Resonance – Episode 43
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Speaker: Viktoria Levenberg
Most of us live in this scarcity paradigm of “I don’t have enough time, I don’t have enough
money, I’m too tired.” That’s unfortunately the programming that we’ve been conditioned into. If
I were to ask you right now, like money is—what’s the first thing that came to your mind? I’m
really curious. It is literally all just pretend. It is a game, and we’re all playing and taking part in
this game, so we’ve got to work with the system. Whoa, she is venturing into some uncharted
territory here. And so all of your money work, whether you want to hear this or not, it begins
inside first.
How often have you stayed up late at night worrying about money? Or maybe you felt like it’s this
giant nebulous mystery that you just can’t get a grip on. I’ve been there too, my friends. And in
today’s episode, you are going to learn about the crucial role that alignment plays when it comes
to being efficient with our money. Let’s dive in.
Welcome to Resonance, the podcast for high performers and entrepreneurs who want to do life,
work, and success differently. I am your host, Viktoria Levenberg, and I’m obsessed with
efficiency, productivity, and planning in a way that harnesses your energy and your natural
rhythms while keeping you in alignment and integrity. Because I have figured out that lasting
success is not about the hustle. It is about being in resonance. Let’s begin.
Huh. Alright, let’s dive into this episode.
I just want to acknowledge before we get into the meaty, nitty gritty topic of money that, you
know, at the time of the recording of this episode, we’re at the change of seasons. It is autumn.
We are approaching the autumn equinox here in New Zealand, so the days are getting shorter,
the temperatures are getting long—longer. The temperatures are getting colder. It’s a new moon
tomorrow, so really there’s a lot of kind of internal change going on.
And so in case you’re hearing that in my voice and the energy of today’s call, I just wanted you to
know that. And I also wanted to pre-empt the fact that, you know, we’re about to jump into a
topic that for some might feel quite taboo. It might feel like a lot. It might feel like a little bit
confronting. And so if throughout today’s episode you start to feel a little bit tired or resistant or,
um, you know, like you’re zoning out and have some brain fog, just know that all of that is
normal. That’s just your nervous system responding to new information.
So if you need to come back and re-listen to this, um—but without further ado, let’s dive in. And,
you know, I just wanted to preface this with this universal, I think something like we all have in
common, right?
Like if I were about to ask you, what do you want more of? Chances are you would say one of
those three things: time, money, and energy. Right? Like—or maybe all of the above, right?
Most of us live in this scarcity paradigm of “I don’t have enough time, I don’t have enough
money, I’m too tired.” That’s unfortunately the programming that we’ve been conditioned into.
And yet so many of us are so inefficient with how we make, manage, and multiply our time,
money, and energy. And more often than not, unfortunately, we then drop into avoidance. We
hope for the best. We just kind of, you know, carry on with our day and think that things will
magically sort themselves out.
Which, disclaimer—if they haven’t magically sorted themselves out at this point, then they
definitely won’t without you doing anything about it in the future either.
And, you know, I couldn’t be publishing an episode about money without acknowledging what’s
happening in the economy right now, right? I mean, it is an interesting time out there. Um, of
course, you know, here in New Zealand we’ve had the cost-of-living crisis for a few years now.
There’s a lot of geopolitical uncertainty. There’s a lot of anxiety and just like what is going on in
the collective unconscious.
And it’s funny, like I literally even had a conversation with someone this week about, um, some of
the investments and decisions that they want to make about their financial future. And it’s
coming from such a deep place of scarcity and fear and not enoughness. I’m like, that is not the
place to be making decisions from. Yet unfortunately most of us do.
And of course in that case, no wonder we’re struggling and questioning how we got there, right?
So by the end of this episode, you will know the specific foundations that you are missing in your
work, life, and business that are holding you back from being aligned and efficient with your
money so that you can then, from that level of awareness, overcome them. And if you’re up for
it, maybe even take me up on a little invitation I’ve got for you at the end of this episode that will
be your aligned next right step.
