Financial Literacy, The Beaucoup Babe Way

Well, you made it! You made it to this nook of the internet where we talk about money and life in a way that makes all the little and big dreams feel possible and allows you to create your life on your terms, and not in the ‘wheee’ everything is amazing kind of way, more in the hey, this is life, we have all had challenging times, ride the edge of sanity times, phenomenal times and ultimately figuring out that in every ‘time’ you’ve had, you made it through. 

Beaucoup Babe is here to activate your magic and give you the practical tools to find your financial confidence.

No matter where you are today with money, you’re not wrong, and you’re not right. You simply are and if you’ve landed here I am thrilled because I have so much to share with you that will expand your financial literacy and of course, your financial confidence.

How to Build Your Foundation with Money

Shifting your relationship with money starts with rebuilding the foundation of your thoughts, beliefs, actions and views around money. You can get a good start of building a new foundation with money with what we call the four I’s, here at Beaucoup Babe. The four I’s are, Integrity, Intention, Intuition, and Inspiration. Let’s look at how they apply to the foundation of your relationship with money.

Integrity

Defined on Google as: “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.” and “the state of being whole and undivided.”

Shifting your relationship with money requires you to get down, dirty, and honest with how you have been showing up or not showing up with money. If you want your relationship to be a certain way with money, yet your actions, thoughts, and beliefs lean into creating something different. You need to dig deep and get real about what it is actually going to take for you to shift your money story. 

When I didn’t know where my money was going and I was flying by the seat of my pants, I had very little integrity with money. I would find myself not putting aside money for taxes, or spending money with zero thought and hoping it would all work out. On one hand, yes it actually did work out because I’m here today with a totally different mindset with money, but it ‘worked out’, and got better when I started to have integrity with money and took the actions that lead me to confidence with money rather than fingers crossed. 

Intentional

Defined on Google as: “done on purpose; deliberate.”

Being intentional is the ‘sliced bread’ of the money world. When you choose to earn, spend, save, invest with intention, there is this magical thing that happens, money gets better and easier. 

Here’s a fun story about being intentional. Last year, I had the goal of paying off all my credit card debt so I could walk into 2024 credit card debt free. I set that intention in May. As November rolled around, I was so close, oh so close. I was feeling a little sassy about money, and my joy of giving at Christmas kicked in so I decided to be ok if I went a little over on my Christmas spending and was wishy washy about actually following through with my intention with regards to my credit card debt. 

Well, at the end of November, I had finished my Christmas shopping. I tallied it up as I love to be aware of my spending and set myself up with clarity as to what it actually costs me at Christmas and realized the extra I spent on Christmas was the EXACT amount of money I still had left to pay on my last credit card. Ouch!

I didn't take this as a moment to berate myself about not paying off my credit card debt. I took it as a moment to say to myself, “hey, you set the intention to pay off your credit card debt before the end of the year. What if you actually allowed yourself to stick with that intention?”

Well, I did. I stuck with that intention and was greatly rewarded when on December 28th, 2023 I sent my last credit card payment in and got to walk into 2024 credit card debt free. Gosh, I’m so glad I set that intention and came back to it. 

I now know that with every intention I set, financially or in any area of my life, it gets me there and that’s why it’s a pillar of the Beaucoup Babe way. 

Intuition

Defined on Google as: “the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.”

Here at Beaucoup Babe we LOVE intuition. In fact, Beaucoup Babe was intentionally created by way of intuition. After many businesses that felt like I had to hustle, hurry up and make something happen, I saw within those businesses that they all soared in the moments I let my intuition lead.  I knew intuition was going to be vital for both Beaucoup Babe and feeling confident with my monies. . 

How does this work with money, well, somewhere deep within you, you have a knowing. A knowing that confidence with money is achievable for you. It might be buried by a lot of doubt, past failures, naysayers, heck even hearing your families voices in your heads and all their f’d up money beliefs, but somewhere in there you intuitively know money can be different for you. 

First, follow that intuition, and as we journey together I’ll be sharing ways you can use your intuition to support you with money and bring your integrity and intentions into alignment through your intuition. 

Inspiration

Defined on Google as: “the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.”

Last but not least, let’s look at how inspiration is going to support you with your money goals. In life we can let the world lead us and follow someone else's path, or we can let life inspire us and choose to create our own path. When it comes to money, I say do the latter. 

When you let life inspire you with money, that means that if someone else is absolutely slaying it in any way, let that be an inspiration to you!!! If someone else is choosing to complain, let that be an inspiration to you too. It may not be to complain like they do, it could be you realizing you don’t want to be in the energy of complaining and you celebrate the shit out of yourself for seeing that. 

If it makes you happy and inspired to have plenty of plants, oh hell yes you better bet your bottom dollar I am going to tell you to get more plants!! I am currently surpassing my plant count of 32 as we speak and I’ve got 6 plants propagating in front of me as I type this. Plants inspire abundance in my world and I want you to find the things that inspire abundance for you too. 

Whatever it is, inspiration is here to guide you and lead you to abundance and we love abundance here a Beaucoup Babe, especially financial abundance. 

And so you have it, the four I’s we love, adore, and explore here at Beaucoup Babe. 

Welcome to a new way with money, the Beaucoup Babe way. We’re here to show you, walk beside you, and celebrate you on this beautiful path of financial literacy, abundance, and enjoying the heck out of the journey. 

Xoxo

Maggie