Cash Confident with Brie Sodano
Welcome to Cash Confident an original podcast with Brie Sodano. Cash Confident is an empowering podcast created specifically for women who are ready to take charge of their financial lives. In this series, we delve into the fascinating world of money, providing you with a wealth of practical tips and invaluable insights to help you cultivate a powerful relationship with your finances.
Join host Brie Sodano, personal finance expert and founder of the Cash Confident Community each week as she equips you with the necessary tools and knowledge to confidently navigate the complexities of money management. But Cash Confident goes beyond just managing your money; it also delves into the realm of mindset and emotions, exploring the profound impact they have on our financial decisions. We explore how our beliefs, attitudes, and emotions shape our relationship with money, shedding light on the subconscious factors that influence our financial behaviors. By uncovering these hidden patterns, we empower you to develop a positive and transformative money mindset that will propel you towards financial abundance.
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Cash Confident with Brie Sodano
Why Energy Matters When It Comes to Money
I once found myself at a crossroads, staring down the intimidating path of financial commitment and feeling the weight of every dollar and decision. That's the raw and real story I share with you today, to take you on a journey from a place of financial anxiety to a newfound sense of empowerment.
In a candid recount of joining George Bryant's high-stakes marketing mastermind, the emotional roller coaster I rode is laid bare. It wasn't just a marketing lesson—it was a battleground where I faced my deepest fears of scarcity and emerged with a fresh perspective on managing money.
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Welcome to the Cash Confident Podcast. I'm Brie Sedano, your fearless host, personal finance expert and the visionary behind the revolutionary Cash Confident community. Get ready to embark on an electrifying journey where we redefine the rules of money and empower women to harness the immense power to craft the life they truly, truly desire. This podcast is the ultimate resource, meticulously crafted, for women who are ready to unleash their financial prowess and embrace a life of abundant success. We leave no stone unturned as we delve into the depths of money management, mindset mastery and the undeniable influence of emotions on your financial decisions. Prepare to rise above the societal limitations and break free from the chains that have held you back, as we equip you with the tools and knowledge to make bold, confident choices with your cash. We believe that true financial power begins with knowledge, and that is exactly what we deliver. So buckle up, my fierce and ambitious friends, as we embark on this transformative journey to becoming cash confident together. Oh hello, bruce Zdeno here. I'm here on the Cash Confident Podcast.
Speaker 1:If you are watching this live today, I'm outside on my deck. You may hear some birds singing. It is so beautiful outside that I could not bear. I could not bear to record this episode in the house. It's like springtime in Connecticut, which, if you have ever visited the Northeast, you'll know that winter is long. Winter is long and a lot of times spring is short. So here we are at the end of April Such a beautiful day. I'm in a tank top. Today we're going to be.
Speaker 1:I just want to explain something around the energy of money and what this has to do with mindset, what this has to do with money management, and I'm going to. I really I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to tell you this is one of my stories, so this story is before COVID. I was a couple of years into business and I wanted to join this marketing mastermind with this man that I find to be brilliant and his name is George Bryant and his mastermind. At the time that I was in, it was $2,500 a month, which was a big, which was a big payment for me. That was a lot of money to me at the time and I joined the mastermind. I did it on purpose and I freaked myself out so hard about this. I, even though I did what I wanted to do like I made this decision on purpose. Fear started to drop into my body, scarcity started to drop into my body. My mind started bothering me all the time about you're not going to have money to pay your staff and be in this mastermind. You're not going to have enough money to do this, you're not going to have enough money to do that. And we're talking self-torture levels of mental chatter here. We're talking really like my mind was so hard bothering me. Since then I've trained my mind quite a bit better. At that point in my life my mind was reasonably well-trained but I didn't have enough authority over it to just be like dude. We're changing the subject here Like I wasn't there yet in my own mental and personal development.
Speaker 1:And about a few months into this mastermind there was a live event that was in California and it was a February event and, like I just said, february in Connecticut is the dead of winter, it is snowy, icy, 12 degrees like real cold. And I call this man I'm going to quit his mastermind because I'm like I just don't have the money for the plane ticket, I don't have the money to. I just I just couldn't do it. Like the stress of the scarcity was so bad that I called him to quit the mastermind and he basically tells me more or less that I'm being reactive and I was like, oh, you're right. And he was like listen, the event is already paid for, breed, just come, just come. And if you need to quit the mastermind after that, then quit it. But this thing is already paid for, so so come, there's so much value to get. And I was like all right.
