How prepared are you for this holiday shopping season? Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us, two of the biggest shopping days of the year, and this week we are talking about how to maximize the sales and other holiday-related expenses so that you’re coming out ahead and winning with your finances this holiday season. The sad reality is that 1 in 3 Americans will be taking on debt to pay for this holiday season, but this episode will ensure you’re not one of them. On this episode of The Mone...
Nov 23, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you ever feel like you can’t stop spending money? That you spend money without much second thought or consideration? If you do, you’re not alone. The truth is when it comes to spending money, oftentimes we aren’t thinking rationally, but rather are relying on more emotional and subjective thinking to drive our purchasing decisions. Many women don’t realize their purchasing decisions are being governed by powerful cognitive biases and psychological phenomena. When we start to look closer at th...
Nov 16, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you a sucker for a sale? Do you feel like you struggle to say “no” when you’re presented with a deal? If so, you’re not alone. Many women struggle with resisting the temptation of a sale because we are constantly exposed to them coupled with the fact that our brains are wired to be enticed by sales. Because of this we often are making purchasing decisions that are more about “winning” and snagging the deal rather than the value we are receiving from the item. On this episode of The Money Lov...
Nov 09, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you think of self-care, what do you think of? Consumer culture wants to tell us that self-care looks like bubble baths, massages, naps, manicures, and massages. In reality, these are often activities that we self-sabotage with because they provide distractions from our emotions, they don’t solve the underlying problem we’re facing and they end up moving us farther away from the desired result we are working to create. Contrary to popular belief, self-care doesn’t always feel good. In this e...
Nov 02, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you feel that you’re constantly self-sabotaging your finances? If so, then this episode of The Money Love Podcast is for you. Self-sabotage is actions that we take that move us farther away from a desired state or actions that we avoid that would move us closer to that desired state. It’s all caused by our resistance to a future emotional state and is really the way our brain protects us from engaging in things that feel scary and unfamiliar to us. The great news is, self-sabotage is somethin...
Oct 26, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you believe that you are enough? That you currently have enough? That there will be enough in the future to have all of your needs and desires met? Consumer culture that we live in immerses us in the message that we constantly need to be striving for more because our current state is inadequate and cannot meet our needs. We are all sold the message that our happiness simply lies on the other side of a credit card swipe. Unfortunately, this creates a false message that bigger is better, and th...
Oct 19, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you think of your money would you say that it’s happy, or unhappy? How do you feel when you receive money, have money, and spend money? As a society, we’re all conditioned to have a range of negative beliefs and feelings around money which means we look to create more of it in all the wrong places and we manage it in a way that doesn’t serve our financial futures. Money is energy, and as a source of energy, it is attracted to and flows to where it feels welcomed and appreciated. This is the...
Oct 12, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast When it comes to creating new results with your money do you ever catch yourself saying, “I would, but I don’t know how”? Or wishing that some money guru would just tell you exactly how to pay off debt, start investing, or budget perfectly? Or that I would give you a foolproof plan for achieving all of your money goals? That’s how greed . Asking someone else for the step-by-step, guaranteed-success process is usually a sneaky way of avoiding the need to take responsibility if it doesn’t work. An...
Oct 05, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you know the difference between being rich and being wealthy? Many of us think that they are the same thing, but surprisingly they’re not as interconnected as we think and it’s absolutely possible to create one but not have the other. There are many people who are rich and not wealthy, and there are also many people who aren’t rich but are wealthy. In this week’s episode of The Money Love Podcast we are breaking down the differences between riches and wealth. We explore what each of them is, ...
Sep 28, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the most important yet underutilized skills when it comes to spending intentionally is learning how to allow the urges you feel to spend rather than immediately responding to them. Urges demand action from us, and most of us indulge in the urge immediately to make it go away. However, there is another way to respond to the urges you feel that doesn’t require overspending and impulsive spending, and I’m here to walk you through that process. In the episode of The Money Love Podcast , we ar...
