Becoming a Mindful Millionaire with Leisa Peterson
“I realized that there were patterns because of all those years of working with people that some people have great success with it and others struggle and I wanted to get to the bottom of why did some people struggle so much.”
Leisa Peterson is on a mission to help 1 million people elevate their financial consciousness by helping them realize their true value in the world and beyond. She's had the great fortune to witness 1000s of money breakthroughs while writing her book, The Mindful Millionaire. Her specialty is helping business owners overcome a cycle of scarcity, uncertainty, and economic volatility. They can heal themselves or their sense of self-worth and rebuild amazing confidence so they can build holistic wealth and ultimately semi-retire, which is pretty cool. a time where you can have flexibility and freedom time freedom to call your own shots and make a bigger impact.
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Brett:
I'm excited about our next guest. She's on a mission to help 1 million people elevate their financial consciousness by helping them realize their true value in the world and beyond. She's had the great fortune to witness 1000s of money breakthroughs while writing her book, The Mindful Millionaire. Her specialty is helping business owners overcome a cycle of scarcity, uncertainty, and economic volatility. They can heal themselves or their sense of self-worth and rebuild amazing confidence so they can build holistic wealth and ultimately semi-retire, which is pretty cool. a time where you can have flexibility and freedom time freedom to call your own shots and make a bigger impact. Please welcome to the show with me. Leisa Peterson. Leisa, how are you doing?
Leisa:
Very well. I'm so happy to be here, Brett.
Brett:
Glad to have you on the show. Excited to dive in for our listeners to get to know you for the first time. Would you give us a little bit more about your story and your current focus?
Leisa:
I have worked in finance in one way or another for over 30 years. I'm a certified financial planner, self-made millionaire by the time I was in my mid-30s, an MBA in finance back in the early 90s. have been working with money and people ever since. I really got serious about helping people in the way that you described seven years ago, when I left my financial advising practice and started coaching and working with entrepreneurs to break through the things that kept them from saving more money, being able to invest more money, I realized that there were patterns because of all those years of working with people that some people have great success with it and others struggle and I wanted to get to the bottom of why did some people struggle so much. A little backstory, I came from a home where my parents got married when they were 1819. No education didn't go to college, very working class, and struggled quite a bit. That was interesting for me because I was good with money from a really young age, and they weren't.it infuses my work today of this fascination of like, Why can some people build amazing wealth? Why do others struggle?
Brett:
I was really contemplating what you're saying is really what's happening. That's fantastic I'm going to look forward to diving into that and uncover those things, perhaps that high driving entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives, perhaps are missing. But before we go there, I wanna take one other step back and help myself and our listeners get to know you a little bit better. see, I believe we've all been given certain gifts in this life. these gifts have given us to be a blessing help to others. Some people call a strength some people call them superpowers. I believe their God-given gifts, and they've been given us to be blessing help to others. I want you to go back maybe to the university days or the high school days. What are those one or two gifts that you believe you were given? How does that help how you help and bless people to that? I think that
Leisa:
The gift I've been given and even to this day people talk about it is incredible resiliency, that I could go through a lot of trauma and difficulty and seeing the Dark Side of Life. yet it doesn't, it doesn't stop me from moving forward and helping other people. I think that what I've also learned over time is I love people like some people love dogs, love people. I just can't help but be really, really curious about people and what's their story and what's happening for them. as a result of that, it's caused me to be able to help people in ways that are really meaningful. I'm a mentor to so many people and they come to me years later and they're like, do you know that everything in my life changed after that conversation and I say I had no idea and that's pretty cool even when you're doing coaching that you can still be impacting people that way.
Brett:
That's amazing, that incredible resiliency and the love of people and helping them to move forward and unlock, potential or things that they're doing that they didn't think they could do until they're connected with you which is the power of coaching and mentoring and sharing our gifts so fantastic. Let's dive right into becoming a mindful millionaire. What's the number one secret Leisa to becoming a mindful Millionaire?
Leisa:
The number one secret would have to be understanding yourself well enough to know when you're trapped inside of scarcity patterns. when you're actually thinking from an abundant level. in the book I Chronicle What does that mean? How does that work? But put simply, there's a lot of research about scarcity, the fact that when we are operating in scarcity, we have a drop in IQ of about 13 or 14 points. We, we may feel like we did dumb things. In reality, it's true, we end up tunneling our vision, instead of seeing the whole picture of all the possibilities, we just see, like one possible or two possible outcomes, and they're probably very limited. we focus on those and then we miss out on all the potential that's available to us.
Brett:
Understanding yourself well enough to understand that if you're operating in a scarcity mindset or an abundance mindset, is that a fair summary so far?
Leisa:
Yes. Good job.
Brett:
I guess, what would be the clues? The evidence that you're operating in scarcity? Then we'll go to abundance?
Leisa:
Clues because I work with a lot of business owners? A clue would be, what's the cheapest way that I can solve this problem? That would be a perfect example. I have lots and lots of these kinds of questions that I explore. It's like, what's the difference? Many times we think that we're doing the best thing by saving money, but in reality, we aren't because we're, we're limiting our possibilities of maybe I need to hire somebody because they know a lot more about this than I do. I'm sure your listeners understand that. I think it's kind of a situation where each of us has little pockets where we get trapped, and we don't realize that we're looking at the glass is half full. versus, or half empty versus half full. But it's questioning your assumptions is what really is the way that we get a better awareness of what's going on. is that really helping me like frugality could be a positive thing, or it could be a really negative thing. It's questioning those assumptions. how are you? Why are you making the decision? Is it coming from a place of fear, and uncertainty, and doubt? Are you open to the possibility?
Brett:
The common question for the entrepreneur, or the business owner, the executive, or whoever it is. What's the cheapest way to solve this problem? What's the most? What's the emotion behind that? Is it coming from fear? Is it coming from uncertainty? Where's that and being aware of that as a first-timer so far?
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