129 | The “I’m Not a Numbers Person” Trap

Think you're just not a "numbers person"? That worn-out identity is costing you more than money.

It's a comfy story, especially for the creative, right-brained, passion-driven folks. But underneath it, that belief works like a concrete ceiling you're crouched under, keeping you from the money and the lifestyle you actually want.

Here's the good news: you don't need to be a math whiz to break free. You just need to be willing to look.

In this episode...

⛓️ The one story you keep telling yourself that's holding your money hostage

📈 The single number you can't afford to ignore (and why it's the real metric of your success)

⛲ The real difference between financial chaos and financial flow

🧬 Why your resistance to money isn't a flaw – it's a mismatch with your design

🗝️ The one thing all your money really needs from you (it's simpler than you think)

If money has always felt like the part of life you'd rather avoid, this one's for you. The numbers aren't the enemy – they're the doorway to the freedom, ease, and lifestyle you've been building toward all along. And it starts with a single, simple move: leaning in and looking.

🎙️ Brought to you by Lauren Poppins Raye – your abundance astrologer and systems witch

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Transcript

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Think you're just not a "numbers person"? That all too common and worn out identity is costing you, if this is you, more than just money. More than you realize and not just in dollars. In this episode, we are peeling back the veil to reveal the mindset stuff, the misalignment, the avoidance that's keeping you stuck in financial fog and how to get through it to financial flow. First, let's unpack this identity trap that probably is a bit of a comfy blanket for you, particularly in the space of creative, spiritually anchored kind of people. Alternative, right brain, artist, passion driven people, right? The people we love, the person you probably are. I can't tell you how many clients came to me when I was a tax preparer for almost a decade in this particular niche of epic people that had this story. It basically becomes like a shield, or like a concrete ceiling that you are crouched under that keeps you from really being able to make the money you need, scale to the lifestyle you want, still being able to travel and have fun. Everything about that actually is so beyond numbers, but it's the numbers that make it possible. And you don't have to be a math whiz, you don't have to be an accountant. You just need to be willing to look and to look regularly. It really is all about your attention, your presence, the rhythmic, regular way that you show up for this cause that yields the result. Not your abilities or capacity necessarily, around actually crunching the numbers. Which by the way, is actually so super easy, once you do lean in. You'll find, like so many of my clients that come to me in avoidance and make it through the other side of establishing a ritual that feels really good to show up for, that your avoidance is so much heavier than your attention, once you're willing to be in relationship with them. Once you've actually moved through your resistance, you lean into and start looking at and engaging these numbers, it's actually really fun. What aligns your magical manifestation side and self with your numbers. You are just tagging actual amounts that make it possible to be strategic and make the decisions that you need to, with those income and expense styles, to actually be able to make them meet and match. That's the numbers side and it is absolutely just plugging in the other half of the equation of that deep, magical desire, feeling side of what you are co-creating, calling in, moving toward, and the whole point what it's meant to fuel and feed. That's the fun part. What I found to be the block for people around why they don't even lean into that, around why they're just not a numbers person: the record keeping. The reason that it can cost you so much money not to, well, there's lots of reasons... if you're not keeping track, you're probably not putting money aside for taxes, so you're going to get stuck with a huge bill come tax time that you probably can't afford. You might have to set up a payment plan for and add penalties and interest. None of that's fun. You're probably also missing deductions, write offs that you could be reducing how much you owe, so you're shelling out more in taxes than you need to. For the things that you actually are writing off, if you were to ever get audited, and I don't mean to be a fear monger, but if you don't have those records ready and available in your back pocket, the IRS might end up disallowing those write offs. Then you get stuck with a bill that you were not expecting to have to then pay back savings that you thought you got to keep on your taxes. This is the less fun one to talk about, but just want to offer the reminder that you not being a numbers person could mean serious financial discomfort and the alternative, which again, can be so peaceful and simple, and so unlike all of the stress that it causes you to be avoiding it, is truly just a form of protection to do it. I can tell you that the peace of mind indirectly what is otherwise a giant elephant in the room, the absence of that, of knowing that you have all of your ducks in a row, everything ready and available to protect you from that possibility. Both with the unfortunate, hopefully never going to happen to you, thing of getting audited, but also every single year when you go to file your taxes, having systems in place that work for you, that you can actually commit to showing up for and do because you want to, and it actually feels awesome, are so important because you're also protecting yourself from the yearly nightmare of tax filing when you don't have that shit in place. If this is not something that you are currently or already familiar with, when it comes to intimate relating, we can put ourselves into boxes just in terms of where we are right now with money, like with relationship, whether you are an avoidant, an anxious, a disorganized, or a secure. The first three all have very clear pathways to get to being financially secure. If this is you and you're like, well shit. Do yourself a favor, go pull up cosmicb.link/quiz. Whatever you're doing right now, get it up on your phone, up on your browser, so that it's there for you when you're done, and have a moment it takes less than five minutes to answer some questions and find out where you are right now. What is your money attachment style that I like to call your cosmic money style because ultimately it is going to connect you to a path of rising and rooting at the same time into the financial security available to you as a securely attached person with money. Again, if you've been getting the uncomfy's right now around everything that I'm talking about, go real quick, cosmicb.link/quiz, get that pulled up, return to it when you have five minutes, and get yourself rooted into understanding and fully accepting and leveraging where you are right now, whether it's avoidant or one of the other attachment styles so that you can clear through the noise of all of this and get to that space of ease and clarity with your money flow. Moving on to the most fun part, which is being able to look at your astrology chart, which is the energetic matrix, the design that was imprinted on and encoded into you the moment that you took your first breath, that has certain cosmic codes that we can look at to understand the journey to get to what is optimal, as well as that light at the end of the tunnel of what optimal looks like for you. We are able through this system, through this lens, to see not only what that guiding version of you is that you should absolutely be aware of as a cheat code to shortcut getting there, but also being able to see more clearly and again, have more compassion with yourself around wherever you are on the path, on the spectrum, from more unconsciously expressing to consciously, optimally flowing with the magic of your design. Any resistance that you experience to the money stuff in being just not a numbers person, is not a flaw in you. It's probably just a mismatch from how you're designed and how you've either been operating or thinking that you need to, in order to lean in to the numbers, the money, when you have systems that actually align with your wiring, they feel like they were designed for you because they were, and it feels just as good to show up for them. You don't need more willpower. You don't need more grit to show up for the money side of your business. You just need how you're doing it to be aligned with your design. Speaking of that mismatch, this brings us to the real difference between financial chaos and financial flow. The flow I'm talking about is not absence of structure. It's a rhythm, a current that you create and step inside of, that actually fits you and is an extension of who and how you are, that becomes your new flow. If you take one thing away from this, let it be that all your money really needs from you, let go everything in your head that you think that you were lacking or were never taught, or however you judge or feel shame with yourself around your money stuff... all it actually needs from you is your regular rhythmic engagement. That's it. You just have to be willing to lean in and look.