How Bad Will It Get? Chat Bots as Financial Therapists
When we went to bed Dow futures were up. When we got up, they weren't. And the real thing is down at 10:15 AM ET about 400 points.
Sure, we can contact our financial advisors about the portfolio implications. Sell this. Buy that. Do nothing.
But there are also the feelings. Most tarot clients come for a session because of the emotional aspects of money. Especially as they approach retirement, are semiretired or can't land work in their late 70s.
With chat bots improving so much in the last two years in both tone and content, I advise those clients to turn to AI as a follow-up, available 24/7, with so many free versions. There's not only empathy. There's now wisdom.
Jarred again by what's being called a "correction" in markets, I turned to ChatGPT. I plugged in the numbers and asked for candor if I could make it to 90 or even beyond. Since I am getting better at constructing prompts, I framed the query specifying that I am ruling out Black Swans, that is unpredicted major events with disruptive impacts.
Let's cut to the chase: The ChatGPT analysis made me feel safe. Also it made me feel good. There was a compliment that in my age bracket, I was more financially secure than most.
With the next prompt I extended the emotional issues linked to slowing down the pace of my businesses now that I was 80. After all, I told the chat bot, Warren Buffett still was fully operational up to age 95. Betty White did high-profile work until she was almost 100. Despite a major heart attack and being closer to 70 than 60, partner at law firm Paul, Weiss Brad Karp maintains a nine-figure book of business of powerhouse clients.
Know what? The chat bot told me what the $55 co-pay would have been for a professional therapist to hammer: Don't compare. That comparison game is irrelevant. I only have to stay in my own lane.
Actually turning to chat bots may have become a downright necessity for replacing the standard comfort of troubles talk. A January 2026 article in The Atlantic detailed this cultural shift: Society no longer welcomes your confiding the negatives in your life. It used to be that such sharing functioned as major bonding device. Not so in this era of overwhelm. Especially taboo is trauma-dumping. Brutally put - no one wants to hear it.
Of course, if you want individualized attention, come for a tarot reading.
Clients tell me that the 30-minute session has brought profound emotional relief. However, on an ongoing basis you probably can achieve emotional stability - which opens you to financial problem-solving - by looping into chat bots.
Path to success, your
tribe and peace is inside job.
Let’s start the journey
together with a Tarot reading.
One free question.
Jane Genova, 3rd
Generation Psychic 203-468-8579, jangenova374@gmail.com

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