I'm Maura Aronsmeli, and this is The Anxious Achiever.

We look at stories from business leaders who've dealt with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges, how they fell down, how they pick themselves up, and how they hope workplaces can change in the future.

Yeah. themselves up and how they hope workplaces can change in the future. If you had more money, do you think your anxiety would go away?

It's a question I often pose to myself.

You see, money is my thing, my biggest hang-up, the issue I ruminate over and fixate on.

It's a huge issue in my marriage, my business, and my daily anxiety.

The good news is that I'm now aware that money is often how I channel my anxiety and I'm less reactive to the scary feelings I get around my money issues.

As you'll hear from today's guest, most people are anxious about money.

Amanda Clayman is a financial therapist.

She helps her clients ask the right questions and investigate the reasons

why money stresses us out so much. Anxiety, Amanda says, is a signal whose purpose is to bring

attention to something we need to attend to. And we can project that anxiety onto money in a million

different ways. Money, says Amanda, isn't always a problem to be solved.

And when we ask the right questions and uncover the motivations and roots behind our money

anxiety, we're more free to make sensible decisions.

So if your own money anxiety has you feeling trapped and unable to make changes in your life,

ask for what you want, switch your career, start that business, I hope that this episode will

give you some great tools on how to understand how to make changes and not let money anxiety

stop you. And also, what I hope you'll hear

come through in this interview, which is a theme in season three of the show, is Amanda

Klayman's love and passion for her work. She could have chosen a more lucrative career. She's

honest about that. But her ingenuity and her creativity and her

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