Soul Peak

I started Soul Peak in 2017 before I became a financial coach. I wanted this to be a space where I could journal my thoughts and encourage myself and others to live bold and fearless lives- a life where you are living in God’s love and purpose. And while I still want it to be that, my main focus has been on finances, which I’ve come to learn is deeply spiritual. I started Soul Peak to create space for honest conversations—first about life and purpose, and now also about money—because both are connected.

I  didn’t grow up in a household where my parents talked about finances or how to handle money but kids pick up on cues even when parents don’t think so. I know my parents had debt, used credit cards and lived paycheck to paycheck. They divorced when I was 8 and while there were many reasons why, I can’t help but wonder how money differences might have fueled their divorce.

Now that I am around the age they were when they divorced, I can sympathize and only imagine how hard that must have been mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I am by no means bashing my parents– I love them and they did their best with what they knew at the time. I am sharing this because I know they would not want the same narrative for me. They want better things for me so I must do things differently.

So when I first started earning money while working in college, I spent it on everyday things that most college students without a budget spent their money on– restaurants, going out, weekend trips, food, restaurants, clothes, new phones, car payments, and did I already mention restaurants? 😅 I was saving a little but spending most of my paycheck every month and you can forget about investing or retirement.

I’ve always been naturally good at saving but I could have been saving hundreds– no, thousands more a year if I had made a plan for my money sooner!  Well, better late than never. In 2018, I decided to get on a plan to pay off all my debt, save, and plan for my future. You can read how in my previous post “WE’RE DEBT FREE”. Learning how to manage my money changed my life and will break generational cycles for my family, my children and my children’s children.

That’s what led me to Soul Peak becoming what it is today—a space to talk honestly about money, purpose, and faith. I still care about fearless living. But I’ve learned that managing money with wisdom and purpose is part of that fearless life.