We explore why money reveals our inner life more than our bank balance, and how purpose transforms financial decisions from optimization to meaning. Rev. Josh Bascom joins us to dig into self-help’s limits, AA’s wisdom, and the power of loving your neighbor.

• technical behavioral spiritual lens for money
• money anxiety identity and privacy around numbers
• rich versus wealthy and status signaling
• comparing our insides to others’ outsides
• self-help frameworks versus purpose
• suffering as catalyst for change
• 12 steps higher power confession and amends
• love of neighbor as guiding purpose
• money as tool not measuring stick
• practical planning once purpose is clear

Check out Josh’s writing on Substack: Cross Street.