In today’s episode, I’m bringing back my friend Jason Vitug who is a wellness advocate and best-selling author of two books, ‘Happy Money, Happy Life’ and ‘You Only Live Once’. He’s the founder of phroogal.com and is an award-winning creator of the Road to Financial Wellness Project. He is also a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion expert, a certified yoga teacher, and a breathwork specialist.
We talk about how money can affect your happiness, the dimensions of wellness that relate to money, and how to achieve a happier life.
“Sometimes your healing will trigger a lot of people who are still unhealed but also it can inspire people to want to be better to change.” – Melanie Lockert
“When we can use money as a tool, we can then use money to positively affect these different aspects of our being, these eight wellness dimensions (mental health, emotional health, physical, spiritual, social, environmental, occupational, financial).” – Jason Vitug
“We are not our feelings. Our feelings are our responses. And that means we should not repress our feelings because it’s telling us something about a situation, something about an environment that isn’t right and we need to get out of it.” – Jason Vitug
“Money isn’t everything, but money impacts most things.” – Jason Vitug
What You Will Learn From This Episode
- The turning point and realizations that made Jason write his second book ‘Happy Money Happy Life’
- What are the components of a happy life (the 8 wellness dimensions), how they are all connected, and how they are affected by money
- The difference between mental health and emotional health
- Why retail therapy and other coping techniques may actually cause financial distress
- How to spend our money to improve our emotional and mental health
- Why money is one of the most important things and yet also one of the least important things in life
- How can people who tie their self-worth and success with money or work change or stop with that association
- What is a happy life and how to use our money to get that happy life
About Jason Vitug:
Jason is a wellness advocate helping a generation achieve a victorious life through health and wealth. He is a bestselling NY Times-reviewed author of two books: ‘Happy Money Happy Life’ and ‘You Only Live Once’. He is the founder of the personal finance website phroogal.com, creator of the Plutus Award-winning Road to Financial Wellness project, and a certified yoga teacher and breathwork specialist.
While having professional success, Jason experienced financial distress and personal dissatisfaction. His quest to find a balance between achievements and fulfillment led him to resign from his executive job and backpack through 20 countries in 12 months. In that journey, he realized the importance of holistic well-being, where money isn’t the goal but the tool to achieve the goals.
Jason openly shares his problems with credit, the oversized debt, and the spending habits that kept him living paycheck-to-paycheck. He is now living financially well and educates others on achieving financial and career goals without sacrificing life satisfaction.
Resources
- Happy Money Happy Life: A Multidimensional Approach to Health, Wealth, and Financial Freedom by Jason Vitug
- You Only Live Once: The Roadmap to Financial Wellness and a Purposeful Life by Jason Vitug
- phroogal.com
- Redefining Wealth Podcast with Patrice Washington
- Chronic Pain and Emotional Trauma: An Interview with Kent Bassett and Dr. Howard Schubiner of This Might Hurt Film
- Learn a new coping technique with this training called: Breathwork: Unlocking the Power of Intentional Breathing to Set, Reset and Relax
Connect with Jason
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- mentalhealthandwealth.com
- melanielockert.com
- Support the podcast through Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/melanielockert
- Buy Melanie’s book “Dear Debt”
- Contact: mentalhealthandwealthshow@gmail.com
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