186: The Childfree Choice and How It Impacts Your Financial Planning with Bri Conn from Childfree Wealth
The Overcoming Overspending Podcast
Release Date: 01/24/2025
See you in 2026!
The Overcoming Overspending Podcast
The podcast is taking a short break for the next couple of weeks. I hope you have a relaxing end to the year, and I'm so excited for all that is to come in 2026! - Paige
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216: Wanting What You Already Have: The Antidote to Scarcity
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This week, we’re shifting out of the intensity of the past few episodes and into a more grounding, heart-opening practice — one that can completely transform how you feel about your life, your money, and your daily emotional experience. Inside today’s episode, Paige walks you through one of the most powerful mindset tools she teaches her clients: learning to want what you already have. You’ll explore: ✨ How scarcity quietly weaves itself into your mornings, your self-talk, and your spending ✨ Why your brain is wired to focus on what’s missing — and how to retrain it ✨ The...
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215: Problems are forever: Pick yours with purpose
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We live in a world obsessed with “fixing” problems — fixing our flaws, fixing our money, fixing our lives. But what if the goal was never to eliminate problems… but to choose better ones? In this episode, Paige reframes the entire concept of “having problems” and shows you why a problem-free life is not only impossible… it’s undesirable. She breaks down the difference between low-quality problems that drain your power and high-quality problems that expand it, and reveals why the challenges you choose determine the life you create. This is a grounding, perspective-shifting...
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214: Are you creating your own suffering? A deep dive into Clean vs. Dirty Pain
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What if most of your emotional suffering isn’t coming from your circumstances—but from the way you’re responding to them? In this episode, Paige unpacks the life-changing concept of clean pain vs. dirty pain—a framework that helps you understand the difference between necessary pain that expands you and self-created suffering that keeps you stuck. You’ll learn: The key difference between clean and dirty emotional pain Why feeling your feelings isn’t the same as suffering The five ways we unknowingly create unnecessary emotional pain (and how to stop) How to allow emotional...
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213: The Promises Behind Your Purchases: Why you're never really buying what you think you are
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In this eye-opening episode of the Overcoming Overspending Podcast, Paige reveals the deeper emotional layers behind every purchase you make. Whether it’s a $22 smoothie, a new planner, or luxury skincare, you're not just buying a product—you’re buying a promise. Paige walks you through the 5 Ps of purchasing and introduces powerful new shopper archetypes like The Fixer, The Prover, and The Chameleon, helping you decode your spending habits on a whole new level. If you've ever wondered why you want what you want—or if that thing you’re craving is really the solution—it’s time to...
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212: 10 Money Ironies that will completely change how you see and spend your money
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You’ve been told that more money means more freedom, that success brings security, and that buying what you want will make you feel better. But what if everything you believed about money... is wrong? In this episode, Paige peels back the curtain on 10 deeply ironic truths about money — moments where what we expect from spending, saving, or earning completely contradicts what we actually experience. These aren’t abstract theories; they’re the hidden emotional patterns that can quietly sabotage even the smartest, most successful women. From why your daily latte might be dulling your joy...
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211: Overspending on Gifts: When "More" or Expensive Starts to Mean Love
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Do you secretly believe the more expensive or extravagant the gift, the more love it shows? In this episode, Paige pulls back the curtain on the gift-giving guilt spiral that fuels so much unnecessary overspending — especially during the holidays. She explores why we associate “meaningful” with “expensive” or “voluminous,” how our culture reinforces that belief, and why even thoughtful gift-givers can feel depleted, resentful, or broke. You’ll learn: • Why we confuse financial sacrifice with emotional significance • The surprising science of what recipients actually value...
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210: How to stop a spending snowball
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Is your spending starting to feel… a little out of control? Like you’ve gone from “just one thing” to “how did we get here?” In today’s episode, Paige breaks down what she calls the Spending Snowball — a powerful (and surprisingly common) psychological spiral that turns one small, innocent purchase into a runaway avalanche of overspending. You’ll learn how to spot the signs early, understand the deeper psychological patterns at play (like the Diderot Effect), and the exact steps to stop the spiral — with compassion, not shame. Whether it’s the holidays, a vacation, a big...
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209: My 6 Rules for Using Credit Cards Responsibly, Without Overspending
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208: Abundance without Burnout: Building a Life of "And" with Tiffany Sauder
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What if your life didn’t have to be a trade-off? CEO, mom of four, and “Life of And” creator Tiffany Sauder joins me this week to share a practical, compassionate way to stop living in either/or and start building a full, values-aligned life where self, career, and family coexist. We talk about starting with “triage” (fix the thing causing the most bleed first), the power of explicit agreements at home (like setting a clear cap on travel nights), and Tiffany’s Venn-diagram model for creating “decided harmony” across the three big circles: Self, Career, and Family. You’ll...
info_outlineOne of the decisions that will have the biggst impact on your wealth building journey is your choice to be childree or not. Those who choose to be childfree have a different set of circumstances they need to factor into their financial planning. Becuase of this, you need to look at your wealth building through a different lens to support the goals and lifestyle you want to build as a childfree person. This is where this week's episode can help.
In this week's episode we're exploring the choice to be childfree and the impact it has on your financial planning. I'm joined by Bri Conn, the Chief Experience Officer at Childfree Wealth, a financial planning firm dedicated to helping Childfree and Permanently Childless people. Bri is also a Chidfree Wealth Specialist® and the co-host of the Childfree Wealth podcast.
In this episode we discuss the difference between being childfree and childless, the most annoying things you can do or say to someone who is childfree, the factors that go into someone's choice to be childfree, the 7 ways childfree planning is different than financial planning for someone with children, and how people with children can be supportive to the childfree people in their life. All of the information for Childfree Wealth can be found below, along with all the resources referenced in this episode. Enjoy!
Their Podcast: The Childfree Wealth Podcast
Their Book: The Childfree Guide to Life and Money by Dr. Jay Zigmont, CFP®
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