The Wealthy Me Podcast

Your Brain on Gratitude: The Science of Receiving More

Can gratitude help you receive more? In this episode of the Wealthy Me Podcast, I explore what happens in your brain when you practise gratitude, and why it may be one of the simplest ways to receive more wealth with ease.

Have you ever been so focused on what you don’t have that you barely notice what’s already here? I’ve been there. I share the story of a woman who was living my dream life and still couldn’t enjoy it, the moment I realised I was doing the same thing, and the one line from The Science of Getting Rich that changed the way I think about receiving.

🙏 Join me for the Gratitude Rampage
On 11 November at 11am Eastern (4pm UK), I’m guiding you through 11 minutes of gratitude to show you just how wealthy you already are, followed by 11 days of daily gratitude prompts. Add it to your calendar here:
👉 http://cal.ae/amaaoiow

Key takeaways:

Your brain is wired for survival, so it naturally scans for what’s missing and what could go wrong.
That isn’t a sign you’re ungrateful. It’s your brain doing exactly what it’s built to do.
What you focus on expands, whether that’s worry or appreciation.
Gratitude tells your brain “this matters to me”, and it can direct your attention towards more of what you value.
You can’t fake gratitude. It works when you truly value the thing you’re grateful for.

Questions I answer in this episode:

Why do I focus on what I don’t have?
What happens in the brain when you feel grateful?
How can gratitude help you receive more?
What is value-driven attention?
What is a gratitude rampage?

Chapters:
00:00 Why are we so focused on what’s missing?
01:25 Welcome to the Wealthy Me Podcast
02:25 The woman who was living my dream life
06:10 Why your brain scans for what’s missing
09:15 What I learned from The Science of Getting Rich
11:45 What happens in your brain when you feel grateful?
15:05 Why my advice was “go on a gratitude rampage”
18:55 What is value-driven attention?
21:00 Join the Gratitude Rampage on 11 November

The research I mention:
Fox, G. R., Kaplan, J., Damasio, H. and Damasio, A. (2015). Neural correlates of gratitude. Frontiers in Psychology. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4588123/

Connect with me:

Discover your Hidden Wealth Identity: tashachen.com/quiz
Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@tashachen
Instagram: @DearWealthyMe

The Art of Receiving MORE

You’ve set the intentions. You’ve done the visualizations. You’ve prayed, believed, and taken action.

So why does receiving what you’ve asked for sometimes feel so difficult?

What if there’s something you’re missing?

Join me as I reveal The 3 Keys to Mastering the Art of Receiving MORE and help you discover which one may be limiting what you’re allowing into your life.

Do you resist ease? Tasha’s first answer was a firm no. Then she sat down with a blank sheet of paper and found three beliefs still quietly running the way she receives.

In this episode, Tasha shares those three blind spot beliefs through her own stories and her clients’ experiences. She explains why your brain isn’t trying to keep you safe so much as keep you the same, how a belief that you’re not enough can shut you down in the very rooms you’ve asked to be in, and why so many women only feel they deserve ease after they’ve exhausted themselves.

She also introduces Receiving Season: three live sessions across the last three months of the year to help you release, give thanks and create your 2027.

Join Receiving Season
Add all three dates to your calendar here: http://cal.ae/amaaoiow

 "If You're Not Paying My Bills, I Don't Care" | Dr Stephanie Rimka 

How do women learn to receive? Dr Stephanie Rimka, author of Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power, joins Tasha Chen to talk about feminine power, money trauma and what wealth really means.

Stephanie defines wealth as knowing that she belongs to herself. She shares how she moved from being resistant to luxury to choosing "luxury" as her word of the year, why shame is so damaging, and the moment Tasha told her she still had a big money trauma. She's also honest about being in the middle of her own identity shift, having stepped back from 1:1 patient care after 30 years.

🎁 Free masterclass: Receive, The Missing Piece in Healing
Download Stephanie's complimentary masterclass, plus educational resources on nervous system healing, foundational biology and practical tools for restoring health. Whether you're new to this work or a healthcare professional looking to think differently, it's a great place to begin.
👉 https://yoursoulbeautiful.com/the-gifts

Key takeaways from this conversation:

• Wealth can mean sovereignty: having the health, money and freedom to say yes or no on your own terms.
• Guilt and shame are different. Guilt tells you that you did something wrong; shame tells you that you are wrong.
• Visualisation works by creating a future version of yourself that pulls you forward.
• Many women find it easier to give than to receive, and Stephanie explains why receiving is central to feminine power.
• Healing, wealth and support can't land fully until you feel you deserve them.

Questions answered in this episode:

• What does it mean to be wealthy beyond money?
• What is the difference between guilt and shame?
• How do you know when you've outgrown an identity?
• Why do women struggle to receive?
• Can you have money trauma without realising it?

