Understanding High Sensation Seeking as an HSP with Dr. Huong Diep In this episode, psychologist and Certified Financial Therapist™ Huong Diep explores how family history, cultural identity, and inherited beliefs around scarcity shape our financial lives — and why financial stress so often lives in the nervous system long after someone becomes objectively successful. Together, we unpack the tension between high sensitivity and high ambition, and what it truly means to feel financially safe from the inside out. One foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes as an HSS-HSP How money entered Dr. Huong's work as a psychologist Why money can feel more intense for sensitive people Inherited scarcity, survival, and the pressure to succeed Wanting wealth without betraying your values The narrow definition of acceptable success Class mobility, survivor's guilt, and grief Understanding money through a biopsychosocial lens How family messages become money patterns Balancing personal security with collective wellbeing Raising financially responsible children without shame Building a personal menu of restorative rest Meet Our Guest: Huong Diep Huong Diep is a board-certified psychologist, Certified Financial Therapist™, and wealth psychologist working at the intersection of culture, identity, and wealth. Her work helps thoughtful individuals, couples, and families understand how emotion, family history, cultural expectations, identity, and learned strategies around safety and self-worth influence financial decisions. Huong is transitioning from a primarily clinical foundation toward a consultative role in the wealth advisory space. She is particularly interested in helping families develop the communication, emotional capacity, relationships, and shared purpose needed to use wealth well. Her clients have included high-achieving professionals, globally mobile individuals and families, and people navigating transitions involving money, identity, career, success, and belonging. As a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American, first-generation college graduate, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Huong brings a deeply cross-cultural perspective to the human side of money. Her approach draws from financial psychology, trauma-informed frameworks, and systems thinking. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and is licensed in California, Nevada, New York, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Resources Website LinkedIn #WealthPsychology #FinancialTherapy #MoneyMindset #FinancialIdentity #IntergenerationalWealth #MoneyAndCulture #NervousSystemRegulation #SocialJustice #RestorativeRest #FinancialWellbeing Click here to watch our interview on Youtube Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.
