Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin - A Personal Update

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

Hi friends, it's Nicole. In today's episode, I wanted to check in on you. I wanted to take a moment to give you space to reflect on how you’re feeling amidst all the darkness that’s going on in the world, and also, give you a sense of where I’m at with Money Rehab...

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of the episodes I had ready to air and would dedicate my platform to reporting on Israel for a week. Well, that week happened, and I put out an episode on Israel every day. And then another week went by, and that was another five episodes. And then all this week, which brings me to today, my 15th episode on the crisis in Israel. I want to acknowledge something. This is not the content you signed up for when you hit subscribe to Money Rehab. You signed up for a show that promised to deliver daily financial tips and tricks to make your financial life better. But these attacks shook the world, and they shook me to my core. The pain and the suffering

has weighed so heavily on my heart. I am Jewish, I am Israeli, and my connection to these attacks is so deeply personal. You might have even heard me say in our episode with foreign policy expert Dan Senor that these attacks made me believe that I should have children. That is how deeply personal this is for me and all the Jewish people. The skill I've fine-tuned over my career is the ability to untangle complicated financial realities into a way that makes people interested and engaged. I had to offer that skill to be of use to Israel, to talk about the money trail of these attacks and how you can use your dollar to defend human lives. I felt a responsibility to use my platform in this way, and I had hoped it would make a difference. But I also know that I made a

commitment to you, and I take my commitments very seriously. I committed to help you make your financial life better. starting now I'm going to start bringing back the episodes I had swept aside to make space for these conversations and lessons on Israel this doesn't mean that I'll never talk about Israel again because part of my mission as a financial educator is to unpack how these big global crises affect the global economy and thus affect you and this crisis is far from over. It also doesn't mean that I've talked Israel out of my system and can just resume business as normal. None of this is normal.

And I am still not okay. But in Judaism, there is a beautiful concept of Tikkun Olam, which represents the different forms of action intended to repair and improve our world. And as a Jewish person, you're raised to believe that you can and need to do whatever you can to improve the world. Financial literacy is how I do that. We're up against a lot of challenges right now, all of us. We are deeply divided. The future is scary and uncertain. But money remains a powerful tool to navigate these uncertain times. And I hope that through demystifying the financial world, I'm making a positive impact on your life. Because I know that a world in which people

are better equipped to build brighter financial futures for themselves and their communities is a more stable world. So I want to thank you. Thank you for listening to these episodes, for checking in on your Jewish friends and all your friends affected by the tragedies of the last few weeks, for doing what you can, whether it's donating to a humanitarian cause or posting on social media or having meaningful conversations with people in your life. Thank you. I am so grateful that though this journey of life is complicated and hard, I'm on it with you. Typically, I end our episodes with a money tip,

but today I want to end it with a minute of silence and reflection. I want to use that minute to honor the lives that were lost on October 7th and since, and to commit to the idea of tikkun Olam, that we can all affirm to do all we can to improve the world. you you you