367: How Financial Stress Affects Your Productivity
About this episode
This episode discusses how financial stress impacts productivity and offers practical strategies to manage it.
In this episode of the Grad School Femtoring Podcast, I talk about how financial stress can shape your productivity by affecting your sense of safety, stability, and decision-making. Drawing inspiration from The Trauma of Money by Chantel Chapman (with the caveat that I’m not a therapist or financial counselor), I translate these ideas into what they can look like in your day-to-day work. I walk you through how financial pressure can show up as overworking, avoidance, difficulty focusing, and delaying both money-related and high-stakes academic or career tasks. I also share practical ways to move out of these patterns by building more grounded and sustainable approaches to your work.
Topics covered
- financial stress
- productivity
- mental health
- decision-making
Keywords
- safety
- stability
- overworking
- avoidance
- focus
Mentioned in this episode
Products: The Trauma of Money by Chantel Chapman
Books & works: The Trauma of Money
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- 365: Boundaries as Leadership Development: How to Build a Career Without Burnout
- 364: Financial Aid Explained for First-Gen Students and Their Families with Erica Hernandez
- 363: Five Truths About Grad School Admissions No One Tells You
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