Episode 31: TrueTrader Pros Ricky Analog and Benito Segovia

TrueTrader Pros Ricky Analog and Benito Segovia

Ricky Analog and Benito Segovia from TrueTrader.net join Kim and Lucas to discuss their respective trading journeys, philosophies on risk management, and the mentorship they provide members of the TrueTrader community.

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Episode 30: Understanding the Moods of the Market with Peter Atwater

Understanding the Moods of the Market with Peter Atwater

Socionomist, professor, and author Peter Atwater joins Kim and Lucas to discuss his book ‘Moods and Markets: A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad’. He also offers his approach to trading and investing in the current market, crypto, and much more.

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Turney Duff on The Buy Side, Addiction, and the Danger of If Then Thinking

Turney Duff on The Buy Side, Addiction, and the Danger of “If Then” Thinking

Turney Duff joins Kim and Lucas to discuss The Buy Side, his time on Wall Street, and the deeper emotional traps that sit beneath ambition. This episode is more than a market story. It is a look at what happens when achievement, identity, addiction, and self-worth get tangled together, and why external success can still leave someone profoundly unwell.

What makes the conversation valuable for traders is that it takes the usual performance narrative apart. Turney speaks openly about excess, collapse, and the false bargain that says, “If I get this, then I’ll finally feel okay.” That lesson translates directly to trading and investing, where people often keep moving the goalposts without ever examining what they actually think money is supposed to fix.

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About Turney Duff

Turney Duff is a former Wall Street trader, journalist, public speaker, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Buy Side. In this episode, he reflects on the intoxicating culture of Wall Street, his experience with addiction, and the hard lessons that followed the collapse of the life he had spent years building.

Key insights from this episode

  • The “if then” mindset is a trap. It convinces people that the next number, promotion, or win will finally produce peace, even though that peace never arrives.
  • External performance can hide internal collapse for a long time. That is true on Wall Street and it is true in trading.
  • Honesty changes everything. Once Turney stopped lying to himself, the rest of his recovery had something real to stand on.
  • Achievement does not automatically translate into fulfillment. Traders and investors need to be brutally clear about what they expect success to do for them.
  • Recovery, reflection, and truth-telling create a stronger life than status ever could.

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Related trading psychology reads: What Is Trading Psychology?, How to Control Your Emotions While Trading, and Trading Confidence

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Episode 28: How to Skip the Line with James Altucher

Author, trader, investor, and standup comedian James Altucher joins Kim and Lucas to discuss his new book Skip the Line and offers practical advice from his book on ways to quickly improve in any area of your life.

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Episode 27: Trading & Your Attachment Style/Adaptations with Alicen Halquist

Trauma resolution and attachment expert, Alicen Halquist, joins Kim and Lucas to discuss how attachment adaptations (commonly referred to as attachment styles) influence every aspect of our lives, from personal relationships to individual trades.

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Diane Poole Heller’s Attachment Styles Test:

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Episode 26: Surfing Emotions with Raphael Cushnir

Emotional connection and present moment awareness expert, Raphael Cushnir, joins Kim and Lucas to discuss his approach to “surfing emotions,” living in the present moment, and so much more.

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Episode 25: You Are What You Risk with Michele Wucker

Author of The Gray Rhino and You Are What You Risk, Michele Wucker, joins Kim and Lucas to discuss her new book and give insight into how risk is perceived and acted upon by different individuals and cultures.

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Episode 24: Common Issues for Traders

Kim and Lucas discuss the most common roadblocks that traders face and how they have helped traders tackle these problems: Fear of Failure, Fear of Missing Out (FOMO), Lack of Discipline, Lack of Proven Edge, Greed, and Ego.

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Kim’s book – Transforming Wall Street:

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Episode 23: Meditation, Intuition, and Growth with Samantha Keen and Jason Apollo Voss

Kim and Lucas welcome Samantha Keen and Jason Apollo Voss – expert coaches in meditation and intuition. Both Samantha and Jason have worked for years as coaches with The Wall StreetCoach and both practice and coach meditation and mindfulness.

In this episode Samantha’s speaks about how her coaching and the practice of daily meditation led to over 1000% growth for a set of institutional traders.

Jason, author of The Intuitive Investor and former portfolio manager himself, discusses journeys through “the dark night of the soul,” how he coaches clients to tap into their intuition, and his experiences being promoted from research analyst to portfolio manager.

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Episode 22: Holding Space for Yourself

Kim and Lucas discuss how anxiety, PTSD, and other stress can manifest physically and how to hold space for yourself when these stresses appear – sometimes completely out of the blue.

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References

Peter Levine:

https://traumahealing.org

Joseph Aldo:

https://www.josephaldo.com

Mark Wolynn:

https://markwolynn.com/book/

Temple Grandin:

https://www.templegrandin.com

Raphael Cushnir:

https://cushnir.com

Brené Brown The Power of Vulnerability: