YFP 232: How Mindfulness and Money Intersect with Cynthia Knapp Dlugosz

Your Financial Pharmacist

Cynthia Knapp Dlugosz discusses the intersection between mindfulness and money.

Key Points From This Episode

• Getting to know Cynthia, starting with the pivots and arc of her career.
• Discussing how her 20 years of mindfulness training began intersecting with pharmacy.
• How the topics of burnout, resilience, and wellness have only recently gained traction.
• Cynthia shares her turning point from irresponsible money management to intentionality.
• Using the analogy of the Weight Watchers approach to get real with your spending.
• A step-by-step outline of how she first took control of her finances.
• How our relationship with money has changed in the age of automation and plastic.
• Defining mindfulness and how meditation trains us to live in the present moment.
• The various purposes and ways meditation can be practiced.
• Debunking a common misconception about meditating.
• Exploring different ways to use breathing as an anchor for your attention.
• How mindfulness meditation is like a bicep curl.
• How being present and mindful is key to making the right decisions with your money.
• Peeling back the onion of our emotional baggage and unconscious script around money.
• The importance of acknowledging our underlying fears and getting curious about them.
• Dealing with the changing goalposts on the question, “Do I have enough?”
• The concept of hedonic adaptation; we get used to what we already have.
• Setting yourself up with a solid foundation and then giving yourself permission to spend.
• Cynthia shares some resources from her website, and some exciting future offerings!

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode

• YFP Planning: Financial Planning for Pharmacists
• Book a free Discovery Call with YFP Planning
• Create a Comprehensive Estate Plan with Thoughtful Wills
• ASHP
• NACDS
• ASCP
• Join APhA - Get 25% Off Your Membership with Code: YFP
• headspace
• Omega Institute
• Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• The Pema Chödrön Foundation
• Thich Nhat Han
• Sharon Salzberg
• Jack Kornfield
• Your Financial Pharmacist
• Weight Watchers
• Jenny Craig
• Cynthia Knapp Dlugosz
• Pharmacy Work/Life Matters
• Sign up for the Pharmacy Work/Life Matters Newsletter
• Your Financial Pharmacist Disclaimer and Disclosures

Cynthia's Recommended Books

• Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
• Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend by Jonathan K. DeYoe
• Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It Better by Claudia Hammond
• The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness by Bari Tessler