Escaping Your Broke Girl Era: 5 Beliefs That Made Me Rich

What's up, you guys? Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are going to be talking about how I got out of my broke girl era. In this episode, I'm going to unpack for you 5 beliefs that helped me break free from my broke girl era, money books that changed my brain chemistry, what I did to stop feeling energetically poor, other random rituals that I did along the way that I swear helped to make me rich, and my advice for how to feel abundant even when you aren't in financial overflow. All right, let's dive in.

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So I want to start by giving some context to my quote-unquote broke girl era. When I was broke, I was living in Spain, and I wasn't like a sad broke girl. It was definitely a very happy era of my life because I had just declined my corporate job offers. Moved to Spain for the guy that I was falling in love with, and I was living in Europe. I was living in the center of Madrid. There was definitely this magical quality to my life, even though I didn't have a lot of money in the bank account and I was working a job that was earning me a poverty-level wage. And a lot of times I would get to the end of the month and not have money in my bank account. I remember vividly, I was just reflecting on this with a friend while I was in Spain a couple weeks ago, where like, remember when we were teachers in the schools and we used to be in like Facebook groups where all the teachers, all the assistant English teachers were. And every single month there would be people and they're like, hey, did you guys get your paycheck yet? Is anyone else's paycheck late? Mine hasn't— like, we were dying for those paychecks so badly because it was really to the point where we could not afford to get our MetroCards or to get groceries or to like really do anything until we were paid. And I remember it being so, so tight. So when they would be like a day or two or four late on paying us, or if there was like a Spanish holiday or a long weekend or something that came around the end of the month or the start of the month whenever we were supposed to get paid, and it disrupted the timing of when that money was going to hit our accounts. Like, a lot of us were really panicking and struggling. And I remember there are times where I had to ask Jaime to send me some money to my account just that I could get by until the paychecks came through. And so I was living without a lot of overflow, let's say. I really didn't have any overflow, to be quite frank. I had no money in my savings account. I basically spent the last couple thousand dollars that I had to my name essentially to get my visa, get my flights, put down the first and last month's rent on my— the room that I was sharing in this apartment that I was sharing with 10 other people. Sorry, 9 other people. There were 10 of us total in this apartment. And yeah, I was living with like one tiny European refrigerator with 9 roommates, no dishwasher, a tiny little— when I tell you guys Imagine 10 people living in a flat and having one of those like tiny little like cube garbage cans. The amount of times that that thing would be overflowing onto the kitchen floor around it— and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Like, it was sometimes— I was like, we are living in squalor. And with no dishwasher, it was pretty intense because people's plates and pans, like, they would leave them dirty with like egg or salmon crusted to them, and you would open the drawers and there would be nothing clean. And so you just have this pile of dirty dishes and you're like, well, if I want to eat, I have to clean someone else's shit so that I can have a plate so that I can eat off of. And yeah, I mean, maybe that's like— of course people have had it worse, but for me I was like, okay, I think I need to make a little bit of money so that I don't need to live in this situation anymore. One of the things that I am proud of myself for though in that era was that I never really stopped living. And so I still had a gym membership, I went to the gym even though it was one of the cheapest ones in my neighborhood. I still bought healthy food and did my grocery shops and like avoided, you know, eating out and doing those types of things, but really prioritizing eating healthy foods spending the money on that. And I also didn't let it stop me from traveling because there were a lot of cheap ways that I could travel in Europe at the time, whether it was just going places that I could get to by train if those tickets were cheaper, or even like staying in hostels. And not that I would want to do that again in my 30s, but I think in that time of my life it made sense. And I'm just happy that I didn't let the circumstances completely stifle my experience, and I was still able to get out there and to travel and to live and to have fun and just like take everything a little bit more lightly. I think there's an element of that being possible for me at that stage in my life, also because I was a lot younger. So this would have been when I was like 23, I guess, 23, 24. So there is a level of feeling that there's so much time, you're gonna have a lot of time to like figure your life out, like it's okay. You haven't really gotten to the place in life yet where you're like, I am literally fucked if I don't figure this out soon. And so I do think that that was a luxury that I had of being in my broke girl era when I was in my early and mid-20s, because I wasn't putting as much pressure on myself, I guess you could say. Because since then, you know, having moved to the US with my partner, and he had to start his whole life over and his whole career over, and there was a period of time where he was not allowed to work at all in this country. And so there was a big, like, identity