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Content Note: This episode includes a candid conversation about mental health, depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicide. Please take care while listening and choose what feels right for you. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or text 988 in the U.S. to connect with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

In this episode, Erin sits down with her longtime friend Booth Andrews, founder of the Booth Andrews Company, for a deeply personal conversation about financial trauma, burnout, mental health, motherhood, money, and rebuilding a life after everything you thought was stable begins to unravel. Booth shares how her own experience with burnout and mental health ultimately shaped the work she does today helping others understand the connection between the nervous system and the way we move through life.

Booth opens up about her years as a high-performing nonprofit CEO and primary wage earner while raising three children, losing her mother, navigating childhood trauma, and eventually reaching a point where her mind and body could no longer sustain the pace she had been keeping. She also shares how growing up around bankruptcy, financial instability, and a feast-or-famine approach to money influenced her own financial behaviors as an adult.

Together, Erin and Booth explore what happened when burnout, divorce, career changes, debt, and financial uncertainty collided—and what rebuilding has looked like in the years since. They talk about boundaries, earning during difficult seasons, intentional spending, and the nervous system work that helped Booth begin making financial decisions from a place of choice rather than fear. Today, Booth says her spending is much more aligned with her priorities and far less reactive, even though her financial picture is still a work in progress.

Ultimately, this conversation is a reminder that financial healing isn't always about reaching a perfect number in your bank account. Sometimes progress looks like feeling safer in your body, recognizing that you have choices, and creating a relationship with money that— as Booth beautifully describes it—feels more like an exhale.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• How Booth's experience with burnout and mental health led to the work she does today
• The realities of being a high-performing CEO, primary wage earner, and mother while privately struggling
• How grief, trauma, and chronic stress eventually affected Booth's mental and physical health
• How childhood bankruptcy and financial instability shaped her relationship with money
• The connection between trauma, shame, compulsive spending, and financial behaviors
• What happened financially when Booth left her CEO role and went through a divorce
• How disability insurance and flexible contract work helped her navigate a major life transition
• Why earning potential and transferable skills can become important resources during a crisis
• How Booth and her ex-husband learned to co-parent and share a home while maintaining financial boundaries
• Why setting boundaries can be especially difficult with the people closest to us
• How nervous system regulation has changed Booth's relationship with money
• The difference between spending from fear and making intentional financial choices
• Why financial progress doesn't have to mean you've already reached your ultimate financial goals
• How creating an internal sense of safety can change the way you experience financial uncertainty

Key Takeaways

• High performance doesn't necessarily mean someone is doing well mentally, physically, or financially.
• Financial behaviors can be deeply connected to childhood experiences, trauma, shame, and the nervous system.
• Having flexible, marketable skills can provide options when life or business changes unexpectedly.
• Boundaries can be essential when rebuilding relationships, finances, and your own sense of safety.
• Financial healing is a process, and progress still counts even when you're not where you ultimately want to be.
• Making intentional financial decisions from a grounded place can feel very different from spending or earning out of fear.
• A healthier relationship with money isn't entirely dependent on the number in your bank account—it can also come from developing a greater sense of choice, agency, and security.

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• Instagram: @‌theboothandrews

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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.

In this episode, Erin is back after a short summer break for a check-in on money habits, business seasonality, and what happens when consistency doesn’t look like perfection. Building on the recent four-part series about generational financial beliefs, Erin explores how to keep practicing healthier financial habits—even when you’ve fallen out of your routine or haven’t started yet.

Erin shares why high achievers and entrepreneurs can struggle with being beginners, especially when it comes to managing business finances. Whether you’ve skipped your monthly money date, avoided looking at your numbers, or simply found yourself in a slower season, the goal isn’t to do everything perfectly. It’s to keep coming back and building the habit one small step at a time.

