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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud yr
- 0:04Speaker 1: the Order Kerni Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before
- 0:08Speaker 1: we get started on She's on the Money podcast, I
- 0:11Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land
- 0:14Speaker 1: of which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country,
- 0:18Speaker 1: acknowledging the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming
- 0:22Speaker 1: through as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing
- 0:27Speaker 1: and the storytelling of you to make a difference for
- 0:30Speaker 1: today and lasting impact for tomorrow.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
- 0:34Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to is on the Money the podcast
- 1:01Speaker 4: Millennials who want financial Freedom. Today is Friday, which means
- 1:05Speaker 4: it's time to get the team together and celebrate you
- 1:07Speaker 4: the incredible She's on the Money community. Today, I'm flying solo.
- 1:11Speaker 4: I've been left to my own devices. Victoria's in Europe.
- 1:17Speaker 4: You're sick, but fear not, because I do have someone
- 1:21Speaker 4: ready to chime.
- 1:22Speaker 2: You know, I know if you're at the pilot's seat
- 1:26Speaker 2: and you've just announced to the people on the plane
- 1:28Speaker 2: that you're flying solo. If I am the person that
- 1:31Speaker 2: you want to stand up and go.
- 1:32Speaker 4: I'll help you absolutely anyway. I will if anyone we
- 1:36Speaker 4: want you. For those who don't recognize the iconic voice,
- 1:39Speaker 4: we've got the wonderful Kate Langbrook joining us.
- 1:42Speaker 2: I did jump the gun on introducing myself and chipping.
- 1:44Speaker 4: In, Oh any time, please do?
- 1:46Speaker 2: Is this the rudder? Well, we do whatever.
- 1:51Speaker 4: We want to make sure you put your own mask
- 1:53Speaker 4: on first before you help those around you.
- 1:55Speaker 2: I come, was it Scully? Tom Hanks? You know who
- 1:59Speaker 2: landed the plane in the middle of the Hudson River?
- 2:02Speaker 2: Sally Sally close O Scully is Yeah, the truth is
- 2:08Speaker 2: out there. Look, Anna, Lisa has already proven herself to
- 2:13Speaker 2: be invaluable.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Absolutely as she always does. For those of you who
- 2:16Speaker 4: don't know Caitline Brook, she's absolutely everywhere. You're a new podcaster, yes,
- 2:22Speaker 4: comedian radio legend. You've truly done it all. So we're
- 2:26Speaker 4: so excited to have you joining us today.
- 2:28Speaker 2: I'm very happy because we have cohabited for many years.
- 2:33Speaker 2: When I was doing the show with Hughsey, you guys,
- 2:36Speaker 2: I think that was maybe before you came on board,
- 2:38Speaker 2: But Victoria was always in with dog and the bow
- 2:40Speaker 2: in its head.
- 2:41Speaker 4: Lucy, she's an icon.
- 2:42Speaker 2: She's stummy anyway. So, and I've always been quite intrigued
- 2:47Speaker 2: by the pot.
- 2:48Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 2:49Speaker 2: It's a very good service, even though sometimes I find
- 2:53Speaker 2: it shames me unwittingly.
- 2:56Speaker 4: No, no, no, well, we're here for everyone. Everyone's on their
- 2:58Speaker 4: own money journey, and so I'm so excited to pick
- 3:01Speaker 4: your brain. Fear not everybody. We're going to stick to
- 3:03Speaker 4: the usual format. So I've got some money wins to share.
- 3:06Speaker 4: Beck set along some broke tips despite being away that
- 3:09Speaker 4: I can share on her behalf as well, and then
- 3:12Speaker 4: we're going to be answering a juicy money dilemma. This week,
- 3:15Speaker 4: it's all about the fear of losing your identity when
- 3:18Speaker 4: you become a new mum.
- 3:19Speaker 5: Oh.
- 3:20Speaker 4: I feel like that one's going to be a very.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Very very deep, so interesting mm hmm.
- 3:25Speaker 4: And then we're going to also unpack something that you
- 3:27Speaker 4: slip into our DMS about which this week is talking
- 3:29Speaker 4: about job security versus wonderlust, which I think is something
- 3:33Speaker 4: a lot of people are thinking about. And I'm so
- 3:34Speaker 4: excited to hear your thoughts because you did a huge
- 3:38Speaker 4: move overseas to Italy, didn't you?
- 3:40Speaker 2: Yes? For two years?
- 3:42Speaker 5: Wow?
- 3:43Speaker 2: With my husband and our four children.
- 3:46Speaker 4: The whole vam. That would have been a huge change,
- 3:50Speaker 4: huge I'm so excited to hear all about it. But
- 3:53Speaker 4: we'll go in order. We'll stick to format, so I
- 3:55Speaker 4: feel like I can't message.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Up telling me you're the pilot.
- 3:58Speaker 4: All right, everybody, I'm trying.
- 4:00Speaker 2: The co pilot and Annalisa is going to come along
- 4:03Speaker 2: with some peanuts and tomato juice.
- 4:07Speaker 4: Serve them to our lovely gat but a very good
- 4:09Speaker 4: at altitude.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Apparently tomato juice drinks. Yeah, something about the salt.
- 4:14Speaker 4: Oh, there you go. I never would have thought I
- 4:15Speaker 4: don't love tomato.
- 4:17Speaker 2: No one loves it. On the ground. Yeah, alone, in
- 4:19Speaker 2: the air, bloody Mary's restorative. But in the air it
- 4:23Speaker 2: comes into its own.
- 4:25Speaker 4: There you go.
- 4:25Speaker 2: The more you know, there's a tip, write that down, sustness.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Somebody's scribbling in an somewhere. How has your week been, Kate?
- 4:33Speaker 4: What have you been up to? I feel like you're
- 4:34Speaker 4: one of those people who's out and about and doing things.
- 4:37Speaker 2: This week is was unusual or last week was unusual
- 4:40Speaker 2: for me because I was in Vietnam with a girlfriend
- 4:44Speaker 2: of mine, amazing and we went for five days without husbands.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Or boyfriends or children.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Sounds like a dream.
- 4:52Speaker 2: So we had. It was heavenly. It was heaven It
- 4:55Speaker 2: was hot as eighties, was really humid. It was great,
- 5:00Speaker 2: up to all kinds of mischief. What's your definition of missing?
- 5:05Speaker 2: We enjoyed ourselves enormously. Put it that way.
- 5:08Speaker 4: Oh wonderful, Oh that's beautiful. Well, I'm very it's been
- 5:11Speaker 4: so rainy here in Melbourne.
- 5:13Speaker 2: It's been Hey, it rained every day and hopes you
- 5:15Speaker 2: meant did it?
- 5:16Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 5:16Speaker 2: It did. It was that real tropical warm but rainy.
- 5:20Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 5:20Speaker 2: But the hair was just heavy all the time.
- 5:23Speaker 4: Not good for the hair, very terrible for the hair.
- 5:26Speaker 2: But you had to abandon, you know, when you're traveling
- 5:29Speaker 2: in countries like that, in Asia particularly, and you have
- 5:32Speaker 2: to abandon all notions of what traditionally like, what you'd
- 5:36Speaker 2: look like when you go out or what you just
- 5:38Speaker 2: have to embrace some sort of weird hippie chic look
- 5:43Speaker 2: which is frizzled and frazzled and crumpled and a bit
- 5:46Speaker 2: damn little bit the way you feel great.
- 5:54Speaker 4: It's a return to your natural self. Though I feel
- 5:56Speaker 4: like because you don't wear makeup, it's going to slide
- 5:57Speaker 4: off your no point, it's it's very like, I feel
- 6:00Speaker 4: like it's good for.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Yourself, it's fantastic, and you don't look in a mirror
- 6:05Speaker 2: because there's only desolation. There was a mirror in at
- 6:09Speaker 2: our hotel that was a magnifying mirror, and I'm like, oh,
- 6:12Speaker 2: this is great. I can pluck my eyebrows. But then
- 6:15Speaker 2: and my girlfriend Alice said, I am not looking in
- 6:18Speaker 2: that thing. And then I noticed as the week went past,
- 6:20Speaker 2: I was just like, oh, it's really bringing me.
