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]]>Holistic Wealth Coach Paige Brettle On Her Transformation Journey with The Institute on Holistic Wealth
In this exciting episode of the Holistic Wealth podcast with Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth Coach Paige Brettle talks about her transformation journey with the Institute on Holistic Wealth. Paige Brette is a Certified Holistic Wealth Coach/Consultant and Global Holistic Wealth Day Ambassador for Canada. Paige Brettle is on track to becoming a Master Coach/Consultant with the Institute on Holistic Wealth, having completed three certification programs with the Institute including the Certified Holistic Wealth Consultant Program, the Trauma of Money Certification program and the Holistic Healing Certification program. As a Global Holistic Wealth Day Ambassador for Canada, Paige outlines how the Institute on Holistic Wealth has transformed her journey as a financial advisor working in the field with women and finances.
In this interview, Paige outlines how the certification programs at the Institute on Holistic Wealth, have impacted her career journey and her life in general. To date, the Institute on Holistic Wealth has launched ten 10 coaching/certification programs related to Holistic Wealth and Holistic Living that allow learners to apply them in their careers and businesses for ongoing growth and transformation. Paige’s journey highlights the successes of the Institute on Holistic Wealth and the profound impact of the Institute on Holistic Wealth in the field.
In 2024, women continue to earn less money on the dollar than their male counterparts, meaning that women potentially may have less in retirement savings than men. A 2023 study from Pew Research Center found that white women earn about 83% of what men earn, but women of color earn even less — about 70% for Black women and 65% for Hispanic women. The gender pay gap often means that women have less to save and invest than men. The gender pay gap also results in women having less retirement income than men. It is against this backdrop that the Institute on Holistic Wealth has been training and empowering Holistic Wealth Coaches to empower their communities.
In Holistic Wealth Expanded and Updated book, the issues of income inequality, high debt and high levels of stress, anxiety and burnout are heavily discussed. Tune in to listen to this amazing episode of the Holistic Wealth podcast with special guest Paige Brettle.
Resources Used In This Episode:
Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons To Help You Recover From Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose and Achieve Financial Freedom
Certified Holistic Wealth Consultant Program
Trauma of Money Certification program
Holistic Healing Certification program
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Paige’s journey as a financial advisor and her journey to becoming a Master Consultant with the Institute on Holistic Wealth.
- Paige’s experience with empowering women in her community and helping her clients using the skills and tools available through the Institute on Holistic Wealth.
- Paige’s perspective on women’s wealth, and the importance of financial planning for women.
- Paige’s perspective on the certification programs at the Institute on Holistic Wealth and why they are critical to ongoing learning and career development.
- Learn about Keisha Blair’s “Dry Bones” analogy and why Paige thinks it’s critical to Holistic Wealth and overcoming setbacks.
- Learn about plans for Global Holistic Wealth Day 2024 celebrations in Canada.
- Paige’s personal financial identity and how it has shaped her spending and investing philosophy.
Listen to the Full Episode:
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Also check out this recent Holistic Wealth podcast episode on Loud Budgeting with 50 Practical Examples to get you started:
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]]>Financial Survivor’s Guilt has been increasing during COVID-19, and with over six million lives lost around the globe to COVID-19, there are millions of people around the globe now dealing with survivor’s guilt and financial survivors guilt. In this exciting episode of the Holistic Wealth podcast, we have an exciting solo episode on how to cope with financial survivor guilt. We’re also in the midst of a high-inflation period, with rising gas prices, rising food prices and rising interest rates. The pandemic has caused us all to look more deeply at our lives to examine the direction we want our post-pandemic lives to take. In this episode, I will walk you through effective strategies to cope with financial survivor’s guilt, including the guilt associated with an inheritance. In the NEW Holistic Wealth Expanded and Updated: 36 Life Lessons To Help You Recover From Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose and Achieve Financial Freedom, there are many strategies throughout to help you master the “Art of Recovery From Disruption”. Tune in to listen to this episode of the Holistic wealth podcast with Keisha Blair.
What is Financial Survivor Guilt?
Financial Survivor’s guilt is when a person has feelings of guilt because they inherited a sum of money related to the loss (often the death of a loved one such as a spouse, parent, or other family members). It is often worse when the loss is sudden, tragic and unexpected. It is a common reaction to traumatic events and a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In addition, there are many instances where several people who still have jobs and financial security felt guilty about having been spared while others lost their jobs. In a 2018 study, researchers surveyed people who were receiving treatment from a traumatic stress clinic in the U.K. They found that 90% of participants who had survived an event when others had died reported experiencing feelings of guilt.