Together, Erin explores how consistency, neuroplasticity, and giving yourself permission to start small can help you create healthier money habits that actually last. She also looks ahead to upcoming conversations about pricing, financial beliefs, and the stories of experienced entrepreneurs and CEOs navigating business, money, and life.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• How to continue applying what you learned from the generational financial beliefs series
• Why your monthly money date doesn’t have to be perfect to be valuable
• How financial beliefs can influence the way entrepreneurs price their services
• Why women business owners may struggle to confidently say their prices out loud
• How seasonality and natural revenue fluctuations affect businesses
• Why high achievers often struggle with allowing themselves to be beginners
• How perfectionism can keep you from building consistent financial habits
• The role neuroplasticity and repetition play in changing your relationship with money
• How to create a smaller version of your financial routine during busy or difficult seasons
• Why falling out of a habit doesn’t mean you’ve failed
• How to start again when you’ve been avoiding your business finances

Key Takeaways

• Consistency matters more than perfection when building healthier financial habits.
• You don’t have to wait for a new month, quarter, or year to start again.
• Being a beginner means giving yourself permission to do something imperfectly while you learn.
• Your business will naturally experience different seasons, and your financial routines need to work during both the easier and harder ones.
• Every time you return to your money habits, you’re reinforcing new patterns and strengthening your financial confidence.
• The best financial routine is one you can realistically continue—even if that means starting with only a few minutes each month.

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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.

In this episode, Erin wraps up her four-part series on generational financial beliefs by bringing everything together into a practical system entrepreneurs can use to confidently pay themselves. After exploring inherited money beliefs, emotional money patterns, and nervous system regulation in the previous episodes, this conversation shifts from awareness to action.

Erin introduces the final two steps of her GLOW Framework—Own and Win—and walks listeners through a simple monthly money routine designed to take the emotion out of financial decision-making. From understanding your profit and loss statement to determining how much to pay yourself and creating a consistent money date, this episode offers practical tools to help business owners build confidence around their finances.

Together, these four episodes remind us that changing your financial future isn't about becoming a different person—it's about creating new habits, trusting yourself as the CEO of your business, and building a financial legacy that future generations can learn from.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• How the GLOW Framework helps entrepreneurs build healthier money habits
• Why owning your financial decisions starts with changing your internal narrative
• The difference between your business numbers and your personal identity
• How to create a monthly money date that reduces financial anxiety
• The five numbers every entrepreneur should understand on a profit and loss statement
• Why paying yourself from profit—not your bank balance—is so important
• The three primary ways business owners pay themselves based on their business structure
• How to determine an appropriate owner's compensation
• Why consistency matters more than perfection when managing your finances
• Simple questions to ask your bookkeeper each month to better understand your business

Key Takeaways

• Owning your financial decisions means replacing inherited money beliefs with intentional choices.
• Your business numbers provide information—not a measure of your worth.
• Creating a consistent money routine helps reduce stress and build financial confidence.
• Paying yourself should become a repeatable business system, not an emotional decision.
• Small, consistent financial habits create lasting generational change.
• Learning healthy money habits allows you to pass them on to future generations.

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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.

In this episode, Erin sits down with Caroline Hogue, founder of Bygone Botanicals, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, motherhood, homeschooling, community, and building a business that aligns with your values.

Caroline shares her journey from launching a wellness-focused Instagram account to creating Bygone Botanicals, a botanical skincare company inspired by her love of plants, aromatherapy, and family traditions. Along the way, she opens up about moving her family across the country, rebuilding community, homeschooling four children, and growing a business in a season where family remains her highest priority.

