Episode 347

Codependency Costs More Than You Think With Guest Chaya Garcia

Published on: 25th September, 2025

Want to keep your money and your peace. Start by falling in love with yourself, then choose love that won’t bankrupt your energy or your bank account.

Episode highlights

  • The hidden cost of external validation and how it leaks cash flow
  • The 3-question first-date filter: Safety, Spirituality, Sobriety
  • Spotting codependency and narcissism on date one
  • Why “If you’re trying to make it work, it’s not working”
  • How healthy relationships help you keep money, not just make it
  • True wealth: the definition successful families actually use
  • Practical boundaries for entrepreneurs and mompreneurs who are scaling without burning out

Chapters

  • 00:00 Welcome and mission: fall in love with money like a partner
  • 03:00 Chaya’s story: success outside, silent sickness inside
  • 06:45 The 3 S’s: safety, spirituality, sobriety
  • 10:20 Should I stay or go. the hard truth
  • 12:30 Personal empowerment that protects your profits
  • 16:45 Balance for mompreneurs: health, joy, and sustainable scale
  • 19:20 What true wealth really means
  • 20:36 Where to connect with Chaya

Guest

Chaya Garcia, Epic Love Expert, keynote speaker, and founder of the Love Lighter Movement. She helps successful, spiritual single women identify red flags fast and attract relationships that create safety, clarity, and lifelong joy.

Connect with Chaya:

On Instagram: @EpicLoveExpert

Book a call with Chaya: connectwithkhaya.com


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Lisa Drennon, Wealth Activator & founder of iDateMoney® has been in the finance & insurance industry since 1987. Her unconventional Money Multiplier System transformed her money relationship to become a self-made millionaire, retire 2 ½ years early, pay $100K of debt in 6 months, & relocate to her beachfront dream home.