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The Problem of Money Podcast

Shabbar Kassam and Tim Malnick

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/8j. Total Éps: 63

Shabbar Kassam (Financial Advisor) and Tim Malnick (Organisational Psychologist) explore the complex relationship people have with money. They discuss the psychological aspects of money and how it can block personal growth, reflecting on their own journeys with money and the emotional constraints it can impose. Together, they aim to uncover deeper insights into everyday money conversations and the impact of unconscious biases on one's ability to live a life of freedom.

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Ep 62: Dealing with the Guilt and Fear of Spending TOO MUCH!

Saison 1 · Épisode 62

mercredi 23 septembre 2026 • Durée 44:21

Following our deep dive into the courage of living a true life path—inspired by the legacy of climbers like Nims Purja who risk everything to do what makes them feel alive—we turn our focus inward to a tool that often feels like the exact opposite of freedom: the budget.

For most people, budgeting carries a heavy, restrictive reputation. It sounds like a chore designed to kill joy, limit spontaneity, and force us into spreadsheet-driven austerity.

But what if your budget wasn't meant to sort out your numbers, but to serve your life?

In this first episode of a 3-part series on budgeting, Shabbar and Tim break down the psychological spectrum of spending. Using Shabbar's recent fixation on buying a new mattress—and the anxiety of exceeding an arbitrary "budget anchor"—they explore how our unconscious habits with money reveal how we relate to control, freedom, and intimacy.

The conversation opens out into what life centred budgeting actually means, and why it has more to do with openness, communication and what you want your life to look like than with spreadsheets.

They look at both ends of it: the person who tracks every pound and feels quietly ashamed when they overspend, and the person who spends freely and genuinely doesn't know where the money went.

Key themes:

Why coming in under budget can feel like a moral win
What "I don't know where the money goes" is really telling you
Why spending freely isn't the same thing as being free
How family rules about being sensible end up writing your budget
What changes when a couple decides together what their money is for

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money.

Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam

Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services: https://lumosfinancial.com/

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ِEp 61: He Remortgaged His House to Climb 14 Mountains

Saison 1 · Épisode 57

mercredi 9 septembre 2026 • Durée 39:57

Most of us are waiting to know where the money is coming from before we begin.

Nims Purja remortgaged his house, went to climb the fourteen highest mountains on earth with no sponsors and no certainty, and the money only arrived once he had already started.

Shabbar brings the recent death of a man he never met but had come to love, and the conversation turns quickly from mountains to money. Tim points out that long before the risk of the climb, there was a financial risk most of us would never take.

From there they look at something harder: the judgments we make about people who follow their own path, and what those judgments protect us from seeing in ourselves. Along the way there is Jung on individuation, a mountaineer's words from 1924 about why we make money at all, and an honest look at courage, fear, and the comfort we mistake for a life.

Key themes:

Why not knowing where the money will come from stops almost all of us
How the word responsible can quietly stand in for afraid
What a child actually learns from a parent who never lives
Why the people who provoke us are showing us something we want
The difference between being sensible about money and hiding behind it

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money. Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam
Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services:

Ep 60: The MATTRESS I Found, Liked, But Couldn't BUY!

Saison 1 · Épisode 60

mercredi 26 août 2026 • Durée 44:33

It's been fifteen years and Shabbar's mattress needs replacing. He's found one he likes. Three evenings later he still hasn't bought it, and he's calling that being careful with money.

It's reminiscent of the same tangle he got into over a hotel voucher last year. What looks like a small purchase opens onto something bigger: a budget he set himself and now can't break, a quiet feeling that sticking to it says something about the kind of person he is, and a pattern where chasing comfort produces the opposite.

Tim then walks him through it without letting him off the hook.

This is money psychology at the smallest possible scale, which turns out to be where the real patterns live.

In this conversation:

Why a budget you invented yourself becomes impossible to break
What it means when sticking to the number feels like part of who you are
How chasing comfort with money often delivers the opposite
Why saving thirty pounds is much more than just the thirty pounds
Coming back to the same money pattern a year later, and why that isn't failure

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money. Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam
Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services: https://lumosfinancial.com/

Ep 59: Why You Stop Yourself from LIVING!

