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, 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 a need...
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.
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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...
Hey everyone! Welcome to your Financial Therapy for the week. Today I'm bringing back an uncomfortable--but necessary--topic for discussion: financial infidelity. Financial infidelity occurs when a partner in a committed relationship intentionally lies to or keeps financial secrets from the other partner. This can take many forms, including hiding debts, secret bank accounts or credit cards, making large purchases without consultin...
Today on Financial Therapy, we're replaying what was by far our most popular episode in Season 1--and it just so happens, it's also a fundamental episode for this show.
In his book, The Subconscious Mind of The Consumer (and How To Reach It), Harvard Business school professor Gerald Zaltzman says that 95% of purchasing decisions happen in the subconscious mind and are driven by emotions. The Financial Therapy: Minding Your Money p...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy! 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.
In Season One, we talked about a lot of different personal financial management topics, and reached people literally across the gl...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
This episode, we'll talk more about the "4 Horsemen" affecting our financial behaviors: obligation, fear/denial, guilt/shame, and pride--and discuss how using gratitude in how we confront them can help us make more thoughtful financial moves in the future. The goal here is to give us...
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 a tricky subject: comingling your finances with a financial partner. If you're in a relationship with someone you love and care about, how do you determine how (or whether) to put your finances together--combining your spending and investment power, and inte...
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 episode is all about practical ways we can move our minds forward when it comes to managing our finances. I'll give you 5 things to do--starting right now--that can make a difference in shaking you out of your rut, and changing your financial future.
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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 talking again about a subject that affects nearly every household in America: the affordability crisis. Whether you make $50,000 or $250,000 a year, it seems that we're all having to confront a new normal when it comes to the American Dream--whatever that means to y...
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 a growing public health concern: gambling. Gambling addiction and problem gambling are rapidly increasing in the U.S., with around 2.5 million adults facing severe (and 5 to 8 million facing mild/moderate) gambling problems. Nearly 10% of young U.S. men (age...
Hey everyone, welcome back to your Financial Therapy for the week! 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.
A lot of us would love to ease our financial woes by winning the lottery—or more realistically, by having enough cash flow to not ever have to worry about making ends meet. But because so many of our financial deci...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – an MBA, Certified Financial Planning professional, and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome back to Financial Therapy!
Today’s episode is all about the Great Wealth Transfer, and what you need to know to be clear-eyed about what it all means for you—including why there may not be as much waiting for you as you think.
It’s one thing to have/receive money; it’s another thing to keep it… so ...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – an Certified Financial Planning professional, and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
Today's episode is all about how focusing on some practical things can eliminate some of our emotional decision-making when it comes to spending and earning money. I'll give you 5 areas of life that--if you look deeply at them--can help you make drastic shifts in your financial out...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – an MBA, Certified Financial Planning professional, and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
If you're like many of us, you're looking for the most efficient and effective ways to invest your money--but where should you start? Do your research! I'll quickly run through three investment vehicles that you might want to look into, in order to become an "instant" investor...
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's episode is all about making your money work for you--for real. I'll talk about three aspects of money management you should be thinking about when making choices about how to save and grow your hard-earned dollars.
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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 lifestyle inflation/creep--what it is, how common it is for all of us, and how its hidden costs can affect your ability to build wealth. Our goal here is to give us all ways to be more secure and confident in our financial decision-making, and to have a greater se...
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome to Financial Therapy!
Since financial education isn't a staple in schools, you might be wondering how you can help your kids learn basics that can affect the rest of their lives. Tune in for 8 ways to set your kids up for success. Then continue the conversation using the resources below.
Hey everyone, I'm Lena Banks – a Certified Financial Planning professional and small business coach based in Austin, TX. Welcome back to Financial Therapy, and Happy 2026!
Today we're talking about a subject that affects nearly every household in America: the affordability and debt crisis. When you're constantly chasing the next level of income, or spending just to flex, debt can pile up quickly. But now, just spending on the basic...
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