3 Support Systems You Need for Financial Success

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Ep. 170: 3 Support Systems You Need for Financial Success

Today we’re diving into the fourth and final part of the Unstoppable Finances Framework—coaching and support systems. I’ll guide you on how to evaluate where you are, where you’re excelling, and where there’s room for improvement in your financial journey.

We’ll explore the essential pillars of support, both emotional and financial, and why having a strong community is a game changer in achieving your goals. Plus, I’ll share actionable steps to express gratitude for your current support and identify areas where you could use more assistance.

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Podcast Key Points

0:00 – Episode Overview
1:54 – Having a supportive community
4:23 – Emotional support
6:08 – Financial support
7:45 – Personalized support
9:38 – Thank you for being part of the community

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Your Money Your Life Podcast: Episode 170

Quick Steps to Manage Your Money

We’ve been talking about quick action steps to help you move forward, remove the overwhelm from managing your money, making money within the offense, like problem solving where you might be stuck. And then last week, we talked about the money mindset portion and what to do and how to handle, how to move forward through those breakdowns that show up. But today we’re going to talk about the fourth and final part, the part that that makes everything work so much better and how you can analyze and see where you are rocking it and where you have a little bit of room for improvement. This is gonna be great. All right, let’s get to it.

Welcome to Your Money Your Life Podcast

This is the your Money Your Life podcast. I’m your host, Aimee Cerka, a money confidence coach for female entrepreneurs on the path to six figures. After over ten years in the personal finance industry and multiple personal, financial, and medical crises, I was fed up with the lies that are being shouted from the rooftops by the gurus and the media. So now I help you simplify, solidify. And scale your money.

Welcome back to the Your Money Your Life podcast. I’m your host, Aimee Cerka. We are talking today about the fourth and final part of the unstoppable finances framework and how you can check in with yourself, how you can evaluate where you’re at, where you’re stuck, where there’s room for improvement.

Importance of a Support System

When it comes to your support system, the fourth and final part of the framework is coaching. So how is your community? How is your support system? Where, where are you at? Where do we have things that we want to improve?

Impact of Support on Achieving Goals

There is one major factor that has a big impact on all of our decisions, the goals that we’re working towards and the opportunities that we can actually capitalize, and that’s how much support that we have. Now, this is not just talking about, you know, financial coaching. Yes, this is the financial podcast. Yes, I offer money coaching, but this coaching and having a supportive community goes so beyond that.

Examples of Valuable Support

When I think back over the last twelve years, for sure and all that, you know, personally, I’ve accomplished. There’s so, there’s things that would have been so much harder without the support that I had in place. There’s things that would have gone faster if I would have had additional support available to me. This is about, again, that well rounded support.

Three Pillars of Support

I’m gonna have three pillars here within support that I want you to be aware of. Again, not just the financially. This is even like people, like awesome. How can I help? Like I’ll watch the kids for you.

Identifying Emotional Support

This is about having people that listen to you and contribute and help impact you. Maybe they help settle you when things feel overwhelming, like who’s that support person you have in your community that just helps you settle? Take a breath and realize that, like, hey, you know, we’ve got this.

Emotional Impact of Support

All right, so the first one, the first, I don’t know, pillar impact coaching shift that I want you to think about. This is the emotional, because, you know, change and growth and just navigating life can be a lot. It can be messy, it can be nerve wracking, it can be scary. And when we are working on achieving something, we’re just living life. We have to not just put the time and money and the effort in there. We have to be honest with ourselves and we have to move forward.

Finding Emotional Guidance

I guess you don’t have to be honest with yourself. You should be honest with yourself. What the emotional impact is like when something goes sideways. Do you have somebody that you can reach out to that you can count on for guidance, support, encouragement? Maybe a helping hand?

Support in All Areas of Life

Just somebody that helps you to know you’re not alone. And this doesn’t just have to be one person, but at a minimum, I want you to have the one person. And knowing and feeling that you were truly supported as you pursue your goal is a total game changer. Or as you just live life.

Life Happens, Support Helps

I mean, maybe it’s not an area. That you have, like a goal you’re just trying to excel in, but life happens, right? Stuff happens, things come up. And as you are navigating that, the process makes everything so much easier.

Different Types of Emotional Support

Okay. And this could be like the emotional, there’s different categories, so there could be somebody who’s like the emotionally supportive, hey, you’ve got this. When it comes to your money, there can be somebody who’s emotionally supportive, hey, you’ve got this when it comes to your parenting. It doesn’t just have to be one person. Just somebody there in your corner that’s helping support you.

