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Welcome to the destined for success podcast.
Jennifer Takagi:I'm your host, Jennifer Takagi and this podcast used to be
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Jennifer Takagi:Welcome to destined for success. I'm your host, Jennifer Takagi.
Jennifer Takagi:And I'm so excited because today is Potter Palooza Day. And for
Jennifer Takagi:those of you who've been following me for a while, you
Jennifer Takagi:know, we get to meet a lot of amazing people in one day. And
Jennifer Takagi:my guest now is Susan Butler. Susan is a certified financial
Jennifer Takagi:planner and a Certified Life Mastery consultant. Susan,
Jennifer Takagi:welcome to the show.
Susan Butler:Thank you so happy to be here.
Jennifer Takagi:Well, I love talking about finances,
Jennifer Takagi:financial planning. In my previous lifetime, I worked for
Jennifer Takagi:the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and I helped
Jennifer Takagi:people who got into a lot of financial trouble with being
Jennifer Takagi:about to lose their house. And so it became at a very young age
Jennifer Takagi:very important to me to have finances in order and like know
Jennifer Takagi:how to manage them somewhat. So tell me a little bit about your
Jennifer Takagi:journey, and how you got into this and how you help people
Jennifer Takagi:make a bigger difference in the world.
Susan Butler:Well, I it's it's just been an evolving journey,
Susan Butler:really nothing traumatic, that changed anything. But I've
Susan Butler:always been good with numbers and liked working with them and
Susan Butler:figuring out how to get the best possible outcomes for things.
Susan Butler:And so I was in financial industry for over 30 years. And
Susan Butler:it wasn't exciting, whatever, like, like, what I feel now, but
Susan Butler:I had a client that, you know, I basically took her through the,
Susan Butler:the stages of grieving and everything else, and and all the
Susan Butler:stuff she was doing. And I spent a lot of time just helping her
Susan Butler:not, you know, selling her anything. And realized, wow, you
Susan Butler:know, I really liked this and I and the results with her were
Susan Butler:phenomenal. I mean, she she started a whole second new life
Susan Butler:in her 60s and just went back for her master's, and was just
Susan Butler:doing all sorts of exciting things. And so I thought, wow,
Susan Butler:this is this is really nice. And I like I like the impact that it
Susan Butler:has to help other people. And I thought okay, so then I trained
Susan Butler:for coaching for the life coaching, to be able to combine
Susan Butler:it and then I thought, wow, okay, this is kind of a unique
Susan Butler:thing that I haven't seen is combining the financial, with
Susan Butler:the life coaching, and bringing it together, like, you know, in
Susan Butler:harmony synergistically and making it you know, money is
Susan Butler:always a separate topic that people have that they're, you
Susan Butler:know, worried about or losing sleep over? Or how do I get
Susan Butler:more, you know, how do I do a budget or what I do with this,
Susan Butler:and how do I invest and it shouldn't be a separate subject,
Susan Butler:it's, it's actually a tool and energy that helps you with your
Susan Butler:goals in life and what you want to achieve. And so you want to
Susan Butler:be working with it together.
Jennifer Takagi:I like that. And I love I'm sorry, I'm taking
Jennifer Takagi:notes. To get this all down. So one thing when you when you were
Jennifer Takagi:talking one thing that came to mind that I've heard many times
Jennifer Takagi:in my life is women often get stuck in situations because they
Jennifer Takagi:don't have any financial security, or they're not sure
Jennifer Takagi:how to handle their finances, like if they made a big shift in
Jennifer Takagi:their 30s 40s 50s 60s even 70s. So I'm guessing that part of
Jennifer Takagi:your life coaching is to help find those answers like how am I
Jennifer Takagi:going to do this or if you unexpectedly lose your life
Jennifer Takagi:partner that was part of your financial security.
Susan Butler:Exactly. And you know, that's the big part of it.
