In this episode of Money Is Emotional, Christine Luken explains how to choose the right financial professional based on your specific money challenges. With so many options available—including financial planners, financial advisors, financial coaches, wealth coaches, and financial counselors—it can be difficult to know who is best equipped to help.

Christine emphasizes that not all financial professionals provide the same services, and hiring the wrong person can cost you time, money, and frustration.

Christine discusses:

• How to know which financial planner you actually need.
• Why you should not judge a financial planner by their title.
• How financial coaches help with debt, spending, saving, investing, and money mindset.
• Deciding between group coaching or private 1:1 financial coaching.
• The cheapest option isn’t always the best value.

Resources:

• Connect with Christine Luken for Private Financial Dignity® Coaching: https://www.christineluken.com/apply/
• Book a Money Power Hour with Christine: https://bit.ly/MoneyPowerHr
• Join the waitlist for The Merchant Priestess Path: https://7-pillars-llc.kit.com/mpwaitlist
• Join my free community, Spiritual Women Building Wealth: https://bit.ly/SWBWfbgroup
• Episode 92 of the Money is Emotional Podcast, Creating Your Wealth Map: https://bit.ly/MIEpodcast92

On this episode of Money is Emotional, Christine Luken speaks with author Jennifer Blanchard about redefining what it means to feel rich before reaching a particular financial milestone. Jennifer shares her journey from debt, financial uncertainty, and feeling limited by money to developing a healthier relationship with earning, receiving, and experiencing abundance.

Christine and Jennifer discuss:

• Feeling rich and being financially wealthy are not the same thing.
• How childhood experiences can shape our beliefs around money.
• Why you may be financially successful but still feel like you’re lacking
• Why Jennifer’s mum told her that money shouldn’t be received for doing things that are easy.
• Practical ways to cultivate a feeling of abundance without overspending or going into debt.

Connect with Christine Luken:

• Join my free community, Spiritual Women Building Wealth: https://bit.ly/SWBWfbgroup
• Book a Money Power Hour with Christine: https://bit.ly/MoneyPowerHr
• Connect with Christine Luken for financial coaching: https://www.christineluken.com/apply/
• Join the waitlist for the next round of The Merchant Priestess Path: https://7-pillars-llc.kit.com/mpwaitlist
• Subscribe to the Merchant Priestess Substack to get early access to my next book: https://christineluken.substack.com/

Connect with Jennifer Blanchard:

• How to Feel Rich Even If You’re Not Yet book: https://amzn.to/4gHrw2V
• Substack: substack.com/@authorjenniferblanchard
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorjenniferblanchard
• TikTok: tiktok.com/@fuckthehow
• Website: https://www.jenniferblanchard.net/

About Jennifer Blanchard:

Jennifer Blanchard is the self-made bestselling author of F*ck the How, Quantum Leap Your Life, and Manifest Everything, which are roadmaps for manifesting your dreams and desires without needing to know the How ahead of time.

Her practical approach to intentional manifesting is doable and easy to understand. Readers of her books and students of her courses have said Jennifer clarifies and translates everything they’ve previously learned about manifestation.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Public Relations with a minor in Creative Writing.

Jennifer has authored more than a dozen books, including several romance novels, and is co-author of the book, Miraclefesting: Inspiring Stories to Help You Recognize and Create Everyday Miracles in Your Life.

On this episode of The Money Is Emotional Podcast, host Christine Luken explores how money shame can be transformed from something painful and limiting into a source of financial dignity, self-awareness, and action. She distinguishes between external money shame, which comes from other people’s expectations and judgments, and internal money shame, which comes from our own financial behaviors, inaction, or lack of knowledge.

Christine discusses:

• How to tell if you are feeling external money shame.
• The difference between internal and external money shame.
• The cure for internal money shame.
• Money shame can reveal neglected desires and goals.
• How to transform money shame.

Connect with Christine Luken:

• Connect with Christine Luken for financial coaching: https://www.christineluken.com/apply
• Join my free community, Spiritual Women Building Wealth: https://bit.ly/SWBWfbgroup
• Book a Money Power Hour with Christine: https://bit.ly/MoneyPowerHr
• Money is Emotional and additional books by Christine Luken: https://www.christineluken.com/books/
• Join the waitlist for the next round of The Merchant Priestess Path: https://7-pillars-llc.kit.com/mpwaitlist
• Disappointment is Necessary: How Letting Others Down Sets You Free by HR Hutzel:
  https://hrhutzel.substack.com/p/disappointment-is-necessary-how-letting-others-down-sets-you-free
• Subscribe to the Merchant Priestess Substack to get early access to my next book: https://christineluken.substack.com