As the Founder of the Institute on Holistic Wealth, I’ve heard many widows and other clients refer to their life insurance payout as “blood money”. It’s associated with the death of a loved one so it comes with intense emotions filled with grief, loss and tragedy. The Trauma of Money Certification program at the Institute on Holistic Wealth is also designed with strategies to cope with financial survivor guilt.
How To Cope with Financial Survivor Guilt
These are a quick list of some strategies to help you cope with financial survivor guilt (Listen to the full episode of the podcast):
- Practice Gratitude – practicing daily gratitude through writing in a gratitude journal or dropping notes in a gratitude jar – which helps with reducing stress, anxiety and financial survivor guilt.
- Focus on Mindfulness – Regular and sustained mindfulness practice has been shown to improve attentional control, increase awareness of internal and external experiences and reduce stress.
- Know Your Personal Financial Identity– Take the Personal Financial Identity quiz on the Institute on Holistic Wealth website and regain control of your spending habits.
- Embrace the Holistic Wealth Method – Think of all your decisions as either a depletion or addition to your holistic wealth bank account – and focus on activities that enrich you.
- Positive Self-Talk – can stop catastrophic mind chatter that causes work stress and keep you calm in stressful situations and boost your financial confidence.
- Find Your Purpose (Your Why) – Remember your “why” and embrace your mission and purpose (refocus and re-energize).
In this special solo episode of the podcast episode, I will walk you through all of these steps outlined above and explore the different considerations as well as strategies for coping with financial survivor guilt. I discussed various strategies from my new book: Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons To Help You Recover From Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose and Achieve Financial Freedom. Tune in to this exciting episode of the Holistic Wealth podcast with Keisha Blair.
Resources Mentioned In This Episode:
Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons To Help You Recover From Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose and Achieve Financial Freedom. Now Available. E-book now available for just .79 Cents on Amazon.com, and .99 cents on Amazon.ca
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- What is financial survivor’s guilt? What are the symptoms and why is it so important?
- Why it’s so important to identify financial survivor’s guilt, including some lessons and context from the NEW Holistic Wealth Expanded and Updated book by Keisha Blair.
- Learn some tips and strategies for coping with financial survivor’s guilt such as mindfulness, and being intentional by design.
- Learn why embracing your purpose in life is critical to reducing stress and finding more meaning.
- How the Holistic Wealth Method (developed by Keisha Blair and outlined in Holistic Wealth) helps you to effectively manage stress and anxiety.
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]]>Financial anxiety is anxiety caused by money and/or personal finances, that causes feelings of fear, anxiety, worry, stress, and a range of negative emotions. Financial anxiety doesn’t have to be caused by a lack of money or a dire financial situation. COVID-19 has also led to a rise in financial anxiety. A recent scientific brief released on March 2, 2022, by the World Health Organization, highlighted that in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%. A new study by Meridian released in February 2022, also found that more than half of Millennials in Canada are still worried and anxious about their finances.
The root of this underlying apprehension may come from childhood: the study revealed that 51 percent of millennials said they are still coping with leftover financial anxiety. Compared to other generations, the cohort was most likely to say that money caused tension in their households growing up (20 percent) or that their parents were “always worried about money and they were too” (30 percent). That’s how more than half of the generation (56 percent) learned to save and set financial goals, and what lead most of them (79 percent) to feel knowledgeable about money when they left home.
As the Founder of the Institute on Holistic Wealth, I have heard from many women in my coaching programs, that even when they are in a “state of abundance” they’re still worried about money. Those who suffer from financial anxiety are in a perpetual state of worry and fear about day-to-day bills, day-to-day spending, investing, and it can be very debilitating for some people.
Financial anxiety can be more severe than being concerned about having enough money in your bank account. It manifests similarly to the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, such as tension, worried thoughts and irritability. People might avoid checking their finances, avoid conversations about money with their spouse, but become hypervigilant and have obsessive thoughts around money. In the NEW Holistic Wealth Expanded and Updated: 36 Life Lessons To Help You Recover From Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom, I also went deep into these issues.