About Dr Stephanie Rimka
Dr Stephanie Rimka is a clinician, educator and speaker with nearly three decades of experience in brain health, nervous system regulation and human performance. She is a founding faculty member of Peptide University, where she teaches clinicians worldwide to apply peptide therapies through the lens of mitochondrial function, signalling and sequencing rather than trends.

Her work bridges neuroscience, trauma physiology and bioenergetics, offering a systems-based approach to healing. She specialises in mental health, children's health and complex chronic conditions, helping clinicians and individuals move beyond protocols into precision. She is the author of Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power, which explores the meeting point of biology, embodiment and feminine intelligence in healing.

Please note, Dr Rimka is no longer accepting new patients for 1:1 care.

Connect with Dr Stephanie Rimka:

• Free masterclass and resources: https://yoursoulbeautiful.com/the-gifts
• Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power: [BOOK LINK]
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Rimkas-Brain-and-Body-Solutions-155265801171079/

Connect with Tasha Chen:

• Discover your Hidden Wealth Identity: tashachen.com/quiz
• Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@tashachen
• Instagram: @DearWealthyMe

How do women learn to receive? Dr Stephanie Rimka, author of Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power, joins Tasha Chen to talk about feminine power, money trauma and what wealth really means.

Stephanie defines wealth as knowing that she belongs to herself. She shares how she moved from being resistant to luxury to choosing "luxury" as her word of the year, why shame is so damaging, and the moment Tasha told her she still had a big money trauma. She's also honest about being in the middle of her own identity shift, having stepped back from 1:1 patient care after 30 years.

🎁 Free masterclass: Receive, The Missing Piece in Healing
Download Stephanie's complimentary masterclass, plus educational resources on nervous system healing, foundational biology and practical tools for restoring health. Whether you're new to this work or a healthcare professional looking to think differently, it's a great place to begin.
👉 https://yoursoulbeautiful.com/the-gifts

Key takeaways from this conversation:

• Wealth can mean sovereignty: having the health, money and freedom to say yes or no on your own terms.
• Guilt and shame are different. Guilt tells you that you did something wrong; shame tells you that you are wrong.
• Visualisation works by creating a future version of yourself that pulls you forward.
• Many women find it easier to give than to receive, and Stephanie explains why receiving is central to feminine power.
• Healing, wealth and support can't land fully until you feel you deserve them.

Questions answered in this episode:

• What does it mean to be wealthy beyond money?
• What is the difference between guilt and shame?
• How do you know when you've outgrown an identity?
• Why do women struggle to receive?
• Can you have money trauma without realising it?

About Dr Stephanie Rimka
Dr Stephanie Rimka is a clinician, educator and speaker with nearly three decades of experience in brain health, nervous system regulation and human performance. She is a founding faculty member of Peptide University, where she teaches clinicians worldwide to apply peptide therapies through the lens of mitochondrial function, signalling and sequencing rather than trends.

Her work bridges neuroscience, trauma physiology and bioenergetics, offering a systems-based approach to healing. She specialises in mental health, children's health and complex chronic conditions, helping clinicians and individuals move beyond protocols into precision. She is the author of Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power, which explores the meeting point of biology, embodiment and feminine intelligence in healing.

Please note, Dr Rimka is no longer accepting new patients for 1:1 care.

Connect with Dr Stephanie Rimka:

• Free masterclass and resources: https://yoursoulbeautiful.com/the-gifts
• Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power: [BOOK LINK]
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Rimkas-Brain-and-Body-Solutions-155265801171079/

Connect with Tasha Chen:

• Discover your Hidden Wealth Identity: tashachen.com/quiz
• Awaken the Wealthy Woman Within tour: tashachen.com/tour
• Instagram: @DearWealthyMe

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to The Wealthy Me Conversations
02:30 What does it mean to be wealthy?
06:28 Why do we resist luxury?
06:47 What is the difference between guilt and shame?
08:43 How does visualisation create your future self?
19:40 What does authenticity really mean?
21:01 Whose opinion should you actually care about?
28:43 What does wealth look like in real life?
32:39 Why do women struggle to receive?
39:23 Why the feminine is the receiver
53:20 Can you have money trauma without knowing it? 

Feminine power, receiving and wealth come together in this conversation between Tasha Chen and Dr Stephanie Rimka, author of Receive.

Stephanie defines wealth as knowing that she belongs to herself. She shares how she got there, from years of being resistant to luxury to choosing "luxury" as her word of the year at one of Tasha's events in Florida. She's also refreshingly honest about being in the middle of her own identity shift right now, having stepped back from seeing patients after 30 years.

Stephanie is a clinician, educator and speaker with nearly three decades of experience in brain health, nervous system regulation and human performance, and a founding faculty member of Peptide University.

