Hey leaders! We’re here for episode 46! I love talking finances, especially with you in the Direct Sales community. Financial freedom is one of the best perks of a successful Direct Sales business yet I sense the topic is still taboo for so many. So let’s get into it.This episode is logged in my podcast category “Big Leaps To Future Financial Freedom”. I have several episodes in this category around Wise Wealth. You can find them all at crazybigdreams.biz/podcast.  I hope you’ll take a listen to each if you haven’t already. You can find the full transcript of this episode at crazybigdreams.biz/46. What does it mean to you to feel fulfilled financially? To have a high level of satisfaction with your finances. Let me qualify what I mean by finances first and then I’ll ask you to choose a number between one and ten. Ten being high and one being a low level of fulfillment with your finances. When you rate your current level of satisfaction and fulfillment with your finances I’m not asking if you’re content with the amount of money you have. Most could always want more wealth. And if you’re curious about the difference between wealth and money take a listen to episode 4 at crazybigdreams.biz/4. What I mean when I ask you how you feel about your current finances I’m referring to your relationship to your finances, not how much money you have. Does that surprise you? So what do I mean when I refer to your relationship with your finances? How you feel about this is largely influenced by the adults that raised you and had an impact on your upbringing. Parents yes, but others as well. It’s how you view your current finances and how you feel about money and wealth. For some, there’s insecurity regardless of the zeros in the bank account. For others they don’t want for anything and wealth has maybe become a love-hate topic because of how it’s changed important relationships in their life. Let me share a personal story to give you an example of what I mean when I refer to your relationship with finances. For over a decade when I worked in corporate America, climbing the ladder, I worked one hundred percent on commission. Literally, the more money I made, the bigger my paychecks were, and the more successful I was at my job. There was a direct correlation between how much I was making and how successful I saw myself, professionally. That’s what the compensation plan was rewarding. I had no idea I was defining my professional success based on the size of my paychecks until I left that job and that company. Suddenly I felt like a complete failure because my paycheck was a whopping big fat zero. I felt I had no professional worth. It was an identity crisis of no small proportion. Remember, I was in that compensation plan for over a decade. So it was ingrained in me. Riding the highs of the big, almost unbelievable paychecks and what I would do with that. The independence it gave me. To navigating creatively through the painful, low, scary, frightening paychecks looking forward to the first of the next month and that fresh start. Can you relate?!Isn’t it funny how weighty the first of the month can feel, either way? Because what a refreshing feeling when we learn to not look at the calendar. For key questions on how to rate your current level of fulfillment and satisfaction with your finances go to crazybigdreams.biz/46 for the full transcript of this episode. 

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