We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• Bridget + Alyssa's beauty expenses
• What beauty ideals exist, and how do they impact people?
• Cosmetic surgery costs and how to pay
• Instagram face 
• What do we spend on beauty outside of cosmetic surgeries?
• Do we think it’s worth the financial expense? 
• How can people move towards self-acceptance?

Sources:

• Dove Real Cost of Beauty Report from 2022
• True Cost of Beauty 2017 Study
• The Class Politics of Instagram Face

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• What is a ‘rich life,’ and where did it come from?
• Your realistic rich life
• Our money hang-ups
• A rich life bucket list
• The nine areas of your life to consider
• Creating a rich life map 
• Our money dials 

Inspiration: Ramit Sethi 

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• What is entrepreneurship really like?
• The risks you take as a business owner
• How does entrepreneurship cost you emotionally?
• How do you know what risks are worth taking in business?
• How much does it cost to start a business?
• Sourcing start-up capital
• Managing business finances vs personal finances
• How much can you make?
• How to pay yourself
• Tools you can use to make your finances and your life easier

Book recommendation:
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• What is the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)?
• What can you use the TFSA for?
• What is the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)?
• What can you use the RRSP for?
• Which account should you choose?
• How can you use the RRSP and TFSA together?
• What should you choose when you have a pension?
• Is a pension enough?

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• Does more money provide more happiness?
• Why are people unsatisfied no matter how much wealth they attain?
• Focusing on time over money
• Why don’t the ultra-wealthy stop working? 
• How can people be happy if they can’t be rich?

References:

• Buying Time Promotes Relationship Satisfaction
• Happy Go Money by Melissa Leong
• Valuing time over money predicts happiness after a major life transition
• Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
• People actually are happier when they make more money: Wharton study
• How Happy Are Millionaires?

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• Dating and money
• What are the common issues couples face when it comes to money?
• How your individual upbringings display in your relationship
• How do you talk about money with your partner?
• How to eliminate stress and shame
• What’s the best way to manage your money in a relationship?
• Combining or separating finance study
• How to protect yourself financially in a relationship 
• Learning to save and spend as a team

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• What is consumerism?
• The Century of the Self documentary
• Our behaviours and why we buy things
• Sunk-cost fallacy
• The negative impacts of consumerism
• How to navigate your spending habits

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• What is the socioeconomic class?
• How do we measure low, middle and high-income classes?
• The thresholds for each income class
• The erosion of the middle class
• The working rich and their behaviours 
• How to uplift the lower-income classes

Books and podcasts we mentioned:

• Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland
• The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
• Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
• You’re Wrong About - Online Shopping Episode

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• Giving our kid's allowances'
• Average allowance pay in Canada
• How we talk about money in our households
• The best way to save and invest for your kids
• Teaching financial literacy vs passing down generational money trauma
• The tooth fairy and Santa

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We're your hosts, Alyssa and Bridget. Welcome to the podcast, where we talk through our money trauma and create a better understanding of building a healthy relationship with finance. We've now launched our Patreon! Subscribe for bonus episodes and extra content from your hosts.

In today's episode, we discuss the following:

• Habits over goals
• Our personal financial goals for 2023 and The Year Compass
• How we manage our money plans
• Ranking the importance of our financial goals
• Our words of the year

Book recommendations for 2023:

1. Atomic Habits by James Clear
2. The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
3. Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
4. The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
5. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
6. Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 
7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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