So speaking of alignment, if you are ready to align your inner and outer world so that you can
stop wasting your time, money, and energy and instead harness these precious resources with
the attention and the respect that they deserve, then this episode is just for you. Let’s dive in.
Okay, so let’s begin with defining money. Like, what is money? If I were to ask you right now, like
money is—what’s the first thing that came to your mind? I’m really curious.
You see, many of us have already a belief or an idea or a predisposed relationship with money.
And the thing is, if we really distill it down to like where money came from and how it originated,
it is just a way for us to exchange value. It is the entire system that we live in—the economy, all of
it—is made up. It is all pretend. It is literally all just pretend. It is a game, and we’re all playing and
taking part in this game, so we’ve got to work with the system.
But truly, money in itself was designed as a way for us to exchange value. That’s how currency
originated.
You know, in the olden days people used to barter, and you’d be like, well, I need a sheep and
you’ve got corn. And so I’ll give you my sheep in return for all this corn or whatever it is, right?
And, you know, maybe if someone doesn’t want your corn but they might have some other
resources that you have that are of value. And all of that got a little bit too complex to manage.
That is how, effectively, society came up with the idea of currency and money. And here we are
today.
And yet we also live in a very interesting dynamic where it is one of the taboo subjects. Like
maybe even you were like, whoa, she is venturing into some uncharted territory here. Like this is
the first episode of Resonance where I am proactively really diving into the topic of money.
And like it would be completely amiss of me to not speak about it when we’re talking about, you
know, achieving your fullest potential, living your best life, achieving your biggest wildest goals,
and being more productive, more structured, more efficient, and planned than ever before.
Like your financial freedom is one of those cornerstones of your plans.
If you’re an entrepreneur and you run a business, or if you’re employed, like we need to be able
to have these conversations. And this is exactly why I’m bringing it to the table here.
So, you know, oftentimes—and you might hear yourself in this—it might be this subject that stays
like really private and stressful. And especially for capable, ambitious people who on the external
appear really successful and like they’ve got it all together, like even more so we don’t want to
talk about this.
And I will be the first one to put my hand up here where I was like—I was making good money,
and in the background, and I’ll share a lot more about this next week—but like I was not
managing it well whatsoever.
And I am so shocked that people don’t speak about this. You know, one of my really great friends
has just gone into this industry and is sort of doing such a great job in educating Kiwis around
their financial health and freedom and these really important decisions that we get to make.
And it really baffles me that we’re not having these conversations because we’re too scared and
we’re ashamed sometimes.
You know, we are climbing up the corporate ladder or we’re growing our business so quickly or
our life is expanding so much, our expenses are accumulating. All of a sudden here we are with
like only this much coming in but like five times as much going out.
And our systems haven’t caught up with our level of responsibility, with our level of expansion,
with our level of capacity.
And, you know, I just got off the very first call for my brand-new program, which is called
Efficiency Made Easy, today. And it was so exciting, and we used this analogy. And, um, I’ll bring it
to this episode here today.
You know, let’s imagine that someone is a seven-figure business owner. And that comes with a lot
of responsibility. That comes with a lot of financial decisions. It comes with a lot of visibility. It
comes with, um, a lot of temptation to just throw money at the problem and hope that it gets
fixed.
And unfortunately, that’s just not how it works.
And you see, what most people don’t understand is that there is a really crucial level of
alignment that is necessary between our internal world—our internal patterns—and the external
3D reality, being your financial systems and structures, etcetera, and how they interact.
And there’s a dance between the two.
And what I’ve seen so, so, so much—and I’ve experienced for myself as well before I started
diving into this work in my own personal development—is that most people only focus on the
system.
You know, it’s like, teach me the new budgeting tool. Give me the new hack. Give me the fancy
book.
And I did this for a long time. I would like try and force myself to have this new spreadsheet only
to be like, what do I even do with this?