Susan Butler:It's the transformation that the growth that you go through and
Susan Butler:it's not Just a financial growth, it is an entire life
Susan Butler:transformation that you go through in this process. And I
Susan Butler:work a lot with people going through divorce or that have
Susan Butler:become widowed. You know, because especially if you're in
Susan Butler:that transition that changes everything. And if you weren't
Susan Butler:the one handling the finances, oh my gosh, you're in for a rude
Susan Butler:awakening. And so I found that a lot when I was a financial
Susan Butler:adviser to the women didn't seem to be as involved as much with
Susan Butler:the finances when it was a couple that I was working with.
Susan Butler:And so I really wanted to make sure that both were involved and
Susan Butler:that the women could understand more. And so that's that's kind
Susan Butler:of what led me to the women's coaching and I help the women
Susan Butler:entrepreneurs or women going through transition, is because I
Susan Butler:want them to be empowered with this knowledge with the
Susan Butler:confidence, the clarity around it, and just their entire
Susan Butler:relationship around money and, and finance itself. Because
Susan Butler:that's that whole relationship that they have, and how they
Susan Butler:feel about money, how they treat money, what beliefs did they
Susan Butler:grow up with, from their parents, teachers, society and
Susan Butler:everything? You know, that really affects how much you will
Susan Butler:bring in, you know, how confident you will be in making
Susan Butler:decisions in your life, financial or life decisions?
Susan Butler:And, you know, will you be able to do those things on your
Susan Butler:bucket list? Are those things that you really want to do
Susan Butler:before the end of your life? You know, what will you be ready
Susan Butler:with the money and when you change your relationship with
Susan Butler:money, and through the work that I do, it changes your whole
Susan Butler:outcome of where you think what you think you can do, where you
Susan Butler:think you can go, the possibilities open up for you.
Jennifer Takagi:And I find it really interesting, just in my
Jennifer Takagi:own family, I'm the youngest of four. And all of us handle money
Jennifer Takagi:differently and look at it differently. And what we took
Jennifer Takagi:away from our parents, and what they did, and how they handled
Jennifer Takagi:money has been very, very different. Like you couldn't put
Jennifer Takagi:four people out of the same house and dump them in the
Jennifer Takagi:universe and have different feelings and beliefs around
Jennifer Takagi:money and the choices that we make around money. So for our
Jennifer Takagi:audience, do you have a couple of suggestions on like, first
Jennifer Takagi:steps to get a handle on this? Or some kind of guidance you can
Jennifer Takagi:provide us with?
Susan Butler:I'm sure. A lot of it, you know, you want to start
Susan Butler:with your life goals or whatever your life vision and go beyond
Susan Butler:what you know how to do what is your true love? What would you
Susan Butler:know if nothing was getting in your way? What would you love to
Susan Butler:be doing? What would your life look like? And you don't have to
Susan Butler:know how to get there. That's not the point. If you know how
Susan Butler:to get there already, then it's just a goal. But if it's a true
Susan Butler:vision or dream, that's the basis to start from, because you
Susan Butler:need something to aim for in order to make a lot of this
Susan Butler:work. Because the more you dwell on where you're at now, the more
Susan Butler:you're going to continue to repeat it. You know you so
Jennifer Takagi:like you keep getting what you already got.
Susan Butler:Exactly. It's so I
Jennifer Takagi:like to equate it to like that childlike
Jennifer Takagi:vision. And I use the example of when you were a kid and you laid
Jennifer Takagi:on the lawn and you watch the clouds and you tried to explain
Jennifer Takagi:to somebody else, what cloud you were looking at and what shape
Jennifer Takagi:it was, and they're like, I don't see that I don't get it.
