About this episode

This episode explores the connection between ADHD and financial behaviors, focusing on the emotional and physical aspects of money management.

Did you grow up feeling like you were “bad with money” before you ever understood your ADHD? What if the overspending, the avoidance, the paralysis, the guilt are actually your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do in response to fear, long before you ever had a bank account of your own? This week on The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast , I'm joined by Catherine Morgan , a global speaker, author, and founder of The Money Panel®. Catherine spent 17 years as a financial adviser, so she knows the technical side of money inside out. But over time, she kept noticing the same thing: people would get the "right" advice but not be able to act on it. Catherine recognised that something else was getting in the way, which is what her work is all about now. She founded The Money Panel ®, wrote the international bestseller It's Not About the Money , and has built a whole framework around the idea that our money patterns don't live in our spreadsheets... They live in our bodies. In this episode, we explore: Why money feels like a difficult conversation, and what it's really about How fight, flight, freeze and fawn responses show up in our financial lives The concept of "money as…

People in this episode

Host: Kate Moryoussef

Guest: Catherine Morgan

Topics covered

• money trauma
• ADHD and finances
• financial stress
• self-worth
• money patterns
• somatic work

Keywords

• money trauma
• ADHD
• financial stress
• self-worth
• money patterns
• Catherine Morgan
• somatic work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Money Panel

Books & works: It's Not About the Money

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