Don't Retire...Graduate! Baring it All: Embracing the Intersection of Your Mental Health and Money Journeys
Welcome back to Don’t Retire... Graduate! Our guest on today’s episode is a money coach and mental health blogger who is joining us for a very special episode in honor of World Mental Health Day. Chloe Daniels of Clo Bare Money Coach goes deep into her own struggles with mental health and how it has helped her find her voice and grow her platform at the intersection of money and mental health.
In this episode we’ll talk about:
• How Chloe’s transparency with her mental health struggles grew into a virtual community
• How therapy and writing helped her overcome her battles with eating disorders and PTSD
• Why people don’t talk about their struggles with money and want to seem like they’re the Joneses you should be keeping up with
• How Chloe paid off $70,000 in debt and amassed $200,000 in savings in a short period of time
• How to set a budget that aligns with your values
• Failing at a budget and continuing to work at it instead of quitting
• Figuring out why you’re spending money where you’re spending it so you can connect with your spending
• Finding the right method to keep yourself accountable and connected to your budget
• Stepping away from the “shoulds” and focusing on the “why”
• Looking at the anxieties and fears around money and getting to the root of it
• The difference between good and bad financial advisors, and why you should always ask potential advisors if they’re fiduciaries
• How a financial coach and a financial advisor can help you simultaneously
Chloe, aka Clo Bare Money Coach, saved more than $200k for retirement in a little over 2 years, and now she’s teaching others how to do the same. In the last year, she’s coached over 300 people on how to money. She started as a mental health blogger in 2017, and brings her mental health expertise into her financial coaching, focusing on providing people with a human-centric approach to managing their money.
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