- 6:25Speaker 4: I feel like they're like those carnival mirrors because they
- 6:28Speaker 4: warp you, yeh.
- 6:29Speaker 2: And it's never good. It's never good.
- 6:32Speaker 4: It's never ever fun to look at. Well, I'm very jealous.
- 6:36Speaker 4: None of the last thing I would really like.
- 6:37Speaker 2: It was great, and you would like it, you know
- 6:40Speaker 2: why on this pod it's such a cheap holiday, really affordable,
- 6:45Speaker 2: so great. You know. At one point we went to
- 6:48Speaker 2: the Sieve, to the seven eleven or the Circle k whatever,
- 6:52Speaker 2: and we just got some snacks. We bought some beers,
- 6:57Speaker 2: some snacks, some chips, some long needs to take home
- 7:00Speaker 2: to the kids, you know, strange you know, Vietnamese lollies.
- 7:04Speaker 2: And when we got the bill, we were like, because
- 7:06Speaker 2: we're always converting from dong obviously we went was that
- 7:11Speaker 2: twelve dollars, It was twelve dollars for four beers and
- 7:18Speaker 2: this is like a one beer yeah, correct, where there's
- 7:21Speaker 2: always inflation in a sieve because of the twenty four
- 7:24Speaker 2: hour nature of them and capitalism of course. Anyway, we
- 7:28Speaker 2: were like, it's incredible, incredible.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Wow, It's like that in Japan too. Seven eleven we
- 7:32Speaker 4: lived at the seven eleven. I know Beck has just
- 7:34Speaker 4: got back from Japan and I'm sure she had the
- 7:36Speaker 4: same experience where you walk in and it's just like
- 7:39Speaker 4: a mecca of fun things.
- 7:41Speaker 2: And they've got great food at seven elevens in Japan.
- 7:43Speaker 4: If for seven eleven here was like the seven eleven
- 7:46Speaker 4: over there. An interesting tidbit, I believe seven eleven Australia
- 7:50Speaker 4: has just been bought by the same company that owns
- 7:52Speaker 4: seven Japan really or recently, when I say just but random,
- 7:56Speaker 4: hopefully ours become more like theirs. I would buy my
- 7:59Speaker 4: dinner at the eleven.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Insteads because the food's beautiful.
- 8:02Speaker 4: Yeah, they had like full meals chicken katsu like but
- 8:06Speaker 4: really healthy good food. Y're delicious, So like if you
- 8:09Speaker 4: had that option, you wouldn't go to like a Macca's
- 8:11Speaker 4: or something, you know, late at night when you just go.
- 8:13Speaker 2: You only go to KFC as they do Christmas. You know,
- 8:17Speaker 2: that's the traditional Christmas thing in Japan.
- 8:20Speaker 4: What.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a massive thing for Christmas.
- 8:23Speaker 4: I did not know.
- 8:24Speaker 2: They might not even celebrate Christmas, but they certainly celebrate KFC.
- 8:28Speaker 4: I can absolutely get a moment that because if there's
- 8:30Speaker 4: one thing I like.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Oh look we're off and flying.
- 8:37Speaker 4: We are one of these same you know who else
- 8:39Speaker 4: is one of the same. But she's on the money community.
- 8:41Speaker 4: They're always picking up the vibes. They've always got some
- 8:43Speaker 4: money wins to share. So let me give you a
- 8:46Speaker 4: couple from the group this week. There were some goodies. Firstly,
- 8:52Speaker 4: Brianna said, money win. I purchased some special edition books
- 8:55Speaker 4: from Amazon for one hundred and fifty dollars. Very expensive books,
- 8:59Speaker 4: but obviously she was excited, she said. Instead, Amazon sent
- 9:03Speaker 4: me two bottles of cast oil. Had no books classic.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Wow, Castor oil is great though, I'm big on cast Yeah,
- 9:12Speaker 2: Castor oil is great.
- 9:13Speaker 4: Oh there you go, she said, marked it as a
- 9:15Speaker 4: return and sent them back because obviously it wasn't what
- 9:17Speaker 4: I ordered, and they refunded the money, and then two
- 9:20Speaker 4: days later the books turned up money Win.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic and very hard to get one over Amazon.
- 9:27Speaker 4: Capitally, as we were saying, on.
- 9:30Speaker 2: A yacht to meet, he'll be so.
- 9:33Speaker 4: Angry shaken in his boot. Next, I've got a money
- 9:36Speaker 4: in from Gemma, who said it's my birthday month, so
- 9:38Speaker 4: I've been utilizing lots and lots of freebies. Yesterday she
- 9:42Speaker 4: went out with her son and got a free Gloria
- 9:43Speaker 4: Jeans chiller. She said she's gotten three drinks so far
- 9:46Speaker 4: this month. And as someone whose birthday is coming up soon,
- 9:50Speaker 4: I just want to remind everyone go through freebies. I
- 9:53Speaker 4: saw a TikTok of a girl the other day who
- 9:56Speaker 4: collected everything that she was in, like she'd signed up
- 9:58Speaker 4: to every list she could think of, and she got
- 10:01Speaker 4: like twelve meals over the course of two day. Yeah,
- 10:04Speaker 4: because it's so well organized, though, Yeah, they tend to
- 10:08Speaker 4: get lost in your thirty six thousand, you know, I
- 10:11Speaker 4: know forty six forty six actually, and I deleted three
- 10:14Speaker 4: thousand them over summer and I'm going to delete one
- 10:18Speaker 4: thousand a day and that lasted three days.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Three days, and they were a renewable resource.
- 10:25Speaker 4: I wonder do you ever hit a point where they go,
- 10:27Speaker 4: no more emails for you? No, they don't until No,
- 10:29Speaker 4: they don't, not yet anyway.
- 10:31Speaker 2: And the other thing is vouchers don't even you must
- 10:34Speaker 2: talk about vouchers on this show. But vouchers are just
- 10:38Speaker 2: such a punishment for me. Why like boucher, Yeah, give vouchers,
- 10:44Speaker 2: I reckon, I've had Look, I don't even known the
- 10:48Speaker 2: money value, but I've had one hundred expired vouchers that
- 10:53Speaker 2: I've never used.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Interesting fact, few it's actually illegal for vouchers to expire.
- 10:57Speaker 4: They can put an expiring wail on them, but they
- 11:00Speaker 4: I know.
- 11:01Speaker 2: But then, okay, so riddle me this. You're going to
- 11:04Speaker 2: have a massage. You just had an argument with the
- 11:07Speaker 2: person who runs the message. Oh, I was going to
- 11:09Speaker 2: say massage, but about you, like you cannot, I know
- 11:14Speaker 2: it's illegal for you the a triple C blo blah.
- 11:18Speaker 2: And then you're going to go into a darkened room
- 11:19Speaker 2: and that person's going to rub you. How's that going
- 11:22Speaker 2: to go?
- 11:22Speaker 4: Well? I mean usually you have the conversation afterwards. I
- 11:26Speaker 4: would imagine.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Negatingating the relaxed, deeper axation you've enjoyed.
- 11:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to be relaxed first, and then I'll
- 11:33Speaker 4: get angry afterwards. But hopefully usually I feel when you
- 11:36Speaker 4: say just so, you know, you actually can't do that.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Okay, So does that mean if you've got a voucher
- 11:41Speaker 2: from ten years ago?
- 11:44Speaker 4: Theoretically, I think so. I mean you would have to
- 11:46Speaker 4: double check the website in case the law.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, because I know they changed the law.
