Episode 81
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In this episode, I interview special guest, Donna Connor. Donna is a proud Mom and wife, serial entrepreneur, author, coach, and CEO of a multi-7 figure consulting firm, and founder of Life on Purpose Academy where she helps people heal their relationship with money. In our authentic conversation, Donna shares her story of how God helped her transform her unhealthy relationship with money, which resulted in her low self-esteem struggles and having to go through two bankruptcies. She also shares how God guided her through his promptings to her calling and how having an attitude of gratitude helped her heal and others she helps heal. In addition, she shares words from scripture that have ministered to her to encourage others.
- Donna Connor is a proud mom and wife, serial entrepreneur, author, coach, and CEO of a multi-7 figure consulting firm and founder of Life on Purpose Academy where she helps people heal their relationship with money.
- She finds passion in helping people and has been helping people get out of debt for the last seventeen years.
- Donna’s path is to help others learn what their purpose is and help them go after it by becoming financially sound.
- “It isn’t about me. It is about what I can do for others and I know that God will bless me with everything I am doing because I am helping his children.”
- It wasn’t until she was a young adult that she came to understand that she was worthy because she is a child of God. She grew up thinking she was not worthy.
- It is how you handle money and how you believe you are worthy of the money that changes everything.
- It took a lot of prayer and counseling for Donna to realize that she was worthy. Most of it was journaling, reading the scriptures, and understanding that God wants the best for us and that there will be challenges in this life for our growth and bring us closer to God.
- Donna shares her “The Power that Comes from Following God’s Prompting” God story.
- More often than not parents don’t teach their kids about finances for many different reasons.
- Her business, Life on Purpose Academy, started from a prompting from God.
- We learn more from our trials than we do from our wins.
- A budget can be the tool that helps you go after your dreams and get them everything that they want.
- People look around and assume everyone has it together but them. It doesn’t help them move forward and it isn’t true.
- Gratitude and recognizing the blessings we have day in and day out make such a difference in how we handle our money.
- Showing gratitude and accepting the gratitude softens our hearts.
- The biggest thing for her and her transformation was that she knew who she was. Listening to God’s promptings and followings has led her to all the good things in her life.
- We are going to get promptings that don’t make sense, that we don’t want to do, and we are going to fight and avoid doing. Just do it! God will give you the how if you take the first step.
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Quotes from Donna
- “I wanted to teach people how to avoid bankruptcy if at all possible but to also not feel shame if they had to do it. I think that is the biggest thing too. There is so much shame out there when it was created for a purpose.” – Donna Connor
- “There is no shame in this and that is one of the things I wanted to help people to understand. To not feel shameful to try as hard as you can to get out of it but to know that it is a resource if they need it.” – Donna Connor
- “Gratitude and recognizing the blessings we have day in and day out make such a difference in how we handle our money.” – Donna Connor
- “We learn more from our trials than we do from our wins. We learn more from the hard parts.” – Donna Connor
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