HomeEc Season 2 episode 1

Title: Stir The Pot

Cooking time for this episode is 46 minutes. 

We are serving up something hot for humans juggling emotional labor, ambition, and overwhelm who want a clearer, more compassionate way to understand their financial lives and behaviors.

Season two of HomeEc opens with Financial Therapist Nick Ashburn, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare, and the brilliant Chef La Mason exploring where well-being, entrepreneurship, and financial awareness meet. Together they look at what happens when caregiving, creativity, neurodiversity, and money collide. La shares how understanding her nervous system reshaped her life, helped her pay off thousands in debt, and shifted her relationship to work, rest, and self worth.

Key Ingredients 

The emotional pressure of caregiving and the sandwich generation, neurodiversity, ADHD, and demand avoidance. Burnout, identity, and redefining success. Emotional spending as nervous system regulation Money as life energy. Calibrate’s behavioral lens on why you do what you do through the free Calibrate assessment

Memorable Quotes 

• "I realized I wasn’t paying interest with dollars. I was paying with my time, my sleep, and my kid." 
• "I thought I had a money problem. Turns out I had a capacity problem." 
• "My nervous system wasn’t avoiding money. It was avoiding shame." 
• "When you finally see your pattern, you can’t unsee it." 
• "Budget apps kept telling me what to do. Calibrate finally told me why I couldn’t do it."
• "My spending wasn’t impulsive. It was my nervous system begging for relief."

Main Course Topics: 

How emotional labor and caregiving shape financial patterns The impact of burnout on spending, planning, and focus Reframing decisions through time, energy, and capacity Why neurodivergent and overwhelmed brains hit avoidance

Taste It: 

Experiential Pause before opening a bill or app and notice what your body is doing Choose one well-being area to nurture instead of pushing harder Try La’s time-value reframe to understand the real cost of stress Convert one expense into hours of your life energy Journal prompt: When I emotionally spend, what am I trying to soothe Extra credit: Tell one trusted person the real story of your money week

HomeEc Links:

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