- 11:51Speaker 4: Yeah, so it would potentially be from the date.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, too late for me. They're all they're custom
- 11:57Speaker 2: all they gone now even now when I get one,
- 12:00Speaker 2: thanks straight in the bin, because I know that it's
- 12:03Speaker 2: just gonna be clatter on.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Never end up using Oh you know, regift terrible regift
- 12:07Speaker 4: is the.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Yeah, good idea. I have given book vouchers to my
- 12:10Speaker 2: husband's mother. He's very well organized.
- 12:12Speaker 4: I'm sure she wouldn't say no to the massage ranches either. Next,
- 12:16Speaker 4: I've got a money linking saves you from being in
- 12:19Speaker 4: the awkward position.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, she can have the argument.
- 12:22Speaker 4: Exactly like, not my problem anymore. Next, I've got a
- 12:25Speaker 4: money in from Steph, who said she's in the process
- 12:28Speaker 4: of making her home office a more functional and inviting space.
- 12:31Speaker 4: She got on marketplace to sort it out, and instead
- 12:34Speaker 4: of paying four hundred dollars for a desk with storage draws,
- 12:37Speaker 4: she paid one hundred. She got a printer for forty
- 12:40Speaker 4: bucks and an Apple mouse for thirty, which means the
- 12:42Speaker 4: whole office is done for about one hundred and seventy dollars.
- 12:46Speaker 2: You know what, I don't want the free printer. I
- 12:48Speaker 2: want the free ink.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's never that anywhere.
- 12:51Speaker 2: Racket, isn't it. The racket is they'll sell you the
- 12:54Speaker 2: printer for nothing and charge you an arm and leg
- 12:57Speaker 2: on a subscription service for ink.
- 12:59Speaker 4: Near like a laser printer or something where it can
- 13:01Speaker 4: just never run out.
- 13:02Speaker 2: That a laser printer run out of me. I don't know.
- 13:05Speaker 4: I just assumed, quite possibly.
- 13:08Speaker 2: I think it's getting the ink from is it like
- 13:12Speaker 2: I thought the laser like three D printer that it
- 13:14Speaker 2: just makes itself.
- 13:16Speaker 4: I mean, you can tell that I don't print a
- 13:17Speaker 4: lot of stuff.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Hang on, can we because she's laughing at these annals?
- 13:23Speaker 2: Can you just shed some light here? Because I think
- 13:25Speaker 2: we've taken a dark turn.
- 13:28Speaker 4: I assumed that the laser was like lasering.
- 13:31Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think it does it with
- 13:34Speaker 2: laser focus. But it's still I think I'm pretty sure it.
- 13:37Speaker 4: Needs that's a million dollar.
- 13:41Speaker 6: That is insane. Also, for as smart as you are,
- 13:43Speaker 6: that that is incredible. You've got that laser printers read
- 13:47Speaker 6: the electronic data from your computer and being this information
- 13:50Speaker 6: to a drum inside the printer, which builds up a
- 13:52Speaker 6: pattern of a static electricity which attracts a dry powder
- 13:56Speaker 6: called tona onto the paper.
- 13:58Speaker 2: So no ink, no, but you got to fill out
- 14:01Speaker 2: the your tona.
- 14:03Speaker 4: Well, there you go. It's like in the middle.
- 14:05Speaker 2: I think in the middle. I don't think anyone.
- 14:07Speaker 4: Was going to say I wasn't wrong and that you're.
- 14:11Speaker 2: Going to get the mail. You're going to get.
- 14:13Speaker 4: The mail on it. It's a blue job, I think,
- 14:16Speaker 4: I think, so, not a pink One. Next day, whatt
- 14:18Speaker 4: a money in from Emma who said I was recently
- 14:19Speaker 4: in the US and I did some shopping while I
- 14:21Speaker 4: was there. Duh. In some shops you can choose to
- 14:24Speaker 4: pay with local currency or the payment origin currency. She
- 14:27Speaker 4: said it was really handy to keep track of the
- 14:30Speaker 4: exchange rate, so she knew it was almost always cheaper
- 14:32Speaker 4: to buy in the local currency rather than having the
- 14:35Speaker 4: retailer do the exchange. She said that plus using a
- 14:37Speaker 4: travel card meant she didn't pay any of those sneaky fees.
- 14:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 14:41Speaker 2: My girlfriend just did this when we were in Vietnam.
- 14:45Speaker 2: She had a card not revolute, but it was one
- 14:47Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, and it was so great.
- 14:50Speaker 4: I think if you're using a bank card that is
- 14:52Speaker 4: charging you international transaction fees, you are giving your money
- 14:56Speaker 4: away for free. I think it is so really okay.
- 15:00Speaker 4: I don't know you can download.
- 15:02Speaker 2: The whys you can. I know that there are I
- 15:06Speaker 2: know that there are systems, but predominantly the system. The
- 15:12Speaker 2: system is aimed at people like me who are like
- 15:14Speaker 2: I don't know time, I'm just gonna do you take
- 15:17Speaker 2: visa and then when you get home, you're like plus plus.
- 15:21Speaker 4: Their exchange you get like six hundred like inside one
- 15:25Speaker 4: dollar aures me. There are a lot of apps you
- 15:28Speaker 4: can do it on your phone.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Put that with the voucher jobs.
- 15:33Speaker 4: The list. And then we've been asking our guests when
- 15:37Speaker 4: they come on, you're part of the family, you're here
- 15:38Speaker 4: with us, do you happen to have your own money
- 15:41Speaker 4: win or confession that you could? Well?
- 15:43Speaker 2: Speaking of overseas shopping, I think that I had one
- 15:48Speaker 2: last week when I was in Ho Chi Minh. Yes,
- 15:53Speaker 2: this is kind of a win, but also a loss.
- 15:55Speaker 2: But it's a win because I had a holiday. It's
- 15:58Speaker 2: a loss because it's expensive, because you're going on a holiday, Yes,
- 16:01Speaker 2: but because I've got four kids, three boys and a daughter,
- 16:05Speaker 2: and they just burned through runners like nobody's business, because
- 16:11Speaker 2: that's all anyone wears now, and so many runners are
- 16:15Speaker 2: made in Vietnam. So I got them all. I got
- 16:18Speaker 2: them birkenstocks. I got them runners for a fraction of
- 16:23Speaker 2: what you would pay here. One of them was a
- 16:25Speaker 2: dodgy copy, but the others were really good quality, fantastic,
- 16:29Speaker 2: So I think that was a win.
- 16:32Speaker 4: That's a money win for sure.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Even though if you looked at my visa car plus
- 16:38Speaker 2: yeah correct, correct pass three dollars, seventeen conversion feet, et cetera,
- 16:42Speaker 2: you would think I can't see the win. My dad
- 16:45Speaker 2: always said, when mum would go shopping, and Mum was
- 16:48Speaker 2: always big on sales, you go, look what I got, honey.
- 16:50Speaker 2: I was reduced and reduced further, and blah blah blah.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Dad would always say Dutch, you know, he would say,
- 16:56Speaker 2: show me the money you've saved.
- 16:59Speaker 4: Oh, where is it?
- 17:00Speaker 2: Show me that. Yeah, where is it?
- 17:02Speaker 4: That's very clever.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Yeah, very clever.
- 17:04Speaker 4: We say when there's a sale, if you buy it
- 17:06Speaker 4: on say, we're still spending money on it.
- 17:07Speaker 2: So that's what he was saying, although he spoke more
- 17:12Speaker 2: in Dutch riddles. Oh yeah, but yeah, so that was
- 17:16Speaker 2: definitely a win.
- 17:17Speaker 4: Well, but your kids would have been stoked. I feel
- 17:20Speaker 4: like that's the best part of someone coming home from holiday,
- 17:22Speaker 4: especially parents knowing that they're bringing a big old so
- 17:25Speaker 4: they were.
- 17:25Speaker 2: So happy they couldn't believe it.
- 17:29Speaker 4: Some of the year after that, I.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Know it was really good, and it was a lot
- 17:32Speaker 2: of work because the shop for six people.
- 17:35Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of room in your suitcase shoes.
