Ep. 62: Creating A New Money Story - Shame, Curiosity & Burnout in Your Finances with Merideth Bisiker

Money is at the centre of many things we do, but what is your relationship to money telling you about the way you value and see yourself in the world. In this episode Merideth Bisiker shares her journey through financial trauma to a healthy money relationship. She shares the shame that so many people carry around finances and how important it is to be open and aware of your financial health. Paula and Merideth discuss getting curious with your money story and how to avoid recreating the same environment as an entrepreneur that you were leaving when you quit your 9-5.

In this episode we chat about:

Becoming colleagues with those you used to look up to.

How Merideth created a new money story and became a money coach.

Where to start when you feel “broke”.

Why spending money feels so good.

Building new habits to grow out of a burnout situation.

And so much more!

Merideth and her family have lived on the traditional, ancestral and stolen lands of the Coast Salish people, specifically Qualicum First Nation, since 2006. In settler terms, this is Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Merideth is an ICF-accredited professional life and business coach with a 25+ year background working in banking and government and non-profit finance. She's passionate about helping people discover how to give themselves permission to be creative and genuine as they carve out new paths for themselves. In her coaching practice, she supports leaders who are focused on setting fresh boundaries at work, allowing them to free up time and energy to work in their zones of genius and transition to more fulfilling opportunities. Merideth specializes in supporting clients who work in the private business and non-profit sectors.

As a white, cis-gender, middle-class women born in Canada, descended from multiple generations of Europeans settled in North America, I recognize my responsibility to support and develop genuine ally-ship to people marginalized by the system. Merideth's intention is to create safe coaching and workshop spaces for our clients so that they can focus on exploration of themselves and taking part in coaching and workshop conversations.

When she's not coaching or learning more about coaching, neuroscience, and equity in the workplace, you’ll usually find her writing, reading, or practicing music (winter), or on a road trip to a beach somewhere on Vancouver Island (summer).

Connect with Merideth!

www.talktomycoach.com

https://www.facebook.com/merideththelifecoach

https://www.instagram.com/merideththelifecoach

https://www.linkedin.com/in/merideth-bisiker/

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(04:22) How life can come full circle and you get to be colleagues with the people that you look up to right now.

(05:44) How Merideth became a coach after a traumatic financial experience whilst raising her autistic child and became an ICF accredited money coach.

(11:33) How Merideth began overcoming her shame around money struggles and how important it is to talk about money and your money story.

(14:35) Where to start when money feels lacking and out of reach, in a practical way.   

(16:20) Getting curious with your money.

(19:20) How self-enquiry creates results but telling people what to do does not. 

(23:11) How money stories are just the surface piece of how you see and regard yourself.

(27:50) Why does spending money feel so good?

(29:35) Systemic burnout and how it relates to money. 

(36:09) Shifting your focus in your business and feeling responsible for other people’s feelings.

(40:12) Building new habits to move through burnout.

(43:05) Recognizing why you wanted to change, perpetuating old money stories by chasing the overnight millionaire idea.

(47:50) Merideths’s top of advice for dealing with burnout and finances.