Welcome to Tea Time with Erin: Real Money Stories - where we share the messy, beautiful, honest truth about what it's really like to heal your relationship with money while building a business. Host Erin (aka @erinthemoneytherapist) sits down with entrepreneurs over tea to talk about the stuff that doesn't usually get talked about: the shame, the fear, the breakthrough moments, and everything in between. If you've ever felt alone in your financial "mess," this is your safe space. Grab your favorite mug and join us for real conversations about money, mental health, and building businesses that feel good.
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Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.
In this episode, Erin sits down with Caroline Hogue, founder of Bygone Botanicals, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, motherhood, homeschooling, community, and building a business that aligns with your values.
Caroline shares her journey from launching a wellness-focused Instagram account to creating Bygone Botanicals, a botanical skincare company inspired by her love of plants, aromatherapy, and family traditions. Along the way, she opens up about moving her family across the country, rebuilding community, homeschooling four children, and growing a business in a season where family remains her highest priority.
Together, Erin and Caroline explore the realities of slow business growth, the pressure many entrepreneurs feel to scale quickly, the importance of asking for help, and what it looks like to build a business that supports your life instead of competing with it.
In This Episode, You'll Hear:
How Caroline's move from Kansas City to Michigan impacted her family and business
The story behind Bygone Botanicals and how the business evolved over time
Why aromatherapy school helped shape her entrepreneurial journey
How homeschooling and entrepreneurship coexist in her daily life
The realities of building a business with limited time and resources
Why slow growth can be a healthy and intentional business strategy
The importance of community for women entrepreneurs and mothers
How social media creates pressure to scale faster than you're ready for
Why asking for help and outsourcing support isn't a failure
How Caroline's mother influenced her entrepreneurial mindset
The role family history and generational beliefs play in business ownership
Practical advice for pricing handmade products and valuing your work
Key Takeaways
Building a business slowly doesn't mean you're falling behind.
Entrepreneurship doesn't have to come at the expense of your family.
Community and support systems are essential for sustainable business growth.
Childhood experiences and family influences often shape how we approach business and money.
Asking for help allows you to focus on the things that matter most.
Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.
In this episode, Erin continues Part 3 of her four-part series on generational financial beliefs by exploring the connection between money and the nervous system. While previous episodes focused on where financial beliefs come from and how they impact paying yourself, this conversation shifts into the body and examines why financial decisions can feel so emotionally charged.
Erin explains how our nervous systems often respond to money before our conscious minds have a chance to think. From the knot in your stomach when you open your bank account to the tension that shows up when it's time to pay yourself, these reactions are often rooted in old experiences, inherited beliefs, and generational patterns rather than your current financial reality.
Through neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and practical body-based tools, Erin introduces the first two steps of her GLOW Framework—Ground and Lift—and shares how entrepreneurs can begin creating safety around money so they can make financial decisions from a calmer, more empowered place.
In This Episode, You'll Hear:
Why your nervous system reacts to money before your thinking brain does
How financial stress shows up physically in the body
The connection between generational financial beliefs and nervous system responses
Why paying yourself can trigger fight, flight, freeze, or fawn behaviors
How childhood experiences shape financial reactions in adulthood
What neuroplasticity is and how it helps change money patterns
The four nervous system responses commonly seen around money
Why shame is often grief in disguise
An introduction to Erin's GLOW Framework: Ground, Lift, Own, and Win
Simple practices to regulate your nervous system before looking at your finances
My Entrepreneur Money Story: When Success Didn’t Feel Like Success
Welcome to the very first episode of Tea Time with Erin, the podcast sharing real entrepreneurs’ money stories—the messy, beautiful, honest truth about healing your relationship with money while building a profitable business. If you’ve ever struggled with money mindset, financial stress, or the emotional side of entrepreneurship, this show is for you.
