Money Healing Club Podcast

Does clothing hold a special place in your heart and wallet? Rachel explores the deeply emotional relationship between clothing, identity, and impulse spending with stylist Kyla Brown. This conversation goes beyond fashion tips to examine how our wardrobe choices reflect our inner journey of self-acceptance, belonging, and the difference between shopping for who we are versus who we fantasize being. Kyla shares her essential wardro...

Do you feel numb or panicked when you even think about checking your bank account? If your body takes over when money topics come up, you're not alone - this might be financial trauma. In this episode, financial therapist Rachel Duncan sits down with Sydney Harbosky, a certified EFT practitioner, to explore how Emotional Freedom Technique (also called "tapping") can help heal your relationship with money — BODY FIRST. Sydney guides...

How do you overcome a scarcity mindset when it was essential for your family's survival? Financial therapist Rachel Duncan responds to a listener's question about breaking free from the scarcity scripts inherited from immigrant parents. Rachel explores how financial trauma gets passed down through generations and offers a step-by-step process for honoring your family's experiences while creating new money scripts that serve your pr...

How does your ADHD impact your financial life? In this collaboration with Everyone's Talkin' Money podcast, financial therapist Rachel Duncan sits down with Shari Rash, financial advisor and podcast host, to explore the unique challenges and surprising strengths that come with ADHD when managing money. Shari shares her personal experience as someone diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and how she's created systems that work with her br...

Why does your partner's stress surface as money worries? Why is it that one of you have more comfort about money topics and the other avoids it? It's actually all rooted in attachment styles. Financial therapist Rachel Duncan sits down with Ed Coambs CFP (R), LMFT, CFT-I TM, MBA, a fellow financial therapist and planner and author of "The Healthy Love and Money Way," to explore how your past relational experiences shape your money ...

Do you feel shame discussing your money when you're worried about being judged for having too much or too little? We all do this mental gymnastics, and we're here to explore WHY we do it. I'm join by Hanna Horvath, CFP a certified financial planner and money psychology expert, about the complex relationship between money and identity. We talk about class perception, wealth signaling, lifestyle inflation, and the psychological gymna...

EPISODE SUMMARY

Rachel Duncan, Financial Therapist, and Leah Kern, RD, an anti-diet dietician from the Shoulders Down Podcast explore the striking parallels between budget culture and diet culture.

How do these two systems use similar tactics of restriction, shame, and unrealistic standards to keep us trapped in destructive cycles?

The conversation explores:

How do you navigate a strange job market where positions are being pulled mid-interview process? It's frustrating to say the least. Shannon, a fundraising professional turned career coach, shares insider perspectives on employer behaviors during hiring, strategies for protecting your current position, and techniques for effective salary negotiation.

💬 "Everybody, you should be making more money and you're worth more. That's my l...

Rachel Duncan, Financial Therapist, responds to a listener question about the emotional side of taxes. Why do we still feel tax anxiety even when we've improved our systems and understanding? We dive into the psychology behind our tax-related stress and offer practical solutions to help soothe your tax anxiety.

1. How childhood experiences with taxes can creat...

Have you ever experienced harm in a community? It's common, and we all have the opportunity to learn, clarify, and regenerate, even through difficult conversations. Here, you'll learn the ingredients for safer spaces and healing conversations.

Financial Therapist, Rachel Duncan is joined by Maz George, a queer, trans, nonbinary coach, facilitator, sacred galvanizer and visual artist based in Brooklyn who supports people seeking gre...

How does someone become a Financial Therapist? This episode weaves together Rachel's childhood counting coins, a love of bugs, college surprises, being "office mom", and getting a C in self care.

🎯 Key Moments:

- Were you ever the banker in Monopoly too?

- The Feminism & religion that changed how I see everything

- My love/hate relationship with being "Office Mom"

- How can Art therapy and financial therapy work together?

- Wh...

Are you exhausted from trying to make "ethical" financial choices in a system built for billionaires? This week’s episode of The Money Healing Club Podcast will redefine how you think about financial justice, mutual aid, and community care.

Host Rachel Duncan and Angie Fitzpatrick sit down with River Nice (they/them), a queer, anti-capitalist financial educator, to break down:

• Why "voting with your dollars" isn't enough—and wh...

Ever feel weird or uncomfortable when it’s time to sell your services? You’re not alone. In this episode, Rachel Duncan, financial therapist, and Lexi, hypnotherapist, dive deep into the subconscious blocks holding you back from selling with confidence.

Inside this episode, we cover: ✔ Why childhood experiences shape your money & sales mindset ✔ How hypnotherapy can help rewire subconscious beliefs ✔ The 4 brainwave states and ...

Do you have deep emotions around money? Like, no matter how hard you try to be more aware and organized, it feels like there's a force working against you? In this episode, Rachel Duncan, Financial Therapist and Art Therapist guides you in a powerful writing prompt called 'Dear Money, What Would You Have Me Know?' as an adaptation of Liz Gilbert’s daily prompt. I share my own writing, and invite listeners to write their own, offeri...

Ever feel like you're doing everything right with your budget, only to get blindsided by an expense you should have seen coming? You're not alone.

In this episode, Rachel Duncan, financial therapist, explains: ✔ The hidden fixed expenses that derail budgets ✔ How to set up a midterm savings account for non-monthly costs ✔ A simple budgeting formula to avoid future financial stress ✔ How to balance necessary expenses with quality-of...

Rachel answers a Club member question about organizing and letting go of unwanted subscriptions, providing three key methods: using an app like Rocket Money, an analog approach with spreadsheets and credit card statement reviews, and the 'nuclear option' of reporting a credit card as lost or stolen.

00:38 Listener Question: Managing Subscriptions

01:29 Practical Tips 

04:26 Using Apps to Track Subscriptions

05:19 Analog Methods for...

What happens when the financial stability you took for granted suddenly crumbles? How do you rebuild when debt and anxiety have you frozen in fear?

Rachel sits down with Money Healing Club member, Haley, who opens up about her rollercoaster relationship with money with self-employment. From comfortable college years to the unexpected struggles of entrepreneurship, Haley reveals how crushing debt and anxiety nearly derailed her life...

What shapes the way we think about money? Rachel Duncan, financial therapist, sits down with her husband Alex, who shares his early money memories growing up in Ukraine, the impact of inflation after Ukraine’s independence, and how financial perspectives differ across cultures.

💡 From debt and cash gifts to the value of education—this episode is a deep dive into how history, culture, and personal experience shape our financial min...

Ever feel torn between treating yourself today and saving for tomorrow? In this episode, I dive into one of the most challenging aspects of our money journey - finding that sweet spot between present joy and future security.

00:42 Balance Present Enjoyment and Future Savings - it's tricky but possible

02:40 Here's how to have a Mindful Moment with Your Future Self

06:34 The Rule of 25 for Retirement

08:18 Finding Satisfaction in ...