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5 min read"Give me 14 minutes, I'll DELETE your scarcity programming"
The Rose Han Podcast
The host opens with an acorn in her hand. She finds it fascinating that something so small contains the blueprint for a giant oak tree. Aristotle called this entelechy — the unstoppable force that drives everything in nature to realize its fullest potential. She argues that the same intelligence lives inside every person, pushing them toward their most abundant self. But because of societal conditioning and the people we grew up around, our brains get programmed for scarcity instead. That programming shows up as guilt when we treat ourselves, judgment of people who have more than us, and a bank account that always seems to sink back to the same level.
The host speaks from experience. At one point in her life, she was shoplifting avocados from the grocery store. Once she let go of the scarcity mindset, she became the first millionaire in her family. She believes deleting scarcity programming doesn't require years of coaching, therapy, or ayahuasca retreats. It's a matter of returning to the truth that abundance is our natural birthright.
Gratitude as the antidote to scarcity
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Scarcity vs. Abundance: The Core Problem** - Rose Han introduces the acorn metaphor to frame abundance as a natural intelligence, contrasting it with societal scarcity programming that causes guilt, judgment, and financial stagnation.
- 2 (01:26) **The Gratitude Antidote** - Rose shares a personal story of waking up in a scarcity mindset and using a morning gratitude practice to instantly shift to a state of abundance and love.
- 3 (03:15) **Gratitude Exercise: Finding Abundance in All Forms** - Rose guides the listener through a gratitude meditation, focusing on health, time, relationships, knowledge, and money as forms of abundance.
- 4 (07:49) **The Impossibility of Coexisting States** - Rose emphasizes that feeling gratitude literally alters brain chemistry, making it impossible to feel scarcity and gratitude at the same time.
- 5 (08:11) **Reframing Money: From Spending to Circulating** - Rose shares her personal story of shoplifting avocados due to a deep fear of spending money, which she viewed as a finite resource.
- 6 (09:42) **Addressing Skepticism on Money Circulation** - Rose anticipates and addresses the cynical comment about taxes and parking tickets not being conscious circulation.
- 7 (10:33) **Body Scan Exercise: Contraction vs. Expansion** - Rose guides the listener to identify the physical feeling of scarcity (contraction) when thinking about a desired purchase, then shift to the feeling of circulation (expansion).
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Show Notes
SoFi is giving away 100k in Bitcoin each week through 4/7/26! Open an account today to claim your share: https://sofi.com/rose*Join my newsletter Call to Freedom for weekly behind-the-scenes insights on creating true financial freedom → https://bit.ly/4sKq7fF*If you’re new here, hi! I’m Rose Han, bestselling author of Add A Zero.My mission is to help you master your money so you can create a life on your terms 💫A little bit about me…*11 years ago:* $100K in debt. Really bad with money. Felt completely trapped.*Today:* First millionaire in my family. I wake up and do what I want, when I want, where I want, how I want.Life is too damn short to settle.Sure, you might have to let go of some people (and old versions of yourself) along the way. But don't let anything or anyone stop you from the life that you deserve.I believe in you ❤️__________*🔗 LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO*💫 SoFi → https://sofi.com/rose__________*⏱️ TIMESTAMPS*01:22 - Exercise #1 08:06 - Exercise #2 13:30 - Exercise #3__________*MY BOOK*📖 My bestselling book Add A Zero, a step-by-step guide to go from $0 to $1M → https://amzn.to/47JB7k6*LET’S CONNECT*💌 Join Call to Freedom, where I share everything I’m learning & doing with my money: 🌐 Website: https://www.rosehan.com📸 Instagram: http://instagram.com/itsrosehan📱 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsrosehan💻 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsrosehan/ 📘 Facebook* : http://facebook.com/itsrosehan
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