Serial Shopper Show

Dara Fleischer

A shopping and fashion podcast hosted by Dara Fleischer. I created the "Serial Shopper Show" Podcast because I needed an unfiltered outlet for sharing my personal struggles with shopping addiction. If you can relate and are tired of feeling overspent, in debt and out of control, then you need to be a part of the Serial Shopper Show community! Tune-in weekly for interviews with other serial shoppers, experts and my daily shopping obsessions.

Episodes

  1. Jun 20

    Episode 12: Meet Terrance Shulman, Founder of The Shulman Center

    Just in time for my memoir's November 17th debut, I'm bringing you this eye-opening conversation with Terrence Shulman — attorney, addictions therapist, and Founder/Director of The Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending and Hoarding. Confession: I first interviewed Terrence back in 2023, when I launched The Serial Shopper Show, and knew right away that this whopper of an episode was worth saving for something special. That something is the launch of At My Limit, coming this fall from RE:BOOKS. Terrence knows this terrain from the inside — he's been in recovery from his own addiction for more than three decades, which is exactly what led him to build a practice around the behavioral addictions almost no one specializes in: compulsive stealing, spending, and hoarding. Tune-in to hear why shopping addiction gets treated as the "smiled-upon" addiction — totally legal, culturally encouraged, easy to wave off — when the damage underneath is anything but. We talk warning signs, why "once an addict, always an addict" isn't the whole story, and his belief that recovery isn't about a cure, but about acceptance. As he puts it, surrender is acceptance. His book Bought Out and $pent! got a cameo in my memoir — fitting, since it was required reading during my own reckoning. In this episode: How a secret decade led Terrence to found C.A.S.A. and, later, The Shulman Center Why shopping addiction sits at the "low end" of how we rank addictions — and why that's dangerous The real warning signs (his "you might be a shopaholic if…" checklist) Compulsive vs. impulsive: what actually separates them Who's most at risk, and the role of how we were raised around money Recovery as management, not cure Find Terrence: theshulmancenter.com · shopaholicsanonymous.org

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A shopping and fashion podcast hosted by Dara Fleischer. I created the "Serial Shopper Show" Podcast because I needed an unfiltered outlet for sharing my personal struggles with shopping addiction. If you can relate and are tired of feeling overspent, in debt and out of control, then you need to be a part of the Serial Shopper Show community! Tune-in weekly for interviews with other serial shoppers, experts and my daily shopping obsessions.

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