And if you have heard of one of our seven universal principles, which are like the capital T truths
that govern the universe, let it be this. This is one of my favourite ones because it always comes
back to this.
As above, so below.
As within, so without.
And so all of your money work, whether you wanna hear this or not, it begins inside first. So this
is the same thing that I said to my students in Efficiency Made Easy today. I could give you the
best systems in the world, which I will, but they are useless if your internal world is misaligned
with being able to apply them.
And money is the exact same. You have the coolest spreadsheet and the coolest tools, and if your
internal world—being your nervous system, your beliefs, your emotions, your wiring, the stories
you tell yourself, the unprocessed memories and experiences that you have had with money—
are all screaming, “Gosh, get away from me, no way,” you are not going to maximize them to
their full potential and reach peak efficiency when it comes to stewarding your finances.
So you see, this is why it is so crucial for us to upgrade our relationship with money first before
we dive into budgets, cash flows, and new investments. Because otherwise, you're like a five-
year-old with a whole lot of cash. And unfortunately, in our economy right now, we have a lot of
five-year-olds with a whole lot of cash, which is a lot of the reasons why we are in the situation
that we are.
Because here is a capital-T truth. Lynn Twist, who I was so privileged to meet—she is the author
of The Soul of Money, she is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and the Pachamama
Alliance—an incredible human, absolute pioneer in this space. So in her book The Soul of Money,
she speaks about the fact that there are more than enough resources on the planet for everyone
to live a good life.
This scarcity paradigm of “there's not enough, and if you have it that means I don't have it,” that
is all ego survival conditioning. There are more than enough resources for all of us on this planet
to live a good life.
The problem is that right now, as it stands today, those resources are irresponsibly misallocated.
However, without your internal world being able to handle and manage and be a responsible
steward of these resources, what do you think’s gonna happen when you come into all this
money?
You will fall into the exact same patterns as all of the other five-year-olds with a whole lot of cash.
And that continues to perpetuate the paradigm that we're in, which is why this work is so
important. Which is why we've got to begin with ourselves first so that we rewire our relationship
with money. We do the internal work so that then as it comes in, we have the ability and the
nervous system capacity to make aligned choices, aligned decisions, set up elegant simple
systems that make the decision process flow effortless and pretty much guide it for us.
And that's how we change the world, my friends.
This is how we co-create this new economy that is being birthed as we speak, and you get to be
part of the movement that changes it.
So how does this work?
And I'll give you like the super simple overview, because I'm about to invite you to something that
is going to totally blow your mind and give you the ultimate reshuffling of your entire money
paradigm. But basically, at a top-line perspective, this all begins at your nervous system.
And when I say your nervous system, it is your nervous system capacity, wiring, default setting
when it comes to money.
Like, you know you’ve always heard these stories of people who become overnight millionaires
when they win the lottery or something, and then one year later they’re in the same place they
were in before. Because their nervous system thermostat setting was set to this scarcity
paradigm. So they got overwhelmed with all this abundance that came in and spent it all.
We've got to start with the nervous system’s ability to have money, to attract money, your
perspective around abundance, wealth, prosperity. And that ties into emotions and what comes
up for you when you think about money—when it comes to making money, earning money,
deserving money, all the money things.
And that then trickles into the thoughts and beliefs that you have around money. And oh my
God, don’t get me started on how deep those stories can actually go. Because it is wild how from
the youngest age—like my earliest memory that I have of money, I was like seven years old and I
had a really big deep shameful story around it that I’ll share next week. It is wild.
And these stories, these beliefs, then perpetuate our reality.
Because you see, the thoughts and beliefs that we tell ourselves, the emotions we feel in our
nervous system default setting, they underpin the foundation of our being, of who we are in the
moment. And it is the being that's doing the doing that's getting the results.
So you know how many times have you seen two different people be given the exact same set of
instructions, and one completely butchers it and the other one smashes it out of the ballpark?
And yet what’s the difference?
It wasn’t the instructions. It is the being doing the doing.
