59. Let me reintroduce myself & how money mindset work changed my life
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In this podcast episode, I share my personal journey and reflecting on my recent success. I want to emphasize the importance of trusting your intuition, taking action, and investing in mentorship. Throughout my own experiences, I have learned the need to overcome self-limiting beliefs and I encourage all of you to invest in yourselves as well.
Let me also take a moment to discuss my qualifications and certifications. I am certified in financial counselling, sacred money archetypes, life coaching, NLP, and hypnotherapy. These certifications have equipped me with the necessary tools to empower women to break free from money blocks and make informed decisions.
One of my biggest passions is bringing my teachings into schools and creating a better future for generations to come. I truly believe that by empowering young minds with the right money mindset, we can make a significant impact on their lives.
Lastly, I want to extend an invitation to all of you. If you are considering hiring a coach, I encourage you to consider working with me before the prices for my private coaching double. I am here to support you on your journey towards financial success and personal growth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00:00) - Welcome back to the Money Mindset Hub podcast. I'm your host, Karla Townsend, and I'm a money mindset and success coach for female entrepreneurs who are ready to manifest a masterpiece in their lives and in their businesses. So this episode is going to be a bit of a reintroduction to myself because I realized the last time I did this was probably when I started the podcast, and you might see snippets here and there on my Instagram, or if you're in my mailing list, you'll you'll hear different snippets of my story throughout this podcast, obviously. But I felt like it was really a good time to reintroduce myself to those of you who are new here, who may not know me and may not know my story a bit deeper. Like, why would you want to listen to me? Why would you wanna hear from me? Why would you want to learn about money, mindset and success from me? And this is where I thought this is probably the best place to be able to give you a bit of a rundown.
Speaker 1 (00:00:51) - So I'm also going to share some stories because seriously. First off, I'm going to go big vision with you, but. Right now. I was reflecting today I had another pinch me moment this morning, like feel like I'm just a manifestation bloody magnet at the minute and it has been years in the making. This is the thing. It's been years in the making. So I'll take you back through a bit of my story and then obviously you can go binge the rest of the podcast and you'll get more snippets out of it. But today was literally a point where I thought like, Holy shit, everything is coming together and I am having conversations with women and opportunities flooding my way that I five years ago never would have thought this would be me. I never thought that I would be in the position that I am at now where I am. Being offered opportunities and expanding my reach and my growth and the impact that I'm here to create in the legacy that I'm here to leave behind. I just oh, seriously, I'm trying not to bring myself to tears again because before I picked up the mic, I was thinking about all of this and it made me cry because my God, I'm a bit of a sulk, but it's a pinch me moment, honestly.
Speaker 1 (00:02:06) - And I feel like over the next 12 months it's going to just ramp up. It's going to ramp up. I can see it. I can feel it. I can touch it. I know exactly what's going to happen. And it's funny because I've always been such a big picture person and I always thought everyone thought like that. Everyone was like me and they always visioned what's happening. I remember once saying to my husband, MC years ago, like, this would be like ten years ago. I'm asking him like, what's your five year vision? And he laughed. He laughed because he was like, What do you mean five year vision? Like, I've never really thought about a five year vision. Maybe you're one year. And I just thought to me, that's normal. I just thought everyone has like a five year vision for their life. I have a long term vision for my life. I always knew from a young age that I was going to be here to be seen, heard, be really visible.
Speaker 1 (00:02:56) - But it's funny because over the years I ended up going totally in the opposite direction. I had no self-belief, I had no self-confidence, I had no self-esteem. I was very insecure. I second guess everything that I would say. I second guess my knowledge and myself and would always think I didn't know enough. I wasn't good enough, who would listen to me? And I can't even believe sometimes that I'm here now with the business that I created from nothing because five years ago I never would have thought like, who is going to pay me for my knowledge and my learnings? But I'm a study nerd. I'll forever be mastering my craft and I'm forever grateful at the same time that that inner voice just got louder and louder and louder. And it was like. Carla, this is your place. You are supposed to support people to unlock their potential and get out of their own way, specifically in relation to money and success blocks that they have. Because that was the biggest transformation in my own life, because I was always in my own way, I was always getting in my own way.
Speaker 1 (00:03:58) - I was second guessing everything. I wasn't trusting my intuition. I didn't know how to make decisions. I didn't know that my authority was splenic okay, intuition like that, deep in and knowing and whenever I didn't trust it, you know, you feel it and. I used to make myself wrong for a lot of things. Like I used to make myself. Wrong for trying to make things perfect and for over planning. And of course, there comes a point where you've just got to go, just do it, do something about it. And I think that the biggest thing for me is over the last few years now of growing this business, I realised that the moment that I just stopped planning and I started listening to my intuition and I started putting myself in rooms with other women that expanded me like my goals would be insane to a lot of people listening. The amount of impact and visibility and reach and income and wealth that I intend on creating in this lifetime. Is like something. Honestly, I would have laughed that five years ago, ten years ago, 100%.
