This is an excerpt of a YouTube video by Codie Sanchez titled "How Does Money Make You Feel?" In the clip she narrates an exercise at a women's conference where attendees were asked to physically represent what money feels like. Most participants made small, constricted movements, which Sanchez connects to broader cultural relationships with money and wellbeing.
I remember I was speaking at an event, and the woman in front of me did this really interesting thing. It was a women's conference, and she said, everybody, close your eyes. All the women in the audience, close your eyes. And I want you to make a physical representation of what money means to you. If you're happy, you're going to make your body move in a way that makes you feel happy. Like, what do you feel when you say the word money? What does that feel for you? And, like, make your body move? What was interesting is she goes, okay, nobody move, but open your eyes. And basically, what you saw across, like, 80 or 90% of the audience is I. You know, when I think about money, now, if somebody was to tell me, give me a physical representation of money, I'd be like, money. You know, I'd be like, yes, give it to me. Great. In the audience, it was like. If they were like. Like this. They were like, you know, money. Or like, money. It was like very small, tight movements. Actually, for some reason, most of us have this relationship with money, which makes sense because, you know, most Americans die overweight, alone and broken.