upheaval and shift that he had to go through. And he was, like, in one of his, let's say, like, broke boy eras, for lack of a better term, and from no fault of his own. But watching him go through that in his early 30s was so much different than how I felt going through it in my early 20s. And so when I talk about this broke girl era, I just want to be really transparent with what that time was like. And although I definitely was living paycheck to paycheck and did not have any overflow or extra money or any savings— I was not investing, I was not building my wealth in any way, shape, or form— it also was not like the worst time of my life. I wasn't in a depression. I didn't feel like I was isolated or alone or totally fucked, right? Right? Like, I want to be really honest about what that period of my life was like. But nonetheless, I definitely wanted to do better for myself. And I think, you know, being someone who already feels like I'm quite a privileged individual, it felt like, let's not let this go to waste. And I think that's something really important that people that know that they have certain privileges in life should be able to recognize, is like, if you've been given a privilege, like, you should leverage that. Whether it's pretty privilege or financial privilege or white privilege or whatever it is, whatever privilege you've been given, like, you should definitely leverage that in your life to create something meaningful, to have impact, to build financial abundance for you and your family, and to be able to help others and donate and whatever. So it's like, use what you've been given. Don't, don't feel bad that you've been given these certain privileges. You should actually be leveraging them and using them to the best of your ability to make something of yourself. And so I definitely felt that. I felt this— I never felt like a victim, but I was kind of like, okay, this is like fun and cute and all, like this European era of like not making any money and being this like broke English teacher, but also like, I want to be a successful level person. Like, I want to run my own life, I want to make a lot of money, I want to build wealth. Like, I want to have a really successful, beautiful, abundant future. And so I always still saw that for myself as a possibility, and I was starting to work towards that. So that's kind of what this episode is going to be about— how I got out of that Broke Girl era and what were some of the things that I did. So I want to start with the 5 beliefs that really changed the game for me. The first one being that we remain at the level of abundance that we are prepared for. And this is one of those things where it's like, if you're in a victim mindset, this is a hard pill to swallow and you probably won't want to lean in. But what this means is that if you don't learn the lessons that your current financial state is trying to teach you, you won't be able to climb the abundance ladder, let's call it. A lot of times being broke or stuck in cycles of not having enough, even if you don't feel like I'm broke broke, but like it's almost feast and famine where like a lot comes in but then a lot goes out and you're just kind of stuck in these cycles, whatever your financial circumstance is that you're like, oh my God, like, I'm like, I want to break past this. I'm sick of this. A lot of times we get stuck in those cycles of not having enough, whatever that means to us, because that is trying to teach us something important so that we can move to the next level. And if you never learn the lessons that your current state is trying to teach you, then how are you going to get to that next level? So I think of life a lot like a video game. And so it's like, what level are you playing at right now? And you've probably played at lower levels and you've passed them and now you're here, but it's like, what is the thing that's stopping you from getting from this level of the video game to the next one? And sometimes what can be helpful for us to look at is like, okay, well, what is the lesson that I might be needing to learn in this season of my life, especially when it comes to money and finances so that I can get to that next financial breakthrough? Like the lessons could be anything and it, it really depends person to person, but it's like your lesson could be about like saving at a basic level. It could be about investing in yourself and trusting money to come back and not being like a martyr or the person that's last on your priority list, or pinching pennies for everything and not really pouring into yourself in, in that way. It could be about being a little bit more responsible with your budgeting and not being afraid to look at money and realize how much you've been spending and realize what your debt looks like. The lesson for you could be about being more comfortable with just talking about money, asking for money, sending follow-ups, like handling and Managing more money responsibly. It could be around changing your mindset or your language or your behavior around money. There are so many things that this current level of the video game could be trying to teach you, and you've got to be able to introspect and look at yourself and go, what is the money lesson that I continue to not pass? Like, what is the money lesson that keeps showing up in some way, shape, or form, and every time I fucking fail it? And that is why you're at the same financial level. One of the reasons why. But when we talk about the variables and the things that we can actually control and that we have agency over, which is what we want to look at because that's what an empowered person does, is they go, what can I actually do to affect change in my life and to influence improvement? This is one of those things. So the second belief is, and this one also might piss some people off.