Speaker 1 (00:05:03) - I would have thought, Oh my God, you're crazy. You'll never make that kind of money. Remember, a 100 K was successful. But my vision now is like, hell no. And it's funny how things can really shift when you work on that inner self confidence, that inner self belief, and you have the right kind of mentorship. And yeah, I know, you know, people always say you've got to get mentorship. It promotes you and it makes you get to where you desire to go faster. It seriously does because up until 2021, I didn't invest in myself in a mentor. I invested in the courses and the programs and doing all the things myself, but I didn't actually put myself at the table with someone who had been there, done that and was where I desired to be. And at the same time, I. I didn't know that that was the key until I knew. And now I will never stop doing that. And I'm constantly investing in the amount I've invested is probably a bit terrifying for some people listening, but to me it's.
Speaker 1 (00:06:01) - It's essential because you are always going to be your greatest investment. And the more I invested in myself, the more that I've actually become the woman that I'm proud of. I've become the woman that I dreamed of becoming. And you can do this, too. All right. Big long tangent. So let me go back to why I actually wanted to record this podcast and give you a bit of like, who I am, and that might give you a bit of a spiel. But anyway, so I empower women to break free from their money blocks and also the self imposed limitations at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey from start up to seasoned multi six figure entrepreneurs. But on top of that, the biggest thing that I'm most proud of is that I'm actually a mother of three beautiful children. These three children that I envisioned for so long, and my incredible husband, who is literally everything that I ever dreamed of being married to, he's definitely my he's my soulmate and my life now wouldn't be the same without him.
Speaker 1 (00:06:54) - His support has been second to none. And to be honest, at the beginning of my business, he didn't always understand this. And I know this is actually a block that a lot of people come across is. But how do you get your husband on board? How do you get your partner on board if they just don't see the vision? It's actually not your job to get them to see the vision, right. It's your job to be confident in yourself and your own vision, and eventually they'll see it for themselves. It's not about trying to convince anybody else. It's actually about trying to convince yourself, because the more that you work on your confidence, your self trust, your self belief, you remove those those blocks. And when I say blocks, when I say money blocks, success blocks to me, same thing. The level of success that you believe you're capable of worthy of achieving is directly related with the amount of money you believe you can create and receive. And these blocks are just metaphorical blocks.
Speaker 1 (00:07:39) - They're actually just in our beliefs, in our conditioning, in our attitudes, our habits and thoughts, their habits. So you human design lovers will probably see this now and be like, Oh, of course you are. So I'm A35 split projector and no projectors only make up about 20% of the population. And where the big picture a bird's eye view people that see the paths when people don't even know the paths exist. And that made me finally realize that, okay, it's not wrong. I have been someone that's always seen the big vision. I have been someone that people are just drawn to, and that's why I felt like I was born a coach because everyone kept coming to me for all their issues, because for some reason they thought that I always had the answer. And a lot of the times I did. But I just had to obviously learn to wait for the invitation to give my opinion. And then when they were ready to receive the opinion and that's when things changed, it makes total sense that I ended up doing this in what I'm doing now and supporting people like that.
Speaker 1 (00:08:37) - So obviously you can probably tell I can talk your ear off one thing, I'm a terrible cook. I don't know about you, but cooking is just not my strong suit at all. And also being able to articulate common phrases or sayings is also something that I can't do. I butcher every single one. It's like a running joke now, but something that I'm amazing at is people and I love leading them into step into their potential because I give a shit. I give so much shits that I used to have a real issue with boundaries because I would never know when to put up that bubble when I was supporting someone, whether it be a client, whether it be a friend, whether it be family members. I would always take on everyone else's stuff because I would feel so deeply for other people that that would affect me and it would actually keep me feeling stuck and icky and just low. Just low, you know, because I took on so much of everyone else's stuff. And now I have learned that I can let that go.
