🎙️ UNCHARTED Episode 9 – The Pigeon Trap
Trading Psychology and Emotional Traps in Trading and Relationships
In this powerful episode of Uncharted, Lisa N. Edwards pulls back the curtain on one of the deepest traps we face in both trading and love: the Variable Reward System — also known as The Pigeon Trap.
Drawing from the groundbreaking 1950s experiment by B.F. Skinner, Lisa explores how the same psychological conditioning that caused pigeons to obsessively peck at a lever mirrors the way we chase emotional highs in volatile markets — and heartbreakingly, in toxic relationships too.
You'll discover how dopamine — the brain’s "anticipation" chemical — is the real culprit behind impulsive trades, addictive texting habits, emotional spirals, and the endless chase for validation. Lisa explains how emotional wounds like abandonment, rejection, betrayal, shame, and injustice fuel these destructive cycles — and why understanding them is the key to taking your power back.
Inside this episode:
✨ Why crypto traders are especially vulnerable to dopamine-driven decision making
✨ How trading apps, social media, and toxic partners use the same behavioural hooks
✨ The brutal truth about emotional FOMO — in the markets and in love
✨ The illusion of control and why chasing outcomes sabotages your success
✨ How to spot and break the variable reward loops keeping you stuck
✨ Practical strategies to master emotional regulation in trading and relationships
✨ How your core wounds quietly sabotage your decisions — and how to heal them
✨ Why boundaries, emotional discipline, and self-awareness are the real "edge"
✨ How to finally stop being a pigeon... and start being the strategist of your own life
Lisa shares raw personal experiences from both the trading world and the messiness of being human, connecting the dots between financial markets, human psychology, emotional trauma, and personal growth in a way few people dare to.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in a cycle — chasing the next high, the next trade, the next text, the next “maybe this time it’ll be different” moment — this episode is your wake-up call.
It's not just about trading smarter. It's about living smarter.
🔑 Key takeaway: If you treated your heart like your trading capital, would you risk it so carelessly? It's time to trade — and love — differently.
🎧 Tune in now and break free from the traps you didn’t even know you were caught in.
And don’t forget to check out Lisa’s links below and join her inside GettingStartedInCrypto.com for more resources on mastering your mindset and your money.
🚀 This is UNCHARTED. Let’s get started.
FIND LISA N EDWARDS & MORE:
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/LisaNEdwards
Lisa's Website: https://lisanedwards.com/
Getting Started In Crypto: https://gettingstartedincrypto.com/paid-signals/ref/2001/?campaign=Podcast
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