ASLU 126: Money Mindset Matters for Working Creatives with Pamela George

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All of us have money mindset challenges. Whether they're rooted in our childhood or our choice of a career (starving artists, anyone?), we can carry around a lot of money baggage that gets in our way and stops us from being financially empowered women. That's where today's guest, Ottawa based financial literacy consultant Pamela George, steps in. Today, with the help of her powerful story,  she's helping us get rid of that starving artist mindset and align our money mindset with our values.

Based out of Ottawa, Ontario and born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago by a mother who couldn’t read or write, Pamela spent the first 25 years of her life struggling with poverty and homelessness - the effects of which are still being felt generations later.

At a very young age Pamela promised herself she wouldn’t follow the same fate as her mother. She was able to break the cycle of poverty, heal from her childhood money trauma, and today, stands proud as a financially empowered woman!

Now, Pamela owns Sand Dollar Financial Literacy Counselling where she teaches women who are ready to heal from money trauma, improve their relationship with money, and start building wealth for themselves, their businesses and their families through her signature framework: The 7 Pillars of Money Management.

Pamela speaks on several media platforms, including CBC and CTV, and she is also the author of Three Little Piggy Banks, a financial literacy book for young children.

TRIGGER WARNING: description of an incident of domestic violence from 14:15 - 14:35 in the podcast.

This Episode Is For…

This is a great episode for those creatives who...

  • struggle in their relationship with money

  • want to understand more about where their money mindset comes from

  • find it hard to believe they can be a financially successful creative

  • aren't sure where to start when it comes to managing their money in their business

  • are curious about building generational wealth 

  • are curious of how to plan for their money after they're gone if they don't have children

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it starts with knowing your worth

in this episode we discuss:

  • Pamela’s own journey with money and money trauma

  • how she went from poverty to being a financially empowered woman, financial literacy counsellor and author

  • how our past influences our present when it comes to money

  • how we can address our money trauma or mindset challenges and then move forward from it

  • determining our personal values and how that relates to money

  • the trope of the starving artist and why it’s nonsense

  • examining why we fall into the trap of believing money is the root of all evil and the negative views we have of people who have money

  • the lack of financial literacy in North America and who that benefits

  • how we can learn financial literacy and how that impacts future generations

  • how not using cash has turned money into an abstract concept for many of us

  • the money basics to focus on when you’re self-employed

  • what do you do when your business is earning you more than you need? What do you do with that extra money?

  • what generational wealth is and why it’s important

  • estate planning when you don’t have children

  • Pamela’s free 1 hour Money Dates every 3rd Wednesday of the month

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