And this is exactly applicable in your life when it comes to money as well. Because then as you do
those actions, you get different results.
And so this is the reason why perhaps your current money strategies are feeling so hard to stick
with. This is the exact reason why perhaps you're feeling so stuck in a rut and like you just don’t
know your head from your behind.
This is it.
Because there is misalignment between your internal world and your external world when it
comes to money.
And so now you might be thinking, “Oh damn, she’s onto something here, but like I get it, okay,
I'm misaligned in my money, I'm a little bit inefficient… where do I go from here?”
Well, my financial coach and mentor Kate Northrup, who is an absolute sunshine—I love her so
much, I love everything about her—she helped me heal my relationship with money, build elite-
level systems, and create a level of literacy and safety around money beyond what I have ever
even experienced or imagined possible for myself before.
And she is hosting a free three-day workshop called Good With Money that will address
everything that we have touched on today and so much more.
And what you will gain out of this workshop is tools to stop repeating old patterns and step into a
whole new financial reality. And like I kid you not, some of my friends who attended this
workshop last year saw tremendous shifts just from the workshop alone. They’re like, “Oh my
God, this blew my mind. She is speaking my language. I had no idea this was possible.”
And so you will walk away clearer, steadier, and equipped to build wealth in a way that feels
sustainable.
And so I just really encourage you to start thinking about what current money patterns you’re
seeing in your life. Is it avoidance, or overthinking, overanalysing, you know, overspending,
unconscious shopping? I don’t know. Being really frugal to the point of scarcity where you’re
analysing every dollar?
Just start to become a little bit aware of what’s coming up for you, because that is gonna be
really valuable as you step into the workshop.
And just know that what got you here won’t get you there. Einstein said that the definition of
insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
And this is your opportunity to do something different so that you actually get to have different
results.
Because your money breakthrough isn’t in a better spreadsheet. It’s in aligning your internal
money system to work efficiently with the external reality you are looking to create.
So my invitation to you this week is make sure that you sign up for Good With Money. It is free, it
is three days, the link is just in the show notes below.
Now at the time that this episode is airing, Day 1 of the workshop has already happened. There is
a replay available though, so you are not behind. Let’s not go down this avenue, okay? There is
still plenty of time.
And you’ve got two more days. The next workshop is April 14th and the third one is April 16th,
US time. Again, if you can’t make it live, the replays are there for you, but they are only up for a
limited time.
So make sure you click the link in the show notes below. Get in quick before the replays are
down.
I kid you not, this is the money breakthrough you’ve been looking for.
Thank you so, so much for listening to today’s episode. I can’t wait to see what comes up for you
on the other side of this workshop—the ahas, the transformation, the realisations. I will be there
myself as well, and I can’t wait to chat to you and hear your reflections about it as well.
Thanks so much, and I’ll see you next week.
I would love to invite you to a free three-day workshop that my financial coach and mentor Kate
Northrup is hosting. It is called Good With Money, and it is the place where you will get to
upgrade your money patterns, create rock-solid systems that work for you, and create the kind of
financial support that lets income feel steady, spacious, and sustainable without having to work
harder.
So in a nutshell…
Good With Money is for high performers and high-capacity humans who are ready to expand
without increasing pressure. They’re ready to build their financial infrastructure that actually
supports their ambition, and they are ready to make bigger decisions without second-guessing
themselves.
Now, if you are someone who feels like this is calling you and you want to turn your income into
something that feels steady rather than fragile, and you want to feel supported by your money
instead of feeling like you're having to carry it all alone, then the Good With Money workshop is
the place to be.
I will be there, and I am going to be waking up in the wee hours of the morning here in New
Zealand to be there live as well. So Good With Money is the place to be.
If you want to join this free three-day workshop, make sure you click the link in the show notes
and sign up. I can’t wait to see you either online in the Zoom room or on the replays, but hurry
up because the replays are only up for a limited time.
So without further ado, make sure you click the link just below in the show notes, and I’ll see you
there. Bye for now.
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