Squanderlust with Martha Lawton

Ever played a video game long after you meant to stop? What about staying in a toxic workplace or relationship? Ever looked back and thought "Why did I keep doing that?!"

It might be operant conditioning - the way we respond to rewards especially unreliable and unpredictable rewards.

Skinner Boxes (developed by BF Skinner) are a tool psychologists use to study animal behaviour, which can teach us about our choices as humans, and why we sometimes act against our own interests. Especially when we're faced with casinos, high-stress jobs, and charming but moody people.

In this solo episode Martha explains how to spot a Skinner Box and how to get out before it costs you a fortune.

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Accidental business coach, Jo Casey, knows it can be uncomfortable to ask to get paid. She has lots of great advice on getting over that feeling and becoming confident to state your price and ask for the money.

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Carl Jung said “Until we make the unconscious conscious, it will rule our lives and we will call it fate.” This is as true in our relationship with money as with anything else. So, how can we uncover the subconscious and become the rulers of our own financial fates? Well, money archetypes can help. This episode's guest, Dennis Harhalakis is a money coach who helps his clients reveal the balance of money archetypes they relate to most strongly. They can then use this knowledge to develop a happier relationship with money.

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Do you think if only you talk about your wishes in just the right way the universe will give you whatever you want? Do you believe fortune is a result of positive thinking and being "energetically aligned" for success? We hate to break it to you, but what goes on inside your head stays there. Only what makes it out in the form of your actions, words, tone and body language are affecting the course of your life. So why do people persist in believing that if they daydream just right their wildest fantasies will be manifested? And what's the harm in wanting a little magic in our lives?

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"Would I Lie to You?" is a tense, fast-paced novel about a woman who has spent the family emergency fund and desperately needs to get it back before her newly unemployed husband finds out. We talked to author Aliya Ali-Afzal about financial infidelity; spending styles in relationships; money, power and motherhood; and writing flawed characters.

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Financial Coach, Cathy Boddy, has achieved financial independence and made work optional for her. She's done it without hustling 24/7/365, getting caught up in high risk day trading, owning a string of rental properties, inheriting stacks of cash or compromising her integrity. She talks about some of the mental barriers and misconceptions people have around investing and gives tips and information to help you get started building towards your own financial freedom day.

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Otegha Uwagba is a Sunday times bestselling writer, speaker, podcaster and much more. Her latest book, "We Need to Talk About Money" is part memoir, part cultural commentary on the culture surrounding money in modern Britain. We talked about damaging secrecy around salaries; how social status is more complicated than just being upper, middle or working class; media representation and the race beat; and why being "good with money", in the sense of being very frugal and saving every penny, is not the same thing as financial wellbeing.

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Does thinking about your finances make you anxious? International speaking star, Nick Elston, is known for giving practical tips and techniques for managing anxiety that you can start using today. Nick has forged his lived experience of mental illness into a inspiring career helping others to engage with the topic of mental health. He is a big man with a big heart who shares his story with brutal honesty and gives some great advice.

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Do you love your work? What do you want to do long term? How can you build a future career you will not only succeed in, but also enjoy? Dr Grace Lordan, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science from London School of Economics tells us how to use our innate psychology to make wise choices in the workplace and find jobs that are rewarding and fit our skills and personalities.

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Does it matter if you don't tell your partner everything about your finances? What about actively keeping secrets about your spending, saving, debts and more? How will they react if they find out? How would you feel if your spouse was keeping money secrets from you? Clinical psychologist and relationship therapist, Dr Jane Major, unpacks the tricky topic of keeping secrets about money in our most intimate relationships.

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