Financial Therapy: Minding Your Money
Lena and friends want to welcome you to Financial Therapy! The MBA, Certified Financial Planning professional, small business coach, and millionaire investor hopes to start a movement--where real people talk about personal finance in a different, and more empowering way. With new episodes coming to you weekly from Austin, TX, our goal is to give you ways to better identify and maintain your financial values, priorities, and boundaries; and to overcome your own biases about money, so you can be more confident in your financial decision-making, and ultimately, have a greater sense of well-being overall. Call or text to submit your feedback and questions for the show: 1-844-4FINPOD (1-844-434-6763)
Episodes
Hey everyone--welcome back to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Have you ever wondered how sound your financial decision-making is? Do you ever catch yourself behaving or spending overconfidently?
Data from an August 2025 Logica Future of Money Study indicate that 54% of Americans' outlook on their personal finances was optimistic, even as 50% believed the national economy was worse than a year prior. Why the disconnect?
Today ...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome back to Financial Therapy! Today we're replaying another popular episode in the Four Horsemen series: a deep dive about confronting financial guilt and shame.
We'll talk about three questions to ask to spot-check your feelings of guilt and shame around money--on the road to being more secure and con...
Welcome back to Financial Therapy, everyone! Today we're replaying a popular episode, that also happens to be the next in the Four Horsemen series: a deep dive about financial fear and denial.
For 49% of us, just looking at our bank accounts can trigger negative feelings. Fear can be defined as an unpleasant, often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger; it goes hand in hand with denial--a defense mechanism wh...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
Today we're replaying a deep dive episode about financial obligation. Obligation is the condition of being morally or legally bound to do something; it can also be a debt of gratitude for a service or favor. Have you ever wondered why you feel so financially obligated to make, ...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional, small business coach, and investor. Welcome back to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Today we're asking a deep question: Who are you in your financial life? If you're struggling financially, or just can't seem to find your financial groove, it may be because you haven't come to terms with doing one of two things (or both) when it comes to your fi...
If we believe longstanding scientific studies, money doesn't bring you happiness, but interestingly, it can have a huge effect on whether you can maintain it. Today in Financial Therapy, we're talking a bit about how money, happiness, and relationships intersect in our lives, and how our ability to maintain financial wellness may be the key to finding success in other areas.
The goal for the show is to give us all ways to be more ...
Hey everyone, Welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Today we're replaying a real downer of an episode... as in 7 ways dealing with money can bring us down. But the good news is that for each one of these aspects of personal finance, you'll hear some ideas on how to counteract any negative emotions that come up while managing them, in order to adjust your mindset for the future.
No matter your income level, basic interact...
Hey everyone, welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week! Today we’re replaying an episode about money dysmorphia: a psychological disconnect between your actual financial status and your perceptions of it. People can suffer from money dysmorphia regardless of whether they over- or underestimate their financial resources.
Crystal Zuzek is with us to have the conversation; she first heard about this concept via an episode...
Hey everyone, welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week!
When financial losses are staring us down--whether we've already endured them, or they're just over the horizon--it can be a painful emotional experience. Today we're talking about what financial losses can do to us mentally, and the biases that can lead to emotions like fear, denial, guilt, and shame. We'll also discuss how we can better accept losses by reframing situa...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Optimism bias is a psychological phenomenon where people in part believe they are more likely to experience positive outcomes in the future. In personal finance, this can mean overestimating future income, underestimating future expenses, and spending unneces...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week!
According to USA Today, impulse buying is up, despite the financial crunch most of us are feeling. Splurging can feel great--it's generally driven by the interactions between emotions, environments, and immediate gratification, says Sining Wang, assistant econ...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy! Today we're talking about how to break away from bad money habits, by rethinking or being more conscious about the money moves we make--or don't make.
Whether trusting ourselves to end financial commitments when circumstances change, or taking a leap of faith once we have a pl...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
Today we're challenging the status quo by talking about 5 places to find free money. Consider making some small changes, because if not, you may be leaving some money on the table, or costing yourself financially.
Call or text to submit your feedback and questions for the show:...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
Today's replay episode is all about the 5 things the best financial advisors will do for you as their client. Listen in to be more confident making your next financial move. The goal here is to give us all ways to be more secure and confident in our financial decision-making, a...
Hey everyone--welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Today we're talking about three common ways we tend to make our financial lives more difficult without even realizing it...and how we can make a change. Being more mindful about how our biases and behaviors can negatively affect our financial -- and emotional -- wellness can free us up to do things differently.
The goal here is to give us all ways to be more secure and c...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy, and Happy Summer!
The pandemic, and now the affordability crisis have reset our needs, expectations, and resources available for 'going out'. Now, more people are turning to activities like meet-ups, social clubs, and activity-based apps; these and other ways to establish and m...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome back to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Friend of the show Andi Cobb is back in the studio for today's episode--a commentary on how one parent is dealing with his son's job 'situationships' (4+ unpaid internships after graduate school). Is this just good networking and preparation, or is there ...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week!
Today we're talking about 7 things to keep in mind to more effectively grow and invest your resources. The goal here is to give us all ways to be more secure and confident in our financial decision-making, and to have a greater sense of well-being overall.
Cal...
Hi everyone--welcome back to your Financial Therapy for the week! We're back in Season 2, with one of my favorite show formats: origin stories.
Today we'll ask our guest: What's your financial origin story? Were you taught financial literacy? Or did your caregivers rarely discuss money growing up? More often than not, we get our money mindsets passed down to us from our parents, or whoever was most responsible for making the financ...
Hey, everyone. Welcome back for Season 2 of Financial Therapy: Minding Your Money! I'm Lena Banks--a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX.
We're kicking off this season talking again about a subject that affects nearly every household in America: the affordability crisis. Whether you earn $50,000 or $250,000 a year, it seems we're all having to confront a new normal when it comes to...
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