56: How Do We Reduce Financial Anxiety? with Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, Financial Therapist

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Today, we sit down with Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, social worker, financial therapist, speaker, and author of The Financial Anxiety Solution. Lindsay reflects on how her own lived experience led her to choose financial therapy as a career path.

Listen in as Lindsay shares how she aims to close “the gap in how we talk about money,” highlighting the importance of having regular conversations with those you trust “about how money makes you feel.”

We also discuss the need for more people to be open about sharing their money stories in order to collectively send the message that no one is alone on their financial anxiety journey. Lindsay speaks on where affirmations fall short and why it’s much more productive to create neutral-to-positive associations with money.

Finally, Lindsay talks about the often-overlooked value of getting in touch with your body in order to create a stronger relationship with money, and she gives some super practical tips on how to ask for a raise.

Key Topics:

• What led Lindsay to choose financial therapy as a career path (3:21)
• Why we need to talk about money (7:58)
• Giving people the tools to address their own needs (10:31)
• Seeing your “financial anxiety journey” to the end (12:39)
• Nipping bad money beliefs in the bud (15:05)
• Why building a healthy relationship with money involves getting in touch with your body (18:48)
• Inviting the client on a journey before trying to solve their problem (24:03)
• “Procrastination is the other side of the coin from perfectionism.” (30:46)
• Our final takeaways (35:43)

Resources:

Where to find Lindsay Bryan-Podvin:

• Podcast
• Website
• Instagram
• Book

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