Money Isn’t Scary - Money Mindset, Money Anxiety, Intentional Spending, Saving Money, Money Management

Meghan Dwyer - Financial Planner, Money Mindset Coach, Boy Mom
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May 1, 2025 • 16min

Staying Hopeful During a Difficult Financial Period

This week, I'm sharing some my experience going through a difficult financial period and provide thoughts and perspectives on how we can move through it, and stay hopeful.    Take a breath. Take your Time. Take care of yourself. 💛 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Apr 23, 2025 • 11min

Building Emotional Resilience—Navigating Fear and Reclaiming Your Calm

This week, I'm checking in. This year has been a wild ride so far, emotionally and mentally. I'm sharing my thoughts on emotional resilience, what it means and tools and strategies on how to do it in the moment, when we're feeling our most anxious.    Take a breath. Take your Time. Take care of yourself. 💛   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Apr 16, 2025 • 39min

Unplugging, Self-Parenting and Finding Balance with Hannah Brencher

This week, I'm sharing my conversation with Hannah Brencher. Hannah is a author, writer, and online educator who focuses her work on helping people to build more intentional and present lives. Hannah gives us all permission to question our own relationship with technology and dig beneath the surface to see what else might be going on.     Hannah founded The World Needs More Love Letters, a global community dedicated to sending letter bundles to those who need encouragement. Named as one of the White House’s “Women Working to Do Good,” Hannah has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Glamour, USATODAY.com, the Chicago Tribune, and more. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Lane, and daughter Novalee.   Find More From Hannah: Website: https://hannahbrenchercreative.com/ Sign up for The Monday Club Read The Unplugged Hours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week on the podcast, I'm sharing my conversation with author Ellen Hendriksen and we talk all things perfectionism. Ellen helps us to understand our perfectionistic tendencies more and shift our perspectives from rigid rules to living in alignment with our values.  Ellen is a clinical psychologist who will help you calm your anxiety and be your authentic self. She serves on the faculty at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) and is the author of HOW TO BE ENOUGH: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists as well as HOW TO BE YOURSELF: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety.   Find More from Ellen: https://www.ellenhendriksen.com/ Substack: How to Be Good to Yourself When Your Hard on Yourself   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want!   
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Apr 9, 2025 • 50min

How to Be Enough with Ellen Hendriksen

This week on the podcast, I'm sharing my conversation with author Ellen Hendriksen and we talk all things perfectionism. Ellen helps us to understand our perfectionistic tendencies more and shift our perspectives from rigid rules to living in alignment with our values.  Ellen is a clinical psychologist who will help you calm your anxiety and be your authentic self. She serves on the faculty at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) and is the author of HOW TO BE ENOUGH: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists as well as HOW TO BE YOURSELF: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety.   Find More from Ellen: https://www.ellenhendriksen.com/ Substack: How to Be Good to Yourself When Your Hard on Yourself   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want!   
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Apr 2, 2025 • 14min

Selling Self-Worth and the Cost of Beauty

In today's episode, I'm sharing my thoughts on how the pandemic has changed women's perception of themselves, our relationship with aging and diving into the numbers around how much we really spend to feel good about ourselves as we get older.    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Mar 26, 2025 • 16min

The Relationship Between Money and Loneliness

Today, I'm talking about the connection between loneliness and money. I talk about the impact that loneliness has on us, why we feel this way and what we can do about it. The opposite of loneliness is connection and I talk about the different types of connection - with others, with ourselves and with the world around us - as strategies to empower us to live more whole, honest and intentional lives.    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Mar 19, 2025 • 1h 3min

Finding Joy, Honoring Rest and Healing Our Relationship with Money with Kara Stevens

This week, I'm sharing my conversation with Kara Stevens. Kara is author of the book, Heal Your Relationship with Money and founder of the Frugal Feminista, a community focused on black women's financial empowerment and personal development.  Kara believes that every woman is a revolution unto herself. Her self-help books have inspired thousands of women to get right and tight with their passions, their finances, and their relationships. Through her work, she gives women the tools and inspiration to take off the mask that we wear and step into our authenticity so we can create a healthier version of ourselves – with money being just a piece of that overall pie.   Find More from Kara:  Get Her Book Frugal Feminista Follow Kara on IG   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Mar 12, 2025 • 46min

Feel Good Finance: Untangling Your Relationship with Money with Aja Evans

This week on the show, I'm joined by Aja Evans, a licensed mental health counselor, financial therapist and author of Feel Good Finance - Untangling Your Relationship with Money.  Aja talks all things financial therapy, including emotions, shame, self-worth and coping strategies - and we're here for it!  Aja Evans is a board-certified therapist, speaker, and writer specializing in financial therapy. Armed with eternal optimism and a passion for helping others, Aja has been in the mental health industry for over a decade. After going through her own financial awakening, Aja made financial therapy a pillar of her work. Aja is determined to help more people break the taboo of keeping money and emotions secret. She strives to create a safe, comfortable, judgment-free place to begin working towards a better you. In addition to her practice, Aja is the President of the Financial Therapy Association board and the author of Feel Good Finance.  Aja is on a mission to get more people engaged in living their best lives while attuning to their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around money. She has been featured in a variety of major news outlets including The New York Times, Business Insider, NerdWallet, Time and Teen Vogue. Find and Work with Aja:  Instagram Website Get Her Book ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Mar 5, 2025 • 13min

Understanding Jealousy: What It Reveals & How to Grow from It

This week, I'm sharing my thoughts on jealousy. Hot off a recent vacation, I find myself struggling to talk about the trip for fear that others will get jealous and/or feel bad about themselves. Today, I dig into what these feelings are, why we experience them and what we can do with those feelings to get closer to our truest and most whole versions of ourselves.    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 
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Feb 26, 2025 • 54min

You Don’t Need A Budget with Dana Miranda

This week on the pod, I'm sharing my conversation with the incredible Dana Miranda. Dana is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance (CEPF), an author and a personal finance journalist. In her recent book, You Don’t Need A Budget -Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money with Ease", she writes about how capitalism impacts the ways we think, teach and talk about money. She’s the founder of Healthy Rich, a platform for inclusive, budget-free financial education, working with organizations, schools and companies dedicated to making money better for folks who are often left out of the conversation about money   Find More From Dana:  Get her book: https://www.youdontneedabudget.com/ Subscribe to Healthy Rich and Listen to her podcast: https://www.healthyrich.co/   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in working 1:1 with me? I'm now officially a Certified Money Coach (CMC)® where I work with you to create greater balance, a higher consciousness and help you transform your relationship with money. This goal of this work is to guide you to a deeper understanding of the unconscious beliefs and patterns we carry that create stress and fear and hold us back from living the life that you want. You can book a quick 15-minute call here so I can learn more about you and your goals for the program.  I'm so excited to be able to connect with you on a deeper level and help you discover what's blocking you from living the life you really want! 

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