In this conversation:

• The difference between guilt and shame, and the $100 bill test that shows it
• How visualisation and your future self can pull you forward
• Why so many women find it hard to receive, and what that costs them
• Stephanie's two-question test for whose opinion really matters
• The moment Tasha told Stephanie she still had a big money trauma

 STEPHANIES GIFT FOR ALL LISTENERS: https://yoursoulbeautiful.com/the-gifts

Divorce finances and money confidence for women are at the heart of this conversation between Tasha Chen and Rhonda Noordyk, CDFA, CEO of the Women's Financial Wellness Center.

Rhonda is a certified divorce financial analyst and host of the Divorce Conversations for Women podcast. She talks about the day a mentor told her that her income would never grow higher than her self-esteem, and how long it took her to admit he had a point. She also shares the commercial property deal that changed how she negotiates, and why she won't just crunch the numbers for her clients when she can teach them to understand their own money.

You don't need to be going through a divorce to get something from this one. Tasha and Rhonda cover confidence, risk and self-advocacy in a way that applies to business and life just as much.

In this conversation:

Why asking for what's fair is advocacy, not greed
How your self-esteem can put a ceiling on your income
Why so many women hold back from financial risk, and how to move forward anyway
What it means to exchange ideas for money rather than hours
How Rhonda chooses advisers she can trust, using her CIA method: communication, integrity and advocacy

Resources from Rhonda:

1. Bold Beginnings: A Journey of Divorce and Financial Confidence: https://www.amazon.com/Bold-Beginnings-Journey-Financial-Confidence-ebook/dp/B0DGDN1D31?ref_=ast_author_dp&th=1&psc=1

2. Her Terms: A Confidence Framework for Women and Money: https://www.amazon.com/Her-Terms-Confidence-Framework-Women/dp/1962582248?ref_=ast_author_dp&th=1&psc=1

3. 6 Proven Steps to Advocate for a Fair Financial Divorce Settlement Mini-Course:
https://bridge.rhondanoordyk.com/mini-course-optin

From Tasha:

Discover your Hidden Wealth Identity: tashachen.com/quiz

Share your favourite moment and tag @DearWealthyMe on Instagram

The Signs You've Outgrown the Version of You That Got You Here

Burnout isn't a mindset problem. Kristin Sitek joins Tasha Chen on The Wealthy Me Podcast to explain why high-performing women can't think their way out of it, and what actually shifts when you work at the root instead of the symptom.

Kristin is an energy alchemist, intuitive and functional health practitioner working with CEOs, entrepreneurs and leaders who are done managing symptoms. Her practice sits at the intersection of energetics and functional health: clearing the energetic charge behind survival patterns, settling the nervous system, and building the capacity to hold success without collapsing under it. Tasha calls it wealth with ease. Kristin calls it abundance without burnout.

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS:

- Why wealth, for Kristin, is emotional freedom rather than a figure
- The signs you've outgrown the version of you that got you here
- Why your body doesn't have a voice, but it does have symptoms
- The order Kristin works in, and why she starts with energetics rather than labs
- What ancient plant wisdom actually is, and what it isn't
- Why minerals run out first when you've been burnt out for years
- How scarcity programming keeps running in the background like a virus
- The visibility wound, and how it quietly caps what women earn

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome
00:47 Who Kristin is and who she works with
01:31 What does being wealthy mean to you, right now?
02:31 Waking up and realising you've outgrown yourself
03:18 The wake-up call at the mailbox
04:20 Walking away from a top-ranked corporate career
05:20 Why she became a functional health practitioner
06:04 The session that pulled her into energy healing
09:09 The signals that you're in the in-between
10:32 Your body has no voice, only symptoms
12:46 How the work actually runs, start to finish
14:40 What ancient plant wisdom is, and what it isn't
16:28 Scarcity programming and the radio station analogy
19:35 Abundance without burnout
20:35 The overflowing glass, and how to empty it
21:51 Minerals, and running your body in low power mode
23:53 Ancient plant wisdom applied to money trauma
25:02 The visibility wound
27:05 Kristin's free Reclaim Your Energy guide

CONNECT WITH KRISTIN SITEK:
Website: https://www.kristinsitek.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinsitek/
Free Reclaim Your Energy guide: https://www.kristinsitek.com/reclaim-your-energy-1

CONNECT WITH TASHA:
Website: https://tashachen.com
Take the Hidden Wealth Identity Quiz: https://tashachen.com/quiz
Instagram: @DearWealthyMe
Email: [email protected]

This conversation is for information and reflection. It isn't medical advice, and nothing here replaces care from a qualified practitioner.

Subscribe for a new episode every week, and tell us in the comments: which of those signals did you recognise?

She Works 2 Hours a Day: Building a Location Independent Business

How do youHow do you build a location independent business that actually funds the life you want? Julie May joins Tasha Chen on The Wealthy Me Podcast, recording from Albania, to answer exactly that.