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It's just because they're really like inconvenient. It's like, ah, fuck. Like, yes, I know that, but like, it's hard, right? So this one is: when you need nothing, you attract everything. And unfortunately, this means that money often flows to those who need it the least. Raise your hand if you've ever seen that. Because their energy is unattached, which means that they have the most leverage. Okay, so when you think about a negotiation, the person at the table who is most willing to walk way because they don't need the deal. That is the person that has the most power and is the most likely to end that negotiation with more money in their pocket because the other guy on the other side of the table actually needs him to say yes. And that person needs the result and needs the deal to close. And so they're gonna have to be willing to bend and to compromise and to sacrifice in order to meet some of the terms. Of the person who actually doesn't need the deal. Like, if I don't need you, I have the most power. If I don't need the deal to close, I have the most power. If I don't need the sale, I have the most power. I have the most leverage in the situation, right? Which is why a lot of people will try to bluff and act like they don't need things. But I think the energy of non-attachment has to be genuine. It can't really be faked. And so I think this is really like, in terms of being in this energy of like needing nothing and attracting everything, it's also just like a reminder that practicing gratitude and non-attachment are some the best ways that we can become more magnetic to money. Because if we're doing that, if we genuinely are practicing gratitude and we genuinely feel like, I trust myself enough to know that if this doesn't work out, something else will come along. And if the sale doesn't go through, then I'll get another one. And if this endeavor doesn't work out, then I'll be resourceful enough and smart enough and resilient enough to like figure it out and know what the next thing is. Like, the root of that a lot of times of non-attachment is self-trust and also like faith in something bigger and a plan for your life, in God, in, you know, feeling like you're not left alone to fight for all of the circumstances, because that's what allows you to kind of like throw your hands up energetically and be like, I'm gonna do my best, but also at the end of the day, like, I don't need anything because I'm always provided for, because everything is always going to be okay. And that is an energy that makes you so, so magnetic to money. And unfortunately, this is a lot easier said than done, especially when you're like, but I do need the money, right? Which we'll talk about a little bit more towards the end of the episode and kind of, you know, my perspective when it comes to feeling like you are in abundance even when you're not seeing all the dollar signs in the bank account, where you feel like you're not actually in, in financial overflow. How can you feel abundant without having to just constantly lie to yourself or make it up? But what I want to nail home here for this, like, second belief of when you need nothing, you attract everything, is that idea of, can I practice this self-trust? Can I lean into my faith? Can I be in gratitude? Can I be the guy at the table who doesn't need the deal to close because I know that everything is always going to work out for me and I'm always going to be provided for? And if it's not this, then it's going to be something better. That's how you kind of lean into the non-attachment that is so freaking magnetic to money. Belief number 3 is that peace of mind can be bought and sold. So I think this is important because it really put into perspective for me things that were worth the money or worth the investment. Whereas depending on where you are, sometimes you can be like, oh, you know, that's too much or it's not worth it to spend for X, Y, and Z thing. But when you realize that you are trading your peace in a lot of ways for things that you decide to maybe skip out on or not invest in, you realize that you're losing more than what you're gaining by keeping those few extra dollars in your pocket. So when you think about like buying your peace of mind, you might think about things like like paying for a security system, having health insurance. And we do this all the time in a lot of ways. It's like, how often— I mean, some people will use it more, but like, how often do you use your health insurance or your car insurance or whatever? But it's like, there's a peace of mind. Or your home insurance or flood insurance. It's like, you might never use the hurricane insurance or the flood insurance, but like, it's there because it gives you peace of mind. It's an investment that you're willing to make because you're like, this allows me to be at more ease. It allows me to be in a more relaxed state knowing that if something did happen, I would be taken care of. Another way that you can buy your peace of mind is something like a business class flight when you know it's going to be long and you want to arrive energized, and it's worth it for you to spend the extra money so that you can get good rest and lay down and eat a good meal and all those things. Ways that we sell our peace of mind is like, okay, for example, you sign a misaligned client in your business because you want or feel that you need the money, and so you have to accept this person because you're in scarcity of there's not going to be anyone else better that along, right? Going back to our previous point. So when you're in that, you, you're like, okay, whatever. Like, it's good money, I'll just do it. And then you realize that you just sold your peace. You sold a little bit of your soul for money. That over time is so much more expensive than being like, I'm gonna let the client walk, I'm gonna let this deal not go through. And that is something that really, really helped me start to like elevate in the way that I saw my own