3108: How to Overcome Your Money Mindset Issues If You Grew Up Poor by Emily Guy Birken with PT Money

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3108: Emily Guy Birken explores how growing up poor can shape a limiting money mindset through a diminished sense of control, leading to reactive financial habits and difficulty delaying gratification. By learning to shift from an external to an internal locus of control, listeners can rewire old belief patterns, reclaim agency, and start making empowered financial decisions rooted in self-awareness. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://ptmoney.com/overcome-money-mindset-issues-grew-poor/ Quotes to ponder: "Feeling as though you have control over your life is a big factor in making good financial decisions." "Waiting patiently for a larger, later reward is what investing is all about, after all." "Successful people know that looking within is the only way to realize your dreams." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:14.6	How to overcome your money mindset issues if you grew up poor by Emily Guy Burkin with
1:20.7	PTMoney.com.
1:23.7	Everyone loves a great rags to riches story, but there's also a feeling among many of us that those stories are nothing but myths.
1:32.5	You might think, yes, it may be possible for anyone to become rich, powerful, and famous in America, but it's certainly not going to happen to me or anyone I know.
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