A woman raised by a mother who never spent money struggles to enjoy spa days with her daughters. Ramit Sethi asks what a more relaxed life would look like, then pushes her to text her girls an invitation right then. She does it, they say yes, and the shift from insight to action happens in minutes.
What's making you cry when we talk about your daughters seeing you enjoy your money?
I wish I could. I wish I could just do that, go out and just enjoy the money with my kids. It's just hard. It's hard. It's not something I've learned to do. I don't know if it has to be from the way I was brought up with my mom, because I never saw her spend money.
If you could spend a little bit more, relax a little bit more, live in your rich life, what would it be?
I would do more things with my girls.
Mm-hmm.
We would take them to the spa.
Can we just do this right now? Do you want to text them?
Yeah, I would love that.
Really? Okay. Pull out your phone.
You want to read what she wrote?
Yeah. You asked them, would you like to do a spa day with Mommy? She said, yeah, sure, we would love to. What's wrong though? Your response was awesome. Mommy and Poppy work really hard and I would love to treat you and your other daughter to have some fun. And your daughter wrote, oh, okay. Yeah, sounds good. Tell Ramit Sethi I said hi and I love him.
