Todd Havens: Why Most People Don't Have a Money Problem, They Have a Thinking Problem SB1895
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Todd Havens discusses the mental barriers to financial security and shares his personal journey with money and health.
Todd Havens spent decades dreaming of a net worth of zero, just breaking even felt like an impossible finish line. Then, in 2021, at the height of COVID, a doctor delivered news that would reframe everything: incurable blood cancer, tumors too numerous to count. What follows is one of the most honest, wide-ranging conversations this show has had about money, mortality, and the difference between being rich and actually being wealthy. Todd is now in remission, a self-made millionaire, and the author of a book built entirely around one idea: the biggest obstacle to financial security usually isn't a spreadsheet problem. It's what's happening between your ears. What You'll Walk Away With Why disability insurance and life insurance, the coverage nobody wants to pay for, turned out to matter more than almost anything else when the worst actually happened The "money dam" framework for deciding, moment by moment, what's actually worth spending on Why believing you "deserve" financial security might be the single most important money belief there is A game that separates helpful money beliefs from dangerous ones, and why "I'll save more when I make more" quietly sabotages people for…
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