The Money Mindset Podcast with Fexingo: Psychology of Money, Financial Habits, and Wealth Thinking

Lucas and Luna dig into Berkshire Hathaway's latest 13F filing to reveal the five stocks Warren Buffett and his team have been quietly accumulating. Drawing on the psychology of patience and conviction, they explore what these picks say about long-term thinking in a short-term world. Specific companies discussed: Apple, Coca-Cola, American Express, Chevron, and a surprising new holding in the insu...

Why do we keep buying things we don't need? In this episode of The Money Mindset Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the psychology of retail therapy and the 'dopamine loop' behind impulse spending. They dig into a 2023 study from the Journal of Consumer Research that found people who shop when sad are 30% more likely to regret purchases within 24 hours. Lucas explains the 'pleasure gap'—the mismatch...

Lucas and Luna explore why humans are wired to make short-term financial decisions that sabotage long-term wealth. Lucas introduces the concept of 'temporal discounting' and the work of economist George Loewenstein, explaining how the brain's limbic system hijacks rational planning. They discuss a 1999 experiment where people demanded $100 immediately but only $120 in a year — a 500% implied inter...

In this debut episode of The Money Mindset Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack the psychology of money through the lens of a famous 1980s bet between economist Paul Samuelson and investor Julian Robertson. They explore why our brains are wired to overreact to short-term noise, how loss aversion costs investors real returns, and what a 40-year-old debt-ceiling standoff reveals about our own financial de...