SUMMARY
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Professor Pete Alexander has had a thirty-five year career that spans Sales and Marketing, being a college professor of Marketing, and running a small interior landscaping business called Office Plants by Everything Grows, where he’s still a majority owner. Professor Pete is also an expert in something that impacts all of our lives: stress.

Today, Pete joins the show to share tips and best practices for coping with stress, the role of eustress, and the importance of gratitude and visualization.

TAKEAWAYS
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00:55 – Jonathan introduces today’s guest, Pete Alexander, who joins the show to talk about how financial insecurity growing up instilled a fear-based money mindset
09:14 – The inspiration to write a book about stress
17:31 – Gratitude, visualization, and personal values
25:40 – Staggering statistics on stress and its effect on the body 30:10 – Understanding the LIGHTEN acronym
31:49 – Good stress vs. bad stress and the two flavors of stress
35:14 – One thing that a person under severe stress can do to reduce their stress levels and one thing to avoid doing
41:09 – One thing people don’t know about Pete that he would like them to know
43:10 – Jonathan thanks Pete for joining the show and lets listeners know where to connect with him

QUOTES
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“What I learned was that, when you don’t manage your money properly, that has a very strong effect on your kids.” (02:45) (Pete)

“For me, my feeling is that I don’t want to be a burden for my kids. And so part of my strategy of ‘saving, saving, saving,’ is that I wouldn’t feel like I had to go ask them, down the road, if something happened to me.” (08:29) (Pete)

“I sat there and I thought, ‘Oh my God. I’m trading my health for my career.’ And that is a very bad trade because, if you think about it, the reality is when you think about a time when you were really sick, did you feel like doing anything other than lying in bed? Probably not. And when you’re in that state, you’re no good to your career, to your business, or to the people you love, because you have no energy.” (15:30) (Pete)

“Health became and remains the number one priority for me because, in my opinion, without your health, nothing else matters.” (23:32) (Pete)

“One thing that stood out to me when I started doing my research was that the World Health Organization (WHO) called stress the number one health epidemic of the 21st Century.” (26:46) (Pete)

“There actually is good stress, called eustress.” (31:52) (Pete)

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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Pete’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petealexander/
Pete’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHHO6IiWyn56aURq585fxVA
Pete’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stressexpert/
Pete’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExpertStress
Pete’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1072704994
Pete’s Stress Relief Thoughts: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stress-relief-tips/
Office Plants by Everything Grows Website: https://officeplants.com/
Link to the Values Activity that is a true game changer for stress: https://youtu.be/yb5AB_f38bw

MINDFUL MONEY RESOURCES
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Monthly Coaching Membership: https://courses.mindful.money/mindful-money-membership
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
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