The Quickest Way to Reach Your Money Goals

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Summary
In this episode Louisa Larado discusses the importance of financial confidence and literacy. She shares her personal journey through bankruptcy and the lessons learned, emphasizing the value of investing in coaches and mentors for financial growth.

Takeaways

• Money is essential for functioning in society.
• Financial literacy is crucial for future generations.
• Investing in coaches and mentors can fast-track financial success.
• Combining mindset and strategy is key to financial growth.
• The Golden Money Blueprint offers a holistic approach.
• Financial independence requires both practical skills and mindset.
• Creating wealth involves setting clear financial goals.
• Empowerment comes from understanding and managing money.
• Feeling good about money should be a priority.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Taking Charge Of Your Finances
• 2:23 What My Bankruptcy Taught Me
• 6:17 Find the Right Tools for Financial Success
• 8:19 Empowering Financial Independence

Transcript

Hi and welcome to the Living My Life Like It's Golden podcast. I'm your host, Louisa Larado and today I just wanted to break down the quickest way that you can take charge of your finances and feel really good about money so you don't have to worry about it, you don't have to stress about it. It feels like it's under control. You've got your financial confidence so stay tuned for that.

Thank you so much for tuning in today. And today I just wanted to share the quickest way to really get your finances back on track because let's be honest, money is important. As much as we say, it's not all about the money. It is. Money is so important in our lives. It's what we value really highly in our society. We need it to function in society. So let's not pretend that it's not.

So I want you to really have that confidence to manage your money, create money and have all the skills that you need to really make the most of your money and be able to pass those down to your own children too if you have them. Because the more financially literate we are and the more that we have the knowledge to do with money and be able to speak openly about our money, then the better we are gonna be creating

the world for our kids and for future generations. Plus, it makes your life so much easier and so much better, because money does give you that power to have decisions, to be able to choose how you want to live your life. It might give you a bit more freedom. It might give you the opportunity to travel and create amazing experiences for your family.

When I went bankrupt, I went bankrupt in 2016 and this like my biggest teacher in life. I'm so, so grateful that I went bankrupt because if I didn't, I would not have learned so many amazing life lessons. I would not have learned what does not work with money. And I wouldn't have those skills and the tools that I do now that have set my family up to be in an amazing financial situation.

but also be able to pass those tools and techniques and strategies onto other people like you as well. as much as it sucked at the time, as much as it was the most horrible thing to have to go through, and I definitely wouldn't wish it on anyone else, because it was such a stressful time of our lives, having to make that decision to go bankrupt, to have to start from scratch after working on building our wealth for the last, the decade.

prior to that, to have it all gone. That was definitely a hard decision. But we are back and we are doing amazing now with our money. it took me a while though, after my bankruptcy, it did not happen overnight, rebuilding it. And I thought, yep, clean slate, let's go. We're gonna easily rebuild and get back on track.

What I found was I was stuck for a long time. And if you've listened to quite a few episodes of this podcast, you would have definitely heard my story. So I'm not going to go into it all now. You can definitely go back and listen to a bit more detail of my story. But what I found was when I was going through it and just made that decision that, I'm ready to start setting financial goals for myself again. And I'm ready to start setting us up again for

a bit more financial independence, having money to be able to invest and so on, building up our savings. When I'd made those decisions, I thought, yep, usually that's the easiest part, make the decision. And it did sort of start happening, but we were still quite stuck. And we were quite stuck and I was trying all these different techniques and I would research somebody and learn their technique and then...

A little bit would improve and then I'd read another book and I'd try something else. What actually fast tracked our success was actually properly investing my time and my money in coaches and mentors. And I personally had different coaches and mentors for different areas. So I had one coach that I worked on with purely just my money mindset. I had another one that was purely for

different investing strategies and a few different areas as well. And when you are learning from somebody who is even if it's just those few steps ahead of where you are, if you're learning from someone who is where you want to be financially or what with whatever goal you're setting in your life, say for example,

If your your goal was to get really fit and strong, you're to look for someone who's already really fit and strong to be to coach you and show you the right way. Well, the same goes for your money. You want to find someone who is maybe where you were before, maybe in a bad financial situation and then has gotten to a really good, successful level, a level you might want to be at. And that's what I look for. I look for people who were.

doing well financially who had good investment choices when I was looking at investing courses. And what this does is it means you don't have to learn from making mistakes yourself. It gives you the roadmap, it gives you the steps and you learn from the mistakes they made and they can teach you the lessons rather than you having to do it for yourself. And like I said, at first I was making a whole lot of mistakes. I was trying something new, didn't work, learn from it.

