Spend With Intention | Ep. 229
Most of us have had the experience of looking at our spending and deciding, I need to stop doing that.
Maybe it leads to a no-spend challenge, cutting out a particular category, or setting a new rule for ourselves. Sometimes that works for a while. But if we never understand what was behind the spending in the first place, it can be difficult to make the change last.
In this episode of The New Money Habits Podcast, Nino Villa and Maria Casillas explore a different approach: mindful spending. Rather than beginning with rigid rules about what you should or shouldn’t buy, they look at the beliefs, emotions, and purpose underneath the way we spend.
Sometimes the spending we feel guilty about isn’t actually the problem. We may simply be carrying an old belief about how much we should spend without considering our family, priorities, or circumstances. Other times, the same purchase can serve very different purposes. A meal out might be an unplanned convenience one day and an intentional opportunity for connection another. Looking only at the number misses part of the story.
As the conversation unfolds, Nino and Maria explore how to recognize the stories we tell ourselves about money, identify the areas where we actually want our habits to change, and understand why we spend the way we do. Because lasting change usually requires more than changing a behavior for a few weeks. It requires understanding what’s driving that behavior in the first place.
The goal isn’t necessarily to spend less.
It’s to become more intentional about when, where, and why you choose to spend.
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