Why Women Avoid Financial Risk (and How to Take It Anyway)

I love that.

And there's so much in what you shared that I feel it's interesting because We had actually had this interview scheduled a couple of weeks ago and we made it today.

And I am literally in my own version of your story with my dad, right? Which happened this weekend.

But before I get to that, the one thing I would love for everybody to just, you know, note takers or money makers that Rhonda just shared is the people who exchange ideas for money versus time or hours for money.

So wealth is, you know, one aspect of wealth and the wealth that we aspire to because we want wealth with ease.

And so wealth with ease is being in a place in your life where you have figured out how to exchange the ideas that you have that are valuable, exchanging ideas for money versus time or hours for money.

So I just wanted to make sure as we're taking our notes about wealth that we drop that little nugget that Rhonda just gave us and The other thing is, you know, it's interesting when I hear you share the story about your dad and also my experience.

My dad fell over the weekend, had to cry for help, kind of fall and gets up, goes inside.

He's bleeding like crazy and insisting he doesn't need to go to the hospital.

Right.

And so my mom has to threaten him, calling the police and the ambulance and I'm doing everything.

And as he's telling me the story the next day, he says, he says these words, he says that he says to my mom, well, it's your money if you want to spend it, right? To go to the hospital for this, I'm fine.

And in my mind, I documented, wow, it came, it was about money, right? And so I want to just bring that full circle to, like you said, all the things your mom protected you from growing up and all the stories that you experienced growing up around money.

And I think we're getting to this place in our life where wealth is the fact, what does it mean to be wealthy? The fact that we're defining it on our own terms.

Yeah.

Let's start there.

Independent of all the things that we grew up with and we observed and the rules that we, you know, were told were the rules of money.

Like the fact that we are independently creating our own definitions and experiences.

money and wealth is wealthy,

you know? Yeah.

Yeah.

I didn't like that was, you know, again, I love these conversations because I keep adding, I'm going to write a book with everybody, every little nugget I get from the conversation.

But, you know, in terms of money, like hardcore, and you don't have to say dollars and cents, but how do you feel about, how would you define from a actual, the physical entity of money and what is there a number that makes you feel wealthy? Or is it a certain state with regards to money that makes you feel wealthy? How would you define that?

Oh, it's interesting, because I was just thinking about this the other day, I really don't think it's necessarily having more zeros in the bank account.

It's really about what you're able to do as a result of having that like I think one of the things that I that I really that really impressed upon me early on in my career was first of all it doesn't matter how many zeros in the bank account if we don't know what it means for us right and secondly having money really makes you more of who you already are if you are you know Not a good human being with a little, you're going to be not a good human being with a lot.