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Learn More About Money Mastery for Actors

About Rose Marie:

Official "Auntie Bear," Rose Marie is Peter's right-hand woman at Acting Business Boot Camp. She learned the budget system and used it to completely renew her relationship with money. Moving from the kind of person who checked her bank account with her eyes closed every few months to knowing exactly how she wants to spend her resources to serve her goals.

She learned this system from Mama Bear herself, which completely changed her relationship with money, empowering her to help others do the same.

Rose Marie's history with money and how she came to the Money Mastery Budgeting program.

I just felt hopeless. I didn't know what to do.

Money was coming in very irregularly because I was working many different jobs.

And I really didn't know how to manage my money at all.

This system has completely transformed the way I look at money. I have like a 795 credit score; I'm able to save. I have zero debt. I paid it all off. I have savings. I have a retirement in stocks.

The budget system has completely overhauled my entire life in terms of finances.

I started coaching for the budget coaching in 2017.

So can you explain what Jason Harris's budget system looks like?

It's figuring out your predictable monthly spending and how much it takes to run us at a baseline.

I'm not talking about any of the extras. I'm talking about rent, cell phone insurance. I include my gym membership in my nut because going to the gym is really important to me. And I cannot survive as a human being if I don't work out.

And then also figuring out how much money you have left over for your unpredictable monthly spending.

And putting it all together using the income you made the month before.

So instead of trying to live with, "the money I made now gets spent now."

Hand-to-mouth does not work.

It really creates so much stress in your life in a way that is just unbearable.

The amount of anxiety, stress, and yucky feelings about myself and who I am. I thought I could never make money. I thought I wasn't good at making money; I thought I was just not good.

I had such a fixed mindset regarding income, spending, and finances.

On the second night, Peter deals with all the yucky feelings that come up when it yucky feelings.

We tie money up in so much of our own self-worth.

You can think your way into Right Action, and you can act your way into Right Thinking.

And I think your part of the course is acting your way into right thinking, and my part is thinking your way into right acting.

So it supports the goal of financial freedom.

More money not a problem. Less money problem.

Gamifying your spending.

"I am gonna have extra money left over in all my categories at the end of the month."

But the other thing that you made me do, which is really revolutionary for me, and I know all of the world is such an internet, digital. We all live on our phones, and there are so many apps that let you do this: you made me carry a little notebook in my purse or my backpack everywhere through New York City, and I would write down every single thing I spent money on, and at the end of the day, I would subtract how much I spent money on, from how much I had left.

And the act of writing it down just made me so much more aware of where my money was going.

AND I didn't give up the first time I forgot to do it.

And so the thing that I really tried to separate myself from was having to do it perfectly for it to work.

The other thing I love about the budget system, you don't have to do it perfectly for it to work.

The goal is to get 1% better at it and not give up the f