- 17:37Speaker 2: I took an empty I put a suitcase in a suitcase.
- 17:40Speaker 2: That's so smart. We came back with two full suitcases.
- 17:44Speaker 4: I had to do the airport shuffle the last time
- 17:46Speaker 4: I traveled, because they would not let me. They were
- 17:48Speaker 4: going to charge me, Like.
- 17:48Speaker 2: A, h did you have to repack it?
- 17:51Speaker 1: That?
- 17:51Speaker 2: I hate the humiliation.
- 17:53Speaker 4: My friends had to open their suit Yeah. There of
- 17:57Speaker 4: who's got on pretty much. I was like, just make
- 17:59Speaker 4: sure my undis don't go in anyone else's case and
- 18:01Speaker 4: Apart from that, it's fine.
- 18:03Speaker 2: And I love the way in that situation we all
- 18:05Speaker 2: totally abandon the rule of never let anyone put anything
- 18:08Speaker 2: in your luggage, just like I can't put it in.
- 18:12Speaker 4: Just get us out of this line and away from
- 18:13Speaker 4: the embarrassment of unpacking it in front of her. Absolutely, well,
- 18:18Speaker 4: that sounds like I'm going to call it a money win,
- 18:20Speaker 4: not a money lost. Thank you.
- 18:21Speaker 2: I think I felt like it was a win. It
- 18:23Speaker 2: definitely and also saved me time here because you know,
- 18:27Speaker 2: where do you go here? You've got three shops.
- 18:31Speaker 4: It's overwhelming too. If you go on a weekend, it's
- 18:33Speaker 4: also busy, horrendous. It can't shops on the weekend, and
- 18:37Speaker 4: not for me now. Wonderful Beck, who couldn't be here
- 18:40Speaker 4: today unfortunately, did still share some of her broke tips
- 18:43Speaker 4: for us to share with the community. Thank you so much, Beck.
- 18:46Speaker 4: So let me give you what she sent over.
- 18:49Speaker 2: If it's pick a bunch of rosemary and put it
- 18:51Speaker 2: in a pot, I've already done well. I wouldn't have
- 18:56Speaker 2: thought of it it wasn't for her. It does enrage
- 18:59Speaker 2: me when I go to the supermarket and I have
- 19:01Speaker 2: to buy herbs.
- 19:02Speaker 4: For like eight dollars a packet.
- 19:04Speaker 2: Crazy. Okay, some herbs, some I believe are worth the money.
- 19:08Speaker 2: I never quibble about basil. Yes, like I've grown basil.
- 19:12Speaker 2: It's hard. The snails love basil. It's only seasonal. But
- 19:16Speaker 2: when you have to pay four dollars a bunch for
- 19:18Speaker 2: rosemary that grows like a.
- 19:20Speaker 4: Weed and you can find it anywhere, it's.
- 19:23Speaker 2: In hedges everywhere, enrages me.
- 19:26Speaker 4: I completely agree, completely agree.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Okay, hit me all right.
- 19:29Speaker 4: First one from back, very very smart from her. But
- 19:32Speaker 4: it's read the ingredients on your medications and check if
- 19:36Speaker 4: there is a non name brand alternative. And now I
- 19:40Speaker 4: know my pharmacist does this. When I go, they say,
- 19:43Speaker 4: do you want.
- 19:43Speaker 2: To do a generic?
- 19:45Speaker 4: Correct? Because it's exactly the same thing. And I just
- 19:49Speaker 4: had never considered that there was anybody out there who
- 19:52Speaker 4: was saying no to the generic. If I honest like
- 19:55Speaker 4: to there exact same ingredients like pharmacist makes them.
- 19:59Speaker 2: Why do people say no to generics?
- 20:01Speaker 4: I can't imagine. I mean maybe they feel comfortable, like
- 20:04Speaker 4: you know how sometimes it's like a yeah, you know
- 20:08Speaker 4: the name brand of something, so you prefer it, even
- 20:10Speaker 4: if it is the same thing. But yeah, if you
- 20:12Speaker 4: didn't know that by the generic people. Surely next Beck
- 20:16Speaker 4: has a brute tip that was submitted to us by Morgan,
- 20:19Speaker 4: and Morgan said, always activate the bonus offers in your
- 20:23Speaker 4: flybys app before doing a grocery shot. So if you
- 20:26Speaker 4: didn't know, there's an app that goes with flybyers and
- 20:28Speaker 4: they bring up like special challenges and offers, so you
- 20:31Speaker 4: might get bonus points if you buy this specific.
- 20:34Speaker 2: I don't do flybys.
- 20:35Speaker 4: You don't like flybys, No.
- 20:37Speaker 2: I don't. I love them, I just don't do them.
- 20:39Speaker 2: I don't do any loyalty.
- 20:41Speaker 4: Cards, life admin stuff.
- 20:43Speaker 2: I don't do any of that. And I've got it.
- 20:45Speaker 2: We've got a friend me and my husband who's in
- 20:49Speaker 2: love with his Woolworth. He's always just send you a screenshots,
- 20:53Speaker 2: got ten dollars off. It's become like a thing. That
- 20:56Speaker 2: and photos of macarons we've seen to each other because
- 20:59Speaker 2: we have a universal hatred of macarons, the most overrated.
- 21:03Speaker 2: You don't like macaron hideous, horrible, master chef challenge, sure,
- 21:08Speaker 2: but for eating interesting, very pretty for eating.
- 21:13Speaker 4: No, okay, I agree to disagree on that.
- 21:16Speaker 2: You can have all the macarons.
- 21:18Speaker 4: But you know what, maybe we're a good match. Like
- 21:20Speaker 4: I'll eat all the Macarens, and you can eat.
- 21:22Speaker 2: All of what is your preferred anything.
- 21:24Speaker 4: Okay, well you can have whatever the other option.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Else I'll have everything else, and i'd like something savory.
- 21:31Speaker 4: Actually, see, I'm a sweet person. So we're a good balance.
- 21:35Speaker 2: We'd like Jack Spratt and his wife Millennial show could
- 21:41Speaker 2: eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean. So
- 21:44Speaker 2: together then they licked the platter clean.
- 21:47Speaker 4: Oh there you go. Yeah, I'll be and you can.
- 21:51Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm also but oh okay, I'm but everything
- 21:56Speaker 2: that's not Macarons.
- 21:58Speaker 4: Okay, perfect. Oh my goodness, fly bais is great. I'm
- 22:05Speaker 4: a Flybys fiend. If you didn't know, I got a
- 22:09Speaker 4: kitchen aid for free with my point, they're like eight
- 22:12Speaker 4: hundred dollars to buy one of those. I love it
- 22:14Speaker 4: because I love tabab Yes, I love my kitchen aid media.
- 22:18Speaker 4: It's the best thing. But color did you get it?
- 22:21Speaker 4: I got white? It's just so boring they did it
- 22:24Speaker 4: is classic? What color is yours?
- 22:26Speaker 2: I've got orange?
- 22:27Speaker 4: Oh, yours is much more.
- 22:28Speaker 2: I've got orange. But I think we got ours is
- 22:31Speaker 2: really old. Yeah, because we got it for a wedding
- 22:35Speaker 2: present and the motor burnt out on it last year,
- 22:41Speaker 2: and people were like, you need a new kitchen aid.
- 22:44Speaker 2: I think I was. I put up a video on
- 22:46Speaker 2: social some of it because it was jumping all over
- 22:49Speaker 2: the counter like it was walking. You couldn't just leave
- 22:52Speaker 2: it beating and you had to watch it. And people said, oh,
- 22:57Speaker 2: you need a new kitchen aid, and I went, I'm
- 23:00Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I don't need a new kitchen EID.
- 23:02Speaker 2: And then we found this company. Someone sets told me
- 23:05Speaker 2: on X there's a company that replaces all parts of
- 23:09Speaker 2: amazing kitchen of plants is took it to them beautiful
- 23:13Speaker 2: new kitchen eight.