Julie is the founder of Ridiculously You, a self-love platform built on the idea that the parts of you the world called "too much" are the parts your business needs most. She's also the creator of Get Paid to Roam, where she teaches people to build businesses they can run from anywhere. In this conversation she and Tasha unpack what wealth with ease looks like when freedom, not the bank balance, is the measure.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE:

- Why Julie defines wealth as choice and freedom rather than a number
- The four or five identity shifts she's moved through, starting as a teenage mother
- Why she walked away from the rules of success after nearly a decade of doing them well
- How branding around your quirks filters out the wrong clients before the call ends
- Why "I love myself wholly and fully" can backfire, and the smaller phrase that works instead
- The EFT tapping sequence Julie demonstrates live
- Why she believes every woman needs her own independent income

CHAPTERS:

CONNECT WITH JULIE MAY:
Website: https://ridiculouslyyou.com
TikTok: @getpaidtoroam
Instagram: @getpaidtoroam

CONNECT WITH TASHA:
Website: https://tashachen.com
Take the Hidden Wealth Identity Quiz: https://tashachen.com/quiz
Live tour dates: https://tashachen.com/tour
Email: [email protected]

Subscribe for a new episode every week, and tell us in the comments: what does wealthy mean to you right now?

#LocationIndependent #WealthyMe #SelfLove #WomenInBusiness #DigitalNomad #WealthMindset #EFTTapping #PersonalBrand

Can you be wealthy and still have a scarcity mindset? In this episode of the Wealthy Me Podcast, I explain why so many financially successful women still lie awake worrying about money, and the three signs that show scarcity is running the show even when your bank account says otherwise.

Comment AWAKEN and I'll send you the calendar link.

Being successful on paper doesn't automatically mean you feel safe with money. I've built two seven figure businesses in my lifetime, and I didn't fully understand this until the second one. Today I'm sharing my own story, including the moment I realised I was identifying as "the woman who worries" rather than the wealthy version of myself.

In this episode, I cover:
✨ Why a financially successful woman can still operate from scarcity and fear
✨ The link between overworking and feeling financially safe, even when you don't need to hustle
✨ Why some wealthy women can't actually see or feel the abundance they already have
✨ My own story of building two 7 figure businesses whilst still stuck in a scarcity identity
✨ The client with a six figure passive income who still feared running out of money
✨ How to start choosing your wealthy identity instead of your hustling one

I'm also inviting you to Awaken the Wealthy Woman Within, an 88 minute ceremony on September 17th at 12pm Eastern, right before I head off to the Canary Islands with the Goddesses.

Comment AWAKEN and I'll send you the calendar link.

Chapters

00:00 Can You Be Wealthy and Still Have a Scarcity Mindset?
01:34 Welcome to the Wealthy Me Podcast
02:11 Yes, Successful Women Can Have a Scarcity Mindset
04:12 Sign 1: Overworking as a Financial Safety Signal
05:44 Sign 2: Not Seeing the Abundance You Already Have
06:01 My Story: Building Two 7 Figure Businesses From Scarcity
11:44 The Client With 6 Figures Who Was Still Terrified
13:05 Awaken the Wealthy Woman Within: My Invitation to You

Frequently asked:
Can you be wealthy and still have a scarcity mindset? Yes. Financial success and a scarcity mindset can exist at the same time, especially when safety is tied to constant hustling rather than to what you already have.

What are the signs of a scarcity mindset in successful women? Lying awake worrying about money, overworking as a way to feel secure, and being unable to recognise or feel the abundance you already hold are three of the most common signs.

Can you be wealthy and still have a scarcity mindset? In this episode of the Wealthy Me Podcast, I explain why so many financially successful women still lie awake worrying about money, and the three signs that show scarcity is running the show even when your bank account says otherwise.

Being successful on paper doesn't automatically mean you feel safe with money. I've built two seven figure businesses in my lifetime, and I didn't fully understand this until the second one. Today I'm sharing my own story, including the moment I realised I was identifying as "the woman who worries" rather than the wealthy version of myself.

In this episode, I cover:
✨ Why a financially successful woman can still operate from scarcity and fear
✨ The link between overworking and feeling financially safe, even when you don't need to hustle
✨ Why some wealthy women can't actually see or feel the abundance they already have
✨ My own story of building two 7 figure businesses whilst still stuck in a scarcity identity
✨ The client with a six figure passive income who still feared running out of money
✨ How to start choosing your wealthy identity instead of your hustling one

I'm also inviting you to Awaken the Wealthy Woman Within, an 88 minute ceremony on September 17th at 12pm Eastern, right before I head off to the Canary Islands with the Goddesses. Here's the link: http://cal.ae/ammaaidw