Today on the show we have Don Joseph Goewey! Don is president of ProAttitude, a human performance firm with the mission of ending stress and elevating the experience of work in Corporate America. He is also author of the Amazon bestseller The End of Stress ~ Four Steps to Rewiring Your Brain. Previously, Don managed Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry, directed a regional paramedic emergency system, and headed ICAH, an institute that pioneered a psycho-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events. The institute received the Excellence in Medicine Award by the American Medical Association.
Don Joseph Goewey’s Money Story
My father came back from World War II with severe PTSD and when I was 5 years old he deserted the family, leaving us impoverished. Things improved a few years later when my mother remarried, and the economics of my family took off, until we actually reached the upper middle class. But in my last year of high school, my stepfather’s business went into a slide and bill collectors started calling on the phone, which my mother made me answer. The bill collectors were horrible and made feel ashamed of my family. My stepfather’s business eventually went bankrupt, our home went into foreclosure, and the stress of it lead to my mother and stepfather divorcing. All of that was my early orientation to money, which meant I was afraid of money – or the lack of it – and it took years for me to see money as positive instead of a source of pain and scarcity, which I believe was the cause on my own financial distress as an adult. So I worked at changing my attitude about money and now I love making money. Now I see it as a reflection of the joy I experience from the work I do in the world.
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