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How Having Financial Literacy Can Change Your Life with Tori Dunlap @HerFirst100k: Lesson 51

In this episode, I interview money expert and founder of @HerFirst100K community Tori Dunlap. We talk about building confidence with money, getting out of a ‘scarcity’ mindset, getting past shame and judgment when it comes to finances, and how building financial literacy can change your life.  Listen on apple podcasts.  Listen on Spotify.    Tori talks to us about her own relationship with money and how she built the confidence that she has now with how she operates with it.  Growing up with parents who were really committed to financial education, Tori learned not to overspend on credit cards. She learned to negotiate her salary and she learned how to invest. She grew up just thinking that was the norm...

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Learning To Advocate For Ourselves with Sarah Nicole Landry @thebirdspapaya: Lesson 50

    Preparing for this winter stretch + the birth of her new baby [8:30] Sarah shares that she has been hard at work preparing for the winter in order to be mindful of seasonal affective disorder, and that she has also been preparing for the birth of her new baby since she works for herself and wants to be able to take some time off for maternity leave when the baby comes.  As this isn’t her first pregnancy, Sarah tells me that she has been reflecting a lot in the past few months about the state of her mind and body this time around, and she has learned to advocate for herself and communicate her needs and boundaries as...

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Finding Meaning In A Time of Collective Change: Lesson 49

  Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts.    It’s Sunday, after the US Presidential election, and Kamala Harris is the Vice President elect of the United States. A South Asian, Black woman is set to become the Vice President of the United States of America.  In this week’s episode, I reflect on everything that is in my heart when it comes to the change that’s happened. What the last 4 years have been like in my life, and why it’s important that we make meaning of what’s just happened and to take a second to hold this moment for ourselves.  I'm sharing the different pieces of this of the election that mean something to me and at the end...

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Five Reasons Why Planning Is Important and Critical For Your Mental Health and Well-Being: Lesson 47

        Welcome to the Lessons Learned Podcast! I’m very excited this week because I am finally back home in Carp and have returned to my usual schedule. After two long months where I have been back in Grand Prairie visiting family and sharing with you all of my #LessonsInResilience interviews, I am finally back in person this week to share with you a solo show.   This week’s episode is a big one for me. One that involves catching up on what I have been up to for the past few months such as being back in Grand Prairie living with family for the past few months, getting into a completely different routine after graduating cohort one of...

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