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What could your life be like if you made peace with money?
“If money had a voice, what would it say to you right now?”
How do you cope with money mistakes?
Three Years of The Ladybird Purse
Taking turtle steps into the future.
Can you talk to friends about money?
How do you feel when you check your bank account?
Don’t just think about your own finances, look at the generations you’re sandwiched between.
I’d like to earn enough so that I don’t really think about money so much.
“All the money I’d ever need.”
Not all loans are bad and not all investments are risky.
There will always be more money, there may not be more moments.
Do you have at least £1000 saved?
I’ve noticed that ‘responsible’ payments, such as bills, are often assumed to be paid by the man.
What are your most common thought patterns around money?
What would I ask older women about money? How to make sure you don’t have to rely on anyone else.
What do you want your relationship with money to look like?
"It’s like rats in London, I’m never more than 6 feet away from financial disaster."
What did your parents teach you about money?
What do you regret buying? What do you regret NOT buying?
Would you spend £15 on a chocolate mousse?
"I don’t think I’m asking for much – I just want to have enough money to be comfortable."
Why I spent a week catching octopuses.
What's the easiest money you've ever made?
Are you ready to stop worrying about money?
"What would I do with £10,000? I’d spend it on something that would bring me joy."
“I love money transparency conversations. Let’s have more of them.”
Can you really earn a book advance on Kickstarter?
"I really believe that ‘luxury’ is a feeling."
"Making hay while the sun shines…"
"My earliest money memory is money literally saving my life."
"I was sitting in my fishing boat with my pole in the water and I had no bait on my hook."
"Invest in doing things that make the world a better place."
"My focus this year is building up a multi-stream income."
"I was in the depths of ADHD burnout before I left my last job."
What's your financial stress response?
How do you put a price on love?
"I believe more firmly than ever in the enormous power of reinvention."
"I now earn a living wage purely from writing books, which I honestly never thought would happen."
"Biggest money mistake? Letting myself be talked out of buying Amazon shares in 2012."
“It feels like it’s time to have a bit more fun - even if I am earning less.“
I'm sick of working on my relationship with money.
I am becoming wealthy by doing what I love.
"When you are stressed, you are more likely to repel money than feel abundant."
Feeling safe in a newsletter subscription business.
"Know that money returns, so enjoy it and don't be so much of a money hoarder."
"I am full aware of how draconian that sounds, being a kept woman."
"I always score at the riskiest end of the scale in the pensions quiz!"
"Money is a loving relationship that needs work just like every relationship does."
"The easiest money you'll ever come by is the money you never spend in the first place."
“More income would be nice, but not as nice as not having to go to work.”
"Sometimes instead of choosing one or the other we should just give ourselves BOTH."
"I still want to write books, sitting in a beach hut in Southwold, one day…"
"My plan [has] always been to create a life I don’t want to retire from."
Why is it so hard to spend money on the thing you saved it for?
"My relationship with money is sort of like a very nervous rider approaching a very skittish horse."
"I like going to work now, which is very novel."
“I am the boss of money, it’s not the boss of me.”
“I never take money for granted.”
"I have more confidence in having bigger dreams now."
Can we talk about periods and money management?
“Once you get on the underpaid treadmill, it’s very hard to get off.”
"It's hard to be financially stable when you don't feel mentally stable."
Have you freshened your wants?
"I am earning more money than I expected to, and I feel emotional about it."
"We are merely poor rather than destitute and I am grateful for that difference."