A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

DIY creator Caroline Klidonas proves you don’t need any money to tell full stories. You don’t even need another person. Gabe fanboys over Caroline’s acting and writing, and the duo discusses the ways financial limitations can make stories more interesting. Then, they go into Caroline’s evolving relationship to her queerness and gender through her videos. Plus, trust your audience!!  Join Gabe’s Su...

Gabe attends the protests in downtown Los Angeles and reflects on how fucked up everything is. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Edited by Diane Kang Post-Production Sound by Coco Llorens Advertisin...

Passports are invalidated. People are being rounded up. A Holocaust is happening in America now and it’s not even a new playbook. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Edited by Diane Kang Post-Producti...

Original Air Date: June 13, 2023 We get deeply magical this week as we lean into the feelings part of the podcast with Moon Studio's Sarah Faith Gottesdiener. Money is ancestral, symbolic, deeply intimate and has a huge impact on our nervous systems, especially for listeners of this show who are introverts, neurodivergent, or sensitive to conflict. Gabe is excited to get spiritual about financ...

Original Air Date: July 25, 2023 Oh boy. This might be one of the best and most expansive episodes we've ever done. For the first time ever, Gabe discusses their recent personal finance struggles with the wonderful, empathetic and brilliant Katie Gatti Tassin of "Money With Katie." Things have not been good!!! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https...

Original Air Date: May 9, 2023 AIRHORN NOISE! Bravely Go's Kara Perez joins Gabe on the podcast to talk about the loud and ubiquitous TV stock market guru Jim Cramer, he of sound effects and funny hats. What's his tragic backstory? What's his actual money philosophy when you take away the bells and whistles? What have been his biggest money pop culture moments? Was this book actually s...

Artist and activist Tourmaline rejoins the podcast to talk about Marsha PayItNoMind Johnson, the context for her life and activism in the dark politics at the time, her family dynamics, and all the pop culture she was a part of. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bis...

Artist and author Tourmaline joins the show to talk about her 20 years of research on LGBTQ icon Marsha P. Johnson, the Black trans woman who was one of the key figures of the Stonewall Uprising. We go through hidden queer history from the hourly hotels where Marsha and her friends could express their genders to turn of the century lesbians to the Black room at Stonewall to bottom surgery at Johns...

oel is back to talk about how he approaches teaching ethics to college students who have participated in BLM protests and have experienced our current world, how church and state was actually created to embolden slavery, and how white Christianity has taken the narrative away from Black Christianity (and how they're taking it back). Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com D...

Professor of Ethics at Simmons College of Kentucky Joel Edward Goza is back on the pod to discuss the long game challenge of fighting our current political horrors, what we can learn from the history of impossibilities, and the usefulness of violence. Plus, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as constant villains, MLK’s idea of self purification, and the legacy of the hippie movement. Join Gabe’s Subst...

Gabe is thrilled to speak to Kathryn Kellogg, a spokesperson for the zero waste movement about overconsumption’s impact on the environment and on ourselves. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Edited...

Gabe reads a selection from his new Substack about capitalism and surviving our current hellscape. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Edited by Diane Kang Post-Production Sound by Coco Llorens Advert...

Original Air Date: June 6, 2023 Author of "Quitting" Julia Keller joins the podcast to talk about how quitting is good actually, the toxic myth of perseverance, capitalist striving, and grit, and the difference between quitting for a dream and quitting just to vibe. Plus, impulsivity and regret, rethinking living paycheck to paycheck, and ending the judgement around just freaking quitting...

Comedian Josh Gondelman joins Gabe for the conclusion of the pod’s Iron Man series on Tony Stark as an ethical billionaire. This is a fun one. I love the movies! Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Ed...

Gabe's on his own in this one sharing some of his evolving anger and thoughts on the state of the world and capitalist violence. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Edited by Diane Kang Post-Produ...

Debt attorney Leslie Tayne rejoins the show to talk about financial infidelity against your spouse, your partner and even yourself. Leslie and Gabe also discuss the Ratliff storyline on The White Lotus, what happens when you hide money habits from your partner, and the different ways you can be honest and be there for each other. Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Donate to Our Mov...

Science journalist Danielle Elliot rejoins the show to talk about the increase in late diagnosis of ADHD for women, how this was true even before the pandemic, how teleheath helped neurodiverse people have more access, and the ways for-profit companies created over diagnosis. (Yay capitalism!) Plus, the benefit of not being unique. Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Donate to Our M...

The host of the podcast Climbing The Walls Danielle Elliot joins the show to talk about the rise in late ADHD diagnoses for women, how rejection sensitive dysphoria creates chaos (yes, even financial), and Gabe and his sister's autism and ADHD pros and cons. It's a really great overarching conversation about money and neurodiversity.  Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Dona...

Wanting to avoid unemployment, Carter Cofield decided to become an accountant. At this traditionally boring job, he faced systemic racism and old ways of thinking. Carter joins the podcast to talk to Gabe about changing the face of CPAs, creating an LLC with Gabe's business partner early on in their careers, and various opinions on different classes of people striving to be tax-free. Plus, why...

Executive coach Sabina Nawaz talks about working with managers and bosses on how to be the best for their teams and employees, if being a manager is even something everyone wants to do, the allure of power and salary, and what actually motivates you. PS: My audio sounds off in this episode because of a problem with my recorder. It should be fixed now. Thanks for your patience. Join My Patreon: htt...

Back with Bri Conn from Childfree Wealth on whether you want to leave money behind when you die, what changes when you're a duo vs flying solo, different insurance costs for men and women, befriending older people vs. having kids who will take care of you, and how conspiracy ruined community. Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.or...

In a special episode, Childfree Wealth's Bri Conn has been meeting with me monthly to chat with me about my finances for six months. Sometimes figuring out what isn't work takes a good while and most times, everything is out of your control. Community, individualism, and Seinfeld friendships where you run errands together. Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Donate to Our Mo...

Tiffany Irving joins the podcast again to talk about how LinkedIn is the new hot place to be, why couples go to her before talking amongst themselves, emergency funds, credit cards, shame around rebuilding your finances, and RVs and houseboats. Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Donate to Our Movie: https://www.filmindependent.org/sponsored-projects/you-i-you-me/ This has been a No...

In a shockingly heterosexual episode, Gabe and wealth advisor Tiffany Irving discuss growing up with female breadwinner role models, the moral panic around higher incomes for women, the tradwife movement and the effects of "girl power," and what this means for the purchasing power dynamics and the larger economy.  Join My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunn Donate to Our Movie: http...

Gabe is back with the author of “How To Be A Grown Up” Raffi Grinberg to talk about his organization for constructive disagreement, what’s perceived as aggressive in conversations nowadays, and what it means to engage with people who disagree with us. Plus, do politicians on either side actually believe what they say in public or is it just for votes from their base? Join My Patreon: https://www.p...