Sep 21, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you worry about money? If you do, this week's episode of The Money Love Podcast is for you! Enjoy! FREE TRAINING: Stop Impulse Shopping Join Overcoming Overspending Connect further with Paige: Social: Website: https://www. paigepritchard.com IG: @overcoming_overspending TikTok: @overcoming_overspending Subscribe to the YouTube Channel...
Sep 14, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sinking Funds are one of my favorite financial tools you can use to take your finances to the next level as they are smaller pools of money that you save up gradually over time for larger expenses you know are coming your way. When you utilize sinking funds as part of your overall financial strategy you are being proactive rather than reactive. You are doing what is in the financial best interest of your future self instead of doing what feels good in the moment. You’re gaining control over your...
Sep 07, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’re someone who feels like they need to reign in the amount you spend on food, particularly eating out, this episode is for you. Earlier this year I went 125 consecutive days without eating out one single time. Prior to that, I was eating out 5-7 times a week on average. Although the decision to do this wasn’t financially motivated, it absolutely made a big difference in my finances with the money I was able to save each month not eating out on a consistent basis. In the episode of The Mon...
Aug 31, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Did you know that being a good spender is something that you become ? Contrary to popular belief, it’s not an inherited personality trait. You aren’t born either a “good” spender or a “bad” spender. But rather, it’s a skill that you develop by practicing and mastering certain behavioral principles over time. In the episode of The Money Love Podcast , we are diving into the topic of how to become a good spender. I explain why becoming a good spender is so important to your overall financial healt...
Aug 24, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast When was the last time you let yourself be bored? Usually, when we feel boredom coming on, we frantically look for something to entertain or occupy us, and oftentimes that involves spending money in an unplanned and impulsive way. Boredom is an emotion within our culture that is greatly misunderstood and so many are using the boredom they feel as a weapon against themselves. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be this way because contrary to popular belief, boredom can be the breeding ground fo...
Aug 17, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions are one of the most powerful, yet underrated tools that we have at our disposal. Questions open our minds to possibility and creativity. They challenge us to question the mundane and see things in a new way. Everything that has ever been created or imagined, started as a question that someone set out to answer. Questions are a tool that can change your life, for better or for worst. Unfortunately, most people use questions in a way that hurts them rather than helps them. They ask quest...
Aug 10, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you love money? Most women can’t say that they do. They think that loving money makes them greedy, superficial, “money-hungry” or uncaring. So instead, our lives are filled with predominantly negative thoughts and feelings about money, which impacts the actions we take around our finances which ultimately determines our financial results and reality. We blame the money itself for not giving us what we need or want from it, but really the culprit is our own beliefs and emotional state. What so...
Aug 03, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you look at the financial decisions you’ve made in the past, do you view any of them as being mistakes? The personal finance space is riddled with rules, guidelines, “should have’s” and “shouldn’t have’s” which leaves a lot of us who make decisions outside of these rules and guidelines feeling like we are doing it wrong. But, are we really making money “mistakes”? Or are we just blazing a different path that doesn’t fit into old and outdated personal finance advice? In this episode of The M...
May 18, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you’ve ever experienced job loss, you know it can be difficult to navigate both mentally and financially. In fact, job loss is something my husband and I have been navigating for the past 2 months, and I wanted to dedicate this episode of The Money Love Podcast to sharing our personal experience with it and the mindset and financial shifts that have been most helpful to us during this time. Even if you’ve never experienced job loss, don’t sleep on this episode. I will be breaking down what al...
May 11, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Your money needs a priority, and it also needs an intentional plan. It needs to be directed and told where to go and the purpose it’s going to serve in your overall financial plan. The truth is that most people do not have a plan or priority for their money. They are operating “willy-nilly” using general rules and guidelines and then are left frustrated when they aren’t creating the financial results they hoped for. In this week’s episode of The Money Love Podcast , we are exploring a ground-bre...
