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Journey To Launch

Episode 478- Overcoming Financial Trauma: Breaking the Cycle & What Healing Actually Looks Like w/ Rahkim Sabree

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There is a reason you know what to do with money and still struggle to do it. In this episode, I sit down with Rahkim Sabree, financial therapist, accredited financial counselor, and author of Overcoming Financial Trauma, to talk about what is really driving our money behaviors and why the answer goes much deeper than budgets and spreadsheets.

After more than a decade in the banking industry, Rahkim walked away from it all to build something on his own terms. That leap eventually led him to the financial therapy space, where he now helps people understand that our relationship with money is shaped by six distinct sources of trauma, from generational and observational influences to workplace, systemic, and societal pressures. He also shares what happened when a house fire destroyed his home just weeks before his book launched, and how he used his own frameworks to navigate the loss.

His core message is that most financial education skips the emotional and physiological roots of why we behave the way we do. Once you understand where your money behaviors come from, real change becomes possible.

In this episode, Rahkim shares:

  • The six sources of financial trauma and how they show up differently for each person
  • Why our nervous system responds to money as a threat, and what that looks like in everyday behavior
  • The difference between a scarcity mindset and a scarcity reality, and why that distinction matters
  • How he navigated his own financial trauma after a house fire destroyed his home just weeks before his book launch

What's New in the Paperback Edition of Your Journey to Financial Freedom:

  • A bonus chapter: When Life Happens: Staying on the Path to Financial Freedom Through Setbacks, Shifts, and Uncertainty
  • A book club and discussion guide with prompts, exercises, and action steps
  • Updated corrections from the original hardcover
  • Exclusive bonuses when you purchase the paperback, including:
    • The Fire Starter Course
    • The Find Your FIRE Number Worksheet

Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:

Connect with Rahkim:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

you're getting ready to buy your spouse or significant other a present for their birthday or for

0:08.3

anniversary your response might look different than my response right i might be excited about

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buying my spouse or significant other something whereas somebody else might say oh like this is going to

0:20.3

the bank account,

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how many hours am I going to have to work to replace this money?

0:23.8

Like, they want to do the good thing or the thing that they feel like they should be doing.

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And also, what are the implications on their mental and physical health look like, and financial

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health look like, based off of making this decision?

0:37.8

Welcome to the journey to launch. health look like, and financial health look like, based off of making music decision. A T minus 10 seconds.

0:40.1

Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufran.

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As a money expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save,

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invest, and build real wealth.

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Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in five, four, three, two, one.

1:06.6

If you want the episode, show notes for this episode, go to Journey tola launch.com or click the description of wherever you're listening to this episode.

1:15.3

In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much more.

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Also, whether you are an OG journeyer or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free

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Jumpstar guide to help you on your financial freedom journey.

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It includes the top episodes to listen to stages to go through to reach financial freedom,

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resources, and so much more.

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You can go to Journey tolaunch.com slash Jumpstart to get your guide right now.

1:46.1

Okay, let's hop into the episode.

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Hey, journeyers. Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast. I have today as a guest for our Kim Sabree, who is a Connecticut-based financial therapist and author of the book, Overcoming Financial

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