Ep 82: How Motherhood Changes Your Relationship With Money: Understanding Money Matrescence
Ep 82: How Motherhood Changes Your Relationship With Money: Understanding Money Matrescence  
Podcast: Interrupting Business As Usual
Published On: Sun Jun 21 2026
Description: There's a name for what happens to a woman's identity when she becomes a mother. There's never been a name for what happens to her relationship with money — until now. In this episode, Nikki introduce an original framework — Money Matrescence — naming a psychological and neurological shift that caretakers experience but rarely have language for. Pulling from matrescence research, scarcity science, and my own lived experience as a caregiver, alo parent, and mother, I make the case for why what gets labeled "bad money habits" in caregivers is often something else entirely, and why it's not your fault. In this episode you'll learn: The new concept reframing how caretakers relate to money, resource, and worth Why "good mother" culture makes caretakers' own financial needs feel optional How financial scarcity literally changes brain function and decision-making (Mullainathan & Shafir's research) Why this experience applies to aunties, guardians, foster parents, and chosen-family caretakers, not just biological mothers How to start re-parenting yourself around money instead of pathologizing the rewiring Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ Where do we go from here? To learn more about what you heard on the podcast today, visit nikkiblak.com. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more exclusive content delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Me If this conversation challenged the way you think about labor, care, burnout, overfunctioning, liberation, capitalism, motherhood, or your relationship to work and worth, applications for Intesectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business 1:1 coaching are open. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: Kicking off Hot Community Summer — Matriarchs Don't Create Millions Alone: Why Ethical Wealth Is Always Communal