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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Money
Episode 113 of The Burnout Podcast explores how chronic workplace exhaustion rewires our financial instincts. Lucas and Luna dive into the 'burnout spending cycle' — the tendency to overpay for convenience, avoid negotiating, and hoard cash out of fear. They discuss a 2023 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology showing that burned-out employees are 40% more likely to make impulse purchases, and unpack the emotional cost of buying back energy. Plus, practical frameworks for breaking the cycle: from Nordstrom's return policy as a safety net to the 72-hour rule before any…
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