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Podcast: The Money with Katie Show
Episode: A SPENDING PROBLEM?: What Gambling Addiction Research Teaches Us About Our Financial Behavior
Description: Today's episode dives into gambling research (via Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Dr. Anna Lembke) and what it teaches us about our own dopamine pathways:Specifically, how strange it is that we can get the most dopamine when something objectively bad is happening (like losing money while gambling).We'll discuss unhealthy relationships with spending, earning, saving, and – bonus! – we'll hear from 3 members of the Money with Katie community who share their stories about spending problems.Finally, we'll review two major tactics you can try to address the issue (whether you'r...