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Money Mindset, the Enneagram, and Why Your Financial Patterns Go Deeper Than Money, With Doug Lynam

Money mindset work rarely begins with a monastery in the New Mexico desert, but Doug Lynam's story does, and that is precisely what makes his insights so hard to forget.

Doug is a former Benedictine monk, Marine Corps Officer Candidate, bestselling author, and financial advisor who built his practice around a single conviction: the way you handle money has almost nothing to do with math and everything to do with the wounds you have been carrying since childhood. In this conversation, he traces his own path from a home where money was weaponized in a bitter divorce, through two decades of monastic life, through a monastery bankruptcy he helped reverse, and into the world of wealth management. Along the way, he developed the framework that now anchors his books, his TEDx talk, and his work with clients: the money monster map.

You will hear:

• How growing up in an affluent home where money was used as a tool of control shaped the origin of Doug's own money monster
• Why taking a vow of poverty led him directly into the most intense financial education of his life
• What the Enneagram actually is, and how Doug combined it with Attachment Theory to identify 18 distinct money patterns
• Why capable, intelligent people keep repeating the same financial self-sabotage, and what actually breaks the cycle
• How the pain of staying in the monastery finally outweighed the pain of leaving everything behind after 20 years
• What authentic success looks like after that many complete reinventions

Connect with Doug: Visit douglynam.com to explore his books, TEDx talk, coaching, and speaking work.

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