Speaker 1:So I put, uh, the plane tickets on my credit card. Uh, probably the last like available balance. At that time I don't think I also had a ton of credit I don't actually love. I don't. My relationship with credit isn't the best. Like I don't find, like I won't. I'm not going to be one of those people that uses their credit card to get points and stuff. Like I'm just, when I have credit cards, I just don't look as closely at my money and I do this work. I just want to put that out there, because sometimes people think that using your credit cards like some mark of success and it could be, but it's also not so anyways.
Speaker 1:So I put this M on my credit card or put the plane tickets on the credit card and, luckily, the way that the event was structured, it really minimized the amount of time or the amount of like triggers that I was Like the amount of time my scare suit was going to be triggered so I shared. We got an Airbnb with a whole bunch of people and so the cost on that was super, super low and it was all right. And then I had somebody from the mastermind was landing at the airport at the same time, so we got myself and another woman got a ride with somebody Perfect, we were all going to the same places, so that was good. So I didn't have to pay for an Uber. We stopped at the grocery store to pick up a couple of things. I didn't really need it that much and just it was like the whole time I'm like not really having to use my debit card, which was beautiful, right, the food was included. The food was beautiful, the food was healthy, it was included in this retreat and so I got there in such a tight, constricted state of scarcity, but like day one I'm feeling like pretty good.
Speaker 1:Also, you get to Southern California in February. The weather is there, the flowers are blooming, like I remember when I was on that retreat, every morning I got up a little bit before the sun. I wake up early on East Coast time, so I was actually up in the middle of the Pacific Coast time waiting for the sun, but I was like, oh, smelling roses, like I went out and I like really was with the abundance that was already springtime in nature and there was something about that was super deeply nourishing for me, just sniffing the flowers, just smelling. The house that we stayed at had the most beautiful roses, like rose garden, like extraordinary, and the flowers were already bloomed and already like fragrant, and there was a kumquat tree that had. It was the neighbor's kumquat tree, it wasn't the house that we were in, but the branches were picking over and I plucked one and they're not delicious. I'll tell you what I thought. Maybe it was going to be like a mandarin. No, a kumquat is quite sour. I would imagine it would be delicious like the way that you would use a lemon, but I took a whole bite of that thing. Not took a whole bite of that thing. Not delicious In that form. I would say that kumquats are probably quite delicious in forms that are appropriate for their level of sourness. All right, I digress. So that happened In this event, the first day I get there we go in.
Speaker 1:I feel so out of place, I feel like I don't belong here. I feel like these people are. These people know what's going on. They're good at business I'm new to business they know what they're doing with marketing. I don't know what I'm doing with marketing. Like they know stuff, they're better off than me, like blah, blah, and these are the stories. So I'm feeling super out of place and as time goes on, it's fine. People are. We're all getting to know each other. Nobody has their stuff together the way that I think they do. Right, everybody's. Yeah, this is my problem.
Speaker 1:I noticed that people making seven, eight figures, you know, are in this mastermind learning marketing at this level, which makes me feel a little ahead of the curves. And I was like all right. And I was like also noticing people six, seven, eight figures all having cashflow issues and I was like, oh, this is a thing about business. Maybe it's not just like my personal failing right. I was like this is maybe a thing that happens to business owners from time to time is cashflow issues. And so that happens. And the days go on, I can feel myself open up. I can feel the energy, the free flowing, abundance of these spaces. I can feel it shifting me, changing me. I'm noticing the stress leaving my body. I'm noticing I'm like starting to see more possibilities. And the last day of that retreat I somebody's speaking, somebody was speaking.
Speaker 1:I got an idea and the idea was to turn on an ad that we'd already had, that was already existing in my ads account. And so I text, I text my operations director and said hey, can we turn on this certain ad? And she knew what we know what we're talking about. And she was like, yeah, of course. So we turned on the ad. I think I turned it on for 20 or $30. By the end of that day I had eight calls booked on my calendar, which at that point was eight sales calls. And the week that I got home from that trip I sold. I sold a bunch of those calls and I made $50,000 when I got home, which at that point in time was double. My biggest month in sales was double.
