Financial therapy isn’t about having the right tools—it’s about having the courage to face your own money story first. In this conversation, Khara Croswaite speaks candidly about burnout, money avoidance, and the quiet damage that can happen when helpers skip their own inner work. Through her path from mental health therapy to financial therapy, a hard truth emerges: we can’t ethically ask clients to go places we refuse to go ourselves. Rick reflects on why vulnerability—not polish or credentials—is what builds trust, why so many therapists struggle with money in silence, and how financial therapy often becomes a second career precisely because it demands depth, humility, and lived experience.

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#220 The Hard Truth Khara Croswaite Shares About Financial Therapy