Michelle Masters: "Rewiring Your Relationship with Money"

Why do our money patterns survive every mindset tool we throw at them?

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Michelle Masters—known as a coach’s coach, a longtime teacher of neuro-linguistic programming and family constellation work, and author of the new book Wired for Money: Change the Patterns That Block You from Thriving. Her answer is disarmingly simple: we keep trying to solve a subconscious problem with conscious tools. The beliefs running our relationship to money were installed before most of us could speak, and they don’t respond to argument. They respond to experience.

Join Tami and Michelle to explore:

Why affirmations and good intentions rarely reach the part of the brain where our deepest beliefs are stored
The survival brain: how a three-year-old’s conclusions about safety keep running the show at 40
What money is actually about—safety, worth, lovability, and permission to enjoy being alive
The zero-sum fallacy, and Tami’s own story of discovering she still half-believed it
Unconscious loyalties: why children try to heal their families, why it never works, and what it costs
Bert Hellinger’s entanglements and the ancestral patterns that aren’t even ours to carry
A three-chair exercise for meeting the energy of money—and finding out whose face is really sitting in that chair
Michelle’s own turn from “I’m a spiritual person, I’m not interested in money” toward money as the energy of blessing

The conversation then goes somewhere neither of them planned, as Michelle shares the experiences behind her work—and what she believes is happening on Earth right now.

Listen now, and find out what’s actually holding the pattern in place. →

Join Michelle in her Online Money Reset: A nervous system approach to release stress and blocks around money → https://michelle-masters.mykajabi.com/the-online-money-reset

This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and it originally aired on Sounds True One.

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Michelle Masters: “Rewiring Your Relationship wi...

— September 15, 2026

Why do our money patterns survive every mindset tool we throw at them?

Join Tami and Michelle to explore:

Why affirmations and good intentions rarely reach the part of the brain where our deepest beliefs are stored
The survival brain: how a three-year-old’s conclusions about safety keep running the show at 40
What money is actually about—safety, worth, lovability, and permission to enjoy being alive
The zero-sum fallacy, and Tami’s own story of discovering she still half-believed it
Unconscious loyalties: why children try to heal their families, why it never works, and what it costs
Bert Hellinger’s entanglements and the ancestral patterns that aren’t even ours to carry
A three-chair exercise for meeting the energy of money—and finding out whose face is really sitting in that chair
Michelle’s own turn from “I’m a spiritual person, I’m not interested in money” toward money as the energy of blessing

The conversation then goes somewhere neither of them planned, as Michelle shares the experiences behind her work—and what she believes is happening on Earth right now.

Listen now, and find out what’s actually holding the pattern in place. →

Join Michelle in her Online Money Reset: A nervous system approach to release stress and blocks around money → https://michelle-masters.mykajabi.com/the-online-money-reset

Get a FREE month of membership → https://bit.ly/STOne-Free-Month.

[ENCORE EPISODE] Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: “In Lo...

A nine-year-old asks his father how to fight his panic attacks. His father says: don’t.

That answer set the course of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s life—and, twenty-seven years later, sent him out of his monastery in the middle of the night.

In this encore presentation, Tami Simon speaks with Rinpoche—beloved Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, guiding teacher of the Tergar meditation community, and author of In Love with the World—about the four-and-a-half-year wandering retreat that nearly killed him, and the teaching he calls “adding wood to the fire.”

Raised as a tulku with attendants at his side, he left at 36 with almost no money. Within weeks he was begging for food, sleeping on a train station floor, and severely ill—and when he believed he was dying, he chose not to reach for rescue.

Join Tami and Mingyur Rinpoche to explore:

“Adding wood to the fire”: how obstacles become opportunity, and poison becomes medicine
His father’s teaching on the sky: why no storm can change the nature of awareness
Why banging your head against the wall isn’t courage, and what acceptance actually opens
The bardo as everyday experience: job loss, breakups, falling asleep, and the gaps between
The four steps of the dying practice—offering, dedication, intention, and prayer
Child luminosity meeting mother luminosity, and what he directly experienced that night
Why he titled the book In Love with the World: “If you love the world, world loves you back”

Rinpoche is now partnering with Sounds True on a brand-new course, Wild World, Steady Mind: 21 Days to Embrace Modern Reality with Clarity and Calm, filmed on location at his monastery in Nepal.

Listen now, and find the sky behind the storm. →

Rob Bell: “The Risk of Not Becoming More YouR...

Rob Bell — August 18, 2026

What if not doing the thing is the riskier choice?

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Rob Bell—New York Times bestselling author of 14 books and plays, host of The RobCast, and a former pastor—about what he calls his civilian phase. Rob left the role years ago. What surprised him was how long the role stayed with him afterward: “We leave an external form, and then over the years, the form begins to leave us.”

This is an unusually candid conversation. Tami goes first, admitting she didn’t feel free to fully reveal herself until she had economic security—and Rob meets her there without a tidy answer.

Join Tami and Rob to explore:

Why he doesn’t believe in risk versus no risk—only in risk management, and which risk is actually smaller
The “answer man” conditioning of a job that expected crisp soundbites about the deepest human questions—and what it did to his nervous system
Hiding in plain sight: how public visibility can be its own kind of concealment
The abyss, the void, the fallow field—learning to stop fighting the empty seasons
“And then I kept going”: the phrase that came out of pandemic sessions, and why people can’t see their own resilience
What shifted when a plant medicine experience dropped his head into his heart
Toxic positivity, a lineage that didn’t know what to do with pain, and the son who taught him it’s okay to be sad
Why a birch tree scatters 250 million seeds and doesn’t seem worried about efficiency
His father’s dementia, temporariness, and the strange way mortality heightens aliveness

Rob will lead an immersive workshop, The Ongoing Creation of Your Life, at Omega Institute, August 30–September 4.

Listen now and hear what it costs to keep standing at a distance from your own life. →