Most financial mistakes don’t feel like mistakes at first.
They feel like private moral failures discovered too late.
In this first episode of What This Does to Us, we take a quiet look at why financial shame feels so heavy, so isolating, and so personal, even though it’s incredibly common.
This episode explores:
Why money mistakes often feel like evidence of personal failure
How modern financial systems create confusion while individualizing blame
The emotional side effects of learning about money through consequences instead of clarity
Why shame doesn’t lead to better financial decisions, but understanding often does
Rather than offering tips, budgets, or fixes, this conversation focuses on restoring context. On separating responsibility from self-punishment. On understanding what happens to people emotionally when they’re expected to navigate complex systems alone.
This is not an episode about getting your finances “under control.”
It’s an episode about loosening the shame that makes it hard to look at them at all.
If you’ve ever avoided opening a statement, delayed asking a question you thought you should already know the answer to, or quietly believed your confusion meant something was wrong with you, this episode is for you.
Take your time with it.
Nothing needs to be resolved today.
