Latest Money scripts Podcast Episodes
#43 - 21 Things Your Financial Therapist Wants You To Know - PART TWO
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - February 22, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutesLast episode we covered the first 10 of 21 "Things your financial therapist wants you to know," by Bari Tessler, one of the early pioneers of financial therapy. I thought her points were excellent and worth repeating. Here is my take on the last 11 of them. A podcast that blends the nuts and ...
#42 - 21 Things Your Financial Therapist Wants You To Know - PART ONE
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - February 15, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutesBari Tessler was practicing financial therapy before most of the rest of us had ever heard the term. A psychotherapist, Bari decided to go into the bookkeeping business, quickly saw the union of psychology and money, and in 2001 began calling her work financial therapy. I met her a few years lat...
#41 – Bari Tessler’s Journey Into Financial Therapy
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - February 08, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutesBari Tessler has spent over 20 years guiding thousands of people into happier, more empowered and refreshingly honest relationships with money. She was one of the early pioneers of financial therapy, and actually coined the term, by combining her Master’s degree in Somatic Psychology and her fin...
#40 - What Gives Your Life Meaning?
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - February 01, 2022 10:00 - 25 minutesWhat makes life worth living? This question is at the heart of financial life planning and financial therapy. Where do we rate financial, emotional, and physical wellbeing? A recent study by Pew Research Center, November 18, 2021, on "What Makes Life Meaningful?’ finally resolved my curiosity. T...
#39 - Money Skills Are 21st Century Survival Skills
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - January 25, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutesFor our ancestors, even as recently as the 19th Century in many places, survival skills were hands-on. If you didn’t know how to build a house, farm, hunt, butcher animals, sew, and cook, you couldn’t provide well for your family. Money skills were largely worthless. It’s completely different to...
#38 - Getting Married - Order a Credit Report
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - January 18, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutesNew couples tend to be great talkers. Young love can be a wonderful time of discovery and sharing. New couples, regardless of their ages, need to get to know one another and explore the possibilities of building a life together. They discuss their histories, their philosophies of life, their go...
#37 – Hating The Rich Will Keep You Poor
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - January 11, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutesWill hating the rich keep you poor? According to Dr. Brad Klontz, it will. Of those feel negatively about the rich, they typically said they feel this way because they think the rich are greedy. Dr. Klontz, however, finds there are three key reasons that people hate the rich. The first is what...
#37 - Hating The Rich Will Keep You Poor
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - January 11, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutesHow do you feel about the rich? While most Americans feel the rich are hardworking, only 10 percent think they are honest and one-third believe they are “greedy” and “self-centered.” It makes sense that if most people have a Money Script (a belief) the payoff for hard work is dishonesty, greed...
#36 – Couples and Money 2 – Debt
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - January 04, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutesIt’s shocking how many engaged couples don’t have substantive discussions around disclosing their finances to each other, much less their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs around money. It's common to get married and later discover that your partner has a huge amount of credit card debt that was n...
#35 – Couples and Money 1 – Stay at home
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - December 28, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutesA reporter recently asked me how a left-brain, number-crunching financial planner ironically ended up being one of the founders of financial therapy. The answer is simple, a divorce. Few would argue that divorce is life-changing and it was no different for me. When my wife told me she wanted a...
#34 – Giving Yourself The Gift of Transformation
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - December 21, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutesIf you had a magic wand and could change anything about yourself that would improve your financial and emotional wellbeing, what would it be? This is a hard question. I am not talking about changing your financial circumstances, winning the lottery or getting a big inheritance. I am talking a...
#33 – The Financial Devastation of Grey Divorce
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - December 14, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutesI spend a lot of focus helping my clients protect their hard-earned assets from the reach of a frivolous lawsuit. The chance of such a lawsuit in the US is always a risk when a person with a nest egg is perceived as “rich” and someone who “could afford” to shell out big bucks to make an unfounde...
#32 – What To Do When You’re Stuck
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - December 07, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesWhat do you do when your find yourself in a state of being financially “stuck?” Stuck is not a very professional word, but it’s an accurate description of a very familiar financial condition. According to Vocabulary.com, stuck describes something that’s frozen or fixed in one place and can’t b...
#31 - Talking About or Feeling Feelings
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - November 30, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesMaking sound financial decisions can be the best-paying job we’ve ever had. How do we obtain the skills needed to do this job well? Since 80 to 100% of all financial decisions are made emotionally, learning something about emotions and how they affect our financial decisions can be financially...
#30 - How To Find a Real Financial Therapist
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - November 23, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutesHow do you find a comprehensive financial planner and a financial therapist that competently integrates both your humanity with the dollars and cents? First, it isn’t easy even to find a comprehensive financial planner. The term ‘financial planner’ is not regulated. Anyone can hold themselves...