Speaker 1 (00:09:36) - Other people's things don't affect me. But that had to start with me. Maybe you're the same. Maybe this is a really good reminder. Boundaries are a good thing, especially when you can't solve the problems of the world. And I know our projectors are here to solve the problems of the world, but we can't solve it for everyone. They've got to see it themselves. And that's what we're actually better at doing, is getting them to see it for themselves. So one of the questions, too, that does come up is like, oh, what qualifications do you have? Because I know this is not a regulated industry, right? Anyone can be a coach. Anyone could call themselves a coach. Now, whether they're good at it or not is a different thing depending on if you've got experience in what you're teaching about. Of course it's going to be within integrity, but if you don't and you're literally like, I'm just going to call myself this, I'm going to say I've got these certifications, but I don't obviously feel like most people are going to pick up on that and probably not going to be very successful.
Speaker 1 (00:10:26) - So I do have some qualifications. I'm definitely a study nerd. I'll forever be mastering my craft. So here's a couple of them. I've got a diploma in financial counseling, so if you don't know what financial counseling is, essentially this is the ability to be able to get people out of really severe financial hardships. I did that diploma to understand what it's like on the other end when you've literally lost everything, don't act as a financial counselor. That's not what my business is. But if you are having severe financial hardship, especially in times like. Please reach out to a financial counsellor in Australia. It is a free service, just Google Financial Counselling Australia and you can find some support. I'm really big on that because a lot of people don't know what actually exists. So the reason I did that was because if I can understand it from the point of view of someone that's literally hit rock bottom, then if I know how to get them out of that situation and make it better, then surely I can use my platform as a way to educate and empower female entrepreneurs to not end up in that position in the first place.
Speaker 1 (00:11:30) - So I'm really about that educating, that empowering piece so that people don't make the decisions that could potentially lead them into that kind of level of hardship. But sometimes it happens, okay, things happen, life happens doesn't always go so smoothly. And I've definitely felt my fair share of that too. So another couple of certifications that I have is a sacred money archetype certification. So if you don't know, I've got a free quiz on my website, just go to Money Mindset Hub. Com forward slash quiz. Take the quiz. It's so amazing. There are eight different archetypes. This literally explains your personality with money, your strengths, your challenges, your weaknesses, your behaviours. Everything will make sense. So go and take the quiz. It's incredible. And I've got a life coaching certification, NLP certification, and I'm also currently studying hypnotherapy because the subconscious mind is the most important thing if it comes to being able to rewire your mind for success and whatever it is that your version of success is, because it's different to all of us.
Speaker 1 (00:12:23) - So I suppose on top of that, you know, I've also worked with so many people who are like the leading experts in the world when it comes to money, mindset, spirituality and business. And it's become like a passion and an obsession with me. It's just an obsession. It's a little bit of a background story. So I was coaching and developing people professionally back in 2013. So 22 year old me was promoted to that level, and then I just kept getting promoted into different areas of the business and project management and solution architecture and designing the businesses and working with the stakeholders. And I did so many different things in the back end as well. But the managing people was something that was always great at, and now it totally makes sense. I'm a people person, so. You might be wondering, I suppose, when I even start. How did I even start this business? So I created Money Mindset Hub back in October 2019 after just a whirlwind of a year, because that was the year that my son was born.
Speaker 1 (00:13:16) - My second child was born in January of 2019 and only a few months prior to him being born. We actually bought our big family home, which is the home that we're still residing in now. And after that it was there was just so many things, right? And this is where it all began. Like this was where my transformation truly began. Because up until that point, I had been fantastic at managing money. And when you do the quiz, you will understand I'm an accumulator, so go read about an accumulator. And that makes sense. I'm an accumulator ruler Maverick there. My top three. If you know, you know. And so that made sense as to why I was always really good with managing money. But money was something that I felt like could run out, like it could run out, and I had to micromanage it. And that's just how I felt back then. I didn't really understand. I thought, how the hell can I be this good with managing money and predicting and planning and all of that? And yet here we are in January 2019, just had our second baby.
Speaker 1 (00:14:12) - Should be the most beautiful time in the world yet because we've had such big, unexpected costs again and again and again. And given that time of year and then my maternity pay didn't come through for months and it was just such a short time and I remember just feeling so defeated, like, how do we get to this point? How did this happen? We're living week to week. We're having to use a credit card to get by stressing about how are we going to pay the bills and having to say no to things like, don't get me wrong, you know, there's always worse. Everything was still paid. We can still keep the roof over our head was could still put food on the table. We could still pay all our bills. But to someone who is an accumulator, I am naturally someone who saves money every single week. I will always put away money every single week. And when there is less than I would normally like to put away, that freaks me out. So this is where I was.
