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Alive with Steve Burns

Why Money Stresses Us Out with Megan McCoy

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0588 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Megan helps Steve approach the anxieties, fantasies, and obsessions we bring to our relationship with money.   Dr. Megan McCoy is an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University’s Department of Personal Financial Planning. Received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Georgia. She is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an Accredited Financial Counselor®, and a Certified Financial Therapist-I™.   Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/stevealive.   Head to ComicConTheCruise.com/ALIVE to learn more and book your cabin — and don’t forget to use code ALIVE for $250 off per cabin on new reservations!   Layer up this fall with pieces that feel as good as they look. Go to quince.com/alive for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe.    Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Lemonada

0:02.0

Alive

0:03.0

Alive

0:04.0

with Steve Burns

0:17.0

Hey, there you are, come on in, Come on it. Hi. Welcome to Alive. Let me tell you, I am having a day. I'm making tea. I need a cup of tea. You want tea?

0:34.9

So, I just had to fill out one of those forms

0:38.4

You know one of those incredibly impenetrable financial money forms

0:43.1

With the ridiculous name like delta nozzle 85b dash C

0:48.3

Because I have to form an S corporation for this podcast

0:53.8

And when I tell you that I didn't understand the form form an S corporation for this podcast.

0:55.0

And when I tell you that I didn't understand the form,

0:59.0

I mean, like, it may as well have been encoded

1:04.0

Mandarin or something.

1:06.0

There was no way I could understand this form.

1:09.0

I didn't even understand what I didn't understand about it.

1:12.8

And when it comes to that kind of stuff, when it comes to this like financial money world stuff,

1:19.0

I get so stressed out. Like I get like so stressed out. And that's weird because in any other and most other aspects

1:32.0

of my life if I don't know something I'm like oh cool I can't wait to learn about it here's

1:37.8

your tea but when it comes to money it's not like that I get like like triggered or something and I just have this

1:46.8

aversion to it.

1:47.9

Like I don't know what's going on.

1:50.3

Like why?

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