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I have dreamed of this interview since the very first time I clicked record on my first podcast episode. When I say it’s important to shoot your shot I MEAN IT. There was no part of me that thought she would say yes, but the answer is always no unless you try.  I’m as excited as ever to have Kacia Fitzgerald on The Get More Podcast, a tiny dream I had but never expected anyone other than my husband and my two best friends to listen to on occasion,  that’s turned into thousands of downloads, a beautiful connection, and a community space I didn’t think was something a super weird cat lady introvert could have.  I fangirled, I cried, I felt such pride and thankfulness and blessing that this happened. This has been on my dream board for so long and I’m so excited to share with you some pep-up, pivot making, dream-chasing wonder on today's episode.

Getting out of debt made me a pretty shit person for 19 months.  Deciding to get out of debt for the long term was a great thing for us, during the entire process however I was a garbage excuse for a person.  It consumed my entire life. I made getting debt free my personality. Deciding to get out of debt when we did, ruined my wedding.  It made me so miserable every single day.  It created so much bitterness inside my heart.  It left me with brand new wounds that have taken another couple of years to heal. If you are at the beginning or middle of your debt-free journey or if even thinking about it scares the crap out of you, I get it.  I am essentially a cautionary tale of all the things NOT TO DO. Live your life.  Don’t pick one month sooner of debt freedom over being there for the people in your life.  Don’t eat garbage food you hate just because you are trying to save an extra $6 on your grocery bill.  Don’t stew in resentment and bitterness about the things you are sacrificing when people around you aren’t sacrificing the way you think they should.  Don’t be debt-free journey, Cassie.  Learn from my mistakes. Cassie Moore:  Host of the The Get More Podcast, money coach, virtual assistant and card carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame-filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending, and enjoying yourself.  Follow me: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cassieannemoore/ (@cassieannemoore)  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYIr7vUvPhT7COSMyZNXjpQ (Cassie Anne Moore)

Are you always waiting to live your abundant life until you have done XYZ? What if you started living your abundant life today? I started a couple of weeks ago doing my own @manifestationbabe inspired abundance journey where I believe anything and everything is possible and creating new habits that will help me shift my current mindset into the life I want to have.  So each week I am focusing on steps I can take to actually move the needle forward to really having this great life I have been envisioning. I don’t want to just always be thinking about the life I want to have I want to already be living the life of my dreams today.  Not every day is my dream life, I still struggle walking through a lot of things, and with such major shifts happening in the next week and over the coming months with work, coaching, freelancing, my podcast, my YouTube, adventure, and trying to make things work. So if you are in the same place I have been living for a while now, just waiting for your dream life to happen after you do just the right thing and you have just the right amount of money or the right relationship, the right body, the right thing, the right whatever you think is going to make your dream life real. Start living your dream life now. Such up as you see your future self living and start doing those things now.  When you show up the way you want to live then you suddenly find yourself living that dream life. Cassie Moore: Host of The Get More Podcast, money coach, virtual assistant and card-carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt, and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame-filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending, and enjoying yourself.  Let's Be Friends: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cassieannemoore/ (@cassieannemoore)  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYIr7vUvPhT7COSMyZNXjpQ (Cassie Anne Moore)

Do you have ‘just because’ money? This is money in your budget that is JUST BECAUSE you want to spend it. Spend it on anything you might possibly want without feeling like you are pulling from somewhere else in your budget. It will help you not get burnt out from the whole being on a budget and managing your money well thing that you are currently doing.  Being on a budget and stewarding money well is one of the most empowering things anyone can possibly do.  A budget tells your money where to go so that you are in control of it each step of the way during the month or the week depending on how you create your personal budget. So when you add in a category of money just because you want to have it that’s going to help you so much in the long run mentally and with sticking to your budget in the first place.

