340 // 5 Ways I Saved Money This Year (+ Why It Matters)

Written By Nicole Hagen

In this Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast episode, host and Nutrition Coach Nicole Hagen explores the connection between money and health, and why reaching health goals can feel so much harder when financial stress is part of the equation.

Using a compassionate, evidence-based lens, Nicole explains how financial flexibility acts as a safety net for health behaviors and why scarcity often pushes people toward rigid, extreme approaches that feel anything but sustainable.

Throughout the episode, you’ll learn about:

  • Why money makes health behaviors more forgiving (not easier)

  • How financial stress impacts decision-making, perfectionism, and all-or-nothing thinkingWhy extreme diets and rigid rules are often a response to scarcity 

  • 5 practical ways Nicole has intentionally reduced expenses this year to create more breathing room

  • How small financial shifts can support health without requiring drastic lifestyle changes

This episode will help you understand how money shapes our health behaviors in addition to providing real-world money saving suggestions you can apply right away!

Nicole Hagen

A Nutrition Coach, adoptive mom, dog mom, and mint chocolate chip ice cream lover.

I didn’t always have this business: the Masters degree in Nutrition Science and Public Health, the passion, the clients... in fact, years ago you could have found me endlessly counting calories and trying to find my worth on the scale and at spin class, exhausted in my pursuit of (what I thought was) health and happiness.

In my early twenties, I struggled with crash dieting and disordered eating. Little did I know, those circumstances would be my one-way ticket out of my restrictive relationship with food & fitness. Those experiences led me here: to the life-giving, sustainable, habit-based nutrition philosophy I embody today. Today you can find me living life without a calorie counting app and spending time with my husband, one year old son, and our two crazy golden retriever pups.

I enjoy spending my free time reading, sipping on matcha lattes, and dreaming of ways I can help other women create healthy, confident relationships with food without selling their souls to food rules and calorie counting apps.

Because nothing lights me up more than helping women live full and vibrant lives without food fear, rules, or restriction. I want to be that permission granter in your life that whispers: “you really can do this” while the rest of the world continues to settle for short-term satisfaction.

https://nutritioncoachingwithnicole.com/
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