460. How to Get Your Financial Footing in Crazy Times: A Conversation with Tori Dunlap
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When the world feels financially chaotic, it’s easy to slip into survival mode and feel like money is the only thing standing between you and safety. To explore why this happens and how to create a steadier sense of financial safety, I’m joined by New York Times bestselling author, Tori Dunlap.
Together, we talk about the systemic barriers women face, the guilt around wanting more, and why avoiding your numbers only increases stress. You’ll hear why financial education is one of the most powerful tools women have right now, and what changes when you start seeing yourself as a capable, autonomous financial agent.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm your host, Cara Lowentile, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New |
| 0:13.3 | Feminist Thub. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life |
| 0:20.0 | on your own terms, one that you're |
| 0:22.0 | truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 0:27.4 | Hi, Tori. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome back to the podcast. Always fun to see you. We did our first podcast in like March |
| 0:37.1 | 2023. It feels like a lifetime ago. And we talked |
| 0:41.2 | obviously about the gendered messaging we have around money. So I'd love to have this conversation. |
| 0:46.8 | Obviously, we still want to talk about that. But kind of speak to where I think a lot of people feel |
| 0:51.4 | right now, which is kind of more in like financial survival mode, |
| 0:55.5 | the state of the world being crazy, right? Every day you look at the news and it's like, |
| 0:59.4 | crypto's up, crypto's down, the stock market is doing this. There's this tariff. No, we don't have |
| 1:03.4 | this tariff. It's just like feels like total chaos, right? Like toddlers are running the world. |
| 1:08.3 | So people are understandably like on an emotional roller coaster about it. So I know that you |
| 1:14.0 | talk about how financial survival mode is like a nervous system response. So I would love if you could |
| 1:19.8 | share your perspective about that and help. I also just realized that I didn't really introduce you |
| 1:24.4 | because I'm just like, you don't need an introduction. Everybody knows who you are. So we could |
| 1:27.4 | always back up. Do you want to tell everybody who you are before we jump right in? I can introduce you because I'm just like, you don't need an introduction. Everybody knows who you are. So we could always back up. |
| 1:28.1 | Do you want to tell everybody who you are before we jump right in? I can do both. I'm happy to do both. So I am a money expert. Last time I was on the show was to promote my now New York Times bestselling book called Financial Feminist, which has helped at this point hundreds of thousands of women be better with money. But we have a platform called |
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