“If my partner would change, we would resolve our conflict about when and where we should retire!” “My spouse doesn’t understand that I work hard for us!” These are common statements uttered in frustration about money and work conflicts. So, how do couples make their conversations constructive and create financial intimacy?  Rick’s guest Deb Kaplan shares how to utilize the tools necessary for a constructive conversation: listen, suspend judgment, become curious, practice compassion, and focus on our own behavior. We also explore Money Scripts, IFS tools and how listeners can interview and dialogue with the part of themself that is engaged in a self-defeating money behavior.A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

One important thing to take along when you travel abroad is travel insurance. I needed to use mine on three international trips this year, one to London in January, one to Puerto Rico that I didn’t take in February, and one to Budapest in May. These are the only international trips I’ve taken since January 2020. Obviously, my post-pandemic travel is not going well. While traveling back to the U.S. with a 102-degree fever is miserable, the pain is even worse if you don’t have medical coverage.A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

Personal bankruptcy is not something I’ve addressed in the podcast, which surprises me given the approximately one million people a year who file for bankruptcy in the U.S.  I’ll be the first to admit that listening to a podcast on insolvency or bankruptcy doesn’t relate to most of us, however by one source 25% of us are insolvent.  The topic can be as scintillating as reading about the details of estate planning or planning a funeral.  It’s easy to hit the delete key and move on to happier and more pertinent financial topics.  It’s not very relevant to most of us until it is.A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

 “I don’t deserve money,” is one of the ten most common money scripts. Holding this belief has very little to do with whether society, friends, or family view you as deserving. Few people would argue that we all deserve the support money can give us to have nutritious food, safe and adequate shelter, and access to safe and reliable transportation. Saying “I don’t deserve money” is saying “I don’t deserve to live.”  Yet millions of people have this money script. A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

Rick and his guest, Deb Kaplan, introduce the term Cognitive Biases in this segment. They choose Confirmation Bias and Loss Aversion to explore how couples can resolve conflict by first understanding their own biases. This provides couples an opportunity to be curious about themselves and their partner’s perspective. Curiosity, compassion, and compromise are tools to resolve money disagreements.”A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

You might think that you lack financial savvy and are doomed to make money mistakes. But even people who are good with money can slip up sometimes. One of the tricky things about poor financial choices is that they often go unnoticed or unacknowledged by the person who makes them. It might take a long time for them to realize the consequences of their actions, if they ever do. But when a bad financial choice crosses the line into something unethical or illegal, the stakes are much higher. It’s not just a money mistake anymore. It’s a life-altering decision that can have serious repercussions.A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

Vendors pushing investments like gold are selling more than gold, they are pushing fear, creating a sense of panic and anxiety within a person that they suggest can only be solved by buying gold.  The problem is that they have a huge conflict of interest.  If you don’t buy gold, they don’t eat. It’s in their interest that they motivate you to buy gold with any strategy, manipulation, exaggeration, or outright lie that they can.  We take a look at history, debunk their myths, and explore the emotions beneath the money scripts that can keep us poor. A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

Rick visits some notes he made in 2020 where he wondered about the possibilities of applying IFS, MDMA Assisted Therapy, and the use of groups to financial therapy. All of these are transformative in their own right, but what are the possibilities when combined with financial therapy?  A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

Gambling, gaming, and hoarding for many can be an enjoyable endeavor. For some, it can become impulsive, compulsive or part of an unhealthy cycle.  Rick and Deb Kaplan explore what beliefs and behaviors one might consider to assess whether healthy behaviors are problematic, compulsive or addictive. Rick steps into the client’s seat for an impromptu session in the second half of the segment to answer his question; do I have a hoarding issue, or do I just like to collect objects of sentimental value?”A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.

What would you do with a million-dollar windfall? This question was the topic of a survey in a March 28, 2023, article by Jessica Whitehouse in onlinegambling.com,  “This is how Americans would spend $1,000,000 in lottery winnings.” Before I read past the headline, I mentally answered, “Blow it!” However, 80% of the 500 respondents said they would do one of three things with the money: buy a house, invest it, or pay off debts. Maybe that was a sign that people are more practical and conservative than I was giving them credit for. But I wasn't convinced, so I dug a little deeper.A podcast that blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them.Rick Kahler, CFP®, CFT-I™, has helped people make better money decisions by integrating financial planning. He blends the nuts and bolts of financial advice with the emotions that drive making them and shares them on his financial therapy podcast.