What if our relationship with money wasn't about discipline, intelligence or willpower at all - but about survival, safety and belonging under capitalism?
Listen to @moneytraumapodcast now on your usual streaming platforms - to learn what's actually underneath the mainstream stories of our economic behaviour - impulsive spending, laziness, gambling, wealth accumulation. Follow us around the world to learn how its been weaponized and how to reclaim it. New episodes every Friday!
Created and hosted by @mihosoon
💙Trailer animation by @ann_kiernan and @eskandarovich
🎙️Co-produced and edited by @martatlon@phoebesounds
We all need to start talking about Money Trauma. Find @moneytraumapodcast on all available streaming platforms from March 6th, 2026.
3 out of 4 Gen-Zs and Millennials have PTSD-like symptoms caused by financially induced stress. Mental health and trauma have gotten more into the mainstream, and yet we don’t apply the same lens to money. Money Trauma is a six part podcast mini-series that challenges the idea that money behaviours are a purely rational topic. It uncovers commonly referred to economic experiences like financial stress, gambling, wealth accumulation and impulsive spending from a trauma-informed and social perspective - something that has never been done before with the topic. Follow us on a journey all over the world speaking to experts about how these stories contradict the real experience people have psychologically and socially - and who ends up benefitting from these stories.
Hosted and created by @mihosoon Edited and co-produced by @martatlon and @phoebesound , cover art by @lucalentils
In partnership with @postgrowth , special shoutout to @traumaofmoney
👉 Listen to season 1 wherever you get your podcasts from March 6th
“Our financial lives are not driven by logic, but by the autonomic nervous system.”
Dive into our new substack piece on #MoneyTrauma & #WealthHoarding drawing inspiration from Miho Soon & Iris Brilliant, uncover the psychological underpinnings of the #BunkerClass fear-driven ‘money disorders’ and look towards collective & practiced healing through political solidarity. ✊
🔗 /p/an-autopsy-of-money-trauma-and-wealth
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"A tender, yet provocative look at the issue that shies away from slogans and prioritizes understanding without demonization."
Thank you for the lovely review of our mini-series Money Trauma hosted by the wonderful @mihosoon and produced with @martatlon and myself.
And to @tinkmedia and the amazing @laurenpassell . Thank you so much for these wonderful words ❤️
"A new limited series documentary hosted and co-produced by Miho Soon, who got her start in crypto but started to get worried that the products she was making was encouraging gambling. (It’s co-produced and edited by Phoebe McIndoe, who has made some of my favorite things.) Money Trauma isn’t beating us over the head with tips, it uses storytelling to help us see the real ways most millennials and genZers have experienced financial anxiety."
Listen to @moneytraumapodcast here:
https://bit.ly/4mot5UM
Part 1/2 - What are the psychological and cultural forces that make the rich get richer?
Listen to 'The Psychology of Wealth Accummulation' on @moneytraumapodcast now! Soundtrack is Road to Petersby by @bluedotsessions
Where did the laziness story come from, and who weaponizes it today? Listen to 'The Myth of Laziness' on @moneytraumapodcast now. Soundtrack is Corner by Cichero by @bluedotsessions
📆Date: 17 August 2025 (Sunday)
🕗Time: 2 - 3.30pm
📍Venue: Near Fort Canning MRT; exact location to be shared with confirmed participants
🌳Join us for a workshop with Miho Soon, a Germany-based researcher, facilitator, and designer from Malaysia, whose work centers around financial trauma, economic psychology and justice. She began her journey in the crypto industry, where she witnessed firsthand how technological solutions often ignore the emotional realities of economic life.
💸Research about financial stress and trauma shows us that living through chronic economic stress, striving for expectations we can’t meet, and inheriting generational money scripts can impact our relationship with money and work. And yet money is consistently treated as as a rational matter, a taboo subject - despite the fact that it is fundamentally connected to survival, belonging and identity.
🏦The stress of living under economic scarcity and competition have a real impact on human psychology - as it funnels people towards conservation and security😣. Global economic crises are often then weaponized by populist narratives and ideological actors with imaginaries that propel more consumerism, technosolutionism and acceleration without consideration, and removing protections for vulnerable people. What does that mean when we desperately, urgently need to change capitalism as usual? What does it mean to engage with our personal and intergenerational histories with the economy?
