More Money Podcast - Everything but Money Excerpt - Introduction - Jessica Moorhouse

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

Happy New Year! To kick off season 20 of the More Money Podcast and to celebrate the release of my book "Everything but Money: The Hidden Barriers Between You and Financial Freedom", which is not only an Indigo bestseller but also the Non-Fiction Staff Pick of the Month, I'm going to read an excerpt from my book's introduction so you can get a taste of what to expect.To buy a copy of my book, visit https://jessicamoorhouse.com/bookFollow me:Instagram @jessicaimoorhouseThreads @jessicaimoorhouseTikTok @jessicaimoorhouseFacebook @jessicaimoorhouseYouTube @jessicamoorhouseLinkedIn - Jessica Moorhouse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to the More Money podcast and happy new year. Welcome to 2025 and season 20 of the More Money podcast. This is the season that's going to lead us to our 10 year anniversary of me starting the show, which is wild. And a lot of stuff has happened in the past week since I last dropped that episode on New Year's Eve. I hope you had a really nice New Year's. I certainly did because my book came out. My book came out. I'm still pinching myself. And because my book is now officially out and I can kind of talk more about it. I mean, I'm going on a ton of podcasts, doing a book tour, doing a media tour, doing all that kind of stuff.

What I wanted to do, something special for you wonderful podcast listener, is for the next three weeks, I'm going to be sharing some short little episodes in addition to some other episodes that will be me reading an excerpt from my book. Which I mean, if you already have the audio book, then you already know what that sounds like. And that sounds probably like, you know, a million times better than what's going on here. I'm just gonna try to read it raw

and not really edit myself. I'm just gonna read it and just a few pages from some chapters that I think would be really interesting for you to hear. And so of course, the logical place to start is the introduction for my book. So for this little episode, I am going to read a few pages from my book's introduction. And if you like what you hear, then you can grab a copy anywhere. Libraries also have them.

If you don't want to pay for my book, I get it. You're not in a situation where you can afford to, and I totally get that. Libraries are awesome and they have copies of my book, so go to the library and check it out. You can also just go to jessicamorehouse.com slash book, and I'm going to be putting information also about my upcoming book tour that I'm organizing. And right now I can officially say that the first stop is going to be in Toronto, January 31st.

That's a Friday, January 31st. And yeah, again, jessicamorehas.com slash book. There's more info or I will have some info on my Instagram as well. Anyways, without further ado, let's read part of the introduction to my book, Everything But Money. Is it just me or do you ever get low on New Year's Day? Because I do. Every. Single. Year. For whatever reason, at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, something triggers my body to deflate like a grounded hot air balloon. My limbs get heavy, it becomes hard to move, and the only place that's safe is under the covers. At the same time as my body turns to stone, my mind starts to race, bringing to the surface all my failures from the past

12 months. You sure didn't earn as much as you thought you would this year. Ouch. That's embarrassing. You bought a house at the peak of a seller's market and now it's worth $100,000 less than when you bought it a year ago? That's just damn right dumb. You call yourself a money expert? Wait, you're telling me you didn't pay off six figures

in debt in only eight months and didn't become a millionaire by 30? So what have you done that so special to warrant any kind of attention? Nothing. That's what I thought. That's some next level unhealthy negative self-talk going on.

I know, I'm working on it. Nevertheless, things took a turn at the end of 2022. The week before I was supposed to fly back to my hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia Nevertheless, things took a turn at the end of 2022. The week before I was supposed to fly back to my hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, for Christmas, I got COVID. That meant spending the holidays at home alone with my husband with no presents to exchange, they had all been shipped to my parents,

and a socially distanced pre-made turkey dinner from the grocery store. Considering the previous two Christmases had been ruined by the pandemic and government-mandated lockdowns, I'd built up this visit to look like a full-blown Hallmark movie in my mind. So when it didn't happen as I'd imagined, a dark cloud came rushing over me. Everything I saw on TV and social media was triggering. Everything was a reminder of how I wasn't rich enough, successful enough, or young enough. I wasn't enough. But it was one particular post I saw on social media that made me snap. I rate I started venting my

frustrations to my husband as I normally would but instead of sympathizing with me he looked at me with concern. Why do you care so much? I paused. Um I didn't have a good answer. Why did I care so much about what was going on in someone else's life or career? Why did I waste so much energy comparing myself to someone else's accomplishments that have nothing to do with me? Why was I so hard on myself? This line of questioning continued for hours until I hit a very vulnerable point. I was faced head on with a question that I'd avoided like, well, COVID for years. What am I running away from? Okay, I'm going to end it there

because I honestly really could just read the whole introduction to you, but I am not going to. I think my publisher would kill me. So that's just a little taste of the introduction and what to kind of expect from the book. It really is a personal self-exploration, partially, of me figuring out why have I been so obsessed with money and success and everything that it touches, you know, pretty much my whole life. Well, you'll find out when you read my book, let me tell you. Well, thank you so much for listening. Again, if you want to grab a copy of my book, check out your

local library or purchase it wherever you want. You know, shop local. There's some great local bookstores or of course there's the big ones, Indigo, Amazon, et cetera. And again, I'll have some links that you can check out, jessicamorhouse.com slash book. And next week we're going to kick off kind of the season I said on that December 31st episode where we're going to do a relisten. And I'm really excited for that to happen because next week we're going back to episode one, my first ever episode, which was a solo episode. I'm going to relisten. I'm going to give some comments. It's going to be really exciting. And then I'm going to share another excerpt as well. So stay tuned for that and I will see you in my next episode.

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