Together, Erin and Caroline explore the realities of slow business growth, the pressure many entrepreneurs feel to scale quickly, the importance of asking for help, and what it looks like to build a business that supports your life instead of competing with it.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• How Caroline's move from Kansas City to Michigan impacted her family and business
• The story behind Bygone Botanicals and how the business evolved over time
• Why aromatherapy school helped shape her entrepreneurial journey
• How homeschooling and entrepreneurship coexist in her daily life
• The realities of building a business with limited time and resources
• Why slow growth can be a healthy and intentional business strategy
• The importance of community for women entrepreneurs and mothers
• How social media creates pressure to scale faster than you're ready for
• Why asking for help and outsourcing support isn't a failure
• How Caroline's mother influenced her entrepreneurial mindset
• The role family history and generational beliefs play in business ownership
• Practical advice for pricing handmade products and valuing your work

Key Takeaways

• Building a business slowly doesn't mean you're falling behind.
• Entrepreneurship doesn't have to come at the expense of your family.
• Community and support systems are essential for sustainable business growth.
• Childhood experiences and family influences often shape how we approach business and money.
• Asking for help allows you to focus on the things that matter most.
• Success looks different in every season of life.

Learn More About Caroline

Website: http://BygoneBotanicals.com

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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.

In this episode, Erin continues Part 3 of her four-part series on generational financial beliefs by exploring the connection between money and the nervous system. While previous episodes focused on where financial beliefs come from and how they impact paying yourself, this conversation shifts into the body and examines why financial decisions can feel so emotionally charged.

Erin explains how our nervous systems often respond to money before our conscious minds have a chance to think. From the knot in your stomach when you open your bank account to the tension that shows up when it's time to pay yourself, these reactions are often rooted in old experiences, inherited beliefs, and generational patterns rather than your current financial reality.

Through neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and practical body-based tools, Erin introduces the first two steps of her GLOW Framework—Ground and Lift—and shares how entrepreneurs can begin creating safety around money so they can make financial decisions from a calmer, more empowered place.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• Why your nervous system reacts to money before your thinking brain does
• How financial stress shows up physically in the body
• The connection between generational financial beliefs and nervous system responses
• Why paying yourself can trigger fight, flight, freeze, or fawn behaviors
• How childhood experiences shape financial reactions in adulthood
• What neuroplasticity is and how it helps change money patterns
• The four nervous system responses commonly seen around money
• Why shame is often grief in disguise
• An introduction to Erin's GLOW Framework: Ground, Lift, Own, and Win
• Simple practices to regulate your nervous system before looking at your finances

Key Takeaways

• Financial stress is often a nervous system response, not a discipline problem.
• Your body may be reacting to old money stories before your conscious mind has time to think.
• Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn patterns commonly show up in financial decision-making.
• Awareness creates the opportunity for change.
• Safety and comfort are not the same thing.
• Small nervous system regulation practices can improve financial decision-making over time.
• Neuroplasticity allows you to create new patterns and healthier responses around money.

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Content Note: This episode includes a conversation about suicide, grief, and mental health as Anna shares part of her family's story. Please take care while listening and skip this episode if now isn't the right time for you.

Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.

In this episode, Erin sits down with entrepreneur Anna Wiggins, owner of Surseen Style, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, financial decision-making, risk, grief, and learning to trust yourself through seasons of uncertainty.

Anna shares her journey from working in nonprofits and philanthropy to opening a bridal boutique, selling that business, navigating a season of transition, and eventually launching her newest venture, Surseen Style. Along the way, she opens up about family influences, money lessons from childhood, business loans, entrepreneurship, and the challenge of balancing financial security with pursuing a vision.

Together, Erin and Anna explore what it looks like to trust your instincts, embrace the unknown, and build a business that aligns with your values rather than someone else's definition of success.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• Anna's journey from nonprofit work to entrepreneurship
• How a difficult first job helped redirect her career path
• The inspiration behind opening her bridal boutique
• Why she chose not to pursue a franchise model
• The emotional process of selling a business she loved
• How writing and reflection helped her navigate a season of transition
• The realities of funding and growing a small business
• How childhood experiences shaped her relationship with money
• Why paying yourself matters as a business owner
• The importance of trusting your intuition in business decisions
• How nervous system regulation impacts entrepreneurship

Key Takeaways

• Entrepreneurship often requires trusting yourself before you have all the answers.
• Seasons of uncertainty can create space for creativity and growth.
• Business growth often requires financial investment and calculated risk.
• Money beliefs formed in childhood can influence business decisions later in life.
• Paying yourself should be a priority, not an afterthought.
• Success doesn't have to look like constant growth—it can look like alignment.

