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About Meadow DeVor

Meadow DeVor is a self-development teacher with a modern approach to spirituality, money, and personal growth. Since 2007, she has led teacher trainings, inquiry classes, and retreats both online and throughout the United States.

She’s the author of Money Love: A Guide to Changing the Way You Think About Money and The Art of Wayfinding: Discover Your Inner Guidance On and Off the Mat. Meadow has been published in Woman’s World Magazine, Woman’s Day Magazine, renowned blogs including Daily Worth and Good Men Project, and was even a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She speaks, writes, and teaches extensively on how our relationship to life itself is an exact reflection of our deepest held beliefs about our own worth.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• Going from being a money coach in a good financial situation to more than $500,000 in debt
• What buying a Gucci dress taught Meadow
• How your self-worth affects your finances
• The front door exercise – understanding the limitations we create for ourselves and where they come from
• Behaviors and thought processes that can lead to feelings of worthlessness
• Why changing the way you approach your relationship with money is as valuable as making more of it
• What led Meadow to move into a yurt in Big Sur
• Why downsizing and simplifying life was such a good decision for Meadow

Resources

Listen to The Worthy Project on Audible (use audibletrial.com/moneynerds to get your first book for free!)

Check out Meadow’s website

#MoneyWin

Denise– for saving up almost $15,000 for her dream house down payment! #moneywin

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About Jen Smith

Jen Smith is a personal finance writer, creator of Modern Frugality, and co-host of Frugal Friends Podcast.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• Co-hosting the Frugal Friends podcast
• Contracting shingles from over-working on side hustles
• Paying off $78,000 worth of student debt in less than 2 years
• Realizing she couldn’t side hustle her way out of debt and addressing unnecessary expenses
• Understanding why your bad spending habits exist
• Burnout midway through paying off her debt
• Career jumping from being an acupuncturist to a personal finance writer
• The hierarchy of side hustles
• Dealing with shiny object syndrome and staying focused
• Different specific side hustle ideas
• How to make money in freelance writing

Resources

Listen to Frugal Friends Podcast

Check out Jen’s Website

#MoneyWin

Stephanie– “When the pandemic hit last year I stopped paying on my credit cards. Three of them went to collections and I’ve been avoiding them. I settled two of them this month using my husband and my stimulus (one will be paid by July, the other in Jan. 2022). The third, I was able to lower my interest for a year to catch up which has been extremely helpful. The fourth, I will work on negotiating a settlement once I can save up a little more money.

It feels so good to be getting back on track!” #moneywin

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About Django Kroner

Django moved to the Red River Gorge when he was 19 to pursue rock climbing. He was apprenticing with a timber frame cabin builder and ended up building a tree house 45 feet up that he lived in for 3 years. As he lived there he saw how his tree house inspired people. He realized that he needed to share the canopy experience, with everyone, and that’s when he decided to start The Canopy Crew. Since that day he has been dedicated to life in the trees.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

• How Django became interested in rock climbing, tree climbing, and treehouses
• Strategies for building treehouses that keep the tree healthy
• Living in a treehouse for 3 years and eventually decided to take his tree-housing to the next level
• Starting the Canopy Crew tree care and treehouse building company
• Building a Geodome up in the air
• Building fully functional, running water treehouses vs. building remote treehouses
• The complexity of building a cliff house on the red river gorge
• How the Canopy Crew helps other people with the legal side of tree-housing
• How Django prices his treehouse
• The growing pains Django experienced while starting a business

Resources

Check out The Canopy Crew

#MoneyWin

Holly– “6 years of slamming our loans is starting to pay off. It’s been an exhausting journey. I used to put more than half my income towards my loans every month and I used to feel guilty for buying myself clothes.

I drove my last 2 cars until they broke down (literally) and I only gave myself $100 a month for fun spending.

$78K loans combined between my husband and I and when we graduated in 2014. Now we only have $10K left to go!” #moneywin

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These are the money principles I personally live by.

I’d love to hear what principles you personally live by as well.

Enjoy!