Talking Green

How is financial stress different from regular stress — and what is it doing to our brains and our bodies? Host Mike Norton wraps up the first season with a focus on financial well being, and how to use money as a source of happiness.

Are financial habits influenced by gender? Are men really better at managing money? Why haven’t we closed the gender pay gap already? New research debunks old stereotypes and shows how similar men and women are when it comes to financial matters.

Explore the roots of human irrationality and how our innate quirks affect our financial lives and the wider world. Join host Mike Norton, a social psychologist at Harvard Business school, and journalist Allison Schrager, as they dig into everything from why an egg got over 50 million likes to how your family history can influence your money habits. Talking Green is an original podcast from TD Ameritrade, produced together with The New York Times’s T Brand Studio.

Do you check your phone obsessively — feel anxious without it? Turns out our dependence on digital devices is sapping one of our most valuable resources: the ability to focus. Learn how the attention economy is affecting your life — and your money.

Why do our brains seem hard-wired to skew our decisions and lead us astray? Host Mike Norton explores how our irrational impulses affect our decisions — both personally and financially — and what we can do about it.