#200 You Are Not Bad With Money: Rethinking Financial Mindset with Dave Won

If you’ve ever told yourself, “I’m just bad with money,” this episode is for you. In this powerful conversation, TEDx speaker and money mindset coach Dave Won joins host Stephen Courson on the LifeBuilder Podcast to dismantle the limiting beliefs that keep people stuck in financial frustration.

Together, they explore the emotional and psychological patterns that shape our relationship with money—often more than logic or math ever could. Dave shares insights from his TEDx Talk and years of coaching, revealing how financial behaviors are driven by unconscious stories we tell ourselves and inherited mindsets we never questioned.

Whether you're trying to pay off debt, build wealth, or simply feel more confident in your financial decisions, this episode will challenge the myth that you're "bad with money" and offer a new framework for financial empowerment and emotional awareness.

Topics Covered:

• Why most people aren’t actually “bad with money”
• The role of childhood, trauma, and emotions in financial decision-making
• How to shift your money mindset and create lasting change
• Common self-sabotaging behaviors and how to overcome them
• Why understanding behavioral finance is the missing piece to building true wealth

Perfect for anyone interested in personal finance, money psychology, and self-improvement, this episode is both practical and empowering.

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If working a 9-5 for 60 years so you can retire with a little money and die a few years later is what you want to do, then this is not the podcast for you.

Stephen is an executive coach that works with ambitious people to build the life that they want, personally and professionally.

This podcast is about contrarian investment strategies around time, energy and money to build the 4 types of wealth and utilize lifestyle design to create the life we want. The interviews are with hi-earning individuals on how they make money so you can copy us and grow wealth too!

Reaching that first $100k milestone is crucial and then the game changes.

Learn how the wealthy view time, energy and money so you can apply these proven strategies to your life.