What if you approached money from a place of abundance, rather than restriction? Stella Gold will show you the way. Stella is a certified, trauma-informed financial wellness educator — and host Jillian Anthony’s former financial advisor. Their business, My Gold Standard, helps people understand the emotions, experiences, and desires behind how they spend money, and build wealth along the way. Stella’s entire life changed when their father died suddenly, leaving Stella and their mother to sort through the impenetrable financial processes of the government. In this episode, Stella tells Jillian about their own financial education and wealth journey; how grief shaped their future; and what it was like to fully step into their nonbinary identity.
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Instagram: @mygoldstandard
Website: mygoldstandard.co
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Time stamps
1:11 – Jillian is reading 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
3:09 – Jillian’s obsession: Taylor Swift’s “Midnights”
4:52 – Introducing guest Stella Gold
5:54 – Stella’s obsession: eels
8:00 – Stella explains their work as a certified trauma-informed financial wellness educator
11:16 – Financial literacy, and focusing on abundance instead of restriction
15:02 – The impact the sudden death of Stella’s father had on their life
22:22 – Stella’s travel and finances in the midst of grief
28:57 – Stella’s journey to starting their own company
34:34 – What My Gold Standard is all about and Stella’s love for entrepreneurship
37:18 – What it’s like to work with Stella
39:42 – How Stella embraced their nonbinary identity
47:04 – Discovering nonbinary people in Stella’s Filipino ancestry
48:30 – Stella’s they/them pronouns
50:08 – Stella’s finance book recommendations: The Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne Williamson
51:26 – The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
52:31 – My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
53:13 – Decolonize Wealth by Edgar Villanueva: “Money is medicine”
53:43 – A piece of art that helped Stella through a hard time: The On Being podcast
56:36 – Stella’s joy bomb: Body movement
59:24 – Where to follow Stella
