S5 E1 The Money Stories we never Questioned
From The Swan Effect - Creating and Sustaining Your Financial Wellbeing by Arthi Rabikrisson and Malika Petersen
February 1, 2026 · 26 min · Season 5 · Episode 1
About this episode
The episode explores how early money experiences shape adult financial behaviors.
Send us Fan Mail The Money Stories We Never Questioned We’re opening Season 5 by naming the money conversations many of us were taught to avoid — debt, death, and taxes — and gently unpacking how those silences shaped the way we relate to money today. In this episode, cohosts Arthi and Malika explore how our earliest experiences of money — what was said, what was modelled, and what was never spoken about — quietly become the rules we live by as adults. We talk about family “atmospheres” aroun...
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Hosts: Arthi Rabikrisson, Malika Petersen
Topics covered
- money conversations
- financial wellbeing
- family influences
- money rules
- debt
- death
- taxes
Keywords
- money stories
- financial wellbeing
- debt
- death
- taxes
- family atmosphere
- money conversations
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