You got problems that you're utterly concerned with, blah, you don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.

You're a freak with a dark shameful secret, but you're not the only one.

Teach your head and find their true fears to the blessed sun.

Now your healing has begun. It's bad with money with Gabby.

Done.

It's 2017, deadbeats. New Year. Same host to your favorite podcast.

Do you guys remember way back in August when we started this whole podcast adventure?

On the very first episode of the show, I asked my comedy partner, Alison Raskin, what my problem is when it comes to money. And this is what she said.

You have all this class anxiety.

Oh yeah, I don't think that you should have.

Whether or not Alison thinks I should have it, I do struggle with class anxiety.

As I've mentioned in so many of the conversations on this podcast, I grew up as the poor kid and a school full of rich kids.

And I was there on a scholarship, which was obviously wonderful for me, but scholarships don't necessarily hide the fact that a person can't afford the school they're going to.

In fact, sometimes they actually accentuate that reality and add a level of discomfort that the person couldn't have expected.

The scholarship covered my tuition, but it didn't mean I could suddenly magically afford the clothes, the cars, the lifestyle of my peers.

My mind might have fit in there, but my inability to have a real Tiffany heart bracelet, you guys remember those, was a dead giveaway I didn't actually belong in their world.

As usual, a lot of this comes back to family stuff.

We also talked way back in that first episode about the way my parents behavior around money taught me to spend it.

But today we're going to talk about how that family dynamic creates our relationship to the idea of money.

Because some of my experience in high school had to do with literally having less to spend than the other kids, but the psychological parts of that experience stemmed from the fact that my parents created an environment where it felt like money was something distant and foreign to us.

It was hard to get and even harder to hold on to.

It was anything but the sure thing it seemed to be for everyone around me, or even something that they weren't even required to think about.

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