When Your Money Doesn't Match What Matters Most | Ep. 232
Sometimes we look at the way we're spending money and realize it doesn't quite match the things we say matter most to us.
It's tempting to treat that as a budgeting problem. Spend less here. Save more there. Make a better plan.
But what if the behavior is telling us something?
In this revisited conversation, Nino Villa and Maria Casillas explore the relationship between money and our values—not simply the values we say we have, but the ones that begin to emerge through the choices we make with our money and our time. Maria shares questions she uses to help people get beneath the easy answers and think more honestly about what actually matters to them.
That becomes more complicated when we recognize that we don't make those choices in isolation. Families can value different things. Advertising and the people around us can influence what we want. Sometimes spending that looks unnecessary from the outside may actually be meeting a very real emotional or relational need.
And that's where the conversation begins to shift.
Before we change a behavior, it may help to understand what that behavior has been doing for us.
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This episode features music by Summer School.
