Money Trauma – Details, episodes & analysis

What if our relationship with money isn’t about discipline, intelligence, or willpower at all — but about survival, safety, and belonging?


In this opening episode, we explore money trauma: the often invisible ways financial behaviors are shaped by fear, shame, scarcity, and inherited beliefs. From overspending and avoidance to perfectionism and burnout, we unpack the rationality myth of money; how class, relational and racial experiences activates the nervous system, and what could happen if we start talking about it differently.

Featuring:

Chantel Chapman - Author of bestselling book The Trauma of Money, creator of the Trauma of Money Professional Certificate program

Richard Kahler - Co-founder of discipline of Financial Therapy, Founder of Kahler Financial Group 

Nafasi Ferrell - Founder of Narratives Unbound, community connector, financial educator, facilitator

Denise Bradford - Founder of Essential Wellness Centre Ningbo, Practitioner in Community-Engaged Lifestyle Medicine (CELM), Former lifestyle coach

⁠Money Trauma⁠ is a partner of The Post Growth Institute.

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3 out of 4 Gen-Zs and Millennials have PTSD-like symptoms caused by financially induced stress. Mental health and trauma have gotten more into the mainstream, and yet we don’t apply the same lens to money. 

Laziness - it’s something we’ve all heard, or said before. It’s is one of those heavily thrown around terms, that could be said with in loving banter, or be heavy with projected accusation. But what does it actually mean? 

Going around the world, we’ll explore tropes of how laziness is portrayed, and how it was created to serve colonial capitalism. In the contemporary, we explore its ongoing weaponization against the most vulnerable in society. Does it even exist? What does it have to do with our biology - and how we respond to stress? If it isn’t laziness, what is it? And how do we move out of it - personally and collectively?

Featuring:

Jonathan Yong Tienxhi - PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, research focus on race and ethnicity in Southeast Asia and decolonial theory

Tanya Master - IFS-Informed Somatic Coach & Integrative Psychosomatic Practitioner

Felipe Mercado - Author of "A Journey to Compassion: Learning to Stand Firm in the Face of Pain”, Assistant professor of Social Work at California State University, Fresno, and founder/CEO of Wise Souls

⁠⁠Money Trauma⁠⁠ is a partner of The Post Growth Institute.

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What is the emotional world beneath the rich - those who inherit or accumulate large amounts of wealth? How is the impulse behind 'the goalpost never stops moving' connected to psychological security? Who benefits from the rich getting richer?

Speaking with people who work closely with the ultra-wealthy, we examine how the systems surrounding the rich enforce dynamics of wealth accumulation. We ask what common stories and experiences sustain these structures, whose interests they serve, and what might become possible if wealth were aligned with values of real social impact - for the many and not the few.

Featuring:

Iris Brilliant - Anticapitalist / Wealth ‘Enoughness’ money coach for wealthy people, former National Organizer at Resource Generation
Jake Hayman - Author of “Wealth Unpublished”, worked as a trusted advisor to values-led wealth holders for almost 20 years, Founder/co-founder of What The Future Holds, Ten Years' Time, Good Ancestor Movement, Progressive Advisor Movement etc

Money Trauma is a partner of The Post Growth Institute.

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