See The Upside - Overcoming Obstacles and Doing Life a Little Better Everyday - 42. How to Create and Grow Real Wealth Even After Divorce with Chris Odegard

42. How to Create and Grow Real Wealth Even After Divorce with Chris Odegard

09/25/22 • 53 min

See The Upside - Overcoming Obstacles and Doing Life a Little Better Everyday

What if I told you that everything we've been taught about money is wrong? That the best thing you can do to manage and build your wealth is to totally reframe how you think about it?
That's what this conversation with Chris Odegard is all about. Chris believes that we've all been given well meaning, but outdated advice. There are new important ways we can make our money work for us to create and manage significant wealth and freedom, even after divorce.
In the interview we address so many areas of wealth including what being wealthy even means, (hint - freedom!), how we learn about money and why it's not a great place to frame our strategy from, how to get better advice and so many ways we can expand our beliefs and understanding of what's possible financially. Even if we're getting divorced late in life or have experienced significant loss financially. There is always a way to shift that narrative and tangible ways to change our strategy. SO much great info here.
Some of the topics we cover in the interview:

Why being a conventional investor may not build the wealth you think it will
How creating assets that bring in revenue can give you incredible freedom
Why continuing to go to school isn’t always the best way to building wealth
What to do after divorce when your income and revenue streams are diminished
Why changing the way you think about money is the most important first step to building wealth
Why debt isn’t always bad
Working as an employee may not allow you to build the wealth you really want
The reality of your returns and tax benefits from a 401k and why there may be a better way to invest your money
Why the people you hang out with can influence your wealth status
What exactly is passive income and how you can create it
The best ways to expand your knowledge on money and investing
How to calculate the number that makes you rich that’s unique to you
How tax codes determine our investment behavior and how to make them work for you

I am wholeheartedly committed to expanding my own knowledge about money and investing and love getting new perspectives. Every conversation is an invitation to step up and embrace new possibilities and opportunities. I want all women to have freedom to live a life free from worry and stress about money. And we CAN! The first step is to believe it, the second step is to start learning and sharing as much as we can. Take a listen and please share and review. xoxo
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Website: https://theprolificinvestor.net/
Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisodegard/
Chris' Book - Get off your A$$ and Manage your Money

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Why being a conventional investor may not build the wealth you think it will
How creating assets that bring in revenue can give you incredible freedom
Why continuing to go to school isn’t always the best way to building wealth
What to do after divorce when your income and revenue streams are diminished
Why changing the way you think about money is the most important first step to building wealth
Why debt isn’t always bad
Working as an employee may not allow you to build the wealth you really want
The reality of your returns and tax benefits from a 401k and why there may be a better way to invest your money
Why the people you hang out with can influence your wealth status
What exactly is passive income and how you can create it
The best ways to expand your knowledge on money and investing
How to calculate the number that makes you rich that’s unique to you
How tax codes determine our investment behavior and how to make them work for you

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41. Honoring our Stories by Reframing what They Mean with Jane Cebrynski

We each have a story, and part of our story may be difficult to talk about, accept or even think about. But what do our stories really mean? How do they play a role in who we are and how they define us? What if we don't like our stories? How can we view them differently so that our stories work FOR us, so they lift us up, drive us forward and inspire us to be the best version of ourselves?
In this interview with Jane Cebrynski, we get honest and real about hard stories and how to not only accept them, but leverage them. Jane is a Chief Well Being Officer with Champion Well Being, an organization that focuses on living life like athletes play sports - brilliant! The intention is to always be striving for better, to have a champion mindset, to let losses and obstacles serve as opportunities and to be in continual training.
In the interview we cover:

Living your life like an athlete trains for their sport
How you can apply a champion mind set to your life
How covid affected the athletic world, and how we can apply their adaptability strategies
The importance of believing something is possible
How to build resilience and positivity in the hard moments
Why losses are even more important than the wins
How to not stay stuck, focus on the lesson and being able to let go and move on
Why we sometimes identify with our hard stories in unhealthy ways
What to do when an emotional “injury” comes up in life, how to reengage and why we need time to heal before we get back to our optimum pace of life
Why the best athletes are looking for constant improvement and how and why this is important in life
How growth can be an fun, an adventure and how it changes the growth experience
How shame can hold us back from growth
Why the ending of some friendships after divorce is ok
Why acknowledging our stories allows us to heal
Why our brains want to make up stories about what other people are thinking and why it’s a huge waste of time
How to share your story openly, authentically, honestly in a healthy way.
The question to ask before sharing your story

I had a very hard divorce story and really struggled personally with a lot of heaviness around it. What I realized is that we CHOOSE how to view our story. We can proactively create healing around our story and reframe what it means. It takes time, intention, personal awareness, and willingness to do the work. It's not easy, but I can tell you, it's worth every moment. Take a listen to this episode and get more clarity around where you're at with your story. You might have some simple shifts you could make that could lighten that load.
Connect with See The Upside:
Website - www.SeetheUpside.com
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Connect with Jane:
Website: https://www.championwellbeing.com/life2life
Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-cebrynski/

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43. Living with Intention by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable with Shana Francesca

Are you living life intentionally? How can you be more present, feel more fulfilled, have more purpose and step into the very best version of yourself?
That's what this episode is all about. Shana Francesca brings her beautiful grounding and insightful wisdom to the show where we dive deep into how to connect fully with the true nature of ourselves, create boundaries, navigating disappointments, how to speak your truth in relationships, why we feel disconnected from ourselves and how to come back to our authenticity.
Hint - it's all about letting ourselves get uncomfortable.
We get this one chance at life and have choices every day about how to live it fully and who we want to be. To get there you'll have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone. You won't want to miss this incredible conversation with Shana about how to push to your edge in the most inspiring and expansive ways.
In the interview we cover:

What living with intention means
Why meditation is the starting point and how to take the time to listen to yourself and get quiet
Why we as women have fear around knowing ourselves
Embracing having needs and how it actually creates balance in relationships
Why rock bottom is beautiful
Getting comfortable being uncomfortable allows for uplevels and shifts and tells us how we need to change
Why speaking our truth can be so uncomfortable and how to embrace it
The different ways men and women may react to you creating a boundary
How to allow someone to express themselves and not internalize it
A beautiful way to receive an apology (it’s not “it’s ok”)
How owning our mistakes and apologizing deepens relationships and develops trust
Why denying our hurt is so damaging to relationships and to ourselves
Why speaking our truth when we are hurt is a beautiful way to be authentic and to feel heard
The times when we need control over the outcome is when we don’t have boundaries
The more we practice being uncomfortable the less attached we get to things needing to be a certain way and allow life to flow which allows us to connect rather than attach
Connection is when both parties come willingly
How giving yourself permission to make your home a reflection of you can be incredibly inspiring and liberating

Our purpose in this life is to get to know ourselves on a deep soul level. Every experience and relationship is leading us deeper into this process and showing us the highest best version of ourselves and who we were always meant to be. Through openness, connection, self reflection and honesty, we can discover so much possibility and continue on that beautiful path of growth and expansion. Shana inspires and opens up this conversation on so many levels.
Connect with See The Upside:
Website - www.SeetheUpside.com
Instagram - @see.theupside
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Connect with Shana:
Website: https://www.concinnate.world/
Workshops: https://www.concinna