Speaker 1 (00:15:03) - So when I say I have no money to you, you might be fine with that because maybe you're a bit more on the maverick side. And Maverick likes to fly by the seat of their pants and they can have less and feel safe. But for me, money is directly correlated with how safe and secure I feel. And safety and security, especially for a young parent, is tremendous. Like that makes such a big impact. So that was the first time, honestly, around that time when he was born, just after he was born, I was in that state of mind when I learned about money mindset being the standalone thing and how everyone has a relationship with money. And that was literally the beginning. And I started to nerd out on everything because I honestly grew up believing that one day I'd clock 100 K and that would be successful, right? Because go to uni, get good grades, get a good job, pluck 100 K. You made it because I grew up with really hard working parents.
Speaker 1 (00:15:54) - They also had four children by the age of 27. They both work two jobs for most of my childhood and they did such a good job. They did such a good job. I gave him so much crap back then when I was growing up. And now I look at it and I realized, Oh my God, they were my age with the teenager. I would have pulled my hair out too. They did such a good job at teaching all of us kids, though, how to manage money. We are all great with our money, all four of us. We've done really well, and that's honestly a testament to my parents for teaching us that. However, we never really learned how to generate money on our own. We're really great workers. We always had a really great work ethic. And I remember at one point I had four jobs. I thought it was three. But then Mick, my husband, corrected me and he said, No, no. When I met you, you had four jobs because I was saving up.
Speaker 1 (00:16:42) - I was going to Europe for a few months, like I was a hard worker. I was always a hard worker. And that belief is so ingrained in me. It truly is. And don't get me wrong, I've now debunked it and know that money doesn't have to feel that hard. However, everyone's version of hard is so different too. So if you're feeling like, Oh, it's so hard to earn money, I've got to work more and more and more and more. No, you've just got to think outside the box. You're going to think outside the box. And if you figure out what your purpose is and you follow that, you'll feel fulfilled. One, you'll feel free to. But also you create the money and it won't feel like you're pushing shit uphill to try and create it. The only thing was at this point, all of my beliefs around money were my beliefs around money and my self-confidence. It needed a hell of a lot of work If I was actually going to pull off becoming the woman that I dreamed of being.
Speaker 1 (00:17:28) - Building a business, creating the kind of wealth that no one in my family would ever talk about, or whatever thing was realistic. So that's where I'm at. I grew up just thinking that money would run out. You could probably relate, like money's going to run out. You probably heard things like money doesn't grow on trees and rich people are greedy. And that's just for those kind of people. There's a lot of conditioning there that goes into that. So this is when honestly everything began and I started going deep. Like I went ham on my subconscious. I went ham on my subconscious and my conscious straight away because to ask myself, like, what does all this come from? And I'd ask myself lots of sorts of questions. I would journal, I would learn different modalities, I would do EFT, I would do mantras, I would do affirmations. I would visualize visualizing honestly. For me, painting pictures in my mind of the things that I desire to bring to life and then backing it when I feel terrified and I feel scared, but I know it's the right thing to do, I will do it.
Speaker 1 (00:18:19) - But for the longest time I would just procrastinate and I would over plan and try and get it all perfect. And now I've realized there's no such thing as perfect. It's just progress. And progress only happens when you actually move. And by moving and doing something, even if you're worried about what are people going to think, what are people going to say? Are they going to treat me differently? There's so many of those things. Don't get me wrong, they still come up from time to time, but they're just different. And you can move through your beliefs so much differently the more that you commit to this. And honestly, that whole story, that whole work that got me from there to here, that's in money methodology. So please go check that out. If you want to learn more and go so deep into the, I guess the technicalities of what actually got me there and that will open up your mind like nothing else. And I still have ladies to this day that are telling me their manifestation stories from doing that work over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (00:19:08) - So I want to fast forward now because I've been rambling for a while here, but I hope this is making sense and I hope this is inspiring you just to not stop like don't stop. So four years later, from that January to now or maybe just over four years, right? So I now reside in $1 million home with my beautiful husband and our three children because we had another baby in the middle of 2021. Add two blue stuffies and I work with the most beautifully aligned clients in the world. These clients become my friends. I care so much. I coach and mentor with my heart on my sleeve because I seriously give a shit and I want to see them succeed. I want to see them hit their goals. I want to see them become the woman that can hold it all and they can experience the success, the recognition, the freedom, the wealth, the security, all of it. I want them to feel safe within themselves, to back themselves, to do it all and be so damn proud that they did it.
