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Money Mindset: Rethinking Your Thoughts on Currency pt.1 with Paige Easter

Ep. 33

In this episode, we talked about the role of money in our lives and how our beliefs about money can impact our experience of it.


Money is a way to exchange value and it can be used to facilitate trust between people, even if they do not know each other. However, because of this abstraction of value, we can wind up telling a whole lot of stories about money that don’t contribute to its flow through our lives.


Our beliefs about money and value can influence the economy and shape our experiences with scarcity or abundance. Conflicting beliefs about money and values can lead to inaction, so recognizing and addressing these conflicts can allow us to take aligned action towards abundance.


If you want to create more abundance and value in your life, then check out part 1 of this 2 part discussion of money mindset.


In this episode we discuss:


8:42 - money was never bartering

10:15 - how money gets into circulation

12:01 - keeping money in flow: currency

13:20 - that time that toilet paper was money

16:32 - the solution to recession

20:00 - do you have these limiting beliefs about money?

29:50 - Exercise: discovering your beliefs about money


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