About this episode

Haley Sacks discusses how to overcome limiting money beliefs and take control of your financial power.

When's the last time you actually looked at your bank account without cringing? Amanda Goetz sits down with Haley Sacks (a.k.a. Mrs. Dow Jones), the internet's favorite financial expert, New York Times best-selling author of Future Rich Person: The New Rules for Building Wealth, and the woman behind the over two-million-strong community Mrs. Dow Jones. Haley built her entire brand on making money feel less shameful and way more accessible. And in this conversation, she gets into exactly how she did it (and how you can too). They cover why most of us were never actually taught how to manage money (spoiler: it's not your fault), why "deprivation" is the worst financial advice, the money beliefs we absorb before we even turn seven (!!), and why looking rich and being financially powerful are two very different games. Haley also gets real about her own money trauma, her parents' complicated relationship to wealth, and the "aha money moment" that changed everything for her. Key Takeaways: People can inherit money, but nobody inherits financial literacy, which means anyone can build it from zero. There's a floor to how much you can cut from your spending, but there's no ceiling to how…

People in this episode

Host: Amanda Goetz

Guest: Haley Sacks

Topics covered

• financial literacy
• money management
• wealth building
• money beliefs
• financial empowerment

Keywords

• money beliefs
• financial trauma
• wealth
• money management
• financial literacy
• money dates
• financial empowerment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times

Books & works: Future Rich Person: The New Rules for Building Wealth

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