547 | Dopamine Dollars - Making Neurodivergent Friendly Financial Systems with Ellyce Fulmore

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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🎙 Guest Info: Today's guest, Elise Fillmore, is a queer and neurodivergent financial educator, bestselling author, and the founder of Elise focuses on identity-based finance, helping people navigate money through the lens of their lived experiences, challenges, and strengths. She’s also the author of Keeping Finance Personal and the host of the Dopamine Dollars podcast. 💡 Episode Highlights: How traditional financial advice often fails neurodivergent people Why financial planning should be tailored to your identity, lifestyle, and brain Strategies for making money management less overwhelming and more engaging The importance of automation and dopamine-driven finance systems Why shame and financial struggles are often systemic, not personal failings Common financial myths and why some mainstream advice (like Dave Ramsey’s) doesn’t work for ADHDers Practical ways to infuse joy into budgeting and create sustainable financial habits How to set up "fun money" accounts and make saving more rewarding Why financial tools and strategies “expire” for ADHDers – and what to do about it The role of external accountability in managing money 📌 Resources & Links: Elise Fillmore's Website: Instagram: TikTok: Book: Keeping Finance Personal – Available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook Podcast: Dopamine Dollars – Available on , , and more 🔗 Mentioned in This Episode: A list of dopamine-boosting activities to help manage impulsive spending 📢 Support ADHD reWired! Leave a rating & review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen Share this episode with someone who might find it helpful Become a to help us keep creating great content! 🚀 Join ADHD reWired’s Coaching & Accountability Groups! Our Spring 2025 Coaching Groups are coming up soon! April 24 - June 19 Registration Events: March 27 & April 2 Learn more & sign up: 🖥 Adult Study Hall - ADHD reWired's Virtual Co-working community. New Zen Tangle and Journal with me sessions on Sundays at 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET 🎧 Don’t Miss the Next Episode! Subscribe & follow so you never miss an episode of ADHD reWired!

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0:00.0	try to figure out how you can inject dopamine into your financial systems. So it kind of goes on
0:05.9	like thinking what systems work for you, but instead you're thinking about what things you enjoy
0:11.1	and give you dopamine. So then when you're sitting down to create a financial plan, it's not just
0:15.1	crunching the numbers. It's also thinking about how does this fit into or apply in my life. Like if
0:20.5	we're talking about ADHD or
0:22.5	neurodivergence, it's not enough to just crunch numbers and come up with like a budget plan. You also
0:28.3	have to think about, okay, what system is going to allow me to stick to this budget month to month
0:32.5	or like allow me to execute on this? ADHD reWired episode 547.
0:40.0	Since 2014,
0:41.5	this has been the podcast for ADHD adults
0:44.2	who have really good intentions
0:46.0	and a slightly wandering attention.
0:48.5	I'm Eric Tivers.
0:49.4	I'm a licensed clinical social worker by training
0:51.4	and a coach by design.
0:53.6	I'm your host and I have ADHD.
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