🕊In this 90-minute workshop, Miho Soon invites us to explore the emotional and psychological roots of our relationships with money—and imagine new ways forward➡️. We’ll take a closer look at the narratives we’ve inherited, how they intersect with our upbringing, culture and technology - and what it means to shift towards more liberating, just, and post-growth understandings of value and ‘the good life.’
❗️RSVP by registering through the link in our bio 🌱 and we’ll follow up if your attendance has been confirmed~
📹Learn more about Miho’s work at mihosoon.com and moneytrauma.org
Supported by Give.Asia’s Give Back initiative
Its time to show up, Berlin! As genocide continues in Palestine with no sign of stopping, it’s time for us to come together again.
We (@music4palestineberlin ) are hosting a solidarity music fundraiser to raise money for two grassroots mutual aid funds in Gaza operated by our Palestinian & Egyptian friends. One for critical emergency essentials, and another a mobile school that offers psychosomatic education to children who can one day help to rebuild their society.
Come join us at @bum.berlin for a whole day program -
* Live music by @amrmwahab@smowafy@talaget.elmawta@hosam_hany@enana.music@abeer_thelowprofile@eskandarovich
* DJ sets by @aminakhalilll@jivi2mebaby@han00sh.11
* Listen to talks by researchers & activists @othermarwa & @jilliancyork on the role of technology, corporate ties, AI & social media in entrenching systemic struggles against Palestinians
* Attend a Dabke dance workshop with @fadi_waked94
* Learn what Tatreez is and how to make it with @collectivesabr
* Poetry readings with @jad.elchoufi@mazen.safadi@m__k__._@anwaaralnour
* Purchase ceramics, original Hirbawi kufiyahs & other products brought directly from Palestine by @ashwaq.shop
* Exhibition by @ann_kiernan@mariamaghazi@badarne1
* Art raffle with donations from artists
* Stay around for dinner and drinks!
This event is 100% volunteer run, made possible by crowdsourcing materials, expertise and keeping costs as low as possible so we can donate the highest amount of funds to the causes that need it most. We will be raising funds for:
Yahya & Friends - Gaza Direct Mutual Aid
https://t.me/+gvm8F6tmpyNkMDU0
Schools Without Borders @schools_w_b
/f/fpd9k-schools-without-borders
Berlin is home to one of the largest Palestinian communities in Europe - so lets show up for our neighbours, come together and support through solidarity and community. See you there.. 🍉💚 (AND LETS RAISE SOME MONEY!!!!)
恭喜发财, as in hope you get rich, but in all forms of wealth life has to offer
新年快乐, as in happy new year, and may you shed all the versions of yourself that no longer serve you this year of the snake
Fearuring me celebrating Chinese New Year for the first time in six years in the motherland, our money-centric traditions that circulate wealth and make everyone really happy, our maximalist spiritual symbolism and the beautiful tropical forests and seascapes of Southeast Asia💕
Thank you to everyone who came to support the Music 4 Lebanon & Palestine Fundraiser at @crackbellmer on the 24th of November. We're grateful to have raised €5300, which exceeded our expectations by magnitudes. In these dark times, it was an absolutely warm and meaningful evening to spend with all of you. We're so honoured 300+ people showed up - thank you Berlin❤️
But it does not end here. We urgently need to find more ways to help. We know that us coming together is one of the most powerful ways to mobilize ourselves to action. Do not stop raising money, do not stop putting pressure for change.
Consider further donations to @thelastturtle@ghadir.aldasht@dowansierraleone@tresmariaslebanon@remanorganization
Many other initiatives out there also need help, you will find them! Reach out to us if you need help
Photos by @dianagabrielli and @_shirinabedi
"It is only when people feel left behind and unacknowledged, when a vacuum is created for stories that are individualistic or segregative to emerge, that those who feel abandoned are scooped up by harmful extremism — all under the illusion of care."
In her latest article, money #trauma expert and #PostGrowth Fellow, Miho Soon, explores how our cultural stories about #money, work, and success are tied to growth-driven systems—and why reimagining these narratives is essential for a fairer, more sustainable future.
Read the full story on Post Growth Perspectives #linkinbio
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