SUMMARY
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Dr. Mary Martin is a trauma sensitive mindfulness educator, a futures thinker, and the author of Mindfulness for Financial Advisors: Practicing A New Way of Being . She’s certified by Brown University to teach mindfulness-based stress reduction and has a PhD from NYU’s School of Culture, Education & Human Development.

Dr. Mary has worked in financial services for over two decades, has been teaching mindful awareness to advisors since 2015, and today she joins the show to share the work she does as a mindfulness educator, and why mindfulness is so critical in the field of financial advice.

TAKEAWAYS
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00:51 – Jonathan introduces today’s guest, Mary Martin, who joins the show to share the first financial lessons she learned, the early expectations she set for her life, and how she got into ghost writing
07:42 – Everything Dr. Mary learned about entrepreneurship she learned from her neighbors
13:31 – An independent mindset
19:05 – An awakening and the inspiration to teach financial advisors about mindfulness
31:17 – The absence of mindfulness in financial advisement
38:09 – How to identify which financial advisors are mindful
46:08 – The danger of falling into a trap of accumulation, consumption, and materialism
50:10 – A message of love
56:30 – One thing Dr. Mary would like others to know about her and the one question she would like to know the answer to
57:51 – Jonathan thanks Dr. Mary for joining the show today and lets listeners know where to connect with her

QUOTES
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“What I always managed to do is find people who had wonderful things to teach me - theseamazing mentors - and work with fantastic, fun colleagues. And I was always making moremoney than anybody else my age .”(05:25) (Mary)

“Everything I learned about entrepreneurship I learned from my neighbors.” (07:47) (Mary)

“With this contemplative practice all of these years, I somehow failed to recognize that I had a body. I was this brain walking around in a meat suit. What I was doing with my body was all superficial.” (21:25) (Mary)

“Whenever I define mindfulness for people I say, ‘Notice you didn’t hear the word ‘calm’ in there. And you didn’t hear the word ‘relaxation’ in there. And you didn’t hear the word ‘bliss’ in there. And you didn’t hear the words ‘clearing your mind’ or ‘stopping your thoughts.’” (24:07) (Mary)

“Your superpower should not be super. Your superpower is that you’re a human being and you understand how you operate. And, when you understand how you operate - and your own suffering and where that comes from and what that feels like, and your own regret, and your own shame, and your own pain - you don’t understand someone else through and through, but you are able to empathize...” (30:17) (Mary)

ABOUT MINDFUL MONEY
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Do you struggle with money? You’re not alone.
Money is a means, not an end. It’s a necessity of life for sure, but more money does not always guarantee a “good life”. Money enables many aspects of modern life, but as a dominant consideration it becomes destructive.
The paradox is that more time and energy spent on personal finance does NOT create better outcomes. Unlike many other parts of life, we can’t create better outcomes by being smarter, spending more time, or putting in more effort.
Join Mindful Money author and experienced 40-year investor Jonathan DeYoe as he shares stories from artists, authors, entrepreneurs, and other advisors about how they mindfully minimize their need to think about money and get more out of life.
If you aren’t happy with your finances, feel like money takes more time that it should, or want to place your financial decisions into the broader context of your life, this show is for you.
Each episode will draw the line between the “enough” activities that the academics tell us are additive to family outcomes, and those “little bit more” efforts that take time and sap energy, but do NOT improve outcomes.

GUEST RESOURCES
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Mary’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marymartinphd/
Mary’s Website: https://www.marymartinphd.com/
Mary’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mary_martin_phd/
Mary’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PracticeWithMary
Mary’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mary_martin
Mary’s Book: https://www.marymartinphd.com/mindfulness-for-financial-advisors
Link to The Future of Financial Advice: https://www.futureoffinancialadvice.net/

MINDFUL MONEY RESOURCES
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Jonathan’s Book – https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Money-Practices-Financial-Increasing/dp/1608684369
Website - https://mindful.money/
Jonathan DeYoe on LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/jonathandeyoe
Mindful Money on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MindfulMoney_Ed
Mindful Money on Facebook - http://facebook.com/MindfulMoneyPlan
Mindful Money on Instagram - http://instagram.com/mindfulmoneyplan
Mindful Money on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MindfulMoney🎙️
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