Ep 0079 Use Your Time, Your Talent, and Your Treasures to Live a Full Authentic Life with Scott Maderer

Use Your Time, Your Talent, and Your Treasures to Live a Full Authentic Life

Take away: You have the power to create the life you desire.

Action step: Set aside the time on your calendar and create the space to write down a list of what you value. From your list craft a short mission statement.

Money Learnings: Scott’s dad owned a small business His family never talked much about money. As child his mom let his spend all his money on a video game ad he became upset with himself for spending money and having nothing to show for it.

Bio: Scott is a former teacher and worked for a major educational testing company in senior management while coaching people on the side. In 2017 he made the transition to full time coaching. He and his wife started Inspired Stewardship as a business to serve Christian men and couples that are struggling to live out their calling. Scott and Carrie work to help align the way you use your time, your talent, and your treasures so that you can identify and live a full authentic life that allows you to authentically live your calling, serve others, and provide for your family. Scott and Carrie through Inspired Stewardship are living out their own calling that started with a call to financial coaching in 2011 and has slowly grown to a full time business through one on one coaching, speaking, and group coaching workshops.

Highlights from this episode:

Money mindsets and when they are formed.
Scott and his wife are very deliberate on teaching their son about money.
Scott’s story of getting into debt.
How your identity and self worth can be tied to money and how it affects us.
The Dave Ramsey debt free plan!
Life doesn’t always go as planned but you can handle what it throws at you with a plan.
How he changed his relationship with money.
Time, Talent and Treasures..
Even though people make 6 figure incomes they still struggle with money.
People don’t live their values.
Takes the time to determine what your values and goals are.
Creating a joint plan with your spouse
Write down your manifesto so it’s easy to make decisions.
It’s simple but it’s hard work to make this happen.
The goal is not to raise a good child, but a great adult.
What really shows love to your children.
Scott’s thoughts on our current educational system as a teacher.
The issues with standardized testing.
Your kids have to create their own values. It takes years to help them achieve this.
Separate kids behaviors from their personal worth. Judge the behaviors and not the child.
Crafting your mission statement,