Rethinking Your Money Mindset with Linda Grizely, Financial Educator
Dec 11, 2025
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In this Dominate Your Day episode, Linda Grizely, a financial educator and keynote speaker, shares her mission to help women feel confident and empowered with their money. We discuss her concept of “Me Money,” which is all about putting yourself on your own budget. It’s not about restriction—it’s about intention, value, and giving yourself permission to spend on the things that matter to you.
We also talk about how our money mindset is often shaped by early life experiences and why so many women still carry shame or discomfort when it comes to finances. Linda shares how combining practical tools with mindset shifts can transform the way we approach money—at any stage of life.
Episode Minutes:
- Minute 10:00 — Concept of "Me Money"
- Minute 15:00 — The Role of Mindset in Financial Planning
- Minute 28:00 — Real-Life Financial Challenges and Solutions
Links + Resources from This Episode:
- Learn more about Linda’s work at lindagriz.com
- Connect with Linda on LinkedIn
- Take the quiz: “What blocking you from financial confidence?”
- Explore free financial resources from Linda
- Learn more about Linda’s courses and coaching services
- Get your copy of Dana’s book, The Internal Revolution: Lead Authentically and Build Your Personal Brand from Within
- Learn more about The Strengths Journal
About Linda Grizely
Linda Grizely is a financial educator, keynote speaker, and dry-humored realist on a mission to help women stop putting themselves last—financially and emotionally.
Based in Northern Illinois, Linda blends her background in financial planning with lived experience, soulful honesty, and just enough Gen X sarcasm to keep it real. After becoming a single mom at 16 and later rebuilding her life post-divorce, Linda knows what it’s like to feel behind - and what it takes to start again. Her core belief? You can’t budget for your whole life if you don’t start with yourself. Which prompted the creation of her signature Keynote "You Can’t Build a Life You Love on a Budget You Hate".
That belief also led her to create Me Money™, a mindset-first framework that flips traditional budgeting from guilt and scarcity to clarity and self-prioritization. Her work is rooted in both practical tools and emotional truth, offering a refreshing approach to financial growth that feels doable and deeply personal.
Linda’s mission is to walk alongside women - and soul-searching individuals - who feel behind or are ready to level up, helping them reclaim confidence, clarity, and control over their money and their lives - and unlock their full potential.
She envisions a world where more women feel seen, heard, and equipped to make bold, unapologetic decisions - about money and life - on their own terms. A future where financial and personal growth aren’t separate journeys, but part of becoming whole.
Linda brings compassion, clarity, and a no-fluff approach to help people stop surviving - and start leading - both financially and personally.
It’s not just about helping women get their money and lives “right”- it’s about helping them feel seen, supported, and in charge of their story. Because confidence with money isn’t just about math. It’s about mindset, clarity, and finally believing you’re worth investing in.
As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional with a master’s degree in financial services, and a career background that spans holistic financial planning, business strategy, leadership, marketing, human resources, and sales, she brings a wide-lens perspective to personal finance - one that understands both the numbers and the nuance. Linda is also a Maxwell Leadership® Certified Team, coach, speaker, and trainer.
Linda has been a contributor to articles on ThinkAdvisor and CNN, is a popular podcast guest, has earned recognition in the Circle of Excellence by Women in Financial Services (2023 & 2024), is the recipient of the Women of Achievement and Charlotte Danstrom Award from Women in McHenry County (2019), and is a contributing author to the Amazon Bestseller, Lessons From Thought Leaders (2024).
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