Sacred Money Management: Monitoring Finances on Your Spiritual Journey

Imagine how your business could thrive in 2025 if you created a sacred money management practice that aligns with your spiritual journey. In this illuminating episode, you'll discover how to develop a money system that honors both your spiritual gifts and practical financial needs. Show Notes | Transcript "Your business is... this sacred extension of you, and the money goals that you set are part of this. And it's about creating a way for you to be able to appreciate and cultivate more abundance in your business." - Gloria "Grace" Rand As a spiritual entrepreneur, you may have inherited limiting beliefs about money that are holding you back from reaching your full potential. In this episode, I share my own struggles with financial management and the inherited money patterns that influenced my mindset. Together, we'll explore how to overcome these challenges and create a positive, empowering relationship with money. Discover how to: Implement a weekly revenue check-in that takes just five minutes Create a monthly financial ritual to celebrate your progress and learn from your experiences Set realistic and inspiring revenue goals for the upcoming quarter Track unexpected income and cultivate gratitude for financial abundance Key insights include: The importance of valuing your work and charging appropriately for your services How to overcome the unconscious vow of poverty often associated with spiritual work Techniques for making financial management a sacred practice The power of gratitude in attracting more abundance into your life and business I also share a personal invitation to access my free light language meditation, designed to help alleviate stress and support your journey towards financial empowerment. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual entrepreneur or just starting out, this episode offers practical tools and mindset shifts to help you create a thriving, soul-aligned business. Tune in to start building a positive relationship with money and watch your business flourish in the New Year! Resources: Join the Soulful Women's Network Claim your free light language meditation Connect with me on LinkedIn: @gloriagracerand Connect with Live Love Engage: Send Gloria Grace a message ☕ Support the podcast ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating LinkedIn: Gloria Grace Rand Facebook: Gloria Grace Rand YouTube: Gloria Grace Rand TRANSCRIPT Namaste. What if tracking your business finances could feel like a spiritual practice instead of a trigger fest? Well, today we are going to create a sacred money system that honors both your spiritual gifts and, you know, that practical thing you need to pay bills. But first, I want to welcome you to Live Love Engage. Especially if you are new to the podcast. I am Grace the light messenger and founder of Align to Shine Academy and I work with spiritually minded women entrepreneurs to break free from self doubt and step into their highest potential. And using my proven love method, I help them build unshakable confidence, attract premium clients and create a soul aligned business that thrives. So it is the beginning of a new year as I'm recording this. In fact, I'm actually recording this on New Year's Day as a matter of fact, even though you are seeing it or listening to it a few days later. And I figured this was a good time to talk about, talk about money, talk about the first quarter and what you want to be able to do about keeping an eye on the bottom line. Frankly, something that I haven't always been so good about. I will be totally honest with you. My relationship with money has not always been, I wouldn't say friendly. I would say it's been more of a, it's been more of a struggle. You know, when I was working for an employer back, back a long time ago, you know, it was, it was simple, you know, it was, you know, you, you do your work, you get a paycheck, boom, boom, easy peasy. Being a business owner, it's a little different. And it's requires monitoring things like, you know, expenses and revenues and keeping track of things like that. And, and again, I haven't, I haven't been the greatest at that. And, and a lot of it is because of some inherited money patterns that I received from, from my parents through, through truly no fault of their own. But it's the way that they grew up. They both, my mom and dad grew up during the depression in the 1920s. So they had a different relationship to money. And money was hard to come by certainly. And you know, I grew up listening to, you know, and I'm sure probably a lot of you have heard these same things. Money doesn't grow on trees or, you know, you got to work hard for your money and then rich people are crooks. Have you ever heard of that one? That was, I think that that was really my mom's impression. You know, she was a union employee. She also didn't have the best relationship with her brother who was an entrepreneur. And so I think that was part of it as well. But anyway, so, so I grew up, you know, having these, these beliefs which I didn't really, wasn't really conscious of. And, and you might have similar things. So it can show up in different ways, and it certainly did for me. Sometimes it's this fear of charging what you're worth. And so instead you wind up not appropriately pricing your products or services. And you often, well, maybe not often, but you maybe tend to over give in order to prove your value. And also with spiritual entrepreneurs in particular, especially people, I think in the healing, healing in particular modes, there is some sort of unconscious vow of poverty, you know, tied to spiritual work. Because, because again, it's like, you know, you, you want to heal people and you think that you shouldn't have to charge for that. However, you go to the doctor, don't you? And the doctor charges a lot of money. So even if you are perhaps doing energy work or you are doing massage therapy, for instance, you still have bills to pay, just like everybody else does. So that means you need to be able to charge what you're worth. And I've got, you can go back and find some other podcast episodes that I've done around that. I've got a whole book on this subject as well. My, my book Live Love, Engage how to Stop Doubting yourself and Start Being Yourself. And it's, you know, it's really important to be able to, to own your work, to value your uniqueness, and to open yourself to receive love in the form of money sometimes, frankly. So, so let's get right to it. Let's, let's get to what we can do to have a better relationship with money in this new year, in this new quarter, so that you can really appreciate what you're doing, the work that you're doing in the world and, and, and rejoice over being compensated for it. So here, what I'm calling this sort of sacred money snapshot system. So if you've got a journal handy, you might want to take some notes. Otherwise you can go back in and listen to this episode again and then take some notes. But, and I'm having it, I'm having an idea here actually is also if you want, you, if you want to get a copy of this, I would be happy to email you a copy of it. So if you want to comment on, you can comment on the YouTube video when this goes out. Well, yeah, if you're watching this on YouTube now, obviously you could, you could comment but definitely reach out to me. You, you see, my, my social media links are, are here LinkedIn.com you can find me at Gloria Grace Rand YouTube. You can go to my website. You can go Gloria gracerand.com or just Gloria rand.com. that's how I originally set up the domain. And reach out to me. Okay. And I, I'll be happy, happy to help you with this. And I'm going to pause for one quick second because I think I have to sneeze. Let me see. Okay, I stopped. Good. All right. Okay, so here we do. So what I encourage you to do is we're going to do a weekly revenue check in. So take. And it's only going to take you like five minutes. You might want to do it, do it on a Monday, might be good, or maybe over the weekend possibly. And you want to create like a simple spreadsheet or a journal page and just put three columns in it. The first one is going to say income received. The second one is going to be income promised. And this is like signed but not paid. So for instance, perhaps you especially when I was first doing my copywriting work, I would have a contract that I would send out to a client. And so they agreed, but until the money came in, that, that would go under that column. And then the third one is a gratitude note because as I always say, the more you have to be gratitude, the more you have to be grateful for, the more you have, the more you get to be, the more you will receive to, you know, it's a reciprocal thing. This is what I'm trying to say. The more you're grateful for, the more you have to be grateful for. Yeah, there we go. The more gratitude you express, the more you have to be grateful for. That's, I think, an easier way to say it. So one thing that you're proud of, financially, maybe you resisted spending money on a Starbucks coffee or something. This time you're like, ah, you know what? I'll fix a cup of coffee at home. I don't really need to spend however much it is. I don't, I don't get Starbucks coffee. I buy tea there sometimes. But lately I've been just making tea at home. So there you go. So, so again, set a specific time for this and, and put it on your calendar that you're going to do this every week. And, and then before you dive into the numbers, you might want to just kind of center yourself a little bit, take a deep breath, you know, and maybe light a candle. But make it, make It a ritual. Don't, don't just, you know, treat it as a chore. Treat this as something that is amazing and that you get to do. You get to look at the money that you have received over the last week or what you're grateful for, either one....