#29 - The Financial Planning Underground - The Nazrudin Project
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - November 16, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutesYou're probably unfamiliar with The Nazrudin Project. That’s understandable. They don’t have a website. There is no organization. They don’t have leaders. The Nazrudin Project is often described as a leaderless, eclectic, and holistic group of financial life planners, therapists, authors, educat...
#28 – The Emotional Challenges of Leaving Money to a Spendthrift Heir
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - November 09, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesPerhaps the most common reason for wanting to control a legacy is a spendthrift heir. Giving a chronic over spender an inheritance in hope that it will help change their money behavior is almost always magical thinking. Most lump sum inheritances disappear within a few years in the control of an...
#27 – Change Money Behaviors With These Financial Therapy Tools
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - November 02, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutesWhen someone in this position calls me for help in changing a hurtful financial behavior, I struggle with the next question: So what does a person do? What are the next steps? Typically, I explain that the solution does not lie in knowing more information, but in understanding the emotional bagg...
#26 - Eight Sources of Financial Trauma
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - October 26, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesFinancial Trauma are money-related occurrences that, either as single extreme events or chronic patterns, can overwhelm a person and become traumatic. Some emotional signs of financial trauma are depression, ambivalence, regularly reliving the original event, anger, mood swings, overeating, trou...
#25 - Ignoring the Emotional Aspects of Retirement
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - October 19, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutesOne of my retired clients is fond of telling me, “Growing old is not for the faint of heart.” As we age, it becomes increasingly important for us to have a support system that will advocate for us, or “have our back.” Putting such a support system in place doesn’t just happen; it takes time, mon...
#24 – Frugality Syndrome: Making the Emotional Shift From Saving To Spending
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - October 12, 2021 08:00 - 23 minutesThe FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement advocates extreme frugality in order to retire as early as age 30. The biggest challenge with the skills and discipline needed for a FIRE plan is not starting it (which isn’t necessarily easy) but stopping (which can be very difficult). Wh...
#23 - The Harmful Power of Mistaken Money Beliefs
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - October 05, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutesDick Wagner, CFP, was fond of saying that understanding money and how it works is a 21st Century survival skill. This is not an exaggeration. What you don’t know about money—as well as what you think you do know about money—has the potential to literally kill you and those you love. A comprehen...
#22 - “Money should be saved not spent” - Understanding the Money Vigilant
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - September 28, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutesPeople that have money scripts like, “You should not tell others how much money you have or make,” “Money should be saved not spent,” and “I would be a nervous wreck if I did not have money saved for an emergency,” typically struggle with Money Vigilance. “Work hard, play hard” is a foreign con...
#21 – “Your self-worth equals your net worth”- Understanding Money Status Money Scripts
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - September 21, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutesPeople that have money scripts like, “People are only as successful as the amount of money they earn,” “If something is not considered the ‘best,’ it is not worth buying,” or “Your self-worth equals your net worth,” typically struggle with Money Status. This money script category is often predic...
#21 – “Your self-worth equals your net worth”- Understanding Money Status Money Scripts
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - September 21, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutesPeople that have money scripts like, “People are only as successful as the amount of money they earn,” “If something is not considered the ‘best,’ it is not worth buying,” or “Your self-worth equals your net worth,” typically struggle with Money Status. This money script category is often predic...
#20 – “More money would solve all of my problems” – Understanding the Money Worshiper
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - September 14, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesDo you know someone that believes that “Things would get better if I had more money,” “More money will make you happier,” and “Money would solve all of my problems.” If so, their majority of their beliefs about money may fall into a category that financial therapists call Money Worship. People w...
#20 – “More money would solve all of my problems” – Understanding the Money Worshiper
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - September 14, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutesDo you know someone that believes that “Things would get better if I had more money,” “More money will make you happier,” and “Money would solve all of my problems.” If so, their majority of their beliefs about money may fall into a category that financial therapists call Money Worship. People w...
#19 – “Money is bad. I hate it.” – Understanding the Money Avoidant's Money Scripts
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - September 07, 2021 09:00 - 23 minutesDo you know someone that believes money is bad, creates anxiety, and that rich people are greedy? Do they believe that they don’t deserve money? If so, their majority of their beliefs about money may fall into a category that financial therapists call Money Avoidance. People with these types ...
#18 – My Money Behaviors Are Normal (Not!)
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - August 31, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutesMoney scripts, those beliefs that influence every money decision we make, underly and form chronic harmful money behaviors. We’ve identified 13 harmful money behaviors that can negatively affect a person’s financial wellbeing. Learn how these behaviors form in us, typically as young children a...
#18 – My Money Behaviors Are Normal (Not!)
The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money - August 31, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutesMoney scripts, those beliefs that influence every money decision we make, underly and form chronic harmful money behaviors. We’ve identified 13 harmful money behaviors that can negatively affect a person’s financial wellbeing. Learn how these behaviors form in us, typically as young children a...
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