In this opening episode, Erin shares her story: what was happening behind the scenes when everything looked “successful” on paper, but she was quietly falling apart. From postpartum overwhelm with twins, to the financial chaos of legal stress and debt, Erin opens up about the moment she realized she couldn’t keep powering through—and how one simple daily practice became the anchor that helped her regulate, breathe, and start making decisions from a steadier place.
This episode sets the tone for the show: money mindset + mental health + entrepreneurship—with real conversations, real feelings, and practical insight (without the “6 figures in 6 minutes” hype).
In This Episode, You’ll Hear:
Why Erin created Tea Time with Erin (and what makes it different from typical business podcasts)
The behind-the-scenes reality of “success” while feeling deeply overwhelmed and isolated
How postpartum, stress, and a years-long lawsuit impacted Erin’s nervous system and money decisions
The “one thing every day” practice that changed everything: a daily cup of tea as nervous system support
How tea became a ritual, an anchor, and a gateway to reflection, prayer, and emotional processing
What Erin learned from working with thousands of financial stories: almost everyone feels ashamed and alone
Why financial strategy isn’t enough without emotional safety, support, and healing
What you can expect going forward: solo episodes, entrepreneur interviews, real money stories, and “all the tea” (verbal and herbal)
The core message of the show: healing your relationship with money and building a profitable business go hand in hand
Tea Time with Erin: Real Money Stories for Entrepreneurs
Welcome to Tea Time with Erin, the podcast where entrepreneurs share their real money stories—the messy, honest truth about healing your relationship with money while building a profitable business.
In this trailer, Erin introduces a new kind of conversation about money mindset, financial therapy, and the emotional side of entrepreneurship. This isn’t a highlight reel or hustle-culture business podcast. It’s a space to talk about financial shame, fear, nervous system regulation, and the healing that has to happen before sustainable success can take root.
Through solo episodes and interviews with entrepreneurs, Tea Time with Erin explores how money and mental health are deeply connected—and why building a profitable, values-aligned business starts with feeling safe in your financial story.
If you’ve ever felt alone in your financial mess, this podcast is your reminder that you’re not. Healing your relationship with money and growing your business aren’t opposing goals—they go hand in hand.
Grab your favorite mug and join us for real conversations about money, mental health, and entrepreneurship.
How to Trust Yourself When Building a Business | Anna Wiggins' Entrepreneur Journey
Content Note: This episode includes a conversation about suicide, grief, and mental health as Anna shares part of her family's story. Please take care while listening and skip this episode if now isn't the right time for you.
Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape the way we build our businesses and lives.
In this episode, Erin sits down with entrepreneur Anna Wiggins, owner of Surseen Style, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, financial decision-making, risk, grief, and learning to trust yourself through seasons of uncertainty.
Anna shares her journey from working in nonprofits and philanthropy to opening a bridal boutique, selling that business, navigating a season of transition, and eventually launching her newest venture, Surseen Style. Along the way, she opens up about family influences, money lessons from childhood, business loans, entrepreneurship, and the challenge of balancing financial security with pursuing a vision.
Together, Erin and Anna explore what it looks like to trust your instincts, embrace the unknown, and build a business that aligns with your values rather than someone else's definition of success.
In This Episode, You'll Hear:
Anna's journey from nonprofit work to entrepreneurship
How a difficult first job helped redirect her career path
The inspiration behind opening her bridal boutique
Why she chose not to pursue a franchise model
The emotional process of selling a business she loved
How writing and reflection helped her navigate a season of transition
The realities of funding and growing a small business
How childhood experiences shaped her relationship with money
Why paying yourself matters as a business owner
The importance of trusting your intuition in business decisions
How nervous system regulation impacts entrepreneurship
Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories shaping the way we build our businesses and lives.
In part two of Erin’s four-part series on generational financial beliefs, Erin dives into one of the most emotionally charged topics for women entrepreneurs: paying yourself. Why is it so difficult to move money from your business account into your personal account—even when the numbers say you can?
