Carin Rockind

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The PurposeGirl Podcast Episode 074: The Seven Sacred Sins that Keep Women Stuck

In my work with women over the years, both through one-on-one coaching and in group programs and retreats, I’ve identified seven things that tend to keep women stuck, what I’ve dubbed the Seven Sacred Sins: Self-doubt, self-hatred, shame, sacrifice, being stifled, being scared/survival, and being stuck. In this episode I walk through each of these, how they affect women in particular, and what we can do to combat each one.

It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow!

Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter.

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

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The PurposeGirl Podcast Episode 073: Happiness Through Financial Literacy

Financial literacy is more closely tied to wellbeing and happiness than wealth. Those with a high net worth can be extremely unhappy, and those with a relatively low net worth can be very deeply fulfilled. More important than the amount of money in one’s bank account is the alignment between how one uses that money and what one values and considers most important.

In today’s episode, my special guest Manisha Thakor shares with us some of her vast wisdom and experience around financial literacy and offers tremendous guidance and advice about making smart decisions around saving, spending, investing, and more. If you have or are planning to work with a financial advisor, Manisha has some critical advice on making sure that the advisor has your best interests in mind and has the right overall philosophy.

Manisha Thakor is a nationally renowned financial literacy advocate for women who has worked in the financial services industry for 25 years. Her wisdom has been featured in a wide range of national media outlets including: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, The Today Show, Dr. Oz, Women’s Health, Glamour  and Real Simple. Manisha sits on the board of The National Endowment for Financial Education, and is on faculty at The Omega Institute’s Women’s Leadership Center. She is also the co-author of two personal finance primers for young women in their 20s and 30s called On My Own Two Feet (https://amzn.to/2ysxVJd) and Get Financially Naked. (https://amzn.to/32X0dJY) Manisha earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Wellesley College.

During this episode Manisha recommended a number of books:

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin (https://amzn.to/2KaBDho)

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsay (https://amzn.to/2SYob2O)

Pay It Down! by Jean Chatzky (https://amzn.to/2T0GSmH)

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (https://amzn.to/334H9ty)

Fat is a Feminist Issue by Suzie Orbach (https://amzn.to/2T7MZpv)

To learn more about Manisha Thakor, you can connect with her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ManishaThakor/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/manishathakor/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishathakor), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/ManishaThakor), and check out her website (https://moneyzen.com). You can also find her podcast, True Wellth, wherever you listen to podcasts.

It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow!

Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter.

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

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The PurposeGirl Podcast Episode 073: Happiness Through Financial Literacy

Financial literacy is more closely tied to wellbeing and happiness than wealth. Those with a high net worth can be extremely unhappy, and those with a relatively low net worth can be very deeply fulfilled. More important than the amount of money in one’s bank account is the alignment between how one uses that money and what one values and considers most important.

In today’s episode, my special guest Manisha Thakor shares with us some of her vast wisdom and experience around financial literacy and offers tremendous guidance and advice about making smart decisions around saving, spending, investing, and more. If you have or are planning to work with a financial advisor, Manisha has some critical advice on making sure that the advisor has your best interests in mind and has the right overall philosophy.

Manisha Thakor is a nationally renowned financial literacy advocate for women who has worked in the financial services industry for 25 years. Her wisdom has been featured in a wide range of national media outlets including: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNBC, The Today Show, Dr. Oz, Women’s Health, Glamour  and Real Simple. Manisha sits on the board of The National Endowment for Financial Education, and is on faculty at The Omega Institute’s Women’s Leadership Center. She is also the co-author of two personal finance primers for young women in their 20s and 30s called On My Own Two Feet (https://amzn.to/2ysxVJd) and Get Financially Naked. (https://amzn.to/32X0dJY) Manisha earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Wellesley College.

During this episode Manisha recommended a number of books:

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin (https://amzn.to/2KaBDho)

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsay (https://amzn.to/2SYob2O)

Pay It Down! by Jean Chatzky (https://amzn.to/2T0GSmH)

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (https://amzn.to/334H9ty)

Fat is a Feminist Issue by Suzie Orbach (https://amzn.to/2T7MZpv)

To learn more about Manisha Thakor, you can connect with her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ManishaThakor/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/manishathakor/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishathakor), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/ManishaThakor), and check out her website (https://moneyzen.com). You can also find her podcast, True Wellth, wherever you listen to podcasts.