value and the value of my time and my energy and my peace. Belief number 4 comes from Alex Hormozi, and it says, money loves speed, wealth loves time, poverty loves indecision. This one was so good for me because as soon as I heard it, I was like, it all like clicked. I didn't even need to go deeper into the explanations of each of these little phrases inside of this quote. I was just like, yep, wow, that makes so much sense. But let's unpack it a little bit. So money loves speed, think like like moving quickly, giving fast replies to your customers, following up in a timely fashion with leads, being efficient with your job, delivering a service or accomplishing something for someone in less time. Think about Amazon. Something that made them one of the biggest giants in the world is because they essentially invented, in a way, this like overnight it can be at your door. They solve that problem by making it so much faster. So money really does love speed in a lot of ways. And why is that? It's because people will pay more for things that provide instant gratification. Right? You can also think about this in the sense of like fillers and Botox versus face yoga. Like, I just got some Botox because I'm gonna get married, and I'm like, could I spend 10 to 20 minutes every day doing the fucking facial fascia massage and trying to do face yoga? Yeah, I probably could, but do I think that I'm actually going to be consistent with that and do that because it's so time-consuming? No. So I went for the quick route, I went for the instant gratification route, and I got some Botox. Bucks, okay? It's like, also, some people will get certain surgeries rather than working out. Maybe they'll get a BBL instead of like trying to go to the gym for a year or more and really lift heavy and like build their glutes in a natural way. It's like the difference between having something delivered and having to go pick something up or like wait days for it to come. Like, money really does love speed. But let's talk about wealth loving time. This makes a lot of sense to me because True wealth is not about fast transactions, okay? So like, money does love speed when we're thinking about these other transactional things, but like wealth, when you think about the energy and the essence and the frequency of wealth, it's not fast transactional things. It's about like that compound effect that happens over time. So think about investments in properties or in stocks or like a high-yield savings account. It's compounded interest. This. It's all of the things that build true wealth requiring this sort of uninterrupted time, and it's really this slow build. So you kind of have to view money as a long-term game. And there's these classic quotes like, "The day you plant the seed is not the day that you eat the fruit," or, "You're sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." So those are all the reminders of like this idea of wealth being the slow build and something that happens over time and that compounds with every every small and big decision that you make. But like, planting and nurturing the seeds of financial success now would lead to the shade or the fruit to enjoy later in your life. And that shade might look like having freedom from your debts or a secure retirement fund or the ability to cost— to cover the cost of college for your children. Like, what that looks like to each of us is going to be different, but but there is this really important reminder of like, that's not going to happen suddenly in the future when you randomly have come into a bunch of money and you're suddenly wealthy. Like, wealth doesn't happen in quick transactions. It happens over long periods of time. It's a slow build. And so what you're doing right now in your life, especially like your literal financial life, is going to be very, very important to what your wealth looks like in the future. If you are not making investments, if you don't have high-yield savings accounts, if you are not putting your money into vehicle that are growing and compounding, you want to start doing that as young as possible. And the last part of this quote about poverty loves indecision— I mean, oh my goodness, if you get stuck in overthinking and indecision for your whole life, do you think that you're going to be the person that is at the top creating the wealth, being successful? No, obviously not. So this means that one of the fastest ways to repel money and wealth is to sit in indecision. Doing something is better than doing nothing, but most people are too scared to utilize the money that they have and take any level of risk with it, that they end up missing out on the benefits and they stay stuck where they are in the same cycle for years and years and years and years. And then they wonder why. Okay. Belief number 5 is to stop taking advice from people who aren't where you want to be. It's such a classic. I don't think it needs much of an explanation. We all know what this feels like. And sometimes you just have to remind yourself that you might not really even be asking for people's advice outright. Like, hey mom, hey neighbor, hey, so-and-so, like, what do you think about this? Should I take this opportunity? 