This episode explores the hidden emotional and behavioral patterns that impact how entrepreneurs handle money, especially first-generation wealth builders. Erin breaks down two major patterns she sees constantly in her work with women business owners: economic mobility guilt and the absence of financial modeling. Together, these patterns create hesitation, shame, confusion, and fear around taking profit, paying yourself consistently, and building personal wealth through business ownership.
Erin also shares personal stories, client examples, and practical insight into how childhood experiences, family systems, and generational money beliefs continue showing up in entrepreneurship today. From inherited scarcity mindsets to never being taught how to read a P&L statement, this episode helps listeners understand why financial decisions can feel so emotionally heavy—and why awareness is the first step toward change.
If you’ve ever avoided looking at your finances, felt guilty paying yourself, struggled with profit, or questioned whether you deserve to make more money, this conversation will likely hit close to home.
In This Episode, You’ll Hear:
What economic mobility guilt is and how it affects women entrepreneurs
Why paying yourself can feel emotionally difficult even when your business is profitable
How generational financial beliefs influence business decisions
The difference between emotional money patterns and practical financial skill gaps
Why many entrepreneurs struggle to determine how much to pay themselves
From News Reporter to Chick-fil-A Operator | Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Financial Legacy
Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share honest conversations about entrepreneurship, money, mental health, and the stories that shape how we build our lives and businesses.
In this episode, Erin sits down with her lifelong best friend, Sarah Jane, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, financial legacy, leadership, and the long road to becoming a Chick-fil-A operator. From selling painted computer art as kids to leading teams through Chick-fil-A's Leadership Development Program, Sarah shares the reality of chasing a vision that didn't always make sense to others.
Sarah opens up about her journey from TV news to late nights in the Chick-fil-A kitchen, taking pay cuts, navigating uncertainty, and learning to think long-term. Erin and Sarah also explore how generational money beliefs, family influence, and mentorship shaped their approach to work and financial stewardship.
This episode is a reminder that entrepreneurship often starts long before business ownership — and that success is built through consistency, preparation, resilience, and vision.
In This Episode, You'll Hear:
Sarah's transition from journalism and TV news into the Chick-fil-A leadership path
Why entrepreneurship often begins with vision before confidence
Childhood entrepreneurial moments that hinted at future leadership
The financial realities of working in journalism and taking career pay cuts
What Chick-fil-A looks for in future operators financially and personally
How Sarah navigated uncertainty while pursuing the Leadership Development Program
The role mentorship, personal growth, and faith played during waiting seasons
How generational financial beliefs shaped both Sarah and Erin's views on money
Why stewardship and long-term thinking matter in entrepreneurship
The importance of partnership and support in entrepreneurial marriages
How leadership is built through serving and caring for people well
Generational Financial Beliefs (Part 1): Where Your Money Story Begins
In this episode of Tea Time with Erin, Erin begins a powerful new series on generational financial beliefs—unpacking how our earliest experiences with money shape the way we think, feel, and behave financially as adults and entrepreneurs.
This Part 1 conversation focuses on where these beliefs come from and how they are passed down through families, culture, and lived experiences—often without us even realizing it.
Erin shares how money beliefs are formed in childhood, why they can feel so deeply ingrained, and how they silently influence our relationship with money long before we ever start a business. From scarcity and fear to control and avoidance, these patterns are often inherited, not chosen.
If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “Why do I feel this way about money?”—this episode helps you start connecting the dots.
This is the foundation for understanding your financial behaviors so you can begin shifting them with intention in future episodes.
In This Episode, You’ll Hear:
What generational financial beliefs are and why they matter
How money beliefs are formed in childhood and early experiences
The role family, culture, and environment play in shaping money patterns
Why many of your financial habits may not actually be “yours”
Common inherited beliefs around scarcity, security, and success
How unexamined money beliefs can follow you into adulthood and entrepreneurship
Why awareness is the first step to changing your financial story
The importance of creating space to question what you’ve always believed about money
Key Takeaways
Many of your beliefs about money were formed long before you had control over finances.