Then I tried something new, didn't work, learned from it. And it was like a few steps forward, a few steps back. But when I decided, I need a quicker way. I need to find an easier way. That was when I started just, you know, forward, forward, forward, maybe a couple of steps back here and there, but it was a lot more steps forward than it was steps back then. So that was really the game changer for me.

that's why I've decided to create the Golden Money Blueprint, which is to empower you and give you all the skills and tools and strategies and techniques that you need for a more holistic approach to.

empowering you to handle your money and to invest in your money and to create more wealth in your life. It's not just purely strategy though. So what I found a lot of people would either teach just the mindset stuff or they would teach just like the practical stuff like the money management, the wealth creation and so on. What I wanted to do was combine both because I really think they both play a really important part in

overall and long lasting financial independence, financial growth and just feeling empowered and confident to manage your money. Before this, like I started in my own journey with just the practical stuff like the money management strategies and then investing and it was like I had a puzzle. I had all the pieces now, but I couldn't slot them in. When I did the mindset.

It was like, now I can see how the puzzle all fits in together. So I feel like you can't have one without the other. So that's why I've combined all of these together in my Gold and Money Blueprint. It's going to be a seven week online course that's going to break down all the different areas you need to feel really confident about your money and feel really good about your money, be able to set financial goals.

how to invest in your money, how to create more wealth, how to manage your money. But the icing on the cake is have this amazing money mindset that is just gonna set you up for an amazing financial future ongoing. And one that you can also start sharing with your children if you have them as well and giving them the strategies and knowledge as well through your own actions, which is so, powerful.

and definitely can't be underestimated. And I want you to feel really good about your money. I want you to be able to have the freedom to use your money to improve your life. Maybe it's to go on some great family holidays. Maybe it is to donate or to give back to somebody. Like it's not greedy. It's not wrong to have money. there's so much good in the world that you can

can be done when you have money. It gives you choices. And I want you to have those choices. So if you are looking for a way to fast track your money, fast track building your wealth, creating additional income, maybe just learning how to manage your money better, and you want something simple that breaks it all down for you that somebody can guide you through it, then this may be the right fit.

for you. It's going to be seven weeks. Each week we're to be looking at a new module. We're going to be recording it live together so you've got that opportunity to ask questions, be coached along the way, be held accountable, but you can also opt to just do it at your own pace and in your own time as well if that's the option you want to choose. We're going to be breaking down money mindset, how to manage your money, how to create wealth.

how to set you up if things don't go right and that you need the strategies to keep you financially resilient. We're gonna be looking at creating long lasting habits. So you have these skills for the rest of your life. But then we're also going to be looking at abundance expansion and how you can use the skills and the tools that I'm giving you to apply to other areas of your life. So if this sounds like something you wanna find out a bit more about.

It's only open for a couple of more days, the enrollments, because it starts on Monday. So you have until Monday to enroll in the course for now until I close off enrollments for the time being. And this is just going to help you in 2024 in an amazing way and set you up for financial goals you didn't even know that you had for 2025. It's going to be crazy and amazing. So.

To find out more, can click the link in the show notes or you can go to louisalarado.com slash golden money. If you know somebody else that you think may benefit from them, feel free to share this with them. The more people that we can empower together to take charge of their finances, to want to feel good about money and to decide that they're ready for a change in their finances, the better.

Now, if this doesn't seem like the right fit for you right now, that's fine. But make sure whatever you do, don't ignore feeling good about money. Don't wait to feel good about your money. The time to start feeling good about your money is now. The time to feel empowered about your money is now. So don't delay it. Do whatever it takes to get yourself in that situation, whether it's through the course or whether it's on your own.

Make it a priority to feel good about your money and do what you need to get yourself there. Thank you so much for listening today. If you would like to leave a review, follow along to the podcast or you can follow me on Facebook or Instagram. All the details are in the show notes below and I'll see you on the next episode.