Learn More About Anna on Instagram: @‌surseenstyle

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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories shaping the way we build our businesses and lives.

In part two of Erin’s four-part series on generational financial beliefs, Erin dives into one of the most emotionally charged topics for women entrepreneurs: paying yourself. Why is it so difficult to move money from your business account into your personal account—even when the numbers say you can?

This episode explores the hidden emotional and behavioral patterns that impact how entrepreneurs handle money, especially first-generation wealth builders. Erin breaks down two major patterns she sees constantly in her work with women business owners: economic mobility guilt and the absence of financial modeling. Together, these patterns create hesitation, shame, confusion, and fear around taking profit, paying yourself consistently, and building personal wealth through business ownership.

Erin also shares personal stories, client examples, and practical insight into how childhood experiences, family systems, and generational money beliefs continue showing up in entrepreneurship today. From inherited scarcity mindsets to never being taught how to read a P&L statement, this episode helps listeners understand why financial decisions can feel so emotionally heavy—and why awareness is the first step toward change.

If you’ve ever avoided looking at your finances, felt guilty paying yourself, struggled with profit, or questioned whether you deserve to make more money, this conversation will likely hit close to home.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• What economic mobility guilt is and how it affects women entrepreneurs
• Why paying yourself can feel emotionally difficult even when your business is profitable
• How generational financial beliefs influence business decisions
• The difference between emotional money patterns and practical financial skill gaps
• Why many entrepreneurs struggle to determine how much to pay themselves
• How scarcity and inherited money beliefs impact entrepreneurship
• The role financial modeling plays in financial confidence
• Why community and financial conversations matter for future generations
• How nervous system responses show up around money and financial stress
• Why awareness is the first step to changing financial behaviors

Key Takeaways

• Financial decisions are often driven by inherited beliefs, not just logic or math.
• Many entrepreneurs experience guilt when earning more than previous generations in their family.
• A lack of financial modeling creates knowledge gaps—not personal failure.
• Avoiding financial decisions often stems from emotional and nervous system responses.
• Building wealth as a woman entrepreneur can create both opportunity and emotional conflict.
• Awareness of financial patterns is the first step toward healthier money behaviors.

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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape how we build our lives and businesses.

In this episode, Erin sits down with her lifelong best friend, Sarah Jane, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, financial legacy, leadership, and the long road to becoming a Chick-fil-A operator. From selling painted computer art as kids to leading teams through Chick-fil-A's Leadership Development Program, Sarah shares the reality of chasing a vision that didn't always make sense to others.

Sarah opens up about her journey from TV news to late nights in the Chick-fil-A kitchen, taking pay cuts, navigating uncertainty, and learning to think long-term. Erin and Sarah also explore how generational money beliefs, family influence, and mentorship shaped their approach to work and financial stewardship.

This episode is a reminder that entrepreneurship often starts long before business ownership — and that success is built through consistency, preparation, resilience, and vision.

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• Sarah's transition from journalism and TV news into the Chick-fil-A leadership path
• Why entrepreneurship often begins with vision before confidence
• Childhood entrepreneurial moments that hinted at future leadership
• The financial realities of working in journalism and taking career pay cuts
• What Chick-fil-A looks for in future operators financially and personally
• How Sarah navigated uncertainty while pursuing the Leadership Development Program
• The role mentorship, personal growth, and faith played during waiting seasons
• How generational financial beliefs shaped both Sarah and Erin's views on money
• Why stewardship and long-term thinking matter in entrepreneurship
• The importance of partnership and support in entrepreneurial marriages
• How leadership is built through serving and caring for people well

Key Takeaways

• Entrepreneurship often starts with small moments of initiative long before owning a business.
• Waiting seasons can become opportunities for growth and preparation.
• Financial stewardship and long-term vision are essential for sustainable success.
• Generational money beliefs shape how we approach work, risk, and entrepreneurship.
• Strong mentorship and community can help entrepreneurs stay resilient through uncertainty.
• Building a meaningful business often requires sacrifice, humility, and consistency.

