Guest, Bob Wheeler, CPA, author of The Money Nerve joins host, Jane Honeck, to explore navigating the emotions of money. You’ll discover how to uncover your personal money nerve, the one that gets pinched every time you pay bills or watch a loved one waste their money. From opposite coasts their work as Certified Public Accountants brings them to the same conclusion: solving money problems is more about your unconscious emotions than about any dollars in your account.
Jane Honeck and Spencer Melnick are hosts with Dreamvisions 7 Radio, and can be heard weekly on their live programs and in archives on the Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network website.
Yes, having to earn money to support siblings and extended family, can cause a lot of stress and mistakes.
Feeling trapped at many levels right now. I am a 54 year old female professor and organic farmer in a small mountain town college that pays extremely well. I was grateful for the job after the end of my marriage, about with cancer, and an underpaid adjunct teaching job in another state. Until recently, I was helping to support my father, who was the last of family. I bought a home here with a hefty mortgage that I will fall a good 50K short on if I sell now. I bought because there is zero high end rental market in this small, impoverished town and a good deal of what was available was grossly substandard. I have tried to rebuild a life here but it has been pretty disastrous, in part due to the huge differential in socioeconomic level and core values between myself and near aged men in this region. I have done all I can possibly do to try and build a functional social life, being very involved in community, making sure to be around during our race series when there are far more educated, stable men are in town. It seems as though no one educated and single wants to live here, have been stalked by locals, cheated on by a colleague, cannot sell the house and get enough to move, and there are few senior level academic jobs these days. Most teaching jobs will result in a 50% cut in salary and as I didn’t get my doctorate until nearly 40, I do not have near enough to retire on. Have been teaching myself woodworking, to raise chickens, grow food as post retirement career options, paid off my farm in another state so I have somewhere to go upon retirement that is far more cheaper to live, more sustainable, and (hopefully) more amenable to ecologically minded, older women. I am not a city person so cities are not an option. Right now, I am sitting in a home I cannot sell, in a town where I am horribly alone, am paying off debts from my fathers passing, burned out at work, cannot find another job that pays even close to this one, cannot retire, and really feel like there is no hope. I want a real life again where I can be married, have community, speak and live my truth.