- 23:14Speaker 4: When did we stop defaulting to repairing something instead of replacing,
- 23:19Speaker 4: because this is something.
- 23:20Speaker 2: When toasters became ten dollars.
- 23:22Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right. Like it's so interesting to think
- 23:25Speaker 4: about the habits that my parents had versus what I.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Had and mending and yeah, like.
- 23:31Speaker 4: I recently started getting into sewing and you know, repairing
- 23:34Speaker 4: clothes instead of just replacing them. And I think it's
- 23:38Speaker 4: really interesting because like financially, like some of us, you
- 23:41Speaker 4: are buying the cheaper option sometimes because that's what's within
- 23:44Speaker 4: our means, and that's so fine. But let's think about
- 23:48Speaker 4: trying to repair those items when we can instead of
- 23:51Speaker 4: just buying a new one because you can because it's cheap.
- 23:54Speaker 2: I feel like when my mum comes over and mum's
- 23:57Speaker 2: a really good dana, Mum does we save all our
- 23:59Speaker 2: buttons that need all our gyms that need doing. She
- 24:03Speaker 2: does all of that when she comes over and she
- 24:05Speaker 2: darned one of Peter's socks, right, and the kids were
- 24:10Speaker 2: watching her like she was a witch. They were like,
- 24:15Speaker 2: what is this? Yeah, but also they were a little
- 24:19Speaker 2: bit contemptuous of it. Well, because people are so disposable
- 24:24Speaker 2: with their thinking. Even though they're the generation that are
- 24:27Speaker 2: really reuse, recycle, repair and everything z coo at school,
- 24:32Speaker 2: it wouldn't occur to them to fix a sock.
- 24:36Speaker 4: As a country, we are the number one worst country
- 24:39Speaker 4: for fast fashion in the world. Yeah, for how many
- 24:44Speaker 4: we purchase like really per capita or whatever in America
- 24:48Speaker 4: more than America and we're a smaller country.
- 24:51Speaker 5: What.
- 24:51Speaker 4: Yeah, there was like a report recently which I think
- 24:54Speaker 4: is crazy and that speaks totally to exactly what you're
- 24:57Speaker 4: saying about. How yeah, we just go oh buying new sock?
- 25:01Speaker 4: How hard can it be? But it's actually quite easy
- 25:04Speaker 4: and more cost effective to learn to fix or to
- 25:06Speaker 4: put a new motor in something that breaks, or to
- 25:08Speaker 4: do whatever you have.
- 25:09Speaker 2: So thrilled with a new motor in the kitchen aid.
- 25:12Speaker 2: And then we've got a dog by the way that
- 25:14Speaker 2: started his adorable But he's a chewer.
- 25:19Speaker 4: Oh no, and.
- 25:21Speaker 2: So he's chewed. He chewed through the cord of my
- 25:24Speaker 2: blow dry that was in my daughter's room and is
- 25:28Speaker 2: chewed through. He's just chewed cords.
- 25:31Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 25:31Speaker 2: So now we have to find someone because I said
- 25:33Speaker 2: to Peter, he's chewed too many things to replace them. Yeah,
- 25:37Speaker 2: and the blow dry was a really good blow dryer.
- 25:39Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna yeah. Also, there's nothing wrong with
- 25:43Speaker 2: it other than a dog got the cord. Yeah, that's right. So,
- 25:47Speaker 2: and you know, there used to be all those little
- 25:49Speaker 2: places like that always have a dusty VCR in the
- 25:52Speaker 2: window that they always had electrical repairs written on the world,
- 25:56Speaker 2: some sort of curved writing. And it wasn't until I
- 26:00Speaker 2: went to look for one of those. I went, I'm
- 26:01Speaker 2: sure I've seen them. I went to look for one,
- 26:04Speaker 2: I realized how rare they are.
- 26:06Speaker 4: One of the things that maybe's disappeared over time. Because
- 26:08Speaker 4: noone was using them. That so sad.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Anyway, well let's have a moment of silence. Where are
- 26:12Speaker 2: those electrical repair I'm going to say, mean, I never
- 26:15Speaker 2: encountered a woman. What happened to them? Maybe they just
- 26:18Speaker 2: retired that generation?
- 26:20Speaker 4: They all sold up and no one our age is
- 26:22Speaker 4: doing it anymore.
- 26:23Speaker 2: Now they're selling ten dollars toasters. They're like, what did
- 26:26Speaker 2: I waste my life on?
- 26:28Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. Well, if anyone knows a good person
- 26:31Speaker 4: in Melbourne, let us know. But I think that's a
- 26:33Speaker 4: perfect spot for us to head to a really quick
- 26:35Speaker 4: break and when we come back on the other side,
- 26:36Speaker 4: we're going to talk about owning your identity and balancing
- 26:39Speaker 4: that with becoming a new parent, as well as whether
- 26:43Speaker 4: or not you should put your job and your security
- 26:46Speaker 4: above your desire to travel. Don't go anywhere, guys, Light
- 26:49Speaker 4: chit chat, Welcome back, everybody. Let's take a listen to
- 26:58Speaker 4: this week's money dilemma.
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- 27:24Speaker 4: Hi, guys, I'm about.
- 27:25Speaker 2: To you on Matt Lee.
- 27:27Speaker 5: I'm pregnant with my first baby. My partner and I
- 27:30Speaker 5: went through a few rounds of IVF treatment, so we're
- 27:33Speaker 5: super stoked to be.
- 27:35Speaker 4: On this journey prove a context.
- 27:38Speaker 5: I'm pretty high up at a tech business, and the
- 27:41Speaker 5: further along my pregnancy is going, I am freaking out.
- 27:46Speaker 4: It's kind of creeping up on me.
- 27:47Speaker 5: How much is expected of women, How we have to
- 27:52Speaker 5: be mum, career and like we have to thrive in
- 27:57Speaker 5: all of those different areas of life, and how I
- 28:00Speaker 5: guess do we balance it? So I guess I just
- 28:03Speaker 5: wanted to call to get a bit of inside or
- 28:05Speaker 5: guidance or just like a bit of a pep talk.
- 28:08Speaker 2: So yeah, thanks. That's a big dilemma.
- 28:10Speaker 4: It's a million dollar question, really, isn't it?
- 28:12Speaker 2: And also now is not the time. There's a few
- 28:16Speaker 2: things in that. One is the creeping worry that you have.
- 28:22Speaker 2: And also because she said she's just come off over
- 28:23Speaker 2: the if so she's had a lot of hormones. There's
- 28:26Speaker 2: a lot of surging hormones. So if you can just
- 28:30Speaker 2: kind of mentally put that to one side, which you
- 28:33Speaker 2: probably can't because they're surging hormones. But it is a
- 28:36Speaker 2: time often where you have the dual train track, which
- 28:42Speaker 2: is happiness and expectation and fear and expectation traveling simultaneously.
- 28:51Speaker 2: Your life is going to change. If you don't want
- 28:54Speaker 2: your life to change, don't have a child. Well that's
- 28:58Speaker 2: really what it is, right, But in my experience, and
- 29:02Speaker 2: I have four children, what you learn about yourself happens
- 29:07Speaker 2: in surrendering to that. So the more you rally against
- 29:11Speaker 2: these fears, which at this point are unseen, the fears
- 29:15Speaker 2: you have here are the biggest fears that you'll ever face.
- 29:18Speaker 2: Mostly that there is an element of surrendering when you
- 29:23Speaker 2: have a child, and particularly if you're a woman who's
- 29:26Speaker 2: been on a career trajectory, that's quite formalized.
