Why "Charging Your Worth" Actually Devalues You and Others with Victoria Albina
Episode Description
For the next four weeks, we'll be diving into the concept of money as medicine and how our relationship with money affects our overall wellbeing. Today Michelle is speaking with Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, and I coach helping codependent folks socialized as women to stop feeling anxious, exhausted and overwhelmed, so they can have better relationships with their partners, parents, and themselves.
Learn more about how to work with Victoria here, listen to her fabulous podcast here, and follow her IG here.
“Human beings are invaluable. We are more precious than anything and we can’t put a value on ourselves or charge your worth.”
“Charging your worth devalues other humans and the mother earth.”
“The nuance of what it means to be wealthy is often lost. The idea of wealth is very simple. It’s like when I have wealth, then everything else in my life will fall into place.”
“Ask yourself and you ask your body. What is it inside you that believes that it is safer to worry about money than to take action to change?”
“We can’t heal hurt with more hurt.”
“You can either live presumptively that someone else’s meaning-making system is the correct one for you, or try your hand at living in with different intentionality and recognizing that you can create your own story.”
“Money is not inherently evil. But money has been used for evil to propagate evil and has been used in evil ways, under colonialism.”
“Wanting to be liked is not a problem until you want others to like you more than you want you to like you.”
“If we’re giving away more than we are using to support ourselves, whether it’s time, money, love, care, domestic labor, emotional labor, whatever it is, we are eventually not going to have enough to fill our own cup.”
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Show Notes
[0:00:01] Today’s topic goes around money as medicine, and a little bit of somatic theory, the wellness space, different POVs on wealth, and more
[0:00:03] Victoria and Michelle openly share their hair routine
[0:00:10] Considering our WHYs prior to buying anything
[0:00:16] The concept of fatphobia
[0:21:00] No one can put a price on one’s worth
[0:23:00] How the regular exchange of money for goods and services hurts people and the planet
[0:27:00] Is money good or bad?
[0:28:00] The nuance of what it means to be wealthy
[0:30:00] How can money make life easier?
[0:35:00] Why is coping and prioritization imperative in the world we live in?
[0:45:00] Joy and happiness as our truest and greatest birthright
[0:47:00] Choosing to be neutral
[0:52:00] A belief as defined by Victoria Albina
[0:55:00] In what context can money become evil?
[1:01:00] Being open about the existence of your detractors
[1:02:00] The concept of self-compassion, and why we need it
[1:03:00] Knowing when to draw a line with giving
Resources and People Mentioned
Rachel Rodgers, creator of the Million Dollar Badass Podcast