Hi and welcome to the Deeper Than Money podcast. I am your host, Chloe Elise. I'm a millennial money

coach speaker, dog mom, and a seven on the enneagram, and I am on a mission to prove to you

that finances can be fun and easy. On the Deeper Than Money podcast, we will dive into all things millennial finance, debt,

saving mindset, and how to have financial freedom to enjoy life in your 20s and 30s.

I want you to leave this podcast with more confidence around your Moolah

and the belief that your biggest financial dreams are

possible for you. So let's talk money. Today we are going to go. Hello and welcome back to the Deeper Than Money podcast. Today we are going to be answering the question of how we stop comparing ourselves to others. I did a question box last week. I love answering questions on Instagram because it's really cool to see like

oftentimes one person will ask a question and as I'm going through there will be like eight

of very similar questions. And so I'm able to kind of like pick out themes and answer the ones

that are because I can't answer every single one every time, but I try to answer a variety of

questions. And then I also try to answer the ones that I'm seeing multiple people ask me about.

And this was one of them this week. And so I answered it on my Instagram stories, but I wanted to

expand on it because it's not only such a common

theme just in life, and I think especially in your 20s, but also as it impacts your finances.

And a huge reason why this matters as a conversation around money is because when we're comparing

ourselves to other people in a negative light, it becomes this disempowering shift in energy.

And we end up feeling disempowered toward our finance goals and almost shaming ourselves too

for wanting more for ourselves and really pushing down desire, pushing down clarity

and creating this confusion between our desire and our intuition and what we feel like we are allowed to have.

Okay. And so not only is it so empowering to have this conversation on finances, but it can also

clear so much energy for you when it comes to other goals or things in your life that you might be wanting.

So let's dive into it. I am going to talk about the five steps to stopping comparing

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