Summer Money Reboot Week #1: Which Financial Season Are You In?
About this episode
Mandi kicks off the Summer Money Reboot series by introducing the concept of financial seasons and how to navigate them.
Hey BA fam, Mandi is back (!) in the studio and kicking off a brand new Summer Money Reboot series. In this kickoff episode, Mandi shares why she rewrote her book into Brown Ambition: How to Reboot Your Career and Money After Life Throws You Off Track and introduces a new framework for thinking about your finances when life is life‑ing: the four financial seasons. You’ll learn: • Why “I did everything right” and still feel stuck is more common than you think. • The four financial seasons: Safety, Growth, Alignment, and Protection—and the main job of each. • Why you cannot and should not try to be in all four seasons at once. • How to start naming your current season (without shaming it) using real questions about your debt, savings, income, and stress level. • Why it’s taking so many of us years, not months, to bounce back from layoffs, caregiving, and health challenges—and why the old “3‑month emergency fund” advice doesn’t match reality anymore. Instead of trying to fix your whole financial life by Labor Day, this series will help…
People in this episode
Host: Mandi
Topics covered
- financial seasons
- money management
- career reboot
- personal finance
- financial planning
Keywords
- financial seasons
- money reboot
- personal finance
- career
- budgeting
- emergency fund
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Brown Ambition: How to Reboot Your Career and Money After Life Throws You Off Track
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