Hi friends! I'm Stephanie Xenos, recovering rocket scientist, member of the FIRE (Financial Independence/Retire Early) community, and founder of Money Muse. In 2018 at 32 years old, I reached financial independence and retired from a career spent at NASA and SpaceX.

“I'll never have enough money." "I'm too stupid to understand how to manage my money." "What if I make a financial mistake that I can't undo?" Sound familiar? These are financially anxious thoughts, and these types of thoughts are what is cluttering up your mind and getting in the way of you having an amazing and empowered relationship with money.

29% of women in heterosexual marriages are the breadwinner. And of those 29%, most of them say they are less content in their relationship than their peers who are making equal amounts or where their partner makes more.

2019 was A YEAR. With a 7-month-old certificate in financial social work, I told myself that 2019 was going to be the year of EXPERIMENTing. As a Virgo and Enneagram 8, letting go and trying alllll the things was a challenge, to say the least.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by The Worth Project’s Erica Gellerman to talk about what got me into financial therapy (read about it here). She generously returned the favor and let me do a mini financial therapy assessment and open up about some big differences she sees with money and lifestyle living abroad with her husband and son.

In my financial therapy sessions, I often pull techniques from other evidence-based therapy methods. One that comes in handy quite often is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT.

Part of my mission as a financial therapist and consultant is helping people feel good about their money. A huge mission of my work is showing diversity in the way money can look. Too often, people associate the word "millionaire" with an older, white male, or get a mixed-up idea that having money makes them a "bad" or "greedy" person.

Back at it with another #millionairemonday. Today, we are meeting Cory and Treslyn Roberts from Thirty Something Millionaire. Their goal is show anyone how they can get on the road to be a Thirty-something millionaire or an any-age millionaire!

Meet Candice and Jonathan Torian. They both work in IT and love talking about short- and long-term money goals to help them stay financially motivated.