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How Our Past influences Our Emotions and Money Decisions Today
We just launched the Certified Trauma of Money Consultant Program at the Institute on Holistic Wealth, and I’ve also heard from a lot of women that I have coached, that when they examine their financial anxiety it’s often rooted in the past, from childhood and growing up in a low-income situation or seeing feast and famine patterns in their family lineage. Unresolved financial trauma from the past can lead to financial anxiety, which can also further lead to making sub-optimal financial decisions over a lifetime, potentially costing individuals hundreds of thousands of dollars, from an investment perspective. As a Trained Economist, I see this in terms of risk and investment behaviour every day. In the Certified Trauma of Money Consultant program, we identified a host of factors such as scarcity mindset, cognitive overload and stress as causes of financial anxiety, among many others. Our past experiences around money can be directly responsible for our emotions around money today.
Strategies and Tips To Cope With Financial Anxiety
Know Your Personal Financial Identity.
I created the Personal Financial Identity Framework and Quiz to help people identify and embrace the strengths and weaknesses of their personal financial identities. Some people are Anxious Spenders (see Quiz on the Institute on Holistic Wealth website), where spending even $20 to $30 creates anxiety, even if it’s budgeted for. Often, that’s also rooted in childhood experiences around scarcity. Most of us transition into adulthood not having gained a sense of our personal financial identities and end up making mistakes of the past.
Our Personal Financial Identities are “Relational” – that is, they are directly influenced by those around us from childhood to adulthood. Their perceptions around money and their attitudes towards money – even the words that we heard related to money, influenced this relationship and identity around money. Once you know your personal financial identity and you know why you are having this anxiety around money, you are better able to make decisions and become more confident and happy in your purchasing and investment decisions.
Gratitude and Money Mindfulness are Important
Once you are self-aware and you know the root causes of your financial anxiety you are better able to regulate your emotions around money. Seek out resources, courses and/or a coach to help you with financial anxiety. As stated above, self-awareness is key to addressing the problem but also knowing how to rewrite a new personal money story for yourself around your financial goals is also critical.
Develop A New Relationship With Money
At the Institute on Holistic Wealth, we teach people how to rewrite their personal money stories after past money trauma. Coaching also helps as well as other resources such as books and podcasts. The Holistic Wealth podcast with Keisha Blair has had many guests who have gone through money trauma and share tips and insights on how they dealt with it. My book Holistic Wealth also highlights some key money blocks to success, and how to recognize them to overcome money trauma and financial anxiety.
There are many strategies outlined in my new book Holistic Wealth, that addresses money trauma in a holistic way. The Certified Trauma of Money Consultant program is a cutting-edge program delivered by the Institute on Holistic Wealth, that is designed not only to help you heal your money trauma but also to equip you with a certification to help others heal and rewrite their personal money stories.
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]]>On season two of the Holistic Wealth Podcast with Keisha Blair, in episode 29, I spoke with Jena-Sophia, Subconscious Specialist about healing ancestral money blocks. Jena-Sophia is a world-renowned subconscious specialist and healer who has worked with celebrities, Fortune 500 CEOs, athletes and high-performers. According to Jena-Sophia: “on a very energetic level, we are all connected to our ancestors”.
“The same eggs for example, that were in your mother’s womb, she was holding that life before you came. So you are actually absorbing the traumas, the perceptions and the programs and patterns that came before you. So a really great place to start to try to figure out your ancestral money blocks is looking back at what your parents or caregivers, were saying about money. What was the generation before that saying about money and really looking at the lineage of how money was talked about and related to how much you felt worthy of what you thought you could and couldn’t do”.
How The Subconscious Mind Works
In order to fully understand how these ancestral money blocks are passed down, it’s useful to understand how the subconscious mind works. According to Jena-Sophia, if you think of an iceberg, and think about the very tip of the iceberg that you can actually see, as being the conscious part of you – which is about 5%. Then there’s this huge iceberg underneath: the subconscious, which is all your patterns and programs, and things you’ve picked up from society, from parental programming, all of these things are creating a perception of what you can and cannot do. So between the third trimester, to the age of seven, our subconscious mind is being solidified.
Three Ancestral Money Blocks To Abundance
There a few major money blocks as it relates to achieving financial freedom and abundance. These major money blocks are also discussed at length in my book Holistic Wealth. These blocks could also be ancestral money blocks (or blocks that developed over time through various influences).
