# 🌍 Financial Therapy in Action: How Your Culture Shapes Your Money Blocks Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/money-healing-club-podcast-7114739/financial-therapy-in-action-how-your-culture-shapes-your-money-blocks Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/money-healing-club-podcast-7114739/financial-therapy-in-action-how-your-culture-shapes-your-money-blocks.md Podcast: [Money Healing Club Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/money-healing-club-podcast-7114739) Published: 2026-04-03T19:01:40+00:00 Episode link: https://moneyhealingclub.podbean.com/e/%f0%9f%8c-financial-therapy-in-action-how-your-culture-shapes-your-money-blocks/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7bkg4u34j6h52qft/_Financial_Therapy_in_Action_How_Your_Culture_Shapes_Your_Money_Blocks-4awq01.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/money-healing-club-podcast-7114739/episodes/financial-therapy-in-action-how-your-culture-shapes-your-money-blocks Duration seconds: 3951 ## Resource EPISODE SUMMARY The money beliefs holding you back aren't just yours. They were handed to you by your culture, your religion, your family, and maybe even your country. In this special episode of the Money Healing Club podcast, Rachel Duncan(financial therapist and art therapist) sits down with Ali, a guest joining from Pakistan. This isn't a traditional guest interview. It's a raw, minimally edited, live financial therapy coaching session recorded with Ali's full permission. You'll hear the pauses, the processing, the emotion, and the complexity as it all unfolds in real time. This episode gets into the push-pull with money rooted in scarcity, culture, and what happens when being visible and successful carries real risk. "It's more like an energy that I am attracting as well as resisting and pushing away. That push-pull, I feel it's because of the childhood learnings that were taken from my caretakers and the surroundings and the beliefs that I made around them." β€” Ali Key Takeaways: Scarcity mindset often gets installed through small everyday moments, not just big financial events The gap between outer presentation and inner reality is a money pattern, not just a cultural one Abandoning projects right at the moment of praise is a real pattern, and it has roots Breaking with tradition to grow a business isn't just hard. Sometimes it can be dangerous. You don't have to be the head goose all the time. Learning your rhythm is part of money healing About Ali: Ali is based in Pakistan, where he runs his family's plastic packaging manufacturing business. He's also an emotional intelligence coach, NLP practitioner, and youth counselor on his own six-year healing journey. His identity is kept anonymous for safety, but his willingness to share openly makes this one of the most… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/money-healing-club-podcast-7114739/episodes/financial-therapy-in-action-how-your-culture-shapes-your-money-blocks/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/money-healing-club-podcast-7114739/financial-therapy-in-action-how-your-culture-shapes-your-money-blocks.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.