Your Money Beliefs Were Set Before You Turned Seven

Mandyy Thomas managed her money well from the time she was a teenager. She had no debt, she was saving, she was investing, and by twenty six she had a quarter of a million dollars put away on a power engineer's salary.She also got sick. Badly enough that at twenty five she thought she had early onset Alzheimer's, and was carrying notebooks in her coveralls to remember how to do a safety sensitive job she used to find easy. The cause was not a disease. It was the money stress she had been carrying since childhood and had never told anyone about, because doing well financially made it feel unspeakable.That is where her work comes from. Thomas is a financial coach and farms with her husband's family, and her argument is that the numbers are only half of it.What's Inside- Why most of what you believe about money was set before you turned seven, and how to tell which beliefs are yours- The difference between savings buckets and an emergency fund, and why most people only have the one that keeps getting drained- Why the standard advice to save ten percent of your income is the wrong instruction- What happens to earnings when someone is quietly afraid of out earning their parents- Why she works on the numbers first and the beliefs second, after starting the other way round- The lightning round from ag Twitter, where much of the audience assumed she must have been given landWant to connect with Mandyy ? Intentionally Wealthy PodcastWebsiteInstagramTalk One-on-One with Mandyy for Free About Your Specific Financial Situation here Episode 23:How’s your family money paradigm affecting you? Episode 3: My one big tip for 2021 to get ahead financially Episode 2: How I saved $250,000 by 26  Connect with Growing the FutureWebsite: growingthefuture.caYouTube: Growing the FutureInstagram: @growingthefuturepodcastLinkedIn: Growing the FutureSubscribe to the Growing the Future Podcast wherever you listen, and register for Convergence Conference 2027 at convergence.ag. Register for the Convergence Conference at convergence.ag and stay updated by subscribing to the Growing the Future Podcast at growingthefuturepodcast.ca.