Speaker 1:And here's what I want to point out to you the idea that ad to turn on was available the whole time, but when I was so tight in scarcity, I was so tight in scarcity I couldn't find that idea. That idea, what like it just wasn't coming through to me. I wasn't there for it. I couldn't hear that little intuition, and so I was, you know, really suffering, like really suffering.
Speaker 1:And when the energy shifted, my inspiration, my ability to think got clearer, and I want to point this out to you, because so many of us live in scarcity and we make decisions from a place of scarcity and we never really have that chance open up to abundance, and the thoughts that we have while we're in scarcity are so drastically different from the thoughts that we have when we're in abundance. And so, like the thing that the thing that really helped me with this is that I took myself. So, listen, my house isn't like a scarcity house, but like I was so in my regular vibe there, my regular scarcity vibe, that the trip, the flat, like when it was the environment that shift shifted. For me, that helped me understand this. So this is something that it took for me to understand, but I'm explaining it to you so hopefully you don't have to go to California or wherever to understand what I'm talking about. So for me, that energy shifted right.
Speaker 1:So I was in a place full of life where, like in my house, connecticut, february is barren, still right, like full of birds singing, full of flowers. I was spared from, like the the that scarcity trigger of having to use my debit card, because I don't think the almost the whole trip I barely had to spend any money, and that was super, super helpful. So I got some reprieve right, because the food was already included and I think this trip somebody dropped off a case of wine to our house, which would so, even if we had everything that we needed at the house, nobody needed to go out for anything. We didn't have to go out. We just had everything that we needed at the Airbnb that we rented and I got to stay. It was a few girls like a few of the girls stayed together in this house and it was just such a delight. And so there was the slumber party beds and it was just so good, and so that shift in environment really helped me to move.
Speaker 1:That was there to support that vibrational state, and since then I've been able to. You know, I can change my vibrational state much more, like more, you know, more easily, more readily. But what was this 2019? In 2019 was five, five years ago. I was still learning quite a bit about energy. Since then I've, you know, I studied extensively, you know, the energy piece of wealth, and so, anyways, I just want to point this out to you because I think we sometimes we focus so hard on the mindset and listen, I love money mindset. I love, love, love money mindset, and money mindset is super important and is 1000% worth doing.
Speaker 1:And money management is another thing where sometimes people are coming to see me and they're trying to outmanage a problem that's really an energy problem. All right, like the best budget in the world is not going to make you feel a life of abundance. You're not going to feel abundant necessarily because abundance is an energy that you're hoping to cultivate. And money management is practical money management. It's beautiful, you should do it, but it's they're not the same thing. So this is just what I want to point out, and I just want to tell you this story because I think also, like sometimes people get a little ashamed of being in scarcity. I know I do, I do Also, this is my work, right. So sometimes when I'm in scarcity, it feels like I teach on this and sometimes I can't even get myself out of it or I can't even figure it out.
Speaker 1:And since then also back in 2019, I was also really fighting the scarcity. I wasn't letting it be my friend, I wasn't letting it be my teacher, I wasn't letting the energy of scarcity carry me through and be bought Like scarcity. Scarcity is really a wonderful friend and teacher when you're at that place where you can have a relationship with it. Now, when I'm in scarcity, I'm like hey, scarcity, you're here, what's that about? Oh, do you have something to teach me? All right, are we? Should I be doing something? Should I be looking for something? Is there, was there something there that we need to be doing? Right, scarcity is a big act. Like when you're in scarcity, there's generally like big actions and scarcity, I will tell you, has been the motivation for me to do some really ballsy shit in my day, right, and I just want to point that out too, because sometimes we just get so afraid of it.
Speaker 1:So today I just I want to tell you this story. I don't know. I just wanted to tell you this story. I felt I have an offer coming out, actually by the am I, yeah, I have an offer coming out at the time I'm recording this. That's called money magic and I'm just teaching these energetic principles. So it was just super alive in my mind. Oh, beautiful, I love you. I appreciate you. Thank you for listening to me and I will talk to you. I will talk to you a review.
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