Saison 1 · Épisode 59

mercredi 12 août 2026 • Durée 39:47

The numbers work. You could afford to do the thing. And you still don't.

Something keeps pulling you back to the safe version of your life, and it isn't the maths.

In Part Two of their conversation on power, Shabbar and Tim bring it home to personal money decisions. They look at the story we absorbed about retirement, the identity we build around being good with money, and the quiet self policing that makes any change feel dangerous.

Using Stephen Lukes' four forms of power, they work through real examples of people whose finances are fine but whose lives are on hold. It is a plain conversation about money psychology, financial anxiety, and what it actually costs to keep waiting.

Key themes:

Why having enough money does not switch off the fear of running out
What happens to your sense of self when the identity you built around earning stops fitting
The belief that living fully now is foolish, and where it came from
Why the people around you set the limits on what you think is possible
The discomfort of stepping out of line, and why it is not a sign you are doing it wrong

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money. Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam
Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services: https://lumosfinancial.com/

Ep 58: You're Not STUPID for QUESTIONING The Money Story

Saison 1 · Épisode 58

mercredi 29 juillet 2026 • Durée 47:56

You have probably had the thought but never said it out loud.

Something about the way we all chase the number does not quite add up.

Then you decide you must be the one who is missing something. In this conversation Shabbar and Tim look at why it feels so risky to say what you actually think about money, growth and the economy. They use the story of the emperor's new clothes and a real letter written to the Queen after the 2008 crash to show how easily we hand our power to people who are good with numbers, and how quickly we decide our own lived experience does not count.

Tim then shares a four part framework on how power works, ending with the version most of us live inside, the one where nobody has to silence us because we do it to ourselves. This is a two part conversation about money psychology, shame and the slow work of getting your voice back.

Key themes:

Why questioning the growth story makes intelligent people feel stupid
What happens when economics becomes maths and forgets psychology, philosophy and history
Why we put people in suits on a pedestal but never the mechanic fixing our car
The difference between not rocking the boat and not believing there is a boat
How much energy goes into keeping yourself a compliant individual

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money. Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam

Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services:

Ep 57: I'm GOOD at Making Money, So Why Would I Ever STOP?

Saison 1 · Épisode 57

mercredi 15 juillet 2026 • Durée 41:09

Someone recently said to Shabbar: I'm good at growing businesses and making money. That's my gift. So why would I ever stop? He didn't have an answer.

This episode is the answer he wishes he'd given.

Shabbar and Tim take that real conversation and follow it somewhere bigger: the growth story we've all absorbed, where the salary, the pension and the business are always meant to get larger, and nobody ever asks when enough arrives.

Tim brings a test that separates people who love their work from people trapped chasing a number, and a blunt observation from nature: nothing alive grows forever, and when something does, we call it a tumour.

Along the way they cover Steven Bartlett, a client who left a corporate salary and finally felt rich, and why our money mindset quietly shapes everything from our pensions to the NHS. It ends with a simple exercise for spotting what you're really trying to maximise in your own life.

Key themes:

The question that stumps most successful people: why would I ever stop?
How to tell whether you love your work or you're just good at it
Why nothing in nature grows forever, and what that says about our money story
She quit the salary, kept the purpose, and finally felt rich
A 10% experiment: shifting attention from the numbers to the life

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money. Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam
Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Ep 56: How You've Been Trained to Be a CONSUMER

Saison 1 · Épisode 56

mercredi 1 juillet 2026 • Durée 41:31

You buy the car, the upgrade, the next thing, half hoping it will finally make you feel powerful or free or like you're doing well.

Underneath, a part of you already knows it won't.

In this part of their mini series, Shabbar and Tim step back from personal money stories to look at the bigger picture: the constant pull towards growth and more, and how it shapes the way we spend, save, and measure our lives. They trace how wanting more gets sold to us from the outside and fed by something unspoken inside.

They also revisit our unconscious projections, the money work idea that the status, power, and freedom we chase through what we buy were always in us, never in the object.