'How are things going in my business? Do you think I should post this?' Like, it might not even be you literally outwardly asking people for advice, but more so in like the sneaky ways that you're allowing their opinions to infiltrate your mindset. That is a form of taking advice from people who aren't where you want to be. If you are engaging in conversations with them in any way, shape, or form that allows them to infect your ability to see your dreams as being possible or it affects your self-confidence, or it impacts you in a negative way to where you walk away from the conversation and you're a little bit more self-doubting, or you're like, huh, maybe I shouldn't go for that. Or maybe that is a risky move. Even though you didn't outwardly ask them for advice, you've engaged in a type of conversation with them that has opened you up, made you susceptible to being infected by their bad mindset or their limiting view of the world, of your potential, and of what's available for you. That's the ones that like you have to be careful about. It's not so much— I think we've all at this point realized like if your friend is broke and living on their mom's fucking couch, they can't say shit about your life and they can't tell you that you're cringy for posting on the internet because hello, like we need to get it together, right? That part is obvious. But other people don't realize that if you don't have any boundaries with the people that can be kind of like energy vampires or they're a little bit of Debbie Downers or they're the realists you know, in your life who's like always just trying to be super realistic, and you're like, listen, I'm trying to be so fucking unrealistic right now. If you're trying to be like so unrealistic with your dreams and believing what's possible for you, then you can't have those conversations with those types of people, even if you're not asking them for advice. You— it's gonna— oh, it's gonna seep in, it's gonna get to you, it's gonna fuck you over. Another bonus one that I think really deserves its flowers and I just wanted to throw in here is that poor people look for excuses and rich people look for solutions. I mean, point me to a poor person who isn't looking for everything wrong and isn't like blaming people for their life and their circumstances and asking and looking and expecting for handouts and for people to like bend down to lift them up and solve their problems for them, right? It's sad to say, but like that really is kind of how our world works. And a victim mentality is a sickness in that way. I think the worst thing that you can be in life for yourself. Like, not because it impacts me, because I just won't hang out with you for this type of person. But it's like, if you're a chronic complainer or you have a victim complex, it's bad for yourself. It's bad for you because as soon as you allow society to convince you that you are a victim of the system— whatever the system is, there's many of them— as soon as you allow society to convince you that you're a victim of the system or that you are owed something something by others, or that you need handouts, or that you need special attention because you are less than in some way— as soon as you allow society to convince you of that— this is what people don't realize about this, it's so subtle and insidious that people can't even see it because they look at that and it's framed as empowerment of like, we need to lift these people up and whatever. It's actually the most disempowering thing because as soon as you buy Then if you buy in and you say, yeah, the world's against me, yeah, history is against me, yeah, all the odds are stacked against me, you become a victim and you subconsciously believe that you can't be successful or as successful until the system is fixed. And so you stay stuck right where they want you to be. And this is what people are not willing to look at, and this is what they are not willing to recognize, is that they look at this and they're like, oh, but that's empowerment, that's helping others. No, they want you stuck. They want you to see yourself as a victim. Because what would happen if every woman in the world was empowered and independent and committed to creating her own success regardless of her history, her race, her gender, her family dynamics, her past traumas, her financial situation? It would be a dangerous fucking place because of how much power we would wield and how much change that we could make. And this is why, like, I take such an issue with modern feminism because so much of it is built around women being victims to the world. Victims. We're always constantly— the narrative is like, oh, the patriarchy, victim to the patriarchy, all men, it's always men, victim to these evil men. And if— listen, things can be wrong and we can recognize that, but if you are fighting so hard to prove to the world how oppressed you are or have been, then you are also proving that to your subconscious. Just think about that for a second. If you are spending so much time working so hard to prove to the world how oppressed you are, or you have been, or your group of people has been, then you're also proving that to your subconscious. And you will be constantly on the lookout for reasons to go, see, it's always a man, or see, this is what women go through. Listen, sometimes that even happens to me, but it's That's where we have to take such ownership, radical self-responsibility, to go, no, I'm not a fucking victim. That's not what I want to train my reticular activating system to look for in the world. I don't want that to be my filter. I don't want that to be the majority of the perspective that I have in this life. I think it's totally noble to fight for a cause, but you just have to be really careful that that cause doesn't turn you into a victim in the process. Because like I said, a victim mentality a sickness. It is a deadly fucking illness, and it is heavily contagious. So you need to be careful about it not infecting you and also other people around you. If you know they have it, you gotta keep your distance because it's gonna get you. It will get you. So I want to get into some of the, like, tactical and tangible things what I did to stop feeling energetically broke. As I reflected on my broke girl era and what it was doing at the time, and some of the things that I really think made a big difference for me, even though I wouldn't say like all of these things are applicable to what I'm doing now if I'm in more of like an era of, of an abundance or like in a rich girl era. But like I needed these things then and they really did work for me when I was in that period of my life. So one of the first things is that I was doing my daily 335 journaling. If you are an OG, you'll remember what the 335 journaling method was. I created it and I I have used it for years. And so now it's not something that I do every day, but sometimes I'll go through like seasons of my life where I'm like, I want to get like really connected back to my goals and improving my mindset. And so sometimes I'll go through like stints or seasons where I'll get back into my 3-5. But during my like broke era of life, I was doing this shit, I kid you not, every fucking day. And so the 3-3-5, if you want to try it and start practicing it, is 3 wins or celebrations, like things that you're like, yes, this is going right, because we want to look for the positives, look for the things that are going well in our lives. 