You can teach yourself how to do anything if you decide you are going to do it. You can also transform your current skill set and apply them to what your next great idea. Using what you already know how to do are somethings your greatest strengths. Worked in food service you have the patience of a saint, know how to juggle multiple people at a time, have learned how to defuse stressful situations and have effective time management. Worked in transportation you have the situational awareness to stay safe, you have quick response time, you are able to be independent and manage your life properly to complete tasks. Ever been a teacher like my guest today Kayla then you already know how to educate others, you know how to be compassionate, empathetic and so incredibly organized and creative that you can apply to trying new things like learning how to be a social media manager and virtual assistant. Whatever skills you already have can and will apply to the other things on your heart that you have been thinking about. Hear more about Kayla and using your skills to do more and how it’s always possible to try new things even if you haven’t done the exact same before. Connect with Kayla: By day I am a virtual teacher and by night I am a self-help coach and virtual assistant from Wyoming. I help others create a life that supports them and their dreams while focusing on mental health. I'm a dog mom, swiftie, and lover of coffee. All the links:  http://instagram.com/kaylacoffeechats (instagram.com/kaylacoffeechats) http://facebook.com/kaylacoffeechats (facebook.com/kaylacoffeechats) http://kaylacoffeechats.com/ (kaylacoffeechats.com) http://etsy.com/kaylacoffeechats (etsy.com/kaylacoffeechats) http://tiktok.com/kaylabowie31 (tiktok.com/kaylabowie31)

Who do you compare yourself too?? Strangers on the internet come to mind first probably. We’re just here hanging out on social media to connect with people, find new recipes, get business advice and like pictures of cute animals. But then we see THEM. Strangers on the internet and we start to compare ourselves to them, but at least for the most part strangers don’t have as big an impact on us. Often times the ones we compare ourselves the most to are the people who are closest to us.  Does your friend have the marriage of your dreams? Does your friend have the business of your dreams? Does your friend have the six pack abs of your dreams? Does your friend have the family of your dreams?  Comparison makes you think things aren’t possible for you, instead of the reality of if someone else is doing it, then it’s absolutely possible for you. The focus for this week of my year-long abundance journey is on comparison and how to shift that mindset after a few bad days of comparisonitis.

Do you know who you are? Do you know who you are in your faith? Do you feel like you are trying to get so much from the world and checking each and every box of your accomplishments and getting all the things and you still aren't fulfilled? Do you struggle to feel like you have your purpose or that you are in the right place at the right time when everyone around you is supposedly further ahead? Where you are right now is exactly where you are supposed to be. Jordan and I chat all things about the Lord's timing and how every single season you have ever gone through had a lesson to teach you. There is a reason for why you are there and what you have to learn and grow through. We learn just as much in failure as we learn in our successes if not more and every single thing matters because everything happens for a reason even if that reason is outside our understanding. Meet Jordan SINGLE LADY. DOG MAMA. YOUR PERSONAL BFF. It’s been a dream of mine for years to have a space where I can encourage women to know who they are in Jesus, because, personally, it took me years to do so myself!  I always felt like I was too far gone to be a “good” Christian girl and I thought I had to be P E R F E C T for Jesus to bless me or love me. — I was honestly lost for the majority of my twenties. In addition, I was so insecure with what I looked like on the outside that it caused me to waste years concerning myself with what people thought of me. I sought to fill the internal voids I felt with things that only brought me more sadness. I battled daily on what my purpose was… and with knowing what value I brought to the table.   Until I couldn’t take all the emptiness anymore. It was then that I fully surrendered my life to Jesus and finally understood what it meant to be truly known and LOVED by Him.  All those voids I had been trying to fill only needed one thing… Jesus.  So now… here I am! Sharing His Love with all of you! Doing what God planted within me years ago to do. I can’t wait to get to know you on a personal level, and be able to grow together! I am so happy you are here! Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/jordan.mulanax/ (Instagram) Join https://withinhersoul.co/online-christian-community-for-women/ (The Soul Society) Check Out https://withinhersoul.co/ (Within Her Soul)

Are you easily distracted?  I am painfully easy to distract. In the time since I started even writing this. Yes. These first few lines I walked away from my desk, I started knitting, I started fighting a squid in the video game I am playing, returned 10 text messages and scrolled on Instagram when all I needed to do was write this caption for today's podcast. I am restless. I am flighty. I am uneasy.  I am so infuriatingly distractable it makes me want to scream and it has on many occasions made me cry.  So this week of my year of abundance challenge I am going to do my best to limit my distractability. I don’t think that’s a real word but it’s what I need to do real work on. Setting really specific singular tasks.  Focusing on one thing at a time.  Not being on my dang phone so much. Clearing my constantly spinning brain of some of the clutter.  I know I can’t be the only person who struggles with full-blown SHINY OBJECT syndrome at all times. So if that’s you please share some secrets for how you manage it or how you have gotten back on track after allowing it to be a habit for an increasingly long time.

