Ep. 78: Personal Growth Meets Personal Finances with Jacent Wamala
Jacent Wamala was born in Uganda but raised in Las Vegas. Mental Health Professional, Entrepreneur and Educator. Founder of Wealth and Wellness University the ultimate online personal growth community focused creating generational wealth, health and wellness. After Paying off over $90,000 in student loans and credit cards she decided to focus on supporting her community by educating young people to tap into their potential.
In this episode, we discuss:
· What financial therapy is and how she got into this work.
· How we all have a personal, intimate, and often complicated relationship with money that begins when we are very young.
· The problematic mindsets we tend to have towards money and how it impacts our personal finances.
· Why personal finance is so interconnected with personal growth.
· The different ways an unhealthy relationship with money can show up in our lives.
· Why it’s so difficult for us to talk about money within all our relationships.
· How a lack of education and conversations about money growing up causes us to struggle as adults.
· The process of starting to work on your relationship with money to change your personal finances.
· How growth or a transformation in one area of your life can start you on the journey of growth and transformation in other areas of life.
· Why women tend to have more insecurity and doubt when it comes to money.
You can find and follow Jacent here:
Instagram: @jacentsgems
Facebook: @wamalawellness
RESOURCES DISCUSSED:
The Smart Money Woman by Arese Ugwu
Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
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