3 gratitudes, so 3 things you're really grateful for. And then 5 big goals for your life. So the 5 big goals for your life are going to stay the same every single day until you reach or achieve them, or they kind of change because you're like, wait, I've changed and I don't necessarily want that anymore. Then you can of course feel free to swap them out. But the idea of the 5 big goals staying the same is that you almost ingrain them into your brain. You really like dig them deep into your subconscious, and you want to write those in like the present tense format of like, I am, I have, I love knowing, I am this, I've created that, I'm at this level, I create— like you want them to be present. So they're kind of like affirmation style, but you write them as the 5 big goals that you have for your life. This is— I mean, don't take the 3 through 5 for granted. This is actually really powerful. Okay, another thing that I did was. I remember a time living in Madrid where I was like, okay, all this like clutter, like physical clutter in my life is making me feel claustrophobic, it's making me feel overwhelmed. And so there is something to be said for like clearing physical space and allowing that to create this like energetic breath of fresh air and this openness of— you can manifest and attract things into your life when you have more space for them. And so a lot of times cleaning up your physical space can create a ton of energetic space for new things to come into your life. And so one thing that I did was I cleaned out our entire closet. One of the things that I know people dread all the time, but once you've done it, you're like, oh my God, I am that fucking bitch. You like walk into the closet on purpose multiple times, just be like— you're trying to show it to like every person in your family. You could look, look, you're like putting your hand down the shelf like, look at how well this is all folded. And then it's like, how long does it past. But anyways, cleaned out the entire closet and was really intentional about only keeping good quality items that I actually wore and just getting rid of everything else and making it nice and tidy and neat and more minimal. And that is something that I put it on this list because I remember doing it then, and I actually want to do this again because now that I've lived in this house for 3 years, the closet is busting at the seams. It's overflowing. There's piles of clothes. There's things where they do not belong. It's dusty. Like the shoe shelf used to be perfectly even, like all my heels and sneakers in a line. Now that's like a fuckery because there's way too many shoes and I have to get rid of things. So this is something that I'm going to do again very, very soon because it's actually really energetically powerful. Other little random things was like I got all matching velvet hangers because doesn't that just make you feel like you are put together, like you are that bitch, like you have— your life is in order, like you know what you're doing, like Like, it's any little habit like that I think is so underrated when it comes to actually getting out of this, like, energetic, like, broke or poor energy and actually feeling like an abundant, clear, capable, on top of it human. Those things are so helpful. So all matching velvet hangers, making the bed every day, because believe it or not, like, I never used to do that. And I just remember I had already started my business, and I remember vividly being like, I'm I'm gonna be the type of person that makes my bed every day. Like, I'm gonna figure it out, I'm just gonna do it. And one thing that I did was I timed myself to see how long it would take to make the bed so that I could get over my stupid excuse of like, I don't have time in the morning. And I timed myself and it was literally like 2 minutes or something. And I'm like, okay, so even in the worst case scenario, like, I should be 2 minutes late to whatever I was meant to do because it's not that big of a deal. I want to be the type of person that makes my bed every day. And again, it's one of those small habits habits that makes you feel like you're on top of it. You are making progress, you're being productive, you are neat and clean and tidy and clear and mentally clear. So that was one. Another one was buying organic foods— not all of them, but as much as I could— and prioritizing eating healthy. And I think this is maybe one that people don't think about as much when it comes to like, how do you get out of feeling energetically broke? But like, food has a frequency, and what you are fueling yourself with definitely impacts your energy and your frequency. And so what I did was I really just prioritized cooking all of my meals at home, and that kind of makes up for the cost of what you're spending extra on organic goods. But even though I didn't have a lot of money in this time, I remember vividly like going out of my way, especially living in Europe, like I was, you know, I was doing my like health and wellness type blogging stuff, and I was going out of my way, you guys, to spend so much money on like really healthy nut milks and going to get almond flour and cook with things that were gluten-free. And like that shit was Like, no one was doing that in Spain at the time. I had to go to these specialty weird markets and grocery stores, and Jaime was always like, what, why do you need this chickpea flour? What are we doing?

