How our brains mess with our money
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Our decisions about money don’t always make logical sense. Financial therapist Lindsay Bryan-Podvin helps us understand why, and how you can hack your brain to make smarter money choices.
Think you’re financially inclined? Dig deeper into the psychology of spending:
- The ultimatum game shows us how we think about money
- Check out this NerdWallet explainer for more about financial therapy
- Lights, Camera, Budget! is a game that lets you learn about money by taking on the role of movie producer
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Parents and Teens, Financially Inclined is presented in partnership with Green Light, |
| 0:04.9 | the debit card and Money App for Teens. |
| 0:07.6 | When it comes to money decisions, sometimes our brains can play tricks on us without us |
| 0:11.7 | realizing it. |
| 0:13.0 | That's why it's important to build healthy financial habits early. |
| 0:16.0 | Greenlight, the Money App for Teens, makes it easy to build money confidence for life, |
| 0:21.0 | with lessons on earning, saving, spending, and investing |
| 0:24.8 | all in one place. |
| 0:26.8 | Get $10 when you sign up for greenlight today at greenlight.com slash inclined. |
| 0:31.6 | That's greenlight dot com slash inclined. |
| 0:31.8 | That's greenlight dot com slash Inclin'E. And What's up everybody? I'm Janelleius Finalele and welcome to financially inclined for |
| 1:01.9 | marketplace. We're sharing money lessons for living life and welcome to Financially inclined for Marketplace. |
| 1:03.0 | We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way. |
| 1:06.0 | This episode is all about how money can mess with our brains |
| 1:10.0 | and how our brains can mess with our money. |
| 1:13.0 | Money can make us feel scared and stressed out sometimes |
| 1:16.8 | and it can be really hard to talk about it. |
| 1:19.6 | But it's important to know the ways that our brains can play tricks on us when we're making |
| 1:24.0 | financial choices. |
| 1:25.8 | Lindsey Brian Podvin is here to help us out with all of this. |
| 1:29.4 | She is a financial therapist and an author of the book called The Financial Anxiety Solution. |
| 1:36.2 | Her work is all about helping people understand how money and mental health are connected. |
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