Jennifer Takagi:Your visions are your own like your visions and your dream for
Jennifer Takagi:your life. Part of that is such a individual journey on
Jennifer Takagi:outlining that. And people will
Susan Butler:try to talk you out of these dreams or visions
Susan Butler:and say that's unrealistic that you can't do that that'll never
Susan Butler:happen and, and they talk you out of it and it's not theirs to
Susan Butler:talk you out of it's your vision and your dream. And you know,
Susan Butler:it's it's your possibility, and they don't want you to change
Susan Butler:they want you to stay the way you are and so does your your
Susan Butler:inner subconscious and your upbringing and everything else
Susan Butler:wants you to stay the way you are. Yes. And so everything that
Susan Butler:you've learned from your upbringing, it's ingrained in
Susan Butler:you 95% of the decisions you make the actions you take, and
Susan Butler:everything else come from that subconscious and what you have
Susan Butler:created as your own truth, which is most of your most of our
Susan Butler:truth that we that we look at are just beliefs, beliefs, we've
Susan Butler:been brought up with the beliefs we've reinforced for years and
Susan Butler:years and years and they become what we look at the filters that
Susan Butler:we look at life through and so I work with people to change that
Susan Butler:to undo that. So
Jennifer Takagi:we have our truth that or beliefs that had
Jennifer Takagi:been reinforced over and over again. And then that like leads
Jennifer Takagi:us down the path of where we are today. So you helped guide us
Jennifer Takagi:out of that.
Susan Butler:It starts, a lot of it starts with changing how
Susan Butler:you're thinking. And there is scientific backing to all of
Susan Butler:this as to how it works. But basically, your thoughts will
Susan Butler:lead to emotions or feelings, which lead to the actions that
Susan Butler:you take, and that leads to your results. If you don't change how
Susan Butler:you think your results will never change. Whoa,
Jennifer Takagi:that's a deep one.
Susan Butler:So, yeah, I mean, you know, it's like, you know,
Susan Butler:like, what, what Einstein said about, you know, doing the same
Susan Butler:thing over and over again, and expecting different results
Susan Butler:isn't going to happen. And so we start breaking the cycle by
Susan Butler:starting
Jennifer Takagi:with so as we start retraining our thoughts,
Jennifer Takagi:can you give us one suggestion on how to do that? Or where we
Jennifer Takagi:work with that? Sure,
Susan Butler:I mean, from the the most basic thing I can think
Susan Butler:of is, you know, when when you do realize some of these beliefs
Susan Butler:that you have around money, like, I, I have to work harder
Susan Butler:to make more money, or I'm not worthy of being rich, you know,
Susan Butler:I've never been brought up around people who have done that
Susan Butler:well, or anything else. So I, you know, I'm, that's just not
Susan Butler:in my genetics, some people think, and I'm like, no, no, but
Susan Butler:you can start by just turning it around to a positive belief. And
Susan Butler:you may not believe it, at first, you know, I am worthy of
Susan Butler:making this money. You know, I'm, I'm a valuable person, and
Susan Butler:I am worth charging this much or anything like that. But any of
Susan Butler:those that you turn to the positive, and then you keep
Susan Butler:saying them. And your Repetition is key to changing because your
Susan Butler:habit was formed for years. And undo this is not going to happen
Susan Butler:just because you say it or think it once you're going to have to
Susan Butler:do this over time. And eventually, you your your
Susan Butler:conscious mind will convince your subconscious, that it is
Susan Butler:true.
Jennifer Takagi:And not will convince your subconscious
Jennifer Takagi:conscious. I love that.