Just because something worked for you and for some of your clients does not mean it will work for everyone. The online space can often get caught up in everyone being able to do anything and everything and this is simply not everyone's experience. By approaching your clients with different backgrounds, past experiences, and where they are at in the healing process of their own lives you have to take that into account.  I am joined today by Nikki Vergakes she is a certified, Trauma-Sensitive Life & Success/Business Coach, Marketing Strategist, and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She’s queer & polyamorous, and is based in Providence, Rhode Island! She has 2 communications degrees, and started her career over 6 years of various jobs and internships in Public Relations, Marketing, and Social Media.    At Safely Rooted coaching we I you release shame from the identities that make you unique and magnetic and help you turn those identities into a pleasurable and profitable business. We help you manifest sustainable and secure wealth ethically by magnetic marketing strategies and safe and ethical sales strategies. Cultivated Content is a safe and inclusive environment for you to be radically authentic in your business and content so you can call in the aligned clients you deserve consistently and do what you love to do every day.  http://instagram.com/cultivatedcontent (Instagram) |  http://facebook.com/cultivatedcontentsocial (Facebook )| https://www.pinterest.com/cultivatedcontent/ (Pinterest)

This year I am going on my own transformational journey to living an abundant life and what it would really take to start living the life I want today. This week I started to focus in on the things that matter to me in this journey and I started with creating and building community and friendship and also consistently prioritizing the amount of sleep I am getting. Might seem like really easy stuff if you're an extrovert and have a really out going personality and you have never been someone who bought into hustle culture so getting less than 6 hours of sleep seems purely insane to you. But i struggle to sleep enough and to put myself into new situations to have friends and build relationships. I was in the car headed back from the event I went to this weekend and we all were talking about how hard it can be to make friends and getting attached to people just to fall out of touch and how much we wished there was a friendship questionnaire form we could just give prospective friends and know right out the gate if we would vibe or not. However, we are yet to find a casual way to slip someone an interview questionnaire that doesn't seem crazy and while I wish it was an option I might not have ever made the friends I have if I was only looking for a certain type of person. Making new friends is going to be messy. Losing new people is going to feel discouraging. Not knowing when to text someone and when to not be annoying is a whole mess in and of itself. But it's important to be to live an abundant life that includes other humans. So cheers to trying to make that all work out for me.

In this opener to season 4, I share what's been going on that has created a total mind shift for me in how I have been living my life. Losing both my parents before I turned 32 has really changed my life mentally and what I used to do and how I thought I would have to show up. Living for the approval of someone else will always leave you lacking but living for yourself will be the greatest shift you can possibly make.

Creating your financial goals for the next year. I have been making dream boards of all types for years now and every year since I started them in 2015 I have been putting various money-related goals. Whether that was to buy a certain thing, go on a certain trip, and then of course there was my long-term goal of getting debt-free. I put debt-free on my dream board for 3 years without truly taking any action toward it at all, it was just some idea that I had that sounded cool and would be nice to achieve. I had been wanting to be debt-free since I was 19 and already drowning in my first credit card and realizing how much I was going to have to take out in student loans over the next few years. So when I graduated and started getting bills for those loans I wanted to be debt-free back then.  But I had no plan for how to go about doing that so I just kept going right along in life assuming I would never reach a debt-free life, I would never be able to do the things I wanted to do because that just wasn’t possible for me at that point. Do you find yourself thinking things like that when you look at your current finances verse where you want them to go? What would reaching your goals look like? What would it feel like? How can you reverse engineer your goals to make them happen? Cassie Moore: Host of The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card-carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt, and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame-filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog:  https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances)

I spent an ENTIRE week off of social media. I regained nearly 40 hours of my life back from mindless scrolling, pointless comment fights, and obsessive checking of notifications. Taking the week off gave me time to focus on what actually matters, my job, knitting, sleeping regularly, reading more of my Bible, helping lead one of my book groups, and also reading a lot more. A week off felt amazing after the anxiety to check things all day every day wore off around day 3. Have you ever done a social media fast or break? It's a great time. Cassie Moore: Host of the The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog:  https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances)

