The podcast
Every episode, by feeling
Every week, David and Emme explore a different dimension of your emotional relationship with money. Each episode is tagged by theme and Money Persona, so you can find exactly what you need.
Season 1
All episodes
Your Money Story — Why Am I Like This?
The "chaotic mess" in your bank account isn't a moral failing. It's the echo of patterns that were set before you could spell your own name. David and Emme open the season by introducing Financial DNA — the hidden architecture of money beliefs, attachment styles and inherited scripts that drive the financial decisions you can't quite explain.
The Five Money Personas — Which One Are You?
Are you an Anxious Protector? A Free Spirit? A Wounded Warrior? David and Emme introduce the five emotional patterns that define your relationship with money.
Breakup Spending — When Heartbreak Becomes a Spending Trap
A $9 candle. An emergency takeaway. Three weeks of "treat yourself" you can't actually afford. Emme and David unpack why heartbreak — and stress, and loneliness, and Friday nights — hits the wallet first. This episode reframes "doom spending" as a nervous system problem, not a discipline problem.
The Comparison Game
You're not poorer than your parents were. You're not even poorer than your friends. You're comparing your actual life to a curated highlight reel — and the gap between the two is where modern financial resentment lives. Emme and David explore why every milestone you reach immediately becomes the new normal.
The Debt Monster
You're not bad at maths. Your brain's CEO has been escorted out of the building. David and Emme go inside the neurology of debt — why the "dread" of opening your bank app physically takes your decision-making centre offline, and why every "just budget better" piece of advice fails to land for people in a shame spiral.
The Housing Crisis
When the wealth-building model your parents used gets yanked out of reach, the result isn't just "I can't buy a house." It's a deeper, quieter phenomenon called financial nihilism — and it changes every small money decision a person makes. Emme and David sit honestly with the intergenerational gap that nobody on either side wants to name out loud.
The Stock Market & Crypto
"I know it's gambling. I just don't see another way to catch up." That's the line David hears most often from clients in their thirties. This episode takes the urge seriously — not to lecture, but to unpack the psychology of high-risk investing in a world where the safe path feels closed. Behavioural biases, not stock tips.
Relationships & Money
Money is the leading cause of relationship conflict — and it's almost never about the money. David and Emme explore how your partner's spending hits your deepest childhood survival instincts, why financial infidelity is rarely about secrecy, and what to actually say when "we need to talk about the credit card" feels impossible.
Career & Burnout
The intellectual climax of the season. Why reaching the top often feels like standing in a void — and the sharpest distinction Emme and David make all year: Purpose is future-oriented. Meaning is past-oriented. Overachievers are miserable because they're using the next promotion as a band-aid for a wound that needs surgery.
The "Enough" Point
There's a Greek man named Diogenes who lived in a jar. To prove a point. Emme and David make philosophy useful — not as a vibe but as financial infrastructure. "Enough" is a number you set in advance, not a feeling you wait for. Pre-define it and the comparison game stops moving the goalpost.
The Financial Reset
Eleven weeks of *why*. One episode of *what to do tomorrow morning*. David and Emme close the season with four small, specific actions drawn from Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy — none of them a 47-step plan, all of them buildable today. Information paralysis ends here. Season finale.
Bonus & Specials
Off-canon conversations
Extra episodes that sit alongside Season 1 — explored outside the core evidence base, for the curious.
The Money Taboo — Why We'll Talk About Sex But Not Salaries
Money is still one of the last taboos. David and Emme explore why financial secrecy persists, what it costs us emotionally, and how to start having honest money conversations.
Money Parts — Why Part of You Saves While Another Part Spends
Ever feel like there are two versions of you — one responsible, one impulsive? We explore why your internal parts have different financial agendas.
Human Design & Money — How Your Energy Type Affects Financial Decisions
Emme brings her fascination with human design to the money conversation. Discover how generators, projectors, and manifestors each approach their finances differently.
Where to start
Not sure which episode is for you?
Take the free quiz to discover your Money Persona, then come back for the episodes that speak to it. Everything here is general education — not therapy, and not financial advice.