Modern Husbands Podcast

How to Talk About and Manage Money with Your Spouse - Dr. Megan McCoy

November 25, 2022 Brian Page Season 1 Episode 10
Modern Husbands Podcast
How to Talk About and Manage Money with Your Spouse - Dr. Megan McCoy
Show Notes

Dr. McCoy shares practical tips for talking about and managing your finances with your spouse.

Show notes:
0:00-0:53 Introduction
0:54-3:19 Why Dr. McCoy is passionate about financial therapy 
3:20-4:58 What Dr. McCoy does at Kansas State
4:59-11:21 Dr. McCoy’s tips on preparing to talk with your spouse about finances 
→ Start small
→ Write on paper (planning mindset)
11:22-12:45 Other strategies that couples can use to have productive financial conversations
12:46-13:02 Modern Husbands Ad
13:03-18:43 Financial infidelity and how to address it 
→ money shame
→ see them as mistakes
18:44-21:05 What you can do now to improve your relationship with your partner and money
21:06-22:12 Conclusion

Megan McCoy, Ph.D., LMFT is an adjunct faculty member at Kansas State University where she teaches courses for the Financial Therapy Certificate Program. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Sciences with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Georgia. Her research interests truly focus on Financial Therapy and how to create more empirical evidence to support work that she has seen change so many lives in her clinical experiences.

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