She Went Bankrupt While Working as a Financial Advisor. Here's What It Taught Her.

<p>Christine Mathieu grew up with champagne taste on a beer budget — her mother's words, repeated so often they became a wound. From a gifted dancer whose knee injury ended her performing arts career, to a financial advisor who quietly filed for bankruptcy while serving clients, Christine has lived through upheaval that would break most people. In this conversation, she shares how divorce, financial collapse, and a life rebuilt through Buddhism, metaphysics, and money coaching taught her that real wealth begins with your inner world — and that the question she lives by, "Says who?", is the most liberating thing anyone can ask themselves.</p><p><b><strong>IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER</strong></b></p><ul><li>Why hearing "you have champagne taste on a beer budget" as a little girl shaped Christine's financial struggles for decades</li><li>How a knee injury at 19 derailed a dance career — and led her to art history, writing, and eventually wealth coaching</li><li>What Christine noticed during the 2008 recession that made her realize financial advice alone was never enough</li><li>The hidden financial abuse inside one of her marriages — and how she used money strategically to protect her children</li><li>Why she became a Metaphysical Minister, a practicing Buddhist, and a certified money coach — and how they all connect</li><li>The difference between "follow the push" and "follow the pull" — and why Christine now lives entirely by the latter</li><li>How she helps clients facing retirement or divorce reconnect to their values, identity, and core desired feelings</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><strong>ABOUT CHRISTINE MATHIEU</strong></b></p><p>Christine Mathieu is Western New York's only Certified Money Coach (CMC)® and a Wealth Coach at Note Advisors. A former financial advisor and current Metaphysical Minister, she blends spiritual insight with grounded financial wisdom to support women navigating midlife transitions. Having personally experienced divorce, bankruptcy, cancer, and reinvention, Christine understands that true change begins within. Through compassionate inquiry and her signature question, "Says who?", she helps women release fear-based beliefs, reclaim self-trust, and redefine wealth as a state of peace, purpose, and possibility — creating meaningful change from the inside out.</p><p><b><strong>CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE</strong></b></p><p>🌐 Website: <a href="https://www.noteadvisor.com/wealth-coaching/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollo