Calmly Coping How Money Stress Keeps You Stuck (And What to Do About It) with Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
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Aug 6, 2025 In this discussion with Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, a financial therapist and author of The Financial Anxiety Solution, listeners explore the deep connection between financial anxiety and mental well-being. Lindsay shares insights on how money stress can mask itself as productivity, particularly for high achievers. She emphasizes the importance of shifting mindsets for a healthier relationship with finances and challenges societal norms linking self-worth to income. Practical strategies for managing financial stress and overcoming perfectionism are also highlighted.
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Lindsay's Journey to Financial Therapy
- Lindsay Bryan-Podvin shifted to financial therapy after personal struggles with low income worsened her anxiety and depression.
- She combined her social work background with financial wellness to help others heal money-related anxiety.
Money and Safety Connection
- Financial stability underpins basic survival needs like food and shelter according to Maslow's hierarchy.
- Even with basic needs met, anxious people can still feel financial anxiety as their bodies signal danger.
Early Money Messages Shape Anxiety
- Childhood money messages shape lifelong money beliefs by age 7 or 8; scarcity, secrecy or tension influence anxiety.
- Perfectionism in anxious people leads to over-consumption of financial info but paralysis to act.
