Are you terrible with money? Do you know it deep within your soul?

This is the thing I hear the most from clients and students. And it is almost always said as an apology, as though you're supposed to arrive knowing everything there is about managing your money.

First of all, there’s no need for an apology. This is my job - to teach you to manage your money.

What if I said that you were wrong?

And, you’re not terrible with money. You just haven’t been taught to manage your money yet. It can be learned.

This belief is a money mindset issue and a gap in a lot of business owners' education.

Many of you have a core belief that you aren’t good with numbers or money. This may have etched itself into your brain after you made a financial mistake, when you couldn’t understand something your accountant said, or when you were eight years old and you heard that women/ creatives/ insert your community here, aren’t good with money.

Lots of us have beliefs about money that aren’t true. They’re just sentences that got stuck in our brains and we’ve continued walking that neural pathway over and over again, by reminding ourselves that we’re terrible with money every time money is discussed.

Many people find talking about money makes them feel prickly and out of their depth. It feels weird and it seems easier to put it in the too-hard basket. It’s too embarrassing and you’re sure that everyone else in business has this stuff figured out.

Nope.

You would be surprised by how many successful business owners find money prickly.

If you’re finding money feels gross, you could try these things:

• 🧠 Seek out someone to teach you (hello 👋)

• 📚Read all the money management books,

• 🧐 Pay attention to your thoughts about money and write them down in a questioning way,

• 👊 Think of a time when you made a great financial decision and focus on it next time you feel prickly about money,

• 👯‍♂️ Talk to your business friends about it, and start to normalise talking about this awkward and important topic.

Before you know it, you could have re-written your broken record and be feeling less prickly and more open about money management.

I l🧡 helping people learn about money mindset and financial health so let me know if I can help you 👌