Betsy GuerraBilingual Keynote Speaker, Psychotherapist/Coach, Author, Leadership Training and Life Coach Certification

I did not feel worthy... This is how I CHANGE IT #podcast #motivation

4 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, Betsy Guerra reflects on her early money mindset, shaped by a family culture of generosity that taught her to give away everything and feel guilty about receiving or spending on herself. She describes how this belief caused discomfort with receiving money and led her to teach others to avoid asking for help. To transform this limiting identity, Betsy adopts the Be‑Do‑Have model, redefining herself as someone equally worthy of wealth and abundance as anyone else. She outlines a concrete practice: each time she receives money, she closes her eyes, expresses gratitude, and consciously affirms her right to receive, thanking Jesus. This gratitude ritual replaces the old habit of pushing money away and helps her internalize a new, worthy self‑image.

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There was a time in which I had to do a lot of money mindset programming in my brain. I grew up with the belief that money is to give away to the poor. My dad is a very generous person, biggest heart I've ever known, and I inherited a little bit of that gene, but with some distortion. Give all you have to those who have a little bit less and sacrifice yourself in the process. And that hasn't served me. I taught people how to not do for me, how to not give me, 'cause I wasn't comfortable receiving. I didn't know how to receive or ask. That version of me felt guilty about keeping money, felt guilty about spending money on herself, felt guilty about going on a splurge, like, you know, splurging on something that she liked. And the new identity that I needed to tap into in order to process that Be-Do-Have model was someone who felt worthy of the same things that I believe other people are worthy of. So what did that look like? Every time I received money, I closed my eyes and I practiced is gratitude. Because that version of me was so grateful for everything. That version of me, instead of pushing it away because I don't know how to receive, that version of me was like, give it to me, baby, and thank you, Jesus.