Come sit with me by the fire, my friend, I have something to tell you.
You can manage your finances better.
It’s not a natural gift, it’s not a measure of intelligence, it’s not a secret club you were never invited into. It’s something that you can learn, like any other skill.
I see your cynicism and I understand.
A thousand small moments have led us to believe that this is not for us.
Put your hand up if you’ve heard “girls aren’t good at maths”. No doubt you saw your mother or grandmother restricted in their financial independence. Or perhaps one mistake was treated as proof that you were never good at this.
Maybe you’ve subconsciously noticed that the people in the finance industry don’t look like you. They ignore issues that concern you, start with assumed knowledge, use acronyms you haven’t heard before. They talk to your husband and don’t make eye contact with you.
It’s the multitude of small cuts that make us hesitate, doubt, step back.
It’s the reason I incorporate mindset work in all of my programs.
The technical skills can be learnt. Believing you have the right to learn them, use them, and let them serve you rather than distress you – that’s the challenge. Or the opportunity.
Money is our safety, our choice, our freedom, our power. It’s time to take control of it in spite of everything we might have experienced.
Financial education so often forgets women’s experiences. Women have been excluded. We carry the burden of our mothers’ experiences. We want to learn in different ways, in different spaces. Our goals and priorities are different, and so are the realities of our lives.
Technical knowledge is one part of the equation.
But when money meets mindset, that’s when you shine.
