Episode Description
“Money is not just a math problem. It is often a safety, identity, and self-worth pattern.” — Alma Tarelli
Your money habits might look like budgeting problems on the surface, but what if they are really identity and safety problems underneath?
In this episode, Julie Fairhurst speaks with Alma Tarelli, a highly effective results mentor, accountant, and financial behavior strategist, about why so many smart, capable, hardworking women still under-earn, overgive, undercharge, and burn out.
Alma explains the difference between external money drivers, like income, bills, debt, pricing, and investments, and internal money drivers, such as childhood patterns, nervous system responses, subconscious beliefs, scarcity, shame, guilt, and fear.
Julie and Alma talk about the survival-mode loops that keep women entrepreneurs stuck: worthiness wounds that fuel perfectionism, fear of visibility, avoidance, scarcity thinking, control, and the belief that doing everything alone is safer than asking for help.
They also explore what it means to be “high income but broke,” why financial strategy alone does not work when your nervous system cannot hold the change, and how small money behaviors can reveal deeper beliefs about wealth, safety, and self-worth.
Then the conversation turns practical. Alma shares ways to slow down your inner noise, release shame and judgment, use journaling, and ask the “why behind the why” to uncover what is really driving your money choices.
This episode is for women who are ready to stop treating money as only a math problem and start building a healthier, steadier relationship with abundance, receiving, charging, investing, and leading.
REACH OUT TO ALMA:
Website: www.almatarelli.com
Instagram: Instagram – @abundance_with_alma
LinkedIn: LinkedIn – Alma Tarelli
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