How Financial Trauma Shapes Our Relationship With Money

How Financial Trauma Shapes Our Relationship With Money

April 24, 2026 · 44 min

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The episode discusses how financial trauma influences our relationship with money through early experiences and systemic factors.

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Rahkim Sabree, financial therapist and author of Overcoming Financial Trauma, about how our earliest experiences with money shape our behavior, stress responses, and sense of safety, often long before we have the language to understand what’s happening. Rahkim explains that financial trauma isn’t a personal failure or a lack of knowledge. It’s a response to real threats, systemic forces, and lived experiences that...

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Host: Tony Steuer

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