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And I was like, just trust me, just trust me. I was making all my concoctions, all my healthy like baked goods and random things. But it was actually, when I think about it, something that really like allowed me to get out of that feeling of being energetically broke because I felt like a healthy capable, productive individual of like, yeah, I'm like taking my health into my own hands. And food is frequency. Another underrated tip is doing your hair and your makeup every day, like getting ready, because that again will make you feel productive, put together, clear. Like I'm saying these words over and over and over again because that is one of the frequencies of feeling less like a successful individual, of feeling put together, of feeling like you're taking care of yourself, of you know what you're doing, of you're making progress. Progress. And so doing your hair and your makeup, for me, I think helps you put your best foot forward into the world, even if you're just working from home. For me personally, it helps me be a lot more productive, and it like makes me more likely to show up on social media or to create content or to whip my phone out and film something. So I'm not like, oh God, like I'm in my pajamas and I look like disgusting today, right? So all those little things, they kind of add up over time. Another one was working out and walking a lot. I was going to the gym, I was working out pretty consistently and I was also walking a lot more than I do now because again I was living in Europe and I didn't have a car and I didn't have a fucking choice because I was broke as hell, okay? But walking a lot and getting a lot of those steps, like, I really feel like it activates your metabolism, it puts you in really good energy, and all of these things over time— being healthy, being lean— like, that really does impact your frequency, which allows you to feel like you're in this energy of abundance and success. Other things that relate exactly to that same sentiment is that I was not drinking alcohol or going out, and not doing that anymore drinking more was something that wasn't challenging for me at all, cuz I just like didn't want to, I didn't have a desire. It wasn't like something that I, so I can respect the fact that for some people it's much more difficult. For me it was like, I literally don't like the taste of alcohol and I don't care and I don't wanna be hungover ever again. So like, who cares? So I stopped drinking just cuz I genuinely like did not want to and I didn't feel like it. But when I think about that, it's a huge success hack. Like people, and you'll, you'll notice probably a lot of highly successful entrepreneurs, creators, like there's a lot more people talking about the magic of having a clean vessel in that way and not drinking alcohol. So that was another big one. And then lastly, I was putting endless amounts of positive, inspiring personal development content in my ears. There's a time and a place for this because I've also talked about having seasons of my life where I felt anxious and overwhelmed by how much I was like over-consuming and under-creating, and I think that's its own kind of sickness. But when I was really like in my broke girl era, truly, I to be so aggressive on the input of what I was putting into my ears, as Gary Vee says, until that stuff kind of became my natural output. Like, the thoughts and the mindsets that I was putting into my ears with who I was listening to and the books that I was reading and the content I was consuming, putting that into my ears so much so that it became my own narrative, it became my own belief, it became how I naturally thought, how I naturally expressed, how I naturally believed perceived things to be in the world. That is so, so, so important. And so on that point, I want to share with you some of the money books that changed my brain chemistry and helped me stop being a broke bitch. Okay, so these are just the ones that like come to the top of mind. One of the biggest ones you guys have heard me talk about before on the show, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. I don't— I haven't— that's been so long since I've read any of these books, but like I remember these unlocking something for me. And so I might reread them now and be like, like, eh, it was okay. Because when you're a different person and you're in a different stage, like, maybe you don't need that as much, or I don't know. But like, when you're in the right stage for that to hit you, and it just hits you so good and so right, and it unlocks something for you, I mean, you can never go back. And that's the magic of it. And so for whatever reason, like, these books at that time, there was something in them that I needed, and it really was a huge unlock for me. So those books were Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, You're a Badass at Making Secrets of Six-Figure Women, The Psychology of Money, and I Will Teach You to Be Rich. Those books, from what I can remember— again, I haven't read them in years— but like, I remember those really shifting something for me. Okay, so a few random things that I did during this broke girl era to kind of shift my perspective and my outlook and my mindset as it relates to money that I remember vividly actually really helping me become more abundant and make more money and make sales and be in my power was the first one one. I had a sticky note on my fridge for an entire year, and when we would travel, I would make a new one and I would put it wherever we were when we were traveling. So that every day of my life for a year, I looked at this fucking sticky note and it said, I am a six-figure coach. I looked at that thing every day until