Today we are joined by Christine Farrugia, an executive coach who spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder before starting her own coaching practice. Christine opens up about growing up with financial instability and how that shaped her early relationship with money, leading her to prioritize safety above all else in her career choices. We explore how becoming an entrepreneur fundamentally shifted her relationship with money and conventional definitions of success. And we dive into her coaching work around helping clients define what "enough" really means for them, moving past society's endless pursuit of more.

Christine Farrugia is a passionate leadership coach and esteemed executive. She has 20 years of real world experience leading teams of up to 300 people at major Canadian companies, including Wealthsimple, Loblaws, and KPMG. She has successfully pivoted her career in different industries, functional areas and starting a coaching business by tapping into the work that brings her energy and joy. She has an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and is a Certified Khan Method Coach. Leveraging peak performance coaching, Christine helps her clients gain clarity, build confidence and take action to build a career they love, while staying true to who they are. Christine believes that everyone deserves to feel fulfilled in their career. Through empathetic guidance, she helps people let go of the "shoulds" so they can tap into what they truly want in order to create a career and life that makes them excited to get out of bed every morning.

• At 22, Christine wanted to be a life coach but thought it wasn't a "real job"
• Growing up with financial instability shaped Christine's early money relationship
• "Am I running toward something or away from something?"
• When "how's your business going?" became a painful question about income and self-worth
• "If anything's possible for me, what would I love?"
• Most people already have more than enough from a material perspective
• Social justice work starts with just getting involved
• Equating being busy with feeling important

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Today’s guest, Tony Steuer shares about his transformation from numbers-focused insurance analyst to passionate financial literacy advocate. Tony shares how witnessing clients make seemingly "illogical" financial decisions led him to explore behavioral finance and the emotional drivers behind our money choices. We discuss how financial predators target vulnerable communities, particularly widows and people of color, and how Tony channeled his anger about these injustices into advocacy work that centers curiosity and empowerment. This conversation beautifully illustrates how sensitivity to suffering can become a catalyst for meaningful change in the financial services industry.

Tony Steuer, CLU, LA, CPFFE is an internationally recognized Financial Preparedness Advocate, award-winning author, and host of Get Ready: Before Life Happens. Through his books, playbooks, and podcast, Tony is leading a global movement to help people navigate life's what-ifs and build their own Financial First Aid Kit—so they can protect what matters most with clarity, confidence, purpose, and integrity. Tony collaborates with advisors, educators, and changemakers worldwide to elevate financial fluency and change the way we think about money. His thought leadership has earned recognition from ThinkAdvisor's LUMINARIES, the Plutus Awards, and the California Department of Insurance Curriculum Board. A trusted media expert featured by The New York Times, CNBC, Fast Company, and ABC's Seven on Your Side, Tony continues to empower individuals and professionals to ask better questions—and be ready before life happens.

• Behavioral finance unlocks the concept of emotions and money stories that drive financial decisions
• Money looks like math, but people's decisions don't follow the "right answer"
• Life insurance is often sold by friends and family, adding complex dynamics to financial decisions
• Tony's weekly newsletter highlights diverse voices doing important work that doesn't get enough attention
• How financial predators trick people through community links
• Tony’s realization that he’s highly sensitive during our time together
• The strongest power you have is the power of curiosity about your money

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In this second conversation with Corinne Gardner, we pick up where we left off and go deeper into the relationship between intuition, identity, and money. Corinne shares how her decision to leave nursing — despite the fear that it would upend her sense of self and earning capacity — became one of the most honest acts of self-advocacy she'd ever taken. Together, we explore how insecurities can be gateways to human potential, what it means to "douse" our intuition, and how the path to embodied wealth begins with learning to hear — and trust — what our bodies already know.

Corinne Gardner is a connector facilitator by heart, a women's health and relationship coach; aka a Shame Shedder. She founded Evulva Wellness to reimagine how women speak of themselves, as a pathway of believing in our worthiness without struggling as 'lone wolves' in our transitions and conscious pivots. She encourages women to practice self-appreciation. Bridging the fields of architecture, designing spaces for nurturing real connections and clarifying our wants and needs, Corinne encourages women to notice, honor and voice our natural embarrassment, shame, and distress to people who will really listen, trusted mentors, coaches and friends, we can shift and revel in being ourselves without apologizing for our ever-evolving uncertainty, needs and desires.

Corinne believes and has experienced herself, that when women feel safe, heard and well-supported in their flourishing as a judgement-free process then we can safely shift from focusing on 'figuring things out or constantly doing' to nurturing aligned Self pleasure practices to evolve. For Corinne's fuller BIO click here.

• Hydrating the parts of ourselves connected to money, intimacy, and boundaries
• Conversations with a former nurse and Ayurvedic practitioner that helped Corinne hear her body
• The irony of sacrificing her own mental health while caring for others
• The privilege and courage it takes to pivot — and the cost of staying
• Exploring what it means to doubt our gut knowing and what trusting it looks like
• Corinne's reminder that there's no one-size path — each person's timing is their own.

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Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.