Speaker 1 (00:20:10) - So I love it. I love seeing their transformations. I love celebrating with them every day. Their wins, their manifestations and what's coming and the fact that they're actually become the woman. Right. And this is the whole reason why I launched the Matrix membership, which is the it's the back part of that like money methodology is more around the money mindset work to go into it. But the matrix membership is that self confidence, that self belief to become the woman that you desire to become become the woman who can hold it all and not feel sketchy, not feel unsafe. I'm like, that is the program to become the woman because the money is a byproduct of you becoming who you desire to be and living a life in alignment and following your purpose work. That's when it all comes and that's when everything starts to click. So my entire body of work all makes sense when you do it together. And honestly, majority of my clients have done everything that I have put out, so it all makes sense as to why they're getting where they're getting.
Speaker 1 (00:21:07) - It's beautiful and it's timeless work like money, mindset, work, success, mindset, work. Same Same is a form of personal development. You'll never stop and I will never stop. But I will never stop teaching and sharing and supporting and empowering women to feel this way. Because this wasn't me. And I had a conversation with one of my friends yesterday and I said people would always think that I was so extroverted, but in actual fact, I'm far more introverted. Like I would call myself more of an introvert than what I am, an extrovert. But my energy is, is something that like amps up when I'm in the right environment and I'm around the right kind of people. Like I can turn on confidence, I can look and appear very confident and now I definitely am. But back in the day, like years ago on the inside, I was scared shitless, What am I going to say? Something stupid? Am I going to look like an idiot? Or what are they going to think of me or just, you know, I'm so loud like I am a loud person.
Speaker 1 (00:22:02) - I have a loud voice. And when I'm really comfortable, that's when I'm even loud. I'm just me. I'm really me. And now I'm definitely very confident. I've worked on that. It's a muscle. You got to flex it and. And eventually you get there. So anyway, on top of that, obviously I freaking love this podcast and I just want to thank you so much for being here. But if I could do this, you could do this. This is just the beginning for Money Mindset Hub and I can't wait to see where it's going to go. We've been doubling our revenue here year on year, which is just pinch me and the conversation, everything that's coming to fruition right now, like watch out, because this next year is going to be remarkable. We're going to go full alien over here and we're just going to take it to the moon. And I'm so glad to hear that you are here to be with me on this journey because I feel like a magnet. I feel like this energy is very magnetic and this is what you're getting.
Speaker 1 (00:22:56) - So it's a beautiful time to come into my world. If that's something that feels cold to you, please do. Like I always have every one of my programs on my website. Money mindset. Com. Obviously I have the Matrix membership, I have money methodology, I do private coaching and occasionally I'll drop other things like masterclasses or who knows what else I'm going to be dropping. But yeah, it's a wonderful time to be in my world. And yeah, if you feel cold, please come and check it out. Come and send me a DM if you do have any questions. I love a voice note. You probably gather that if you want to have a chat, I will never stop talking about money mindset work because it's so fucking transformational and it's it's the thing that has changed my life, the thing that has changed my life. And it would be such a disservice for me to just keep all this to myself. And this is why I had to put it out there. Even though I was terrified to start my business, I was terrified to launch my first program.
Speaker 1 (00:23:51) - Then I never thought like, am I doing a good enough job now I've realized and now I can actually witness myself for who I am and the change that I'm making, the impact that I'm creating in the legacy I'm going to leave behind for not just myself and my beautiful clients, but it goes so much deeper than that. It's for my kids. And I know that this work, one day I'm going to get it into schools because kids need to know how to build their self confidence and their self belief so that they can they can reach their potential. They can have no limits on the life that they desire. Like what you envision is what you are supposed to live out. So anyway, heard it here first. One day I'm going to get this into the hands of kids in schools to teach them because I'm sure as hell teaching my three and I want your kids and I want the kids of the generations to come to just be empowered and lit up and not have to go through this whole deconditioning and reconditioning because it's confronting, it's confronting, it's challenging, it's hard, but it's so worth it.
Speaker 1 (00:24:52) - And if we can just change it for the generations to come, like imagine a life where our kids and our grandkids and our great grandkids are not having to go through this. They are just so lit up and they're following their potential and they're just creating such magic in this life. What a world to live in. That's the world that I want to see. And I know we're going to get there. So if you've been thinking about hiring a college, you've been thinking about going 1 to 1 and honestly taking in the next level of being held accountable and really taking your business and yourself seriously, then please feel free to reach out to me. I have three different options. There's a one month accelerator, there's a three month trifecta, and there's the six month where the investment from my private coaching is about to double. So on the 22nd of July, the prices are doubling. So this is a final call this week. If this is something that you have been thinking about on the fence, I know I've had a few people on the fence lately that are like, oh, do I? Don't I? It's your time.
Speaker 1 (00:25:52) - And it is for you if you know it already is. Five and a half months of this year left. Five and a half months. So let's make it count. Anyway, I thank you so much for being here and I will catch you in the next episode.