Life Rebalanced Podcast

We’re learning more about how to embrace the intuitive, emotional, creative side of money and how vision boarding, meditating, journaling, and other centering practices can actually help you achieve your goals faster and keep you happier during the journey. Much of the financial advisory world is focused on data and analytics and accidentally ignores the human component when it comes to financial decisions. Today’s talk with Ellen Rogin, author of Picture Your Prosperity will open your eyes to what may be missing from your financial plan. While we don’t fully recommend ditching the spreadsheets, we do recommend embracing your own customized vision for your future, independent of what you may have thought your financial goals should be. What can you do to look at your money in a more holistic way and embrace your own intuition? For starters, read “Picture Your Prosperity” by Ellen Rogin. More on IG @life_rebalanced

Handling your money daily and the habits you have around your personal, daily spending and saving behaviors are at the root of your financial situation. They can be supporting you toward a life you love intentionally or sabotaging your hopes and dreams. It’s all about identifying what works for you personally and identifying your spending “black holes.” Donna Grace and Whitney Hansen discuss how to set up your physical and financial environment for success, how put your personality into your budget, and the big thing most people forget to do, even if everything is automated. 

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Improving your physical health or financial situation this year means more than restricting indulgences. Decisions about these choices are often emotionally charged and strongly influenced by your past. Learn how to redirect the focus toward the desired feelings surrounding your money and health choices and change the habits, beliefs, and behaviors supporting them. We share three steps to gaining more clarity and mindfulness about your relationship with money and help you recognize memories, nostalgic phrases, and actions that are influencing a scarcity mindset. Then you can begin to deconstruct the patterns that aren’t serving you and replace them with intentional, values-based habits. 

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Traditional goal setting would have us set an extraordinary, overarching goal for the New Year and then break it down into gaps of time and checklist tasks that we’d theoretically tackle month by month. The beauty of this particular New Year, however, is that we carry the wisdom and flexibility that 2020 taught us. Join us as we discuss the ways we’re rebalancing with personal values in mind, what we’re focusing on and why, and how we’re keeping it simple in 2021. Listen to learn how a singular focus for each month can be low-stress, easy to maintain, and simultaneously create feelings of progress and fulfillment. 

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If 2020 taught us anything, it’s to expect the need for adjustment and to embrace flexibility. Instead of tossing hopes for plans aside for 2021, plan for the year ahead as you would in any December, with the expectation that there will be adjustments as we collectively discover what the future holds. Begin by placing your personal values first, growth-oriented goals next, and then allow other details to sprinkle in. Be mindful of creating systems and habits that will propel you toward your goals (like a morning or workout routine) that you can perform no matter the external world events. Take into account the possibility of hiring help, learning new skills, and exploring ways you can create efficiency in your life in order to allow focus on what’s important in the year to come.

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Join Lauren and Dr. Shawn Andrews’ conversation about women in the workplace and the statistics and challenges facing women in leadership roles. Women and men carry gender bias, stereotypes, and differences in emotional intelligence, culture, and leadership styles. The gender leadership gap has nothing to do with skills or intelligence but everything to do with our perception of women’s’ roles as leaders, employees, mothers, and caregivers. Keep your ears perked for the Rule of 3 or the 30% Rule and action steps we can all take to create inclusivity and diversity in every role at every level - at home and at work. 

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Christy Rutherford, executive leadership coach and author of Trauma Default joins Lauren today for an honest conversation about career burnout, high-achievers, happiness, and the importance of pursuing our own desires. Proving people wrong and knocking down barriers earned her accomplishments, degrees, recognition, and awards, but saddled with deep unhappiness. Christy now coaches women into alignment with their happiness while getting the job, raises, and promotions of their dreams.

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You have a budget, but are you aware of it? Do you direct it? Or is it controlling you? Does budgeting feel restrictive or dreadful? In this episode, Donna Grace and Lauren discuss how to budget using intention toward your goals and values and incorporating the pay yourself first principle. They discuss fixed costs, how to reduce expenses, and even how to handle unplanned spending. You can create a budget where you feel in control of where your money is going and aligned with your values.

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Kristin A O’Neal, financial planner, dog-mom, foodie, and author of the viral blog post “Why Black Women Quit the Financial Services Industry” talks with us about diversity, her passions in mentorship and financial education for women and POCs, and the excess challenges faced by Black People when it comes to personal finances and careers in this area. Sharing her experience and the systemic issues she sees in the industry has and will continue to empower women everywhere. More on IG @life_rebalanced

Our ability to speak up about money is often hindered by childhood experiences, emotions, and fears, and Kathleen Burns Kingsbury of www.breakingmoneysilence.com is out to help women narrow the wage and wealth gaps by teaching us how to be better negotiators and understand our value. When one woman breaks money silence, negotiates, and gets paid what she’s worth, she contributes to breaking the money taboo barrier for us all, and Kathleen’s here to teach us how.

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