Send us a text Welcome back to Financial Therapy. We'll be back with lots of interesting guests joining us in a bigger conversation about us and money soon. But in the mean while lets discuss a little more about money neuroscience, in particular money and our three brains. Well, the three areas of the brain that can relate to us and how we do money. In this episode of Money Neuroscience – we are talking the Reptilian Brain and Money. Our Reptilian Brain, also known as the primitive brai...

Send us a text I am absolutely obsessed with understanding our relationship with money...on a deeper level. And one of the most exciting things I discovered a couple of years ago, was reading some research that done by an Australian bank called ANZ that looked at the factors that constitutes Financial Wellbeing. They discovered that only 9% of what is known as financial literacy i.e. financial knowledge and financial experience, has an impact of financial wellbeing. But I am curious about t...

Send us a text Welcome back to Financial Therapy. Take a moment right now to just imagine following your dreams. Or imagine doing a profession that you love so much, that you would do it for free. What about leaving everything you know behind to follow an uncommon path. In this episode of Financial Therapy we are going to explore what inspires people to choose say their passion, over a regular pay check. We’re heading out to discover what money is like on the road less travelled, ...

Send us a text Welcome back to Financial Therapy. CONTENT WARNING: We discuss issues of abuse that may be triggering to some people. Please refer to the list of domestic violence hotlines in your country. LIST OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINES GLOBALLY Let me ask you this? Have you or someone you know had their intimate partner forced you to purchase things that you didn’t want or need. What about them controlling where you spend your money and requiring you to account for everything ...

Send us a text Climate Change is the most urgent threat in our time, and if we don’t act quickly we are going to have catastrophic repercussions to clean water, food safety and ecological diversity, which is vital for humans to survive on the planet. One of the key weapons to fighting climate change is how and where we spend and invest our money. Every day we have to the power in our back pocket to support green businesses and green financial institutions, reduce our consumption, and c...

Send us a text Welcome back to the Financial Therapy podcast, I’m Jane Monica-Jones. Your host and your personal Financial Therapist. In recent years we have heard a lot about financial wellbeing or financial wellness. But what does it really mean? When we think of financial wellbeing we might think we need more financial education on strategies such as how to invest, diversify and accumulate. And if you head over to our favourite bookstores, for years there has plenty of books, like that the...

Send us a text Welcome to the Financial Therapy podcast, I’m your host and your Financial Therapist Jane Monica-Jones. In this episode we are talking money, shame, deserving and adversity. The latter of course, we will all go through at some stage in our life. Through a loss of a job, maybe a loss of loved one, an illness or even having some mental health issues. “All walks of life, it didn’t seem to matter what kind of income your husband had or what kind of house you lived in, you could end...

Send us a text Talking about money in an open and frank way is really the last taboo. For most of us, money is a relationship (often tricky) that we cannot say adios to. Unless of course you are the Queen of England or the Dalai Lama (who have no personal need for money) you are mostly likely going to be transacting, interacting and sometimes combating with it till the day you die. So understanding a little more about how you relate to money can go some way in making this relationship a littl...

Send us a text Where did you learn about money? If you were lucky enough, maybe you learnt how to manage money from your parents. Or you have made it a life-long pursuit … gaining investment advice from professionals, programs or even wealth creation gurus. But what about learning about money from psychologists, behavioural scientists and even environmentalists. Welcome to Financial Therapy, I’m your host Jane Monica-Jones and I am a Financial Therapist. I’m the therapist you go and see, with...