May 04, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Vehicle ownership is one the most expensive investments we make in our financial journey. But which option, between buying and leasing, is the best choice? If you feel confused, overwhelmed, and frankly intimidated by the car buying or leasing process you’re not going to want to miss this value-packed episode. In this episode of The Money Love Podcast , we are walking through both the car buying and leasing process in detail, which one I do with my vehicles and why, which one is more expensive i...
Apr 27, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our overall success in building wealth is highly dependent on our ability to delay gratification. To give up what we desire in this moment today for what we want most in the future and to also put the financial well-being of our future self over the fleeting desires of our present self. Delayed gratification has always been a challenge, but never more so than today living in a world that conditions us to expect pleasure and payoffs immediately. In this week’s episode of The Money Love Podcast , ...
Apr 20, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast For many, the hardest part of building wealth is not a lack of intelligence, skill, time, or effort. Our biggest barrier to riches is simply that we do not grant ourselves the allowance to become wealthy. This is called wealth allowance, and your level of wealth allowance is the starting point on your financial development journey. On this week’s episode of The Money Love Podcast, we are diving into the topic of wealth allowance. What it is, why it matters, and the three main reasons that as wom...
Apr 13, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Risk is something we’ve been programmed to avoid at all costs. But risk is everywhere, always. It’s also a guarantee that you will face a certain level of risk on your wealth-building journey. Knowing this, risk is something that we have to build up our tolerance to not just accept, but embrace. In this episode of The Money Love Podcast , we’re deep-diving into all things risk. What it is, how to reframe the role it plays in your life and wealth-building journey, how to embrace it, and steps to ...
Apr 06, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast How confident do you feel when it comes to money? How assured do you feel in your ability to make it, manage it, and spend it wisely? When it comes to self-confidence with money, many women I work will are on the lower end of the confidence scale. They tell me “I don’t feel very confident with money” and allow this belief to hold them back from reaching their full financial potential. There is a difference between the confidence you feel around money, and the self-confidence that you have in you...
Mar 30, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast When we people please our way through life we are being dishonest with ourselves and with others. Ultimately, we lie about and hide our true thoughts and desires so that people will see us in a certain way and we end up putting forth a version of ourselves that is inauthentic and building relationships that are built on falsehood. There is a huge price to pay for people-pleasing. It costs you opportunity by saying “no” to things you want to be saying “yes” to. It costs you time by saying “yes” t...
Mar 23, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast How good are you at making decisions? When it comes to picking a path forward do you spend a lot of time and energy spinning in indecision? Or do you make a decision and move forward? When we prolong decisions or procrastinate, we end up with a bunch of unmade decisions hanging over us that are nagging at us in the back of our mind. This is called “decision debt.” Decision debt is costing you time, energy, and money. This is why a quality of successful and wealthy individuals is decisiveness. Jo...
Mar 16, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Comparison is costing you. It’s costing you your mental energy and well-being, it’s costing you time, and it’s certainly costing you money. How much money have you spent simply trying to keep up with others, or trying to create a curated version of your life that you thought was expected of you? Not all comparison is bad, but In this week’s episode of The Money Love Podcast , we are dissecting the type of comparison that isn’t serving you. The type of comparison that is making you feel inferior....
Mar 09, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast When it comes to money, there are certain belief systems and stigma’s that are unique to women and our ability to make it, manage it, and spend it. In many areas of money, our mindset and beliefs are the polar opposite of our male counterparts. These differing beliefs lead to different relationships and results around money. In this episode of The Money Love Podcast , we’re exploring these key belief differences that are unique to women, where they come from, and how they’re holding women back f...
Mar 02, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Spending Fuel is the money that you spend to propel your everyday life forward. It’s what you pay to keep a roof over your head, to keep yourself fed and clothed, to keep your house warm or cool, to keep yourself healthy and protected. On this week’s episode of The Money Love Podcast, we are diving into the concept of spending fuel and evaluating how you feel when you’re spending money on these expenses. Do you feel apathetic or even resentful? Or do you feel grateful, excited, and appreciative?...
Feb 23, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast