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Nadja Taranczewski: Breaking Free from Inherited Wealth Trauma: How Three Generations of War and Silence Shaped One Woman's Journey to Conscious Money Mastery

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Jan 7, 2026

Nadja Taranczewski, a master of psychology and founder of ConsciousU, delves into her family's complex history shaped by war and trauma. She reveals how her grandparents' experiences affected her view on money and safety. Discussing the clash between scarcity and abundance mindsets, Nadja highlights the importance of understanding intergenerational patterns in healing relationships with wealth. Furthermore, she introduces powerful concepts like 'source energy' and emphasizes the need for systemic inclusion to ensure long-term societal stability.

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ANECDOTE

Family War History Shaped Money Beliefs

Nadja traces her family across German, Polish, and Russian lines to show how wartime roles and silence shaped her parents' trauma.
Her father's poverty and mistrust and her mother's guilt-driven giving framed her early beliefs about safety and money.

INSIGHT

Four-Quadrant Transformation Map

Nadja maps change using four quadrants: individual/collective and interior/exterior, with an iceberg metaphor for depth.
You can act on observable behavior and psyche, but individual interior work is the domain you always control.

ADVICE

Reclaim Projections By Saying “I”

Re-own projections by replacing 'money' with 'I' to integrate disowned parts of yourself and face embodied reactions.
Then locate the opposite polarity (adjacent room) to access choice and balance behaviors with or without money.

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Nadjeschda (Nadja) Taranczewski is a master of psychology, master certified coach, and founder of Conscious U who specializes in helping CEOs and founders uncover unconscious patterns shaping their relationship with wealth, leadership, and intergenerational trauma through her pioneering Money Work Program.

3:00 - Nadja shares her powerful family history: her German grandmother's side benefited from the Nazi regime while remaining silent about their role, while her Polish grandmother was abducted and forced into prostitution, and her Russian grandfather was tortured in a concentration camp until he became an informant.

8:00 - The profound impact of intergenerational trauma: Nadja's father grew up in extreme poverty with five people in a one-bedroom apartment, translating his grandfather's concentration camp stories at age 13, learning "the only person you can rely on is yourself."

15:00 - Discovery process: Nadja pieced together her family story over decades through therapy and conversations, realizing that understanding these patterns was essential to breaking free from inherited trauma and beliefs about money and safety.

25:00 - The concept of "source energy" - Nadja explains how we're born with original essence that gets overlaid with family patterns, cultural conditioning, and protective mechanisms, leading most people to live from a false self rather than their authentic core.

35:00 - Money as safety vs. money as energy: Nadja contrasts her father's scarcity mindset ("money is safety") with her mother's guilt-driven giving, showing how both extremes kept her stuck until she learned to see money as flowing energy.

45:00 - The three-step framework for transformation: noticing patterns, understanding their origins in your family story, and consciously choosing new responses that align with your true self rather than inherited programming.

55:00 - Language shapes identity: Speaking multiple languages reveals how cultural context influences personality - English allows more optimistic expression while German and Polish carry historical weight and pessimism from generations of trauma.

1:03:00 - Definition of success: "To have the luxury to realize my potential and to be more of myself in an environment where I get seen for that, celebrated for that, and loved for that."

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