The Overcoming Overspending Podcast

If you feel anxious every time you open your banking app… If you avoid checking your credit card statement… If you secretly wonder how did my spending get this out of control? This episode is for you. After coaching thousands of women on their overspending habits, one pattern shows up again and again: financial avoidance. When you avoid your money, you lose clarity—and when you lose clarity, overspending becomes almost inevitable. In this episode, we're talking about: Why financial avoidance is one of the biggest drivers of overspending The surprising psychology behind why we hide from our money How shame and emotional discomfort keep you stuck in the cycle The powerful mindset shift that helps you stop avoiding your finances 3 simple steps to start facing your money without overwhelm You'll also learn why avoiding your finances actually makes your money stress worse, and how small daily habits can rebuild clarity and confidence with your money. If you've ever felt ashamed of your spending, overwhelmed by your finances, or afraid to look at your bank account—this episode will help you finally break that cycle. Because the truth is: What you avoid controls you. But what you face frees you. Work with Paige: Watch my free on-demand masterclass: The 3-shifts to go from emotional shopper to financially empowered Join the waitlist for the Overcoming Overspending Book - Out in early 2027 Join Overcoming Overspending HERE Connect with Paige Online: Her Website IG: @overcoming_overspending TikTok: @overcoming_overspending Subscribe to Paige's YouTube Channel

If you make good money but still feel like it disappears faster than it comes in… this episode might explain why. Most women think overspending is a budgeting problem. But after coaching thousands of women struggling with impulse shopping and emotional spending, I've seen the same pattern again and again: You might actually be repelling it without realizing it. In this episode, I'm breaking down 4 hidden ways you may be pushing money away — patterns that often show up as overspending, impulse shopping, and financial self-sabotage. And the surprising part? These patterns have nothing to do with spreadsheets, budgeting apps, or financial discipline. They come from something much deeper: Your relationship with money. If you've ever found yourself: Making good money but still feeling behind financially Impulse shopping even when you know you shouldn't Feeling ashamed after spending Wondering why money never seems to stick This conversation will likely give you several major "aha" moments. Inside this episode, you'll learn: • The 4 subconscious patterns that quietly drive overspending • Why budgets alone don't solve emotional spending • How your thoughts, language, and emotions about money shape your financial behavior • The surprising reason money may not feel safe staying with you • How to begin building a healthy relationship with money so you can finally build real wealth If you're a high-earning woman who feels stuck in cycles of overspending and wants to stop sabotaging your financial future, this episode is for you. Work with Paige: Watch my free on-demand masterclass: The 3-shifts to go from emotional shopper to financially empowered Join the waitlist for the Overcoming Overspending Book - Out in early 2027 Join Overcoming Overspending HERE Connect with Paige Online: Her Website IG: @overcoming_overspending TikTok: @overcoming_overspending Subscribe to Paige's YouTube Channel

A masterclass on shifting from impulsive to intentional spending using three practical pillars. Techniques include building distance with pause protocols and wishlists, uncovering the emotional promise behind purchases, and replacing dopamine-driven urges with healthier outlets. The conversation also covers quieting inner critics, tolerating unmet desire, and changing your spending identity for lasting behavior change.

They dig into why we struggle to delay gratification and how a vivid vision of your future self can change spending. The neuroscience of future-self connection and why vague goals fail are explored. Practical prompts cover identity, emotions, habits, time, and relationships to make long-term choices feel real. A short visualization practice helps turn future you into a source of care and accountability.

They unpack why most goals fade fast and the real difference between being interested and being committed. They explore how uncertainty and the brain’s craving for certainty cause people to quit. They explain the “valley of disappointment,” the messy middle, and why progress is often nonlinear. They offer ways to build tolerance for discomfort and create small commitments that keep you going.

They explore why your brain’s idea of what is realistic quietly limits what you pursue. The neuroscience of “possibility maps” and how early beliefs shape goals gets unpacked. Learn why bigger, audacious goals spark more motivation and rewire fear responses. Practical strategies include exposure to expand safety, powerful questions to shift filters, and why 10x thinking creates clearer, high-payoff paths.

A calming practice to retrain your brain from scarcity and curb impulse spending. Short, daily gratitude exercises that help you notice ordinary comforts and narrow the gap between wanting and having. A thought experiment about imagining loss and the “last time” to deepen appreciation. Reflections on choosing contentment over perpetual chasing, plus a tender personal update on applying these tools in real life.

We live in a world obsessed with "fixing" problems — fixing our flaws, fixing our money, fixing our lives. But what if the goal was never to eliminate problems… but to choose better ones? In this episode, Paige reframes the entire concept of "having problems" and shows you why a problem-free life is not only impossible… it's undesirable. She breaks down the difference between low-quality problems that drain your power and high-quality problems that expand it, and reveals why the challenges you choose determine the life you create. This is a grounding, perspective-shifting conversation that will help you stop fighting reality, stop expecting life to be easier than it is, and start choosing problems that align with your values, identity, and the future you want. By the end of the episode you will: Understand why problems never disappear — they simply evolve as you do Identify the "low-quality problems" that are keeping you stuck, overwhelmed, or resentful Learn how to choose higher-quality problems that move you toward growth, purpose, and emotional peace See where you've been unintentionally creating unnecessary suffering through avoidance, urgency, or perfectionism Feel empowered to approach your money, relationships, career, and daily life with more intention — and far less self-judgment Work with Paige: Join my Elevate Workshop: End Emotional Shopping & Expand Your Inner Wealth Use the code "OOPOD100" at checkout to get $100 off your investment Join Overcoming Overspending HERE Connect with Paige Online: Her Website IG: @overcoming_overspending TikTok: @overcoming_overspending Subscribe to Paige's YouTube Channel

What if most of your emotional suffering isn't coming from your circumstances—but from the way you're responding to them? In this episode, Paige unpacks the life-changing concept of clean pain vs. dirty pain—a framework that helps you understand the difference between necessary pain that expands you and self-created suffering that keeps you stuck. You'll learn: The key difference between clean and dirty emotional pain Why feeling your feelings isn't the same as suffering The five ways we unknowingly create unnecessary emotional pain (and how to stop) How to allow emotional discomfort without buffering, blaming, or resisting reality This conversation will change how you see emotional pain forever. When you can recognize the difference between what's happening to you and what you're creating for yourself, you unlock a new level of peace, power, and emotional freedom. Because pain is inevitable—but suffering is optional. If you resonated with this episode, explore Elevate, Paige's emotional mastery workshop for women ready to stop emotional shopping and start emotional healing. You can use the code "OOPOD100" at checkout to get $100 off your investment. Work with Paige: Join my Elevate Workshop: End Emotional Shopping & Expand Your Inner Wealth Use the code "OOPOD100" at checkout to get $100 off your investment Join Overcoming Overspending HERE Connect with Paige Online: Her Website IG: @overcoming_overspending TikTok: @overcoming_overspending Subscribe to Paige's YouTube Channel

They unpack the emotional promises behind purchases and why you rarely buy just the product. The five P's framework breaks down purchase layers from value exchange to hidden promises. Marketing and culture can manufacture problems that drive spending. New shopper archetypes like The Fixer, The Prover, and The Chameleon reveal underlying motives.