It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow!

Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter.

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

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Rise from Challenge to REAL Happiness

I'm off to my Goddess Girls retreat in Miami Beach, which will be SO much fun, but let's be honest… 
Life is all fun and games… until it's not.

Happiness sometimes tricks us. We think there is some “happily ever after” that we'll finally have one day and then we'll be free of challenge. 
We're taught that we'll be happy when we:
-Get the Man
-The House
-The Job
-The Money
-The Vacation 
THEN, you'll be happy. Free of all issues. 

But that's not what life is.
Life is a roller coaster of delicious highs and treacherous lows and as Powerful Women, we have the strength, courage and capacity to thrive WITH it all.

Nine years ago, my friend Ed drowned before my eyes. I tried to save him, I tried throwing him a rope, I tried getting help, but slowly, his head sank under the water and he was gone forever. The pain almost made me not go to graduate school for positive psychology. I thought, “If Ed can't live, how can I?” 
Then I remembered, because Ed didn't live, I must.
 
The past few weeks I've dealt with a lot of crap, and sometimes, it seemed like the storm wouldn't end. 

Finally, a MASSIVE tree fell onto our yard. During a torrential thunder and lighting storm, the trunk split and ripped into pieces all over our yard and the street. 

Talk about a metaphor for life.

I, too, fell to the ground. Crying, screaming, eating ice cream. 
And then I remembered that I am not a Victim. 
Rather, I'm a Creator. And that tree falling down showed me that I've been ignoring some challenges in life that I didn't want to deal with. I've been acting like a “little girl” – a “Princess” who needed to be rescued – instead of a Queen of my domain who deals with all of life. 

So the tree had to fall for me to Rise up as a Queen. And now, I'm grateful for all the crap! What a GIFT! The same is true for you. For all of us.

Happiness isn't yellow smiley faces. It isn't everything going perfectly well all the time like you see on Facebook.
Real Happiness is DEEP.
It's sucking the marrow out of life.
It's rising above.
It's learning and growing and elevating from challenge.
It's realizing that the trees fall FOR you.
It's using all the Pain for Purpose to make your mark in the world! 

We are not Victims.
We are Powerful Women. 
We are the Creators of our lives. 
Sometimes we're given a playground of light joyful mermaid colors and songs to Create.
And sometimes, we're given dark shadows and painful lessons to Create. It's both/And. 
But it's all Creating.
And at the end of the day, if you Create, you'll be Happy.
If you spend time doing what FILLS YOU, if you give YOUR gifts, YOUR talents, YOUR wisdom that comes from all the challenges you've had, you'll feel fulfilled at the end of your life. 
And then, we'll be “happy”.  

On the current episode of the PurposeGirl Podcast, I share the full story of that day with Ed and tools to recover from grief, pain, loss, anger, and challenge. I teach you how to move through the stages of grief and use “Post Traumatic Growth” to thrive from challenge. No matter your challenge, this episode will help you Rise. And ultimately as Purpose Women, that's why we're here. Click here for the episode.

And now, I'm off to Create from the LIGHT. From joy! From the ocean in Miami and the beauty of the Versace Mansion! 
Here's to CELEBRATING ALL of LIFE! 
Here's to LIVING FULLY ALIVE!
Here's to YOUR HAPPINESS!

XO,
Carin

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The PurposeGirl Podcast Episode 072: Turning Pain Into Purpose

I’m recording this episode on July 24, which is the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies of my life. In today’s episode I open up about what happened and how it affected me. I then take you through the process I went through to turn this pain into purpose, in the hopes that you can learn to do the same with some of the challenges in your own life, and I do this through the Kubler-Ross grief model. I also talk about Post Traumatic Growth.

It would really mean a lot to me if you would go to Apple Podcasts and leave me a review (hopefully a great one!), leave a 5 star rating, subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an episode, and download the episodes! And please spread the word and help our community grow!

Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter.

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

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