May 12, 2024
In this special Mother’s Day episode, Suze recalls an interesting dream she had about her mom. She explains that today is a day to be filled with love, forgiveness and gratitude and for women why it’s important to see themselves as the ultimate mother of their own existence.
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May 12th, 2024. Welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast. As well as everybody smart enough to listen.
Today is Mother's Day, a really, really important day in every one of our lives for without mothers, none of us would be here.
And, you know, it's so funny because as the years passed, I must admit that I miss my mom more and more and more and that surprises me because I just, it just does.
So, you love them, you don't love them. You're getting along with them. You're not getting along with them, they're getting older. Maybe they're getting angrier, maybe they're not giving you the responses you want, maybe they're just whatever and in the end, no matter what the relationship was when they're gone and the years pass, you miss them and love them more and more and you possibly end up saying to yourself, why wasn't I more patient? Why wasn't I more understanding?
Why didn't I get that? It's really harder to get old and that you have less years in front of you than you do behind you. Why was I so selfish?
All those things are possibilities.
So it's really, really important that on this day that we wish every single mother out there a happy, happy Mother's Day.
You know, it's so strange because just the other night I had the most unusual dream for me because I usually don't dream things like this. The truth is in the morning when we wake up, KT always says, what did you dream? And I said, I don't know, maybe I dreamed. I don't remember if I had a dream or not. And then KT goes on to tell me the most elaborate, incredible dreams. And I always wonder how come I don't dream.
But the other night I had the most unusual dream. I was there wherever there was with my mom and with my granny, my mom's mom and we always called her granny and we used to fight over whose house she would stay at because she lost her husband, my grandfather, Joe at a very, very young age. She must have been in her late fifties when he died and she herself died at 63 years of age. So she was extremely young when she died as well.
And so there she was, and she was a little bit older version of herself in this dream. And the truth of the matter is my mother looked identical to my grandmother in many ways. I look identical to my mother. Sometimes I look at pictures of my granny and I think that I'm looking at pictures of my mother and sometimes KT snaps a picture of me and I look at it and I think, oh my God, that's my mother.
So there's a very, very strong connection there.
So we were all present and at this moment in time in the dream, I'm just with my grandmother and I find myself going up to my grandma and I put my arms around her and I hold her very, very close to me.
And I say granny, I want you to move in with us. Really granny. I want you to move in with me and mommy.
So obviously I was living with my mother, but I was as old as I am now.
And I said it meaning every single word of it.
Then all of a sudden her face in the dream became very large and it was right in front of me and her face, her eyes right there started to cry. The most beautiful tears I've ever seen tears that said, thank you so much. Thank you, Suze. Now, I'm not going to be alone now, I'm not afraid. And I was like, right granny, you're gonna be with us forever. I'll make sure you're absolutely ok.
Then all of a sudden my mom walked up and she's looking at the two of us like what just went on here. And I said, mom, mom, I just told granny that I wanted her to move in with us that we were going to take care of her just like I'm taking care of you for the rest of both of your lives. And with that, my mom puts her hands like in prayer over her chest
and you could tell that what she was really saying with that gesture was really, really Suze. That's the best thing you have ever said to me in your entire life that my mother now can live with me again. And we both could live with you.
And for me, that was such an extraordinary moment. And with that I woke up, but that dream, that incredible dream is still so with me, especially today, I can't even tell you, but maybe you can feel it through my words.
But isn't that what we all want?
Don't we all just want to know that when we get older, we will not be alone that we will somehow be taken care of whether it's by others?
But hopefully, we could also be taken care of by what I call our financial Children, our money that we have worked so hard for that. We have saved that we have invested that we have listened to the Women and Money podcast in the Suze Orman Show now for almost 30 some odd years, years of labor, really for this birth of our own ability to financially take care of ourselves.
So today Mother's Day really is a day that needs to be filled with love, with forgiveness, with gratitude for our life. We need to mother our own souls. I can't tell you how important that is.
And what that means is whether you have a mother, whether you love your mother, you don't love your mother, your mother has died or you have no idea who your mother really is. No matter what the situation is, you have to see yourself, the women out there, you have to see yourself as the mother of your own soul.
You are the mother, you are the caretaker, you are the protector of your future, of your financial soul, of your spiritual being, of everything that is inside of you and everything that you have created.
So you have to treat it with respect, you have to treasure it for, you will never have another.
You have to make sure that you're gentle with it. You nurse it, you feed it, you nourish it.
But most of all you love yourself exactly for how you are.
You love your heart, you love your mind, you love every single part of you for. It's really, really only through love, loving every single moment of your life.
Understanding that you are the ultimate mother of your own existence. It's only when you really understand that and through self-love, self-worth knowing your own value and standing in your truth that you will be the most unstoppable mother in this world.