Building a Positive Relationship with Money with Leisa Peterson – 042

Your money mindset. It’s everything. Period. It’s huge!

Listen to my interview with Leisa Peterson, such a kind hearted lady – who is brilliant with this stuff!!! It was great!

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Leisa Peterson is the owner and founder of WealthClinic. She specializes in helping business owners overcome a cycle of scarcity, uncertainty and economic volatility so they can heal their sense of self-worth and rebuild amazing confidence so they can build holistic wealth and ultimately semi-retire. Her book, The Mindful Millionaire: Overcome Scarcity, Experience True Prosperity and Create the Life You Really Want is currently available wherever books are sold.

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Importance of Mindset

Leisa’s book focuses on people’s emotional relationship with money, not from a therapy perspective, but the perspective of healing and building wealth.
Being able to control your thoughts is so important because it can help keep you from worrying. So many people worry about money, and being able to prevent that worry or stop that worry when it starts can be very helpful.
Meditation is a great way to learn to control your thoughts and stop worrying when it happens.
Leisa studied both Buddhist and Hindu meditation practices, and now uses a short guided meditation every morning that is literally just a check-in with herself about where she is and where she wants to go today.
Mindset can be helpful for people who are over-savers or over-spenders, because they can determine why they save or spend, and the emotional need to do so.

Our Relationship with Money

Our own value and self worth gets wrapped up in monetary value, for example, how much money we make/have literally determines our value as a human being.
Leisa grew up in poverty and worked hard to get herself out of that situation. She drew on those experiences, and her ability to speak from a poverty perspective and prosperity perspective when writing her book.
She uses both self-realization and spiritual understanding with her experience with money to help her clients understand how they can improve their financial lives and understand their value separate from money.
It is important to understand how quickly money can come and go, and as such we should not be basing our value on something that can disappear so quickly.

How Leisa Helps Her Clients Get Out of Debt

The first thing she does is help her clients form a better relationship with their money and their debt since their challenges will be harder if they feel their debt is taking away all their choices.
Leisa never tells a client what to do – she helps them come to a self-understanding and learn how to make the best choice for themselves.
Sometimes that means declaring bankruptcy, sometimes not, but the client has to make that choice for themselves.

Best Quotes:

“I think that the big reason is that we’ve gotten it [money and wealth] wrapped up in our self identification and the way that we see our own value. Because they’re so difficult to disintegrate from that, we get lost along the way in our journey.”

“Until we start to disentangle that attachment to our value being associated with our accomplishments, including how much money we have, we’re going to probably end up back at scarcity thoughts because it’s unstable.”

“Let’s put it in perspective. Let’s take it to the moment we take our last breath, we’re not going to be thinking about that money. We’re going to be thinking about our loved ones, the relationships we’ve had with them. It’s putting money in the perspective that it’s one part of our life, but it’s not everything.”

“One of the things that I think is super important is that when we don’t have this stuff figured for ourselves, or we’ve just had a lot of really good fortune, there’s a tendency to judge others who struggle with this stuff. And what we find when we dive into this is that it is not their fault. A series of events have occurred that had you been in that exact same situation, you would be in that same situation too. And so dropping the judgment is really important because when we judge other people in our lives, because of their financial struggle, we hurt our relationship. We hurt our ability to help them.”