If you want better financial results in 2026, you don’t need a better budget, more discipline, or a more complicated financial plan.

You need one skill:
the ability to actively manage your human brain.

Most physicians already know what to do financially.
The problem isn’t intelligence or effort.

The problem is that when your nervous system is dysregulated, your planning brain goes offline — and financial decisions become reactive instead of conscious.

In this episode, I share the one strategic focus that makes every other financial strategy work:

👉 Actively managing your human brain

You’ll learn the three essential skills that allow you to make calm, intentional money choices — even under stress:

• How to choose your thoughts instead of believing every fear your brain offers
• How to feel your feelings without numbing, avoiding, or self-judging
• How to resist urges so short-term relief doesn’t sabotage long-term goals

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Do you feel like you’re in charge of your money—or does it feel like your money is in charge of you?

Are there things you want to do with your life—but finances keep getting in the way?

If you don’t understand how money decisions actually shape your life, you can work harder, earn more, and still end up with less of what you want and more of what you don’t.

In this episode, Dr. Vicki Rackner lays out The TrueWealth Way--a process of making consistent conscious choices that lead to a life in which your calendar and bank statements reflect your values and your priorities.

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How do you know if working with a financial advisor is actually helping you?

Doctors often ask this quietly:

**“Am I better off with you… or without you?”**

In this episode, Dr. Vicki Rackner explores how doctors experience financial relationships, why uncertainty is so draining, and what ethical shared decision-making really feels like.

This isn’t about returns.

It’s about clarity, agency, and whether a professional relationship truly supports your life.

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Doctor, are you burned out? Here's what you need to know to break through burnout.

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Everybody faces financial losses. However, the way in which you respond to the losses can make things better--or worse.

In this episode, Dr. Vicki Rackner lays out the 5 Financial Pain Personalities. This describes your innate response to financial pain and losses.

Your Financial Pain Personality is like your natural tennis swing. If you know the ball pulls to the left, you can make adjustments so the ball winds up where you want it.

So, too, once you know your Financial Pain Personality, you can make course corrections to create the financial results you wish.

Here are the 5 Financial Pain Personalities:

• The Strong Stoic
• The Worried Well
• The Ostrich
• The Financial Underdog
• The Ideal Responder

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In this episode, Dr. Vicki Rackner offer three ways to assess you level of financial health.

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What would happen if , for some reason, you could no longer treat patients? In this eposode, Dr. Vicki Rackner describes 10 ways she replaces her income as a surgeon by calling on her medical knowledge, skills and experiences.

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Your skill with negotiation directly translates to the rate at which you build TrueWealth; yet most physicians find that even the idea of negotiations raises their blood pressure. In this episode, Dr. Vicki Rackner explores the reasons that only 10% of physicians negotiate their salary, and offers tips for becoming a more skilled negotiator.

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