💸 The Six-Figure Lie (and What It’s Costing You) with Becky Mollenkamp

About this episode

Rachel Duncan and Becky Mollenkamp discuss the concept of the 'six-figure lie' and how it affects our perception of enoughness in life and business.

EPISODE SUMMARYHave you ever told yourself "if I just hit that number, everything will feel okay" and then hit it, only to find the goalpost moved again? In this episode of the Money Healing Club podcast, Rachel welcomes Becky Mollenkamp — feminist business coach, speaker, and author of Liberate Your Business — to unpack the "six-figure lie": capitalism's story that there's a magic number that will finally make us feel like enough. Together they reverse-engineer what it actually means to define enough for yourself, covering the hedonic treadmill, enoughness as a practice, underearning, and collective action. "It always moves. It's never gonna be enough — and that's why we know it's a lie." — Becky Mollenkamp Key Takeaways: The six-figure (and now seven-figure) target is arbitrary, designed to keep you churning rather than arriving Enoughness isn't settling. The word literally means it's plenty and capitalism warped that Calculating your actual enough number line by line often reveals it's lower than you thought Underearning is just as much a product of the system as overconsuming; both sides deserve healing The three steps toward liberation: awareness, define your enough, lean…

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Duncan

Guest: Becky Mollenkamp

Topics covered

• six-figure lie
• enoughness
• capitalism
• underearning
• collective action

Keywords

• six-figure lie
• enoughness
• capitalism
• underearning
• collective action
• feminist business coach
• personal finance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Liberate Your Business

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