The Financial Therapy Podcast - It's Not Just About The Money – Details, episodes & analysis

What if the way you pay is part of the therapy? Some psychoanalytic therapists ask for cash after each session—not for convenience, but because money itself reveals emotional truth. Forgetting to pay, overpaying, or haggling can uncover hidden dynamics worth exploring. Vessy explains how two sessions a week can go far deeper than one and why honest talk about fees is as essential as discussing feelings. When money enters the room, therapy gets real—and that’s where lasting change begins.

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A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

Real change with money isn’t about willpower—it’s about the brain rewriting old rules. In this conversation, Rick and financial therapist Emily Shull explore how memory reconsolidation and IFS work together to transform money behavior. Emily explains the four elements of deep change and shares a powerful client story where a childhood belief about money secrecy dissolved, leading to honest communication instead of avoidance. It’s a clear, emotionally intelligent look at how understanding the brain can free us from outdated money patterns.

 #MoneyPsychology #FinancialTherapy #IFS #InternalFamilySystems #MemoryReconsolidation #BehaviorChange #MoneyMindset #EmotionalIntelligence #TraumaInformedFinance #MoneyHealing #WealthWellness #FinancialSelfAwareness #RewriteYourMoneyStory #Neuropsychology #BrainBasedChange #MoneyPatterns #FinancialGrowth #InnerWork #MoneyConsciousness 

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

Joetta Johnson returns with Rick Kahler to dive deep into the emotional and subconscious roots of underearning. Sharing her personal transformation and the development of her “Earning Power” program, Joetta unpacks how limiting beliefs, especially those rooted in authority figures, time scarcity, and undervaluing oneself, can sabotage financial progress, even after income increases. She challenges the hustle narrative, emphasizing that true earning power includes the capacity to hold, not just generate, money. Through tools like hypnosis and time-mapping, Joetta helps clients rewire the subconscious mind to support sustainable financial growth. Her work bridges self-worth, wealth accumulation, and the emotional healing necessary to break free from old money patterns.

 #UnderearningRecovery, #EarningPower, #MoneyMindset, #WealthHealing, #BreakMoneyPatterns, #FinancialEmpowerment, #MoneyBeliefs, #SelfWorthAndWealth, #AbundanceMindset, #MoneyHealing, #WealthBuildingJourney, #RewriteYourMoneyStory, #FinancialGrowth, #MindsetAndMoney, #WealthMindsetCoach, #MoneyAndSelfWorth, #TransformYourEarnings, #SubconsciousRewiring, #MoneyMindsetMatters, #HealYourMoneyStory 

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

Why is it so hard for many couples to talk about money? Rick’s guest, Debra Kaplan, dives into romantic relationships, some of the reasons that it becomes hard to discuss money and the ways that our childhood experiences influence our beliefs and behaviors about money.

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

How many times have you heard yourself or your partner repeat these statements; “I’m passionate about work, that’s why I work long hours!” or, “I won’t be home late?” In this episode, Rick and Deb take on the topic of workaholism other money behaviors, beginning with work and shifting to compulsive shopping/spending. They explain the difference between being passionate about work and unhealthy work behaviors (workaholism), and shopping versus buying.

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

References to income and wealth inequality generally focus on how unevenly income and wealth are distributed throughout a population. The greater the gap between those at the top and the bottom, the more problematic it can be to the social health of a country. In a marriage or committed relationship, income and wealth inequality between partners also present some challenges that don’t exist where the partners are financial equals. One of the biggest stressors isn’t what you might think.

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

Bringing alignment of your stated values with your money is something I’ve been promoting for over 20 years. They don’t always align. It’s not unusual for a person to embrace a value that is not fully embraced in their spending. A person who is concerned about climate change and a strong proponent of individuals, corporations, and governments to “go green”, will avoid purchasing items like coffee in paper cups, tea bags, water in plastic bottles, aerosols, chlorine bleaches, using disposable cutlery from fast food restaurants, plastic bags, and or using oil-based transportation, which are some of the biggest sources of environmental damage.   

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

In his state of the union address, President Biden announced he is “taking on junk fees” which are the hidden fees involved with many of the services we purchase. Hidden fees and terms have been around a long time.  The old adage of, “Read the fine print,” is timeless advice.  I love the quote by Pete Seeger, American folk singer, “Do you know the difference between education and experience?  Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”  Let’s talk about those experiences.

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

What can you and your children do to assure your financial plan won’t be sabotaged by family money scripts?  There are a number of steps to take and all require dealing with you and your children's emotional vulnerabilities.  Find out five specific steps that can guard against your financial plan going of the rails and sacrificing your emotional and financial wellbeing in your last years. 

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..

What is the biggest risk to a senior parent that has just lost their spouse?  Even if they have a well-designed financial plan and the best financial planner possible in their corner, there is one factor that can deal them a knockout blow, their kids. Understand why your kids can pose one of the greatest threats to your final years.  

A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive our money decisions.
Join Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT™, as he blends practical financial wisdom with the emotional insights that shape our choices. Discover how financial therapy can help you make money decisions that truly align with your values..