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WonderMama Coffee Chat with Luis Guaman - Financially Golden (Ep 32)
Risk is a scary word when you are the one holding everything together. This week on The WonderMama Coffee Chat, I sat down with Luis Guaman, founder of Financially Golden, and we talked about the thing most of us avoid looking at directly. Money. Not in a spreadsheet way, in an honest way. Luis knows this from the inside. Seven years ago he was carrying between fifty and seventy thousand dollars in personal credit card debt with a six hundred credit score. Today he has zero personal debt and an eight ten. But what stayed with me was not the turnaround. It was the three years he spent overthinking after he walked away from his old company, because he had jumped without any stability underneath him. He calls that his strongest failure, and he shares it so nobody listening has to repeat it. We talked about what it actually looks like to start something new when you are responsible for other people. Not leaping. Building quietly alongside the life you already have. Giving a small percentage of your time and your money a specific job, so that trying something new stops feeling like gambling and starts feeling like practice. Luis said something I keep coming back to. Money is a form of life force. So when you put money toward the thing you are curious about, you are not being reckless. You are respecting yourself enough to invest in what might be next. We also got into the parts nobody explains. Why your credit score is only one of seven things lenders look at. Why business credit does not touch your personal credit, and why that matters so much for anyone who has been quietly funding a business with a personal card. And why applying to three places on your own, without knowing what underwriters want, can lock you out of approval for six months through no fault of your own. That last part is where his passion showed. He called it what it is. Not fair. If you have been standing at the edge of something, wondering whether it is possible, this conversation is a good place to start. Financially Golden is currently offering a free credit audit. Luis was clear that this will not last forever. Connect with Luis Guaman Website: financiallygolden.com Text: 332-244-5740 Instagram: @financiallygolden Connect with Leonne Sherr Website: thewondermama.com Email: Leonne@theWonderMama.com Instagram: @thewondermamaplace Community: The WonderMama Place on Skool The WonderMama Coffee Chat is live every Wednesday at noon Eastern on Facebook, with a private conversation inside The WonderMama Community right after. Audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean. For the mom who is ready to be fully herself.


