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UnF*ck Your Money
UnF*ck Your Money is a bold, trauma-informed podcast for overwhelmed high-achievers, overgivers, and emotionally exhausted humans who want a calmer, healthier, and more empowered relationship with money.
Hosted by Financial Wellness & Somatic Coach Nadine Zumot, this podcast explores the intersection of money, nervous systems, emotional wellbeing, shame, survival patterns, and self-trust without hustle culture, toxic positivity, airy-fairy manifestion promises or rigid financial advice.
Through honest conversations, practical tools, nervous-system-informed education, and deeply human storytelling, Nadine helps listeners navigate emotional spending, money anxiety, financial avoidance, burnout, self-worth, and the realities of building a life that feels both financially and emotionally sustainable.
Because financial wellness isn’t just about numbers.
It’s about feeling safe enough to fully live your life.
Welcome. Enjoy the show! ♥️
UnF*ck Your Money
Transforming Our Financial Reality with Behavioral Neuroscientist Dr Val Rytova
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Welcome back to the Unf*ck Your Money Show with Nadine Zumot!
How do we leverage our neurocircuitry to create meaningful and long lasting changes to our financial realities?
In this episode, my guest, Behavioral Neuroscientist Dr Val Rytova and I dive into the fascinating intersection of money, trauma, and neuroscience. We explore how financial environments, trauma, and scarcity shape brain chemistry, nervous system responses, and even DNA through epigenetics. The conversation uncovers the neuroscience behind shame, fear of failure, and goal setting, offering actionable insights on how neuroplasticity can help rewire the brain for abundance and financial success. Whether you’re dealing with financial setbacks, money shame, or want to optimize your mindset, this episode provides tools to reorient toward positivity and growth at any age.
Key Takeaways
- Financial environments and trauma impact brain chemistry and DNA, but neuroplasticity allows us to rewire these patterns.
- Shame around money—whether from scarcity, debt, or wealth—has deep roots in the brain but can be transformed using neuroscience tools.
- Setting neuroscience-backed financial goals can make achieving them easier and more sustainable.
- Focusing on positivity, glimmers, and abundance rewires the brain for resilience and growth after setbacks.
- Neuroplasticity is possible at any age, and small, intentional practices support lifelong healing and transformation.
Keywords
epigenetics, neuroplasticity, moneyshame, scarcitymindset, nervoussystemhealing, traumahealing, brainchemistry, financialgoals, abundancemindset, nervoussystemresilience
Connect with Dr Val:
Dr. Val Rytova is a neuroscientist specialising in behavioural neuroscience, with expertise in brain mechanisms related to anxiety and social behaviour. She has a PhD focusing on these areas and is dedicated to promoting brain health and well-being. Her work often explores how lifestyle changes, such as yoga and meditation, can positively impact brain function and overall mental health. On top of this, she's also an amazing kite surfer!
Her mission is to bring Neuroscience out of the lab to the people. Aside from that she's also a mother and an avid kitesurfer.
www.drvalrytova.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/love_of_brain/
⭐️ Next Steps:
Download my Somatic Money Meditation here.
If you’re struggling with money anxiety, emotional spending, financial avoidance, or feeling like your nervous system is constantly running your finances… and you want grounded, compassionate support creating a healthier and more empowered relationship with money, I offer introductory 1:1 Financial Wellness & Somatic Coaching sessions where we explore your money patterns, nervous system responses, emotional blocks, and practical next steps so you can build more clarity, self-trust, financial stability, and freedom in a way that actually feels sustainable. Book your session here.
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