Money and the Mind

Andy and Aaron discuss how to have better money conversations, conversational pitfalls, a Schitt’s Creek connection, listening, silence, and more.

Resources/Links:
How to Have Better Conversations
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

Send us an email! [email protected]

Dr. Brad Klontz joins the show to discuss misinformation around money and mental health, the near impossibility of successful day trading, cryptocurrency, how the wealthy approach investing, harmful money advice on social media, the best way to motivate people to save, and more!

Audio outro: The Black Keys, “For the Love of Money”
Intro music by David von Kampen

Links:
Dr. Brad Klontz website
Money Mindset YouTube channel
Dr. Klontz on TikTok
Money Mammoth book
Mind Over Money book
Research articles
Find your Money Script
Money and the Mind Ep40 with Dr. Klontz

Bio from Dr. Klontz’s website (lightly edited):

Bradley T. Klontz, Psy.D., CFP is a Co-Founder of the Financial Psychology Institute and an Associate Professor of Practice in Financial Psychology at Creighton University Heider College of Business. He is a Managing Principal of Your Mental Wealth Advisors, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a Former President of the Hawaii Psychological Association. He has partnered with organizations including Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Mutual of Omaha, and H&R Block in efforts to help raise public awareness around issues related to financial health and financial psychology.

Dr. Klontz was awarded the Innovative Practice Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for his application of psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues and his innovative practice in financial psychology for practitioners across the country.

Dr. Klontz has been a columnist for the Journal of Financial Planning, On Wall Street, and PsychologyToday.com, and has co-authored/co-edited six books on the psychology of money.

His work has been featured on ABC News’ 20/20, Good Morning America, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Kiplinger’s, Money Magazine, NPR, and many others.

Dr. Kristy Archuleta joins Andy and Aaron to discuss growing up on a farm, development of financial therapy as a (relatively) new academic study, the intensity of financial arguments, is a lack of arguments in a relationship healthy?, financial vulnerability, the benefits of self talk and taking a walk, a separate bank accounts success story, conflicts in estate planning and wills, strategies for conflict resolution, women in farming, and more!

(Apologies for a few instances of choppy audio.)

Audio outro: The Head and the Heart, “Take a Walk”

Links:
Kristy Archuleta | UGA
Journal of Financial Therapy
"Knives Out" trailer
Women Managing the Farm

Bio (lightly edited):
Dr. Kristy Archuleta is a Professor in the Financial Planning program at the University of Georgia, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Certified Financial Therapist-ITM. Prior to joining the faculty at UGA in 2018, she was an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Personal Financial Planning program at Kansas State University. Her research and teaching interests relate to financial therapy, couples and money, and effective mechanisms to improve financial and overall well-being. She has co-edited two books: Financial Planning and Scales and Financial Therapy: Theory, Theory, Research, and Practice and published numerous scholarly articles.

Dr. Archuleta is a co-founding board member and Past-President of the Financial Therapy Association, co-founding Editor of the Journal of Financial Therapy, and a co-founder of Women Managing the Farm. She serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors and the National Consumer Education Foundation, the Financial Therapy Association Certification Committee, and the Editorial Boards for Financial Planning Review, Journal of Financial Planning, and Korean Financial Planning Review. She is commonly featured in podcasts and major news media outlets, such as the New York Times, Investment News, and CNBC, to name a few. Her cutting-edge research contributions, along with her co-authors, have been recognized with awards such as the 2019 National Endowment for Education sponsored Research to Practice Outstanding AFCPE Conference Paper Award and the Outstanding Journal Article Award given at the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education annual conference in 2014 and 2020. Dr. Archuleta is a recipient of the Kansas State University College of Human Ecology Myers-Alford Outstanding Teaching Award and the Oklahoma State University College of Human Sciences Distinguished Alumna Award.

Dr. Jeff Mallinson joins Andy and Aaron in this jam-packed episode to discuss his family financial history, the dangerous combination of power and money, Christian schools and communities, the organism-like behavior of systems, cryptocurrency, financial tendencies of cult victims, Dave Ramsey, the ethics of debt, living a minimalist lifestyle, selling an underwater-mortgage house in the 2008 real estate crash, traveling and camping in a van, the dream van/vehicle, and more.

Note: The campsite mentioned in the show (which we couldn’t think of in real time) is called Streeter Park in Aurora, Nebraska, and features free camping, free electrical hookups, and more.

Audio intro: Lana Del Rey, “Money Power Glory”
Audio outro: David von Kampen, “Aurora” (feat. Andrea von Kampen)

Links:
Jeff Mallinson.com
Dr. Mallinson on Twitter
Protect Your Noggin website
Protect Your Noggin podcast
The Christian Difference: An Explanation & Comparison of World Religions
Virtue in the Wasteland podcast
ViW: Antiwisdom episode
Boondockers Welcome: Boondocking and Free RV Camping
RV Camping with Harvest Hosts
Mitsubishi Delica

Bio (lightly edited):
Dr. Mallinson is the Professor & Chair of History and Political Thought at Concordia University, Irvine. He has a D. Phil. from Oxford University and is a speaker, podcaster, and writer. He specializes in the history of ideas, especially as they shed light on the ways in which religious and philosophical ideas can both emancipate and enslave people. In addition to several scholarly book chapters and articles, he is author of Sexy: The Quest for Erotic Virtue in Perplexing Times (New Reformation Press, 2017), Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza: 1519-1605 (Oxford University Press, 2003), and associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Luther and the Reformation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). He is focused these days on rethinking the methods of religious education and outfoxing religious wolves, which is the mission of his podcast and curriculum called Protect Your Noggin, co-hosted with his wife Stacie. He is the faculty in residence for Concordia's Honors Living and Learning Community. For fun, he enjoys writing poetry and long-term boondocking in a truck bed camper, and developing a small off-grid farm in rural San Diego County.

Dr. Brad Klontz joins the show to discuss early money memories, how we’re wired to make poor financial decisions (and why that’s empowering), what separates the wealthy from the ultra-wealthy, teaching young people, the usefulness of understanding Money Scripts and financial flashpoints, money avoidance, workaholism, a simple tactic for saving, and more!

Links:Dr. Brad Klontz website
Money Mindset YouTube channel
Dr. Klontz on TikTok
Dr. Klontz’s new Money Mammoth book
Mind Over Money book
Research articles
Financial Health Academy
Find your Money Script
Sprinter vansFinancial Flashpoints episode
Money Scripts episode

Send us an email! [email protected]

Bio from Dr. Klontz’s website (lightly edited):
Bradley T. Klontz, Psy.D., CFP is a Co-Founder of the Financial Psychology Institute and an Associate Professor of Practice in Financial Psychology at Creighton University Heider College of Business. He is a Managing Principal of Your Mental Wealth Advisors, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a Former President of the Hawaii Psychological Association. He has partnered with organizations including Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, Mutual of Omaha, and H&R Block in efforts to help raise public awareness around issues related to financial health and financial psychology.

Dr. Klontz was awarded the Innovative Practice Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for his application of psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues and his innovative practice in financial psychology for practitioners across the country.

Dr. Klontz has been a columnist for the Journal of Financial Planning, On Wall Street, and PsychologyToday.com, and has co-authored/co-edited six books on the psychology of money.

His work has been featured on ABC News’ 20/20, Good Morning America, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Kiplinger’s, Money Magazine, NPR, and many others.