- 29:32Speaker 4: Yeah, very clear cart in your stay.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Yeah that when you have a child, everything is the
- 29:38Speaker 2: opposite of that. Yeah, and you actually have to follow
- 29:41Speaker 2: the baby. The baby. A girlfriend of mine said, before
- 29:44Speaker 2: I had my first child, the baby will tell you
- 29:46Speaker 2: what it needs. And it was the best advice also
- 29:50Speaker 2: because it meant that you could surrender to it. And
- 29:53Speaker 2: so I wasn't one of those people that was like, well,
- 29:55Speaker 2: that's to it. The baby's got to get up waking up,
- 29:58Speaker 2: and it is. He's got a feed on you minutes
- 30:00Speaker 2: and just and in my experience, the less that you
- 30:04Speaker 2: can try and be regimented, the happier you will be
- 30:08Speaker 2: and the baby will be. The baby is only instinct
- 30:12Speaker 2: when it's born, and everything the baby knows it's learnt
- 30:16Speaker 2: from you. And because they're all antenna they pick up
- 30:22Speaker 2: on they're very vibrational, I think, and so ill health aside.
- 30:26Speaker 2: Anything that problems the baby has, eating, sleeping, la la
- 30:31Speaker 2: is probably down to you. So the more relaxed and
- 30:34Speaker 2: the more animal you can be in your instincts towards
- 30:36Speaker 2: the baby, which is just loving and warm and soft
- 30:39Speaker 2: and comforting and healing yourself as well, because it's a
- 30:44Speaker 2: massive physical labor to have a baby, no matter what
- 30:48Speaker 2: way you have it. I think part of the beauty
- 30:51Speaker 2: of it is what when you see someone who's quite
- 30:56Speaker 2: linear in their life and their thinking become more rounded
- 31:02Speaker 2: in that sense. Yeah, often that's chaotic and you don't
- 31:06Speaker 2: feel great.
- 31:07Speaker 4: And that's okay, Like that's part of the experience.
- 31:09Speaker 2: Part of it, it's really part of it.
- 31:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's very normal. I'm at the age
- 31:14Speaker 4: where a few of my friends are having kids now
- 31:17Speaker 4: and on seconds or thirds, and I think a lot
- 31:21Speaker 4: of them have experienced what our listener is that nervousness. Yeah,
- 31:25Speaker 4: particularly I think at your first child, because as you
- 31:28Speaker 4: were saying, you're really going into the unknown.
- 31:30Speaker 2: You have no.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Idea what to expect. Everyone's probably giving you their two
- 31:34Speaker 4: cents about how to have birth and how to raise
- 31:37Speaker 4: the kid and what to do. When you're taking in
- 31:38Speaker 4: all of these information, plus the hormones that you were
- 31:42Speaker 4: you know you mentioned and all of those things. Congratulations,
- 31:45Speaker 4: by the way, that's really brining.
- 31:47Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
- 31:48Speaker 4: That's really wonderful. I think, firstly, just acknowledging that that's
- 31:52Speaker 4: so normal for you to feel that way, and it's
- 31:55Speaker 4: something that only I think the people who are going
- 31:59Speaker 4: through that experience can understand, Like parents who aren't giving
- 32:03Speaker 4: birth can still I think empathize with you or sympathize
- 32:07Speaker 4: with you. But I think that from what I've seen
- 32:10Speaker 4: with my friends. Obviously I haven't gone through it myself,
- 32:13Speaker 4: but I think that it is such a unique experience,
- 32:17Speaker 4: and that existential feeling that you're having is coming from
- 32:20Speaker 4: the unknown and also maybe from that fear of letting
- 32:24Speaker 4: go because as women, we know statistically more often than
- 32:29Speaker 4: not after childbirth we end up on the back foot
- 32:31Speaker 4: in terms of our career growth, in terms of our finances,
- 32:35Speaker 4: in terms of our super and so I can imagine
- 32:37Speaker 4: that there's maybe a little bit of fear around that,
- 32:40Speaker 4: especially if you've done a lot of work on your
- 32:42Speaker 4: financial situation in the lead up to the baby.
- 32:45Speaker 2: And it's an act of trust that for a certain
- 32:48Speaker 2: period of time you're not going to be able to work. Yes,
- 32:51Speaker 2: you have to turn to your partner possibly to bridge
- 32:55Speaker 2: that gap. Yeah, it's a really vulnerable time for a
- 33:00Speaker 2: woman and the baby and in fact the whole relationship.
- 33:05Speaker 2: So a friend of mine once said, having a baby
- 33:08Speaker 2: is like throwing a bomb in your relationship. Well, because
- 33:11Speaker 2: it just blows all the bits up in the air
- 33:13Speaker 2: and then you see where they land. Parts of it
- 33:16Speaker 2: are thrilling and beautiful and exciting, and parts of it
- 33:19Speaker 2: are really frightening and confronting and exhausting and whatever. But
- 33:24Speaker 2: there's nothing in life that I've ever done that was
- 33:30Speaker 2: good that wasn't hard, Like nothing, literally nothing, Like when
- 33:35Speaker 2: I get up to go to boot camp or yoga
- 33:37Speaker 2: or whatever, it's hard every time I do it. It's hard
- 33:40Speaker 2: when I go shopping for six people, it's hard. It's hard.
- 33:45Speaker 2: It's hard, but you find the value in the hardness
- 33:50Speaker 2: of it, which sometimes I think we're a little bit
- 33:52Speaker 2: inclined to avoid in our comfortable lives.
- 33:57Speaker 4: But you've got to go through the hard to appreciate
- 33:59Speaker 4: the good into.
- 33:59Speaker 2: A pre well and to make something good absolutely, like, really,
- 34:03Speaker 2: you're doing the work if if someone who's having children
- 34:07Speaker 2: is doing the work of the nation, it's beautiful work,
- 34:11Speaker 2: but it's work.
- 34:12Speaker 4: Being a parent is absolutely work. It can be a
- 34:16Speaker 4: full time job.
- 34:16Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a full time job, whether or not
- 34:19Speaker 2: you've already got another full time job, exactly a time job.
- 34:22Speaker 2: And also, I say this now, my eldest is twenty
- 34:26Speaker 2: and my youngest is fourteen, and it seems to be
- 34:29Speaker 2: a job that doesn't stop.
- 34:32Speaker 4: Yeah you think at eighteen maybe, oh.
- 34:35Speaker 2: Sort of thought, And it does happen to a certain extent.
- 34:38Speaker 2: But I remember when the kids were really little, and
- 34:41Speaker 2: of course because we had four under six, so everywhere
- 34:44Speaker 2: we went it was kind of like a mini circus
- 34:47Speaker 2: that no one wanted to buy tickets to. Yeah, it
- 34:49Speaker 2: was just solicited, a lot of attention wherever we went.
- 34:53Speaker 2: And there was a thing that my girlfriend and I
- 34:54Speaker 2: were talking about recently where older women God blessed the
- 34:58Speaker 2: older women would come up to you and they'd always
- 35:01Speaker 2: talk about the kids, and you know, with that nostalgia
- 35:05Speaker 2: of someone who's been through it and saying a lot,
- 35:08Speaker 2: and they would always say this, and at the time
- 35:10Speaker 2: it really annoyed me. They would say, little children, little problems,
- 35:14Speaker 2: big children, big problems, and it really enraged me and
- 35:18Speaker 2: my girlfriends at the time. Everyone had experienced it. Yeah,
- 35:22Speaker 2: and now that the kids are older, we're like, oh, yeah,
- 35:25Speaker 2: we get it.
- 35:27Speaker 4: Ah, we get it, we understand, we.
- 35:30Speaker 2: Understand, we understand.
- 35:31Speaker 4: Yeah. I think I would say to our listener, just
- 35:34Speaker 4: on the career, note, your career does not need to
- 35:37Speaker 4: end when you have children, and it's totally up to
- 35:40Speaker 4: you how you would approach that you made choose to
- 35:42Speaker 4: become a stay at home parent, and that's awesome and
- 35:44Speaker 4: that's totally fine. But I think there is this idea
- 35:48Speaker 4: that women hit almost an expiration date, and I think
- 35:51Speaker 4: that is tied very closely to the you know, the
- 35:55Speaker 4: older ideal that women would their only purpose was to
- 35:59Speaker 4: have the children's day home and keep the house and
- 36:01Speaker 4: blah blah, which obviously we've moved well and truly past that.