Generational patterns often shape how you earn, spend, and think about money.
Financial behaviors are learned—and they can be unlearned.
From Ireland to the U.S.: Building a Business, Raising Kids & Redefining Success
In this episode of Tea Time with Erin, Erin sits down with Aimee Puglisi for a real, honest conversation about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and what it looks like to build a business through life transitions.
Aimee shares her journey from Ireland to Scotland and eventually the United States during COVID. After stepping into a corporate job for the first time, she quickly realized the traditional 9–5 didn’t align with the life she wanted—especially as she entered motherhood and a blended family.
That realization led her into entrepreneurship, where she built a virtual assistant business supporting women entrepreneurs with social media, while also growing a second business in health and wellness. She opens up about inconsistent income, balancing roles, and redefining success in a season that requires flexibility and grace.
Erin and Aimee also dive into how childhood money beliefs shape how we approach finances—from scarcity and strict budgeting to more intuitive approaches—and how those patterns show up in marriage, parenting, and business.
This episode is a reminder that building a business as a mom isn’t about doing everything perfectly—it’s about aligning your life, values, and finances with your current season.
In This Episode, You’ll Hear:
Aimee’s journey from Ireland to the U.S. and how that transition shaped her career
The cultural differences between European and U.S. work environments
Why the traditional 9–5 didn’t align with her goals as a mom and entrepreneur
How she started her virtual assistant business and built income from home
The realities of balancing multiple businesses while raising a toddler
What entrepreneurship really looks like behind the scenes (income, capacity, trade-offs)
How motherhood shifts your priorities, time, and definition of success
The importance of giving yourself grace in different seasons
How childhood money beliefs influence financial decisions
What My Business Numbers Revealed That My Feelings Didn’t
Welcome back to Tea Time with Erin, where we share real, honest conversations about money, mental health, and entrepreneurship.
In this episode, Erin sits down with filmmaker and entrepreneur Elisa Trentham of Sherwood Media for a deeply insightful conversation about the relationship between feelings and financial data in business—and why so many entrepreneurs rely on emotion instead of numbers to make decisions.
Elisa shares what happened when she finally sat down and looked at her profit and loss statement after years of running her business based mostly on how things felt. What she discovered surprised her—and completely shifted how she views success, growth, and her financial story.
Together, Erin and Elisa explore the emotional side of entrepreneurship, including financial shame, comparison, uncertainty, and the tension of being in a season of transition. They also dive into how numbers can actually ground you, tell a more accurate story than your feelings, and help you make clearer, more confident decisions in your business.
This episode is a powerful reminder that your financial story is not always what it feels like—and learning to look at your numbers can change everything.
In This Episode, You’ll Hear:
Why many entrepreneurs rely on feelings instead of financial data
What happened when Elisa finally reviewed her profit and loss statement
How numbers can tell a different story than your emotions
The role of rejection and perception in how we evaluate business success
Why financial shame can show up even when things are going well
How comparison (especially online) distorts your view of your business
The reality of building a business through different life seasons
What it looks like to navigate a major transition in business and life
How grounding yourself in facts (not feelings) can change your decisions
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
Financial stress is often a nervous system response, not a discipline problem.
Your body may be reacting to old money stories before your conscious mind has time to think.
Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn patterns commonly show up in financial decision-making.
Awareness creates the opportunity for change.
Safety and comfort are not the same thing.
Small nervous system regulation practices can improve financial decision-making over time.
Neuroplasticity allows you to create new patterns and healthier responses around money.
Connect with Erin
Learn more about Erin’s work around money mindset, financial therapy, and building businesses that support your life.
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New episodes of Tea Time with Erin drop every other Tuesday, where we share honest conversations about money, mental health, and entrepreneurship.
Grab your drink of choice, take a deep breath, and join us for the next Tea Time.
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