The Money Fit Show

Season 2: Episode #27

Look Your Money in the Face, Kelsey Knutson

Kelsey Knutson is a small business coach and podcast host based in the Pacific Northwest. She has a bachelor's degree in Entrepreneurship, is debt free, and has learned many money lessons along the way. She believes our relationship with money dictates the financial choices we make in business and life. And she’s on a mission to help people reframe how they think about money and implement sustainable systems to help them achieve financial (and life) goals.

1. Inheriting different aspects of her relationship with money from her parents
2. Learning about money through entrepreneurship versus being told about money
3. Going to college without having conversations about how to pay for it
4. Having up to four jobs at the same time in college
5. Exchanging time for money
6. The embarrassment of overdrafting her bank account
7. The scarcity mindset
8. Side hustles in college led to majoring in Entrepreneurship
9. Dealing with imposter system
10. Having an aha moment during the third round of job interviews
11. Getting full-time consulting job through her university
12. Quitting on a whim to go to beauty school and get into debt for the first time
13. The difference between classes at University and Trade Schools
14. Apprenticing under professionals
15. Saving tips to accelerate debt repayment and become debt free within three years
16. Starting business debt free
17. Staring challenges in the face and then setting up processes to deal with them
18. How your energy attracts others when you love what you do
19. Here aha moment of balancing work and personal life came after fainting on the job
20. Starting a business with a vacation already on the books as a way of forcing herself to stay within her work-life balance
21. The profit first approach
22. How having a safety net (emergency savings) allowed her to shift from salon owner to business coach, especially during the COVID-19 shutdown
23. Starting a business out of passion and accidentally becoming an entrepreneur
24. Finding a way to fund the bills, whether through business ownership or side hustles
25. Starting her own podcast as another tool to achieve her life purpose
26. Giving yourself grace in your personal finance choices
27. Looking your financial challenges in the face rather than ignoring them

Links referred to in the episode, and how to connect with the guest, Kelly Knutson:

When I Grow Up Podcast

KelseyMarieKnutson.com

Kelsey on Instagram

Kelsey on Facebook

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

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