Categories of Support

And that’s probably actually something to break down into like, the different categories of life, you know, they have those wheel of life. That’s like six to eight categories. Maybe, you know, pull that up. Let’s see if I can run through it. Fitness, family, finances, work, fun, and I’m missing a couple.

Check Your Emotional Support System

So, yeah, google the wheel and look through that and evaluate who is somebody in your corner. Do you have that emotional support? That person that says, hey, I’ve got this. Then we also have the financial, because the amount of support that we have impacts your plans, like, what you’re able to do financially, right?

Financial Support Examples

So if it’s somebody to help with the kids, maybe it’s carpooling, maybe it’s having to go get takeout instead of eating in, or being able to go get takeout instead of eating in. Like, there’s so many different things that can factor in there. Having someone to help clean the house, having a VA in your business to help take that support off or take that pressure off of you to give you that support so there’s not as much on your plate.

The Importance of Systems

So having people in your support system, in your community to help you with those things, to help you see where you might need those things and to do things faster. We could also talk about systems here and how if you can customize something to fit what you need it to, like, it’s going to save you time and money there as well.

Financial Support Eases Your Load

And just having the support systems, they’re like, yes, you’ve got people to emotionally support you and like, hey, when the tough times come up and happen, so you can be like, yeah, you’ve got this. And then the financial support so you don’t feel like you’re doing it all alone and you’re not having to run yourself to the ground trying to do it all for everybody, having those things in place, even if it’s as simple as having the resources to hire a VA or having the resources to be like, we can go out to eat tonight.

Customizing Support for Your Needs

I don’t have to carve out an extra hour to be able to make dinner when life gets crazy and hectic, or have somebody else make dinner for you, whatever that might look like. It’s another layer of support. But the biggest thing is, this has to work for you. It has to be personalized. This is not, again, one size fits all.

Money Mastery Academy

That’s why within the. Within Money Mastery Academy, there’s different levels of personalization and support. Some people need more. There’s also why there’s the Execution Lab. Maybe you don’t need Money Mastery Academy, you just need the Execution Lab to kind of help you stay on the right track.

Foundation for Personalization

The point is, like, it doesn’t matter what somebody else needs. This is important to you. I don’t. It doesn’t have to be everything. Like, I.

Tools for Every Level

Okay, sure. I feel like everybody should do Money Mastery Academy, should be involved in Money Mastery Academy. Everybody that it’s a fit for, like, that’s a great foundation. And what you need after that, who knows?

Personalization in Money Mastery Academy

And the reason why I can say that about Money Mastery Academy is because of everything that’s included, all of the training. I’m not saying that you have to start with the step by step budgeting. Maybe you’re starting at the high level. We’re just tweaking something and making it more streamlined, but it has everything included there for you. And then, of course, the support is customizable.

Different Needs, Different Solutions

But I don’t tell you, just, hey, start here. And this is going to be easy because one thing that might be easy for one person is not easy. It can feel impossible for the other. This is, you know, like your zona genius. Like, the thing that comes easy to you.

Finding Your Zone of Genius

So, like, for me, the numbers and the bookkeeping and all those things feels easy for me. But for others, it’s impossible. It feels overwhelming, it’s daunting, whatever you want to call it. But you need to have the support system that works for you, that helps you move forward. Either take it off your plate or help you with the step by step to make it feel possible when those things that feel impossible come up.

Thanking Your Support System

And just a quick note before I give you your action step. Part of what I’m thankful for is you being here because I don’t. I know that I wouldn’t have accomplished what I have so far if that. If I didn’t have the support system in place, if I didn’t have the community in place that I do. And you are part of that. So thank you for being here.

Action Step: Show Your Appreciation

Your action step for today. Where are you thankful for your support? Where is somewhere that’s something that’s like, I would not be where I am today without this person. Send them a thank you note. Tell them that you appreciate them, that you see them, that you value them.

Identify Areas for More Support

And, like, part b of that, where could you use more support? We went through those eight areas, and you were looking at where, like, I don’t have somebody to support me. I don’t have somebody that gets it. As somebody who homeschools my kids and runs my own business, there is a homeschool CEO group that’s amazing. And there was a long time that I didn’t feel like I needed that person in my corner.

Ongoing Support Needs

But then things changed and I did. So then I got that support that I needed. So this is an ongoing, evolving process. So pick an area, identify where could you use more support in, and then. Send me a message on Instagram.

Share and Discover Resources

Let me know where it’s at. Maybe I’ve got a resource for you. Looking at the possibility, believing that you have the solution or somebody has the solution and you can find the solution because, hey, you got this. All right, that’s it for now. We’ll see you next time.