ownership

• Overcoming Shame

• Financial Literacy

• Optimism

Key Thoughts:

• I think sometimes we're so used to learning by only getting it right and not a lot of learning comes from failure. The older I get, the more I'm embracing failure as a learning tool. 10:18 Michele

• The question is what am I going to do today that my future self will thank me for? 13:40 Matt

• Now you have a lot of women who are in companies that are making multiple millions of dollars, and they don't even have the background, because they've just never been taught that. 19:53 Michele

• I just want my story to be a testimony for others that it may feel like a dark place and maybe a stressor, you can get over that you can make it through one step at a time. 22:55 Matt

• My whole theory behind the podcast is profitability is about more than money. It's profitability of communication, the profitability of time, of energy, and of the whole thing. 31:41 Michele

• One of the biggest challenges that I see in recovering perfectionists and highly functioning workaholics is they don't know how to let go and they don't know how to delegate effectively. 43:07 Matt

Contact Michele:

• Email: [email protected]

• Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting

• Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL

• Website: ScarletThreadConsulting.com

• LinkedIn: Michele Williams

Contact Matt:

• Email: [email protected]

• Websites: www.proadvisorcoach.com and www.eternaloptimistpodcast.com

• LinkedIn: Matt Drinkhahn

• Facebook: Eternal Optimist Podcast

• Instagram: @EternalOptimist Podcast and @CoachDrink

• Twitter: @PodcastOptimist and @MDrinkhahn

• Youtube: Eternal Optimist Podcast

References and Resources:

• Work with Me

• Metrique Solutions

• Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell

• Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

• Michele's 3 Financial Courses

• Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profit