🏔 Colorado & Teaching Your Kids Financial Competency

PLUS: On joy, and parents NEED to read this book..

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Kieran Lenahan
August 25, 2024

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Today, I’m sharing 1 helpful family resource + 1 thought on faith.

Creating a Family Economy 💰️ 

I just came back from a Mastermind in Colorado. One of the speakers was a guy named Scott Donnell.

He has by far the best resources on how to teach our kids financial competency (which has landed him on some of the biggest podcasts in the world).

I used to think we just need to finally teach personal finance in schools.

As it turns out, that doesn’t work at all.

But Scott’s recommendations actually work:

  • Kids learn financial competency

  • Parents save money (seriously, at least hundreds a year)

  • Kids learn confidence and how to create value for others

Dana listened to a podcast interview Scott did (linked below) and within hours set this up for Christopher and Cali 👇️

Do yourself and your kids a favor:

Our bigs are 4.5 and 3.5 and it’s been amazing how much they’re already learning about earning, spending, saving and giving away money.

“I hate the term financial literacy. You can’t read your way to learning money. You need to learn through lived experience.”

Scott Donnell

Fresh Insight About Joy 💡 

Right before the Mastermind in Colorado Springs, I was at a 2-day prayer retreat in Denver. Life changing in a few ways but here’s one.

We focused on identifying lies we’re believing that are sabotaging life with Jesus.

Intellectually, I know that thanks to what Jesus did through his life, death and resurrection, I can have joy no matter the circumstances of life.

But deep down, I’ve been believing two lies:

  • My joy is dependent on everything going well in my life (money in the bank, good health, how well my kids are behaving, etc.).

  • I don’t have the power/capacity to be joyful even when life is hard. I can only be happy if circumstances are good.

But John 15 finally clicked a bit deeper.

Jesus says:

11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

John 15:11

It’s not even my joy or my capacity to have joy in hard circumstances that matters.

It’s not up to me to somehow muster up joy or pretend to be happy when I’m being squeezed by life.

Jesus is the supplier of my joy and his is the only kind that can stand in the face of what this world throws at me.

He offers his joy.

Realizing this has been freeing.

So this is something I’m working on internalizing more and more.

That’s it for now.

Cheers,

Kieran ✌️

p.s. A few pics from CO..

prayer retreat crew

post mastermind pickleball

p.p.s.

2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross

Hebrews 12:2a

The “joy set before him” that made him willing to endure crucifixion?

It was you.

He died for you to pay the penalty for your mistakes.

To reconcile the relationship between you and God.

If you have any questions about that, reply here. Would be happy to chat.

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