Debt can be a strategy or it can be a hiding place. This Monthly Money Talk with Zen Jenn will help you tell the difference

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Alecia St. Germain and her fractional CFO and financial strategist Jenn Baas go straight to one of the most charged words in business: debt. Not to tell you it is bad. Not to say use it freely. To ask the question that actually matters, which is what is it doing for you, and what is it helping you avoid?

From the client who used debt to sidestep difficult conversations, to the entrepreneur who keeps adding lines of credit instead of fixing what is fundamentally broken, Alecia and Jenn unpack the mindset underneath the money. They talk about when debt is a powerful strategic tool, how to know if you are using it from abundance or from scarcity, what Jenn calls the peace tax, and why the pain of where you are has to become greater than the pain of change before anything actually shifts.

Real, practical, and surprisingly personal, this one will make you look at your own relationship with debt a little differently.

📝 What We Cover:

-When debt is a legitimate business tool and the specific conditions that make it strategic

-The dangerous comfort of debt, and how it can insulate you from the pain that would actually motivate change

-Why staying stuck is not a discipline problem; it is a pain threshold problem

-The big assumption one client uncovered that was driving her to use debt as a way to avoid discomfort and difficult conversations

-Scarcity disguised as abundance thinking, and how to tell the difference

-What Jenn calls the peace tax, and why how debt makes you feel is part of the financial equation

-How Alecia used her own budget and plan to say no to a certification she genuinely wanted, without regret

-What compassionate leadership has to do with holding clients and colleagues accountable for money owed