It is a conversation about money psychology, identity, and what we are really hoping the next purchase will give us.

Key themes:

Why the next purchase never quite delivers the feeling you bought it for
How we slipped from being citizens into being consumers, and why it matters
Why the urge to grow and accumulate is so often driven by fear Enjoyed this episode?

We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money.

Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam

Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services: https://lumosfinancial.com/

Ep 55: The Good Life is NOT Found in GDP Growth

Saison 1 · Épisode 55

mercredi 17 juin 2026 • Durée 40:10

Most of us were never asked what we actually wanted from the economy.

We were just handed a role: consume, earn more, and trust that growth will sort everything out.

This episode is about what happens when you stop taking that on good faith. Shabbar and Tim continue their series on growth, asking what the economy is actually costing us, not just the planet but our sense of being alive. They look at why governments chase GDP the same way individuals chase a number, and what gets lost when growth becomes the only measure of success.

Along the way, they surface an uncomfortable paradox: the savings meant to give us security are tied up in companies that need us to keep spending:

Why governments chase a number rather than asking what people actually want.
The pension paradox: how responsible saving quietly fuels the consumption machine.
What corporations gain from you never feeling like you have enough.
Why questioning economic growth can feel foolish, and why that feeling is worth examining.
What it would mean to think of yourself as a citizen rather than a consumer.

Enjoyed this episode?

We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money.

Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam

Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services: https://lumosfinancial.com/

Ep 54: I've Spent My CAREER Believing a Money Story I Now DOUBT!

Saison 1 · Épisode 54

mercredi 3 juin 2026 • Durée 42:41

Most of us live inside a story about money and growth without ever questioning whether it is the RIGHT story.

This episode is about what happens when someone who has spent their career inside that story starts to wonder if it is true.

Shabbar shares what happened after reading two books, Mark Boyle's The Moneyless Man and Jason Hickel's Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, that sent him down a rabbit hole he is still in.

This conversation is the first in a short series, and it is deliberately exploratory. Shabbar is processing in real time what it means to build a career helping people grow their wealth inside a system he is starting to question. Tim brings context from years of thinking about environmental change and the psychology of how collective stories get made and maintained. Between them they explore why the mainstream economic narrative feels so hard to challenge, who benefits from keeping it unchallenged, and what it means that so many people privately sense something is wrong but say nothing.

The thread that runs through everything is the one this podcast always comes back to: the difference between what the numbers promise and what a life actually needs:

Why the story of endless growth feels unquestionable, even to people who can see it is not working.
The professional and social cost of saying out loud that the system might be the problem.
How our individual money fears and insecurities quietly shape the economic systems we all end up living inside.
What the degrowth movement actually argues, and why it tends to get laughed off rather than engaged with.
The question neither of them can fully answer yet: why haven't we arranged the way we live to work for everyone.

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money.

Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam

Ep 53: Why Artists Stay BROKE and Businessmen Stay BORED

Saison 1 · Épisode 53

mercredi 20 mai 2026 • Durée 40:29

There's a version of you that comes alive when you're being creative, playful, or fully yourself. And then there's the version that shows up to work. This episode is about the gap between them.

Shabbar and Tim explore the artist and the businessman as two archetypes we all carry.

Through personal stories and Jungian shadow work, they unpack what happens when we dismiss or avoid the side we don't identify with. Whether you're a creative who struggles with money or a commercial thinker who feels something's missing, this conversation holds something for you.

The real question isn't which archetype is right. It's whether you're brave enough to take a step toward the one you've been avoiding.

Why what irritates you most about other people might say more about you than them
What the artist loses by treating money and commerce as corrupt
What the businessman misses by leaving creativity and play out of their work
Why the most alive version of you rarely makes it into your professional life
How growth often just means taking a 20% step toward the side you've been resisting

Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, or your own stories about money. Reach out and connect with us on LinkedIn:

Shabbar: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shabbarkassam Tim: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/timmalnick

Explore Tim's work and register for his upcoming workshop: https://timothymalnick.com/

Find out more about Shabbar's financial planning services: https://lumosfinancial.com/

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