I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab.

Most of us will talk about anything, anything before we talk about money.

It's literally in the description of my show because this blows my mind.

Most of my friends would rather cover truly anything before money.

Body stuff, embarrassing moments, crazy bad first dates, anything.

But these conversations are so important because there's a lot to learn from the people

around us and in some cases, a lot to avoid. This is another episode I teamed up with Bank of

America on because we both believe that talking to loved ones about money is essential and we

want to make it easier. Today's money rehabber breaks out into a cold sweat whenever he talks

to his friends about money.

And sometimes that costs him.

Today we'll go through strategies that will make these conversations easier.

So let's get started.

Liam, welcome to money rehab.

So what's on your mind?

Well, I get really anxious when I think about talking to my friends about money.

I'm doing pretty well with my job and I have some money saved, but I have some friends who are making a lot more money than me and it's kind of

created a few problems. They just spend so much money when we go out and I don't want to spend money like

that. But I also don't want them to stop inviting me to things. I know they're investing,

and I'd like to ask them about how they're doing that, but I just don't want to sound dumb.

But I guess it all boils down to just not feeling comfortable talking about anything when it

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