Financial Art Therapist, Rachel Duncan answers a listener's beautifully simple question "How do I get started? Is it too late to start? How many people are in the group?" Rachel shares exactly what happens inside the Money Healing Club membership, addresses common fears about sharing money struggles in a group setting, and explains why her approach focuses on decreasing shame and increasing self-love rather than strict budgets and accountability. Listen in to form a clearer picture of what deepe...
Jul 11, 2025•10 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Ever feel caught between wanting to contribute to the greater good and wondering how you can actually afford to? In this episode, Rachel sits down with Jasmine Rashid, author of The Financial Activist Playbook and a powerhouse in the impact investing world. Jasmine has helped shift billions of dollars away from harmful industries and toward social justice causes, all while navigating her own relationship with money under capitalism. They dive deep into the reality of wealth hoarding, the power o...
Jun 27, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 25
What happens when the thing you've been working toward your entire career—retirement—suddenly feels more terrifying than exciting? In this episode, Rachel sits down with John Hankins, a 73-year-old financial therapist who's not just studying retirement psychology, he's living it. After 35 years in IT, John reinvented himself as a financial therapist and brings both professional expertise and personal experience to help people navigate the psychological complexities of retirement. They explore th...
Jun 20, 2025•51 min•Ep. 24
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 wardrobe checklist and transforms how you think about curating versus c...
Jun 06, 2025•44 min•Ep. 23
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 us through what tapping is, how it works with your nervous syste...
May 27, 2025•33 min•Ep. 22
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 present reality. 💬 "I'm doing money differently than my parents di...
May 16, 2025•21 min•Season 2Ep. 21
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 brain, not against it. 💬 "I do this thing if I go to the store—I'l...
May 08, 2025•45 min•Season 2Ep. 20
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 interactions, from fighting, to avoiding, to repair. We begins wi...
May 02, 2025•48 min•Season 2Ep. 19
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 gymnastics you (and we all) perform when discussing financial status w...
Apr 25, 2025•41 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 both diet and budget culture are rooted in white patriarchy and privilege The binge-restrict cycle that happens with both food and mone...
Apr 19, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 17
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 last note. Rachel will teach you how to keep it. I'll tell you how t...
Apr 10, 2025•37 min•Season 2Ep. 16
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. How childhood experiences with taxes can create lasting anxiety The anniversary effect - how your body remembers past stressful tax seasons Understanding anxiety as your body's call to ac...
Apr 04, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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 greater joy, creativity, and connection with a focus on embodied lib...
Mar 30, 2025•48 min•Season 2Ep. 14
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? - Why financial therapy needs to be part of all mental health educati...
Feb 28, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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 what actually works. How to invest with an anti-capitalist mindset (yes,...
Feb 14, 2025•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 how they impact money blocks ✔ Why inner child work is key to ove...
Feb 08, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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, offering a chance to hear money’s voice and reshape their relationship ...
Jan 31, 2025•9 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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-life spending 💡 Spoiler: These expenses aren’t actually “out of...
Jan 18, 2025•10 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 Subscription Management 06:18 The Nuclear Option: Canceling All S...
Jan 10, 2025•13 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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. Haley shares the exact moment everything changed and how the Mo...
Jan 03, 2025•32 min•Ep. 7
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 mindsets. Inside this episode: ✔ How inflation shaped Ukraine’s fina...
Dec 22, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 Saving 10:50 Imagining Your Future Self Book mentioned: Happier Hou...
Dec 13, 2024•13 min•Season 1Ep. 5
How can you raise financially confident kids without passing down your own money anxiety? From my take on predictable allowances to involving kids in family financial decisions, I share practical strategies that go beyond just teaching budgeting. Here are some scripts to try with your kids: "I'm wanting to spend less money, so I need your help reminding me when we're at the store to stick to our list. Can you help me with that? " "I'm going to start giving you some limits on how much we spend. I...
Dec 07, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
What does gender have to do with money? A lot. In this episode, Rachel Duncan, financial therapist, sits down with Angie Fitzpatrick, community program manager and former professor of women’s and gender studies, to break down the financial impact of gender inequality. 💡 From the wage gap to unpaid labor, hiring biases to cultural expectations—this episode dives into the hidden financial burdens that women face and what needs to change. Inside this episode: ✔ Why the wage gap is more than just a...
Nov 21, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 3
How can you see money as abundant [when money is ACTUALLY scarce]? Get out your journal for this episode! Rachel Duncan, Financial Therapist, talks about the historical and familial contexts that shape our beliefs about money, emphasizing the evolutionary purpose of these beliefs to ensure safety. Let's get specific in defining what financial abundance means on a personal level. We all inherit money scripts and here's a deep way to rewrite them. Try these new scripts: "I am developing sources of...
Nov 21, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Do you ever find yourself shopping to feel better—then regretting it later? You're not alone. In this episode, Rachel Duncan, financial therapist, tackles the #1 listener question: 💡 "How do I stop impulse spending when I’m emotional?" 🤑 Get My Free Mindful Spending Challenge!👉 moneyhealingclub.com/challenge Inside this episode, we explore: ✔ What impulse spending really is—and why it happens ✔ The emotional triggers behind overspending (hint: it’s not just about “lack of control”) ✔ How dopa...
Nov 21, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Do you ever regret an impulse spend? Do you avoid looking at your bank account? If the words, shame and guilt are the first words you associate with money, then I know your relationship with money is deeply emotional. I am Rachel Duncan. I'm a financial therapist and art therapist, and I'm the host of the Money Healing Club podcast. This is the place to finally say the things we don't say when we talk about money. In this podcast, I'll be answering listener questions and talking with real people...
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