025: Understanding Your Relationship with Money with Financial Therapist Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
The Uncommon Couch
025: Understanding Your Relationship with Money with Financial Therapist Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
Do you want a deeper understanding of your money mindset? So many of us entrepreneurial therapists, coaches, holistic practitioners, and healers struggle with our thoughts and feelings around money. That is exactly why financial therapist, Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, joined us on the podcast this week!
Lindsay is the owner and founder of Mind Money Balance. As a financial therapist, she combines financial literacy with the emotional and psychological side of money. If you have an uncommon practice, you absolutely need to hear her advice.
She shares insight into how you can create a money mindset practice and how capitalistic societies can hinder the way we feel about money. You’ll learn about mindset shifts you need to have when you have your own practice and the importance of knowing your “why number.”
What you’ll find in this episode:
How Lindsay got into being a financial therapist
How she educates people about her work of financial therapy
What most of her clients actually struggle with
Mindset shifts that are important when transitioning to working for yourself
Why you need to know your “why number”
How you can cultivate a practice of money mindset
The tangle around working hard and getting paid
Her advice for setting up a practice that keeps you energized
What Lindsay does to help her clients
About Lindsay:
Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, owner and founder of Mind Money Balance, is a financial therapist who started her career in the field of mental health treatment and advocacy. As the first financial therapist in Michigan, she combines financial literacy with the emotional and psychological side of money. She always had an interest in mental health and found an even greater love working at the intersection of mental health and money, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. In addition to being a published author of the book "The Financial Anxiety Solution," she has a degree in sociology from Michigan State University, and her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan. She lives with her partner and their dog in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Links mentioned:
Grow a Profitable Practice from the Inside Out
The Mind Money Balance Podcast
Learn more:
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Quotes:
“I didn’t go into the field of social work expecting to make a ton of money but I certainly didn’t want to not be making a living.” - Lindsay
“Most of my clients aren’t struggling with chronic debt or an inability to manage their money, they’re struggling with, ‘How is it possible for me to be a good person and have money?’” - Lindsay
“So many of us have been fed these messages about money that we haven’t really come to terms with and entrepreneurship really drums up all of the stuff that had been hanging out there.” - Lindsay
“Anchor yourself into what it is that you DO want.” - Alyssa