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Aug 2024
47m 38s

Money Can Buy You Happiness...With A Lit...

Shari Rash, Money Podcast for Women, Personal Finance, Relationships & Mental Health
About this episode

Can money buy happiness, or can’t money buy happiness? Our guest on this vault episode, Jason Vitug, author of the book Happy Money, Happy Life, A Multidimensional Approach to Health, Wealth and Financial Freedom and founder of phroogal.com, believes that money isn’t everything, but it does impact most everything in our lives.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • The most common long-held money beliefs about happiness which just don’t work anymore
  • Why money can buy happiness with a little perspective
  • How to unlearn all of these false money beliefs
  • How to figure out what financial freedom is for you
  • Jason's unique approach to creating happy money and a happy life


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Happy Money Happy Life book

Phroogal website


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