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How we think about money impacts what we do with money.\n\n\n\nAnd for many of us, what we think about money is influenced by narratives, frameworks, and biases we picked up well before we started our businesses.\n\n\n\nThe money framework I picked up as a kid was that I could either make a lot of money or I could do something I love.\n\n\n\nNow, no one sat me down and told me I was destined to barely scrapping by if I didn\u2019t choose a lucrative career that I didn\u2019t like very much. But my little kid brain chewed on everything that I was being told and interpreted that way.\n\n\n\nI could either make a lot of money or I could do something that I loved for work.\n\n\n\nMy idealist teenage brain told me that I was NOT going to be one of those people who choose to make a lot of money\u2013so I settled on a major I loved and a career path I thought would bring me fulfillment even if I\u2019d be struggling for the rest of my life.\n\n\n\nWhen I started to have major doubts about that career path, I had to go back to the drawing board. And that\u2019s what eventually led to me starting my own business. Even in that process, that either/or money framework was still doing its work and keeping me down.\n\n\n\nIt took real work to start to replace either/or with both/and\u2013and truthfully, that work continues to this day.\n\n\n\nToday, I know that I can do work that I love AND make a lot of money. But I struggle with similar either/or framework: either I can compromise my values so I can make a lot of money easily or I can hold fast to my values and turn making a lot of money into a struggle.\n\n\n\nToday I\u2019m working to replace that framework with one that reminds me that I can hold fast and find abundance with ease. I know embracing that money narrative is the key to the next phase of my business\u2013and my life.\n\n\n\nThis week, we asked members of The What Works Network to share one thing they thought they knew about money but later discovered wasn\u2019t true. Each shared a narrative or bias that held them back from fully embracing their business and their earning potential.\n\n\n\nAs you listen, consider which of these narratives are ones you\u2019re currently operating with and how you could start reevaluating them. What would you do differently if you reprogrammed those money thoughts? What decisions would you make if you claimed a new money narrative?\n\n\n\nYou\u2019ll hear from Charlene Lam, a curator and social media strategist, Maggie Patterson, the founder of Scoop Studios, Carol Hamilton, the founder of Grace Social Sector Consulting, and Anna Wolf, the founder of Superscript Marketing.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat Works Is Brought To You By\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMighty Networks powers brands and businesses \u2013 like yours! \u2013 that bring people together.With a Mighty Network, online business owners just like you can bring together in one place:\n\n\n\n* Your website* Your content* Your courses* Your community* Your events online and in real life* And charge for them\u2026all while building YOUR brand.\n\n\n\nVisit mightynetworks.com to see more examples of brands bringing people together and taking their businesses to the next level.