- 36:04Speaker 4: But I think that there are so many people that
- 36:07Speaker 4: have achieved incredible things in their forties, in their fifties,
- 36:12Speaker 4: in their sixties, and if they had stopped pursuing what
- 36:16Speaker 4: they wanted in their earlier life, as you were saying,
- 36:19Speaker 4: if they hadn't gone through the hard they never would
- 36:22Speaker 4: have got there. And so I think I would just
- 36:24Speaker 4: say I understand the fearfulness around your career and how
- 36:28Speaker 4: having children will impact that, but there are hundreds of
- 36:32Speaker 4: thousands of parents all around the world who are making
- 36:36Speaker 4: it work and who are more than that. Probably. Yeah,
- 36:39Speaker 4: I was going to say, I'm across Australia, and then
- 36:42Speaker 4: I went the world, and then I just there's a
- 36:45Speaker 4: lot of people out there. The aliens are probably doing
- 36:49Speaker 4: it too. It can work, and I understand that it's scary,
- 36:52Speaker 4: but I think like really communicating with your partner and
- 36:55Speaker 4: being open about what you need and what you want
- 36:58Speaker 4: it's true, and making sure that you're on the same
- 37:01Speaker 4: page because you are so entitled to pursue whatever feels
- 37:05Speaker 4: right for you and you know your family, and I
- 37:07Speaker 4: just want to say that you can totally do it,
- 37:09Speaker 4: even if it maybe feels like that might be hard.
- 37:11Speaker 2: Sometimes it feels impossible and other times. I remember the
- 37:15Speaker 2: first time going back to work with a baby, it
- 37:19Speaker 2: feels like there should be a Hallelujah chorus sing yeah
- 37:26Speaker 2: when you walk in the door. It is such. It
- 37:29Speaker 2: feels like an act of victory, but it's hard. One
- 37:32Speaker 2: victory you know by the time you get out the door,
- 37:35Speaker 2: and often it'll be the first time in a month
- 37:37Speaker 2: or months since you've been able to do that, like
- 37:41Speaker 2: without another little person on you. It's an amazing thing. Also,
- 37:46Speaker 2: when you go back to work, I think you tend
- 37:50Speaker 2: to have a newfound respect for the women that came
- 37:54Speaker 2: before you. And I say women because I just don't
- 37:57Speaker 2: think the relationship is the same for men in a
- 38:00Speaker 2: physical sense and for the women that came before you
- 38:04Speaker 2: that have done that. You kind of look around the
- 38:07Speaker 2: office and people look a bit different. Who have You're like, Oh,
- 38:10Speaker 2: you've done this? Wow?
- 38:12Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's just incredible. So I think I hope
- 38:14Speaker 4: that that pep talk is what.
- 38:16Speaker 2: You needed, because we're incredible what we do, absolutely and
- 38:20Speaker 2: there's no world without us, not at all. We just
- 38:22Speaker 2: can't completely give up the sense of our world.
- 38:26Speaker 4: Yeah, hold on to your own identities.
- 38:28Speaker 2: It'll still be but your identity will evolve.
- 38:31Speaker 4: And that's okay. Fantastic, fantastic, incredible. Now I do have
- 38:36Speaker 4: if you've got time, We've still got our Instagram dilemma
- 38:40Speaker 4: to get you. So let me read to me, let
- 38:42Speaker 4: me read you. When our listener said, they said, hello,
- 38:43Speaker 4: she's on the money. I want to talk to you
- 38:45Speaker 4: about a topic that I'm really struggling with right now,
- 38:49Speaker 4: work security versus wanderlust. I've been in a great job
- 38:52Speaker 4: now for three and a half years. It pays well,
- 38:54Speaker 4: and I have a clear career trajectory, but I'm aching
- 38:57Speaker 4: to move overseas for a bit, and I feel I
- 38:59Speaker 4: would regret if I never took a chance and did it.
- 39:02Speaker 4: I want to experience adventure and be pushed outside my
- 39:05Speaker 4: comfort zone by moving overseas, but at the same time,
- 39:08Speaker 4: my comfort zone is what gives me work security and
- 39:11Speaker 4: a good income, so I can one day achieve my goals.
- 39:14Speaker 4: Making this move will likely see me burn through my
- 39:16Speaker 4: savings and leave a good but pouring job behind. How
- 39:20Speaker 4: do I decide what the right move is? Are there
- 39:22Speaker 4: some things that I should keep into consideration when making
- 39:24Speaker 4: this decision? Any help or words of wisdom would be appreciated. Oh,
- 39:30Speaker 4: and I feel like this is truly your time to
- 39:31Speaker 4: shine because you've been there and done that. How did
- 39:34Speaker 4: you make the choice to move overseas and pick up
- 39:37Speaker 4: your whole family and leave what you knew behind?
- 39:40Speaker 2: I think if you're writing that, you already know what
- 39:44Speaker 2: the answer is. Yeah, she's answered all her own questions,
- 39:49Speaker 2: which is and some people have got I didn't really
- 39:52Speaker 2: have a yearning like and I've written a book about this,
- 39:54Speaker 2: chow Bella six take Italy Sometimes Italy took, But I
- 40:01Speaker 2: talk about that in the book because it was I
- 40:03Speaker 2: think it's easy for people to say, if you dream it,
- 40:06Speaker 2: you can do it. I didn't really dream it in
- 40:09Speaker 2: the sense that it was a dream that I'd had
- 40:12Speaker 2: for fifteen years or whatever. It really came from a
- 40:15Speaker 2: casual conversation with my husband on our first ever trip
- 40:18Speaker 2: to Italy, which was only two years before we moved there,
- 40:22Speaker 2: or three years before we moved there, that both of
- 40:25Speaker 2: us had a desire for a different experience of life.
- 40:31Speaker 2: And we've got a beautiful life here, but there was
- 40:34Speaker 2: something about it that we wanted both of us to
- 40:38Speaker 2: experience something different. And once that seed was planted, that
- 40:45Speaker 2: just grew, and it grew like Jack and the bean Stalk.
- 40:50Speaker 2: And even when I thought it wasn't and we were
- 40:54Speaker 2: just immersed in our daily life, which was intense, and
- 40:57Speaker 2: an Australian family life it's intense. Even if you don't
- 41:01Speaker 2: have a family, it's intense. But I just had to
- 41:07Speaker 2: do it. Yeah, we had to do it, and it
- 41:09Speaker 2: was the greatest thing we've ever done.
- 41:11Speaker 4: That's amazing.
- 41:12Speaker 2: And also, going back to our conversation previously, also one
- 41:16Speaker 2: of the hardest things I've ever done.
- 41:18Speaker 4: Yeah, because nothing worth having is easy. Exactly how did
- 41:22Speaker 4: you go about figuring out the logistics of like career
- 41:25Speaker 4: and stuff, because you had a huge, incredible.
- 41:27Speaker 2: Well that was interesting because I had said too when
- 41:31Speaker 2: we decided it was going to happen, And initially my
- 41:33Speaker 2: husband Peter said to me, oh, it would be great
- 41:36Speaker 2: to do this, he said, but you'll never be able
- 41:38Speaker 2: to give up work and I said I would, and
- 41:40Speaker 2: he was like, I don't think you could. And he
- 41:43Speaker 2: wasn't saying it as a challenge, he was just like,
- 41:46Speaker 2: because you love your job. So I was doing drive
- 41:49Speaker 2: radio at the time with Hughsey, So my first conversation
- 41:53Speaker 2: was with Hughsey to tell him, yeah, he didn't take
- 41:56Speaker 2: it well, oh no, because Hugh does understand. He didn't
- 42:01Speaker 2: understand any of that yearning. Because Husey is a workaholic.