Learn More About Sarah Jane

Chick-fil-A Glasgow, KY

@cfaglasgow

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In this episode of Tea Time with Erin, Erin begins a powerful new series on generational financial beliefs—unpacking how our earliest experiences with money shape the way we think, feel, and behave financially as adults and entrepreneurs.

This Part 1 conversation focuses on where these beliefs come from and how they are passed down through families, culture, and lived experiences—often without us even realizing it.

Erin shares how money beliefs are formed in childhood, why they can feel so deeply ingrained, and how they silently influence our relationship with money long before we ever start a business. From scarcity and fear to control and avoidance, these patterns are often inherited, not chosen.

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “Why do I feel this way about money?”—this episode helps you start connecting the dots.

This is the foundation for understanding your financial behaviors so you can begin shifting them with intention in future episodes.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• What generational financial beliefs are and why they matter
• How money beliefs are formed in childhood and early experiences
• The role family, culture, and environment play in shaping money patterns
• Why many of your financial habits may not actually be “yours”
• Common inherited beliefs around scarcity, security, and success
• How unexamined money beliefs can follow you into adulthood and entrepreneurship
• Why awareness is the first step to changing your financial story
• The importance of creating space to question what you’ve always believed about money

Key Takeaways

• Many of your beliefs about money were formed long before you had control over finances.
• Generational patterns often shape how you earn, spend, and think about money.
• Financial behaviors are learned—and they can be unlearned.
• Awareness creates the opportunity to rewrite your money story.
• Understanding where your beliefs come from is the first step toward change.

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In this episode of Tea Time with Erin, Erin sits down with Aimee Puglisi for a real, honest conversation about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and what it looks like to build a business through life transitions.

Aimee shares her journey from Ireland to Scotland and eventually the United States during COVID. After stepping into a corporate job for the first time, she quickly realized the traditional 9–5 didn’t align with the life she wanted—especially as she entered motherhood and a blended family.

That realization led her into entrepreneurship, where she built a virtual assistant business supporting women entrepreneurs with social media, while also growing a second business in health and wellness. She opens up about inconsistent income, balancing roles, and redefining success in a season that requires flexibility and grace.

Erin and Aimee also dive into how childhood money beliefs shape how we approach finances—from scarcity and strict budgeting to more intuitive approaches—and how those patterns show up in marriage, parenting, and business.

This episode is a reminder that building a business as a mom isn’t about doing everything perfectly—it’s about aligning your life, values, and finances with your current season.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• Aimee’s journey from Ireland to the U.S. and how that transition shaped her career
•  The cultural differences between European and U.S. work environments
•  Why the traditional 9–5 didn’t align with her goals as a mom and entrepreneur
•  How she started her virtual assistant business and built income from home
•  The realities of balancing multiple businesses while raising a toddler
•  What entrepreneurship really looks like behind the scenes (income, capacity, trade-offs)
•  How motherhood shifts your priorities, time, and definition of success
•  The importance of giving yourself grace in different seasons
•  How childhood money beliefs influence financial decisions
•  Navigating money conversations in marriage, blended families, and parenting

Key Takeaways

• Entrepreneurship offers flexibility—but also requires navigating uncertainty and changing capacity.
•  Building a business as a mom is about aligning your work with your life, not sacrificing one for the other.
•  Your financial behaviors are often shaped by what you learned about money growing up.
•  There is no “perfect” way to balance motherhood, money, and business—only what works for your season.
•  Giving yourself grace and adjusting expectations is essential for sustainable success.

Learn more about Aimee at: @apuglisi.va or @apuglisi92

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