Susan Butler:Yeah, because your conscious mind has that ability
Susan Butler:to believe or not believe or decide what's right or wrong or
Susan Butler:anything else, your subconscious, which is the basis
Susan Butler:of all those decisions and beliefs and everything else that
Susan Butler:you have. Does not have that ability. And so your conscious
Susan Butler:mind has to just convince the subconscious. This is the new
Susan Butler:proof. Oh, this
Jennifer Takagi:is the new proof. I love that. So
Susan Butler:yeah, that's very basic, as far as making a
Susan Butler:change. But, you know, that is the key is to start with how
Susan Butler:you're thinking about something. You know, if if you were in the
Susan Butler:season of forest fires, and everything else, if someone's
Susan Butler:house burns down, you can interview different people, and
Susan Butler:they'll have different feelings about their house losing their
Susan Butler:house, you know, oh, my gosh, I've lost everything. It's
Susan Butler:terrible. And you know, we'll you know, we'll never get this
Susan Butler:back and, and then you go to somebody else, and oh, we are so
Susan Butler:grateful because everybody made it out safely. You know, we've
Susan Butler:got the pets out. And you know, we can we can make a fresh start
Susan Butler:and and everything will be great. And so you get that just
Susan Butler:a different perspective, the different way of thinking about
Susan Butler:the same thing.
Jennifer Takagi:It's just a tiny shift to write it doesn't
Jennifer Takagi:have to be throw out the baby with the bathwater kind of
Jennifer Takagi:thing. It can be little. I was reading a Marianne Williamson
Jennifer Takagi:book years ago, and she said, a miracle is simply a shift in
Jennifer Takagi:your perspective. So looking at it differently, looking at that
Jennifer Takagi:fire, as you know, all the things to be grateful for about
Jennifer Takagi:it. Was the fire good? No. But everybody survived. And that
Susan Butler:is really good. And what was the truth? The
Susan Butler:truth was that there was a fire, and it burned the house down.
Susan Butler:That's it. The rest is your story. And you're thinking, oh,
Susan Butler:like everything else around it is how you think and how your
Susan Butler:perception is the filters that you have from your upbringing
Susan Butler:and everything else and how you view that thing.
Jennifer Takagi:Oh my gosh, like we could go on all day, I'd
Jennifer Takagi:be happy. So how can we connect with you? How can we work with
Jennifer Takagi:you? Give us a little bit more so that we can continue the
Jennifer Takagi:conversation offline?
Susan Butler:Sure. I have a free gift that anybody can pick
Susan Butler:up and that will be in your notes, but to www feminine
Susan Butler:financial formula.com.
Jennifer Takagi:Them and formula.
Susan Butler:Yeah, and then my website to reach me or you know,
Susan Butler:you can you can private message me and Facebook or anything else
Susan Butler:but my website is my financial harmony.com. And I do offer this
Susan Butler:fantastic group program to get people started. If they don't,
Susan Butler:they don't want to dive in all the way with the one on one. If
Susan Butler:they are going through a specific divorce and something
Susan Butler:like that they might need the one on one work. But if it's
Susan Butler:something where you're just wanting to make more money and
Susan Butler:simplify the finances, keep things you know, just down to a
Susan Butler:simple level, clarity, confidence. All that group
Susan Butler:program is fabulous at eight weeks. It's that's the feminine
Susan Butler:Financial Freedom program.
Jennifer Takagi:Oh my gosh, I love that feminine Financial
Jennifer Takagi:Freedom program. That is wonderful. And for all of you
Jennifer Takagi:listening, I want to say Susan has been a great guest because
Jennifer Takagi:we had a few technical difficulties. But for you it is
Jennifer Takagi:seamless, because that is the power of technology. Susan,
Jennifer Takagi:thank you so much for your time and your guidance and that that
Jennifer Takagi:whole your thoughts, man, you've got to change the thoughts to
Jennifer Takagi:change everything else in our world. Do you have any last
Jennifer Takagi:thoughts for our guests? I mean, for our audience, you're the
Jennifer Takagi:guests.
Susan Butler:Just realize anything is possible. If you can
Susan Butler:think it, you can do it. And you don't have to know all the steps
Susan Butler:on the way that's what the that's what I'm here to help
Susan Butler:guide you through. But if you can think it, you can do it and
Susan Butler:anything is possible.
Jennifer Takagi:Anything is possible. I love that. Susan,
Jennifer Takagi:thank you for your time. Thank you. I'm Jennifer Takagi and I
Jennifer Takagi:look forward to connecting with you soon. Thank you for taking
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