Zen Money: Building Financial Clarity

By Liz Lajoie

In this audio course from Scribd Coach, Zen Money Map author, business veteran, and Zen Money founder Liz Lajoie offers listeners a roadmap to financial clarity… and beyond. Using a framework that ties the nuts and bolts of finance to non-financial goals, values, and integrity, Lajoie explains the three pillars that should hold up your Financial House; how to make decisions and set goals wisely; how to strategize to get money flowing; and how you can effectively manage the money going in and out of your business. She also shares exercises along the way to help you apply what you’ve learned.
Whether you’re a seasoned small business owner, have plans for entrepreneurship, or just want to have a more robust understanding of money management, you’ll find valuable insights in Zen Money.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Dec 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094434551

Liz Lajoie

Liz Lajoie is a speaker, the author of Zen Money Map and From Zero to Zen, and Strategist and CFO at Zen Money, where she helps entrepreneurs master their finances and grow thriving businesses that support their passions and advance their big missions. She spent fifteen years honing her business and finance expertise in established firms before launching the Zen Money Initiative. To learn more about Liz’s work, visit her website, ZenMoneyMap.com.

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Zen Money

Building Financial Clarity

Liz LaJoie

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2021 by Liz Lajoie

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ISBN: 9781094434551

First e-book edition: December 2021

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Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Liz Lajoie and this is Zen Money: Building Financial Clarity, a course from Scribd. Thanks for joining me today.

For the past twenty years I’ve been involved in business management and have come into contact with numerous entrepreneurs and small business owners. A commonality I’ve found among them is their lack of a clear strategy to take them to that level of success they want to achieve. They know what their end goal is but have not laid out a step-by-step plan to get there, something I find very interesting.

Now don’t get me wrong, they all have great ideas and dreams of making it big. They have their next project lined up and are eventually seeking to become a ten million dollar business. But they have not set financial goals that will help them get there.

There is a load of work involved in attaining that level of success, but I found many of my clients only focused on the money. Their books would be in order, and we’d meet regularly to discuss a number of topics. But the one they avoided most was the one around their relationships and habits with money.

These clients had clarity when it came to their dreams and goals but weren’t completely clear or specific on what those goals were. For instance, when it came to financial planning for the next quarter, these clients had no particular goals set. Did they want to see a ten percent increase over last year’s profits, and if so, how would they reach it? Of course, like any business owner they wanted to double their revenue, but they didn’t want to do the work of digging into the numbers to get there.

That’s what led me to developing this course which is designed as a guide to teach you the importance of gaining clarity on your financial goals, how to do it, and what to do from there. Based on concepts from my second book, The Zen Money Map: Charge Your Worth, Pay Yourself First, and Fund Your Wildest Dreams, this