1. A Scarcity Mentality
In the Holistic Wealth Personal Workbook, I outlined in detail the major characteristics of the holistic scarcity mindset. People who languish in a holistic scarcity mindset are convinced that abundance is scarce, so they think of life in terms of win-lose terms. This belief system sees the world as a zero-sum game. If someone else has more – it means I will have less and vice-versa. They struggle to feel financially secure, it’s a very limiting belief system, that also values ego above all else, and views setbacks as a permanent constraint rather than temporary.
If you carry this belief system, it’s ok, it might have been passed down from generations, from systems of oppression, even systemic racism and barriers. It’s also good to have a firm sense of self-awareness, forgiveness and healing.
2. Net Worth Equals Self-Worth
The second major money block is a belief system that your net worth is tied to your self-worth and that having a certain salary or title – or a certain net worth makes you better or worst than others. Inevitably, this belief system can lead to disaster, if your self-worth is constantly tied to your net worth. On any given day or any given life-altering setback, it could mean that you see yourself (or someone else) as a failure.
Again, in certain cultures, in some families, more prominence is given to those who are seen as successful, when “success” is only tied to net worth or material possessions. This is another example, of how ancestral money blocks can manifest themselves.
3. The Comparison Game
Comparison to others puts you into an energy and mind frame of lack and scarcity. When you release this money block, and channel gratitude instead, you will begin to feel more abundant. The comparison game starts very early in our lives, within families, with siblings, friends, on the playground – and for simple things. In adulthood, it can turn into jealousy, envy, and even intense dislike. It fosters competition and rivalry – and eventually leads to a situation where we constantly move the goal-posts in an effort to out-compete and out-do.
Change this paradigm and start to celebrate the successes of those around you. Start with gratitude for your own unique journey and purpose and the universe will respond in kind.
Three Ways To Attract Abundance
Now that we’ve identified some of the major money blocks, there are some great ways of healing your money mindset and releasing these ancestral money blocks, in order to live an intentionally designed life.
Honor Your Own Money Story
When you release ancestral money blocks and become self-aware about your own personal relationship with money you can begin to re-write your own personal money story. That process begins with knowing your own personal financial identity. I developed the Personal Financial Identities Framework based on my book Holistic Wealth, along with a free quiz to help you identify your own personal financial identity. This will enable you to start honouring your own money story and to help identify your own money blocks to abundance (including ancestral money blocks).
Embracing your own personal financial identity allows for self-awareness, self-preservation and self-advocacy. Whenever you feel anxiety, worry or stress around a certain money decision, practice the Holistic Wealth Method, that I outlined in Holistic Wealth, and start to think of your decisions as depletions or additions to your holistic wealth bank account. Use your personal financial identity to start re-writing your personal money story and you will immediately start to feel a shift in energy and abundance.
Release Your Fears and Embrace Holistic Healing
Ancestral money blocks often involve emotions wrapped up in fear and feelings of self-worth. It’s important to release trauma and fear and anxiety around money. Holistic healing addresses the mind, body, health and wealth connection to allow for a more holistic approach to healing our anxieties and stress associated with trauma. The Institute on Holistic Wealth has a self-paced, online course on holistic healing.
Say A Prayer For Abundance and Forgiveness
Spiritual self-renewal is an amazing part of healing and compassion. Prayer also allows us to manifest the life we want and to release ancestral money blocks and traumas. I wrote an article about the Four Laws of Spiritual Self-Renewal, which is also instructive. On the Holistic Wealth podcast, Jena-Sophia also recommended this Hawaiian prayer below.
HO’OPONOPONO: A BEAUTIFUL HAWAIIAN PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS
Gratitude is immensely powerful. The practice of Ho’oponopono healing is simple and so effective. It works on a subconscious level, so it’s the idea that anything that comes into my reflection is something that I have within me, even if I don’t see it. This is especially so with ancestral money blocks.
The ho’oponopono prayer goes like this:
“I’m sorry, Please forgive me, Thank you, I love you.”
You can repeat this prayer (or a prayer that you are comfortable with), anytime you’re going through a difficult time. Anytime you have something come into your awareness that you don’t like or that brings you feelings of anxiety or stress.
I’m looking forward to hearing about your successes in releasing ancestral money blocks. If you need additional help with money mindset coaching, you can sign up here. If you’re interested in helping others improve their money mindset and release ancestral money blocks, become a Certified Holistic WealthTM Consultant.
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