it was real. I looked at it every day until it was— I saw those six figures in my bank account and I went to the bakery and I bought a cake and it said $100K on it, and I could take the sticky note down because I didn't need it anymore. That was actually really powerful. Visual, like seeing the big goal visibly in my space multiple times a day, every day, consistently for a year. And every time I would look at it, I would make sure that I just recited it in my mind a couple of times, and I chose to believe that it was possible and that it was going to come true. And then it did. Another thing I did was I remember practicing money mantras on a mala bead. So if you guys don't know, I was, uh, I did my yoga teacher training, and so I was really into a lot of the yoga traditions. And so especially at this time in I had this mala bead and I was just trying to find like creative ways to shift my mindset. And so one of the things that I remember doing was having my mala bead. There's 108 beads on a mala bead and you can close your eyes and kind of go into this meditative state and you run your fingers across every bead and at every bead you can recite a mantra. And so a lot of times people will do this for mantras, you know, in a yoga class or in a yogic setting around like peace or something to calm your mind. Kind, but I was like, what if I could do this with money mantras? Like, what if I could do 108 mala beads for like a money mantra? And I remember sitting on the beach with this mala bead, closing my eyes, and just going over it like multiple times around the 108 beads, saying those money mantras over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. I was brainwashing myself 100%, and it fucking worked, okay? In a similar vein, I had these money affirmations on my bathroom mirror for over a year. I wrote— I think it was like 10 of them. I wrote them out on these little colorful strips of paper, and I stuck them to my bathroom mirror with tape. And I remember every time the the cleaning lady would come over to our house. I was like, oh my God, this is so cringy, she's gonna like read all my— but they were in English and I was like, I hope she doesn't speak English. But I left them there for like a year and people would come over to our house, like we would have guests, we would have Jaime's family over, and they see these like ugly like colored strips of paper like taped to the bottom corner of the mirror. I was like, fuck it, whatever. And so every day when I would wash my face, do my skincare, brush my teeth, like whatever it was when I was in the bathroom, I would have those right in front of face. And so it was a good time for me to just look at them, recite them again, other ways to continue to brainwash myself into a mindset of wealth and abundance. And I was also doing like money EFT tapping and money meditations and so many things that I share with my clients nowadays in my programs, because I know that that energetic side of the money work is so important. In addition to, of course, like actually doing the work to get a raise or advance your career or build a business or whatever it is that you're physically in, you know, the tangible 3D world so that you can create more financial abundance for yourself. Okay. And lastly, as promised, I just want to circle back to this idea. I promised I would talk to you guys about this briefly of how to feel abundant when you aren't financially in overflow yet. And so my advice for this is you have to find abundance in other things. So the problem with this is people are like, I try to tell myself like I am abundant or I experience abundance or I'm in, and they don't believe it. And this is one of the problems with affirmations. Is sometimes you will write them in a way to where it sends off the alarm bells in your mind, and you're like, I don't actually believe that though. Like, you call BS on yourself in a way, and that's really counterproductive. And so I think instead of believing that, like, abundance only comes from money— and so when you tell yourself, like, I'm abundant, I'm abundant, there's part of you that's going, bitch, no you're not. Like, look at your fucking bank account, right? Whether it's conscious or unconscious, there's rejection that kind of happens there. And so you have to shift in for the meantime, like, your definition to abundance to include a lot of other things. Like, can you feel an abundance of love? Can you feel an abundance of joy? Can you enjoy the abundance of, like, laughter, or, like, funny people that you have in your life, or the abundance of friendships, or the abundance of magic, or synchronicities, or divine connection that you experience on a daily, weekly, monthly basis? Is there an abundance of gratitude in your life for all of the beautiful things, for your health, like think about abundance expanding into so many other realms, not just money, so that when you try to tell yourself, I'm abundant, you can actually believe it, right? Tell yourself that you're abundance and mean it because you know that abundance doesn't just have to refer to money. It refers to so many other things. All right, you guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, take a screenshot, share it to Instagram stories, tag me, or send it to a friend. Thank you guys so much for always sharing the show. And don't forget to leave a rating and review down below. We're giving away money every single month to our best reviews, our listeners of the month. So you have a chance to win if you just scroll down, leave the podcast a nice little 5-star review, tell us what was your favorite episode or something you love about the show, and you will be in the running to win cash. 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