Inheritance — Father Wounds, Mother Wounds & Money | Kate Northrup

Plenty Podcast · A Free 4-Part Series

The Way You Handle Money Isn't a Personality Trait.

It's your nervous system's relationship with your mother, your father, and the structure — or lack of it — you were raised inside.

Your mother was your first economy. Your father was your first experience of structure and safety. Long before you earned a dollar, your body was already forming beliefs about whether there's ever enough, and whether it's safe to be supported. Inheritance traces those imprints back to where they started — so you can finally meet your money from choice instead of childhood programming.

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You've called it a budgeting problem. It might actually be a father wound — or a mother wound.

Maybe it's the way structure — a budget, a plan, a system — makes your whole body want to run, even though you know you need it.

Maybe it's how hard it is to actually receive — the raise, the gift, the support — even when you've worked yourself to the bone to deserve it.

Maybe it's simpler than that. Just the quiet sense that no matter how much you make, it never quite settles into feeling like enough.

Inheritance is where that recognition becomes something you can actually work with.

Four episodes tracing your money patterns back to their origin — not to blame anyone, but to finally have a choice.

What's Inside the Series

Four episodes. One throughline.

Part 01

Father Wounds & Money

Why structure feels unsafe, and how the way you handle (or avoid) budgets, systems, and planning traces back to your relationship with the masculine — not a lack of discipline.

Part 02

Mother Wounds & Money

Why "enough" can feel impossible no matter how much you make, and how your sense of flow and plenty was shaped long before you understood what money was.

Part 03

Going Deeper

A solo episode building on Parts 1 and 2 — the layer underneath the pattern most people never get to.

Part 04

Choosing What Stays

Coming October 20th. What it looks like to consciously keep what serves you and release what you only ever inherited.

This Series Is For You If:

You manage money in a way that feels chaotic, avoidant, or overly controlling — and you've always called it a personality trait.

Receiving — money, support, a compliment, an opportunity — sometimes triggers guilt, panic, or the urge to deflect it.

No matter how much you make, "enough" seems to keep moving just out of reach.

You're ready to trace your money patterns back to where they started — not to blame anyone, but to finally have a choice.

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