financial reality

This episode continues my conversation with Joy Slabough, who as a certified financial planner as well as a certified Internal Family Systems therapist brings amazing depth to the field of financial therapy. Our previous conversation focused on trauma, and this time we talk about IFS and its place in financial therapy.  Joy describes IFS as

My guest for this episode is Joy Slabough, who has an amazing combination of credentials uniquely suited to the field of financial therapy. She is a certified financial planner with a master’s in taxation from Villanova as well as a certified Internal Family Systems therapist with a master’s in counseling from Arcadia.  Our conversation begins

My guest for this episode is Ed Coambs, who is what I call the gold standard of financial therapists. He is both a certified financial planner, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a certified financial therapist. He’s also the author of The Healthy Love and Money Way: How the Four Attachment Styles Impact Your

Today’s episode is another conversation with Khara Croswaite Brindle. She is a financial therapist, an educator, an author, a clinician, and an entrepreneur who has her hands in all sorts of things. Much as I did, Khara became interested in the Enneagram primarily as a personal development tool and then found it was also very

My guest for this episode is Khara Croswaite Brindle, who is a financial therapist and a consultant to financial therapists. She also does clinical supervision and teaches continuing education courses, and she has authored several books. She came into this field in 2020 after working for around a decade as a mental health therapist.  One

This episode features a returning guest, Joan Ryan, who is an internationally recognized expert on the Enneagram. More recently, she became intrigued by what she calls the resonance between the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems therapy. She has co-authored a chapter on this topic in a new book titled Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model

We often talk in this podcast about the psychological work required to heal our relationship with money. I have also sometimes referred to a neighboring discipline called life planning. Today’s episode explores the area where life planning and financial therapy meet. I’m joined by Lillian Turner, who is a financial planner and life planner. She

This episode is a conversation with Dr. Megan Ford, who is a marriage and family therapist and director of the Love and Money Center at the University of Georgia. She was one of the earliest members of the Financial Therapy Association and has served as that organization’s president.  As a college student, Megan was drawn

As a financial advisor, and more recently as a financial therapist, I’ve spent decades helping clients make decisions grounded in numbers and data. But more recently I have found myself navigating something far more complex: emotions so highly charged that even the most basic economic fact can sound like a political opinion.

This episode comes from a place of humility and even discomfort. I talk about something that challenged one of my long-held beliefs. For most of my life, I thought I knew exactly what socialism meant. Like a lot of Americans, I believed it was a single system, one where the government owns everything, makes all the decisions, and crushes individual freedom.