So I completed 75 Hard Ish. Why even in my failure I feel accomplished and proud of myself for sticking to something as consistently and as long as I did. Life won't always be perfect but I am proud of my dedication regardless and I know the third time will be the charm. Check out the challenge and the man himself behind it below. https://andyfrisella.com/pages/75hard-info (75 Hard Challenge ) https://andyfrisella.com/blogs/realaf-podcast/14-75hard-a-tactical-guide-to-winning-the-war-with-yourself (Podcast for Andy Frisella ) Cassie Moore: Host of The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach, and card-carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt, and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame-filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending, and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog:  https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances)

Do you belive that all people deserve to have the basics in life? Housing, food, transportation and health care? Why or why not? Lets have the conversation. If you agree tell me what it would look like for you and if you disagree let me know why? Cassie Moore: Host of the The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog:  https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances)

Does budgeting stress you out?! If it does you aren't alone so I am giving you my step by step to making the best budget for your life. Have your core four expenses: Housing Food Utilities Transportation After that the rest of your budget is going to be completely customized to who you are and what you need in your life. Cassie Moore: Host of the The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog:  https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances)

Financial Freedom  What does that even look like for YOU? When you think about that does it bring up ideas of being able to buy whatever you want? Does it call to mind lavish weeks of vacation and luxury travel? Or is it simply being able to work minimal amounts of hours and be fully present in your family?  Financial freedom means at its best whatever you want it to mean. There is no one size fits all for freedom because the ultimate goal is to have opportunities and options to be able to do the best for you and for those you love in your life. Money is helpful but it is not the end all be all in our lives. We have one life.  Make it fit you. Cassie Moore: Host of the The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog:  https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances)

The average person is spending $1000 on Christmas costs and another $1000 on holiday related travel. We are going to chat about some easier ways to break down the savings for the people in your life in the next 14 weeks to Christmas.  We are also going to cover some holiday travel tips as well as current price trends forecast for another Covid filled winter season. If you are able to donate to those who have been affected by Hurricane Ida from Louisiana to New York and all the places in between here will help you get resources on the ground to help. https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-ida-donations.html/ (Red Cross) https://give.helpsalvationarmy.org/give/166081/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1dGJBhD4ARIsANb6Odk_bRNRKV7oUFO0v4ydvR6gASiFzJNNhoUETvUALcj0vSo8tcUl_38aAnHTEALw_wcB#!/donation/checkout?utm_source=google_lerma&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=disaster&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=edonation_national_brand&pid=cpc:edonation_national_brand::google_lerma:::::southern_southern:disaster:disaster (Salvation Army ) Cassie Moore: Host of the The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card carrying cat lady forever.  On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog: Felines and Finance

Mental health is a right we all deserve to have. This is an episode reminding you that you are valuable, you are worthy, you are loved.  The darkness doesn’t have to be in control.  Here are a variety of resources  Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK(8255) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration  https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline (https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline) National Institute of Mental Health  https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help) Anxiety & Depression Association of America  https://members.adaa.org/page/FATMain (https://members.adaa.org/page/FATMain) American Psychiatric Association  https://www.psychiatry.org/ (https://www.psychiatry.org/) American Psychological Association https://www.apa.org/ (https://www.apa.org/)

When we are using a credit card we know at that moment it is both our money but we also treat it differently because we aren’t going to be truly paying for it at the moment. We are paying for it later on and byt removing the instantaneous nature of paying for something in cash feels more difficult than swiping a credit card, signing your name and getting a new bill in a couple of weeks.  Credit cards encourage of to spend more, more quickly  carelessly and  more forgetfully than we usually would if we are using cash or when we are using our debit cards knowing the money will be immediately removed from our bank account.  Cassie Moore: host of the The Get More Podcast, Felines and Finance blogger, money coach and card carrying cat lady forever. On a mission to empower women to take control of their finances, get out of debt and fall in love with money. Having paid off 48K in debt in 19 months using her Signature Budget Blueprint which blends practical money management with soulful purchases, instead of the typical shame filled forced changes. You can have it all when it comes to money, saving, spending and enjoying yourself.  Instagram @cassieannemoore  Clubhouse @cassmooremoney Blog: https://tinyurl.com/felinesandfinances (Felines In Finance)