How Digital Currency Is Rewiring Our Money Mindset
Release Date: 06/09/2025
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In this follow-up episode to last week's conversation with Natalie MacNeil, I explore the psychological and emotional shifts required as we move into the digital currency era. Rather than focusing on technical aspects, this episode addresses the deeper questions about trust, safety, and completely rewiring how our brains think about money.
Episode Highlights:
The Physical vs Digital Money Mindset
- Our brains are hardwired to equate real money with tangible things we can hold and count
- Why Brits love property investing: it's "bricks and mortar" compared to US generations who prefer renting
- Digital currencies ask us to place value in mathematics and community consensus rather than government
- The challenge of trusting numbers on a screen that exist in cloud-based systems
- How our nervous system was designed to equate safety with things we can physically control
Understanding Digital Currencies Simply
- Digital currencies as numbers stored on a huge shared computer network
- Unlike bank account numbers controlled by one institution, these are verified by thousands of computers worldwide
- Bitcoin as "digital gold" - limited in supply and designed to hold value
- Ethereum as a digital platform for building applications and communities
- The key difference: controlled by mathematics and community, not governments or banks
The Generational Divide
- Personal story of 11-year-old son naturally gravitating toward digital wallets
- How younger generations view money as naturally existing "on a phone"
- Older clients who still prefer printed bank statements
- The comfort level with digital currencies often depends on how one grew up with technology
The Great Trust Transfer
- Examining where we've been placing our trust: banks as the "safe option"
- The 2008 financial crisis and recent bank failures like Silicon Valley Bank
- COVID money printing diluting the value of every pound in bank accounts
- The psychological shift from "the bank will look after my money" to "I am my own bank"
- Why trusting ourselves feels riskier than trusting institutions that have failed us
The Pearl Analogy from Gene Keys
- Richard Rudd's symbolism of the pearl as feminine metaphor for prosperity
- How pearls form from pressure and irritation, not perfection
- Wealth coming from responding with grace to challenges rather than ease
- Digital currencies as the "pearl" - transforming financial friction into something beautiful
- Moving from hoarding for ourselves to community and shared values
Practical Steps for Building Confidence
- Using AI to create personalised learning courses about digital currencies
- Starting with 2-3% portfolio allocation to learn gradually
- The challenge of getting advice from traditional financial advisors due to regulatory constraints
- Beginning with small enough amounts to sleep at night but large enough to genuinely learn
- Treating it like learning any new skill - expecting a gradual comfort-building process
Educational Resources
- Creating AI prompts to build beginner's guides tailored to individual situations
- Recommendation for Natalie McNeil's AI Dream Team course for entrepreneurs
- Catherine's book "It's Not About the Money" as foundational mindset work
- The Get Investing Course for beginner investors with 50% discount code INVEST50OFF2024
Final Thought
This transformation is about trust, not technology. We're living through one of the biggest shifts in how humans relate to money since moving away from the gold standard. The key is giving yourself permission to start learning gradually and allowing your nervous system time to adjust, just as it did with online banking.
Chapters
00:00 Rewiring Our Money Mindset
04:21 Understanding Digital Currencies
10:03 Generational Perspectives on Money
11:59 Trust and Financial Institutions
15:19 The Pearl Analogy: Transformation in Wealth
21:30 Practical Steps for Building Confidence
28:19 Trust Over Technology: A New Approach
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