Episode 44: How Emotions Affect Your Money Story

Understanding your emotions surrounding financial topics can remove barriers to success and help you make more level-headed financial decisions.

The choices we make about money are closely tied to our emotions. They impact how we perceive things like success, happiness, finance, and the experiences that shape our lives. While this is a normal part of the human condition, our money stories can create barriers to meeting our goals.

When you can learn to understand the emotions connected to your financial decision-making, you can separate the emotional from the rational, clarify your true goals, and make better financial decisions.

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Kathy Longo

Kathy Longo is a Certified Financial Planner® practitioner, Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy®, and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst with over twenty-five years of wealth management experience. She is the founder and president of Flourish Wealth Management, an independent boutique wealth management firm in the Minneapolis area.

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Episode 44: How Emotions Affect Your Money Story

Understanding your emotions surrounding financial topics can remove barriers to success and help you make more level-headed financial decisions.

Kathy Longo

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