- 42:05Speaker 2: He's in aholic of many times, like he loves giving
- 42:08Speaker 2: stuff up, but he could never give up work, and
- 42:12Speaker 2: so he couldn't even understand when I he was like,
- 42:15Speaker 2: what are you going to do all day? And I'm like, yeah,
- 42:19Speaker 2: what are you going to do all day? In Italy? Mate?
- 42:20Speaker 2: But none of those things have the same value for
- 42:24Speaker 2: him as work. Anyway. Then he took me into working
- 42:30Speaker 2: from there for the first six months. And bear in
- 42:32Speaker 2: mind this was before COVID da da da. The concept
- 42:36Speaker 2: of working remotely was not a thing.
- 42:39Speaker 4: Isn't it crazy to sink? Yeah?
- 42:41Speaker 2: Yep. So our producer Sasha, who now is also the
- 42:44Speaker 2: producer of the Buck Up, the podcast I'm doing with Valvo,
- 42:47Speaker 2: she came over to Bologna and set up a studio
- 42:50Speaker 2: for me, and so I did the show for six
- 42:53Speaker 2: months from Italy and then I said to hughsy and
- 42:55Speaker 2: then the other six months will be mine. But he
- 42:59Speaker 2: was even trying to just come back after the holidays,
- 43:03Speaker 2: and then we extended for another year because we loved
- 43:05Speaker 2: it so much. It's the most to take yourself out
- 43:11Speaker 2: of the context of where people know you, people have
- 43:14Speaker 2: expectations of you. There's a community of people wherever you
- 43:18Speaker 2: live that know you and know what they think of
- 43:21Speaker 2: your school friends or friends or family or whatever. To
- 43:24Speaker 2: take yourself out of the context of that and arrive
- 43:27Speaker 2: somewhere where you are I'm going to say, unincumbered by it.
- 43:32Speaker 2: Some of that's a blessing, family and friends whatever, of course,
- 43:35Speaker 2: but unincumbered by it and where you are your essential
- 43:40Speaker 2: self is the most incredible experience. Yeah, incredible in good
- 43:46Speaker 2: ways and bad. You know, like sometimes I was just pitiful.
- 43:51Speaker 4: Pitiful you miss did you miss home?
- 43:54Speaker 2: I miss the familiarity and all those things that I
- 43:57Speaker 2: could take for granted about our Australian life.
- 44:01Speaker 4: Yes, but people say outside your comfort zone is.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Growth, so well, that's it. And we talk about that
- 44:08Speaker 2: though but people now have brought back the notion of
- 44:11Speaker 2: comfort to they can't have a conversation, they're not comfortable
- 44:14Speaker 2: with it. I'm talking about true, proper discomfort, which is
- 44:20Speaker 2: literally outside everything you know, where you don't even know
- 44:23Speaker 2: what direction to walk in a street to get to
- 44:26Speaker 2: a shop, and when you get in there, you will
- 44:27Speaker 2: not speak the language of the person it runs the shop,
- 44:31Speaker 2: and then you won't know the way home and you'll
- 44:32Speaker 2: get lost. I'm talking about that sort of discomfort. Yeah, phenomenal.
- 44:39Speaker 2: I've probably not sold a word, but it's extraordinary, and
- 44:44Speaker 2: it's extraordinary what happens. You know, people always tell tales
- 44:47Speaker 2: about when they're traveling people they've met and they've ended
- 44:50Speaker 2: up with strangers at a thing, and never would happen.
- 44:54Speaker 4: When you're at home, you're comfortable.
- 44:56Speaker 2: And where you have patterns that you follow.
- 44:58Speaker 4: Yeah, I completely agree with you. I think that. But
- 45:00Speaker 4: it does sound like our listener knows that they want
- 45:03Speaker 4: to go, but perhaps just needs a push or needs.
- 45:06Speaker 2: But also I think you've got to back yourself. Yeah,
- 45:08Speaker 2: so if I had not done that, And I sometimes
- 45:13Speaker 2: like to say that to Hughesy because I've worked with
- 45:15Speaker 2: him for eighteen years, and I like to hold my
- 45:17Speaker 2: book up and say to him, this is what two
- 45:20Speaker 2: years of not working with you looks like, right, a
- 45:24Speaker 2: best selling book that I have written for my family
- 45:28Speaker 2: and for myself.
- 45:30Speaker 5: Right.
- 45:30Speaker 2: So you have to back yourself. And many of the
- 45:33Speaker 2: things that I have done since we returned I would
- 45:38Speaker 2: not have happened if I was still And I love
- 45:40Speaker 2: working with Hugh, and I love our radio show and
- 45:43Speaker 2: I love him. I love all of it. I never
- 45:46Speaker 2: didn't like it. That wasn't my thinking. But I've hosted
- 45:50Speaker 2: two series of a reality TV show for Channel Line,
- 45:53Speaker 2: I've written a book, I'm writing another book, I'm doing
- 45:55Speaker 2: this podcast with Valvo, I did another radio show here
- 46:00Speaker 2: with Monty. So just the world opens up in a
- 46:04Speaker 2: different way. But you have to back yourself because if
- 46:08Speaker 2: you don't back yourself, how's anybody else going to?
- 46:11Speaker 4: Oh completely? And I think if it's career that you're
- 46:14Speaker 4: worried about, again, this is the conversation that we really
- 46:17Speaker 4: just had. But your career will always be there, I
- 46:20Speaker 4: think in a sense, like you can sure you can
- 46:22Speaker 4: put it on pause, and you can.
- 46:23Speaker 2: Now people have like six careers.
- 46:26Speaker 4: Yeah, and as with you, there may be an opportunity
- 46:29Speaker 4: to work remotely. I think if nothing else, it's worth
- 46:32Speaker 4: raising it with your depending on what you do, of course,
- 46:34Speaker 4: probably can't be a a remote surgeon, but depending on
- 46:38Speaker 4: what it is that you do. I would definitely raise
- 46:41Speaker 4: the conversation with your employer because we've spoken before about
- 46:43Speaker 4: how costly it is to a company to replace a
- 46:46Speaker 4: good employee, and so if you are a really integral
- 46:50Speaker 4: employee and you know you've worked hard and they feel
- 46:53Speaker 4: the same way about you, there may be some flexibility
- 46:55Speaker 4: for you.
- 46:56Speaker 2: Niece is doing that at the moment. She's gone to
- 46:58Speaker 2: the UK and she asked several times, yeah, so don't
- 47:03Speaker 2: just be deterred at the first. If it's not in
- 47:06Speaker 2: this role, maybe it's in another role. Yeah, but you're right,
- 47:10Speaker 2: no one wants to lose a good person.
- 47:12Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 47:12Speaker 4: And post COVID, it really is a whole different world
- 47:15Speaker 4: out there. We really have been opened up to how
- 47:17Speaker 4: easily people can do things. I mean, you did a
- 47:19Speaker 4: radio show from the other side of the world. Who
- 47:21Speaker 4: would have thought so, I think definitely raise the question.
- 47:24Speaker 4: But if this is something that, as our listener said,
- 47:27Speaker 4: is a burning desire, I think, what have you got
- 47:30Speaker 4: to lose? Do the math. Just make sure you can
- 47:32Speaker 4: afford it financially. Don't put yourself in a hole. Don't
- 47:35Speaker 4: put it all on credit. Think ahead and prepare. And
- 47:39Speaker 4: we've done episodes that can help you with that in
- 47:41Speaker 4: the past.
- 47:41Speaker 2: But what the way she wants to go?
- 47:44Speaker 4: I know, I'm so curious. Please come back to U
- 47:45Speaker 4: and let us know. I'd love to know. If it's Italy.
- 47:47Speaker 4: Kate can give you some tips, but we do. When
- 47:49Speaker 4: we pop these up, we ask everybody a few questions
- 47:52Speaker 4: on Instagram, just get their input. The people know the vibes.
- 47:55Speaker 4: So we ferously said, is anyone else in the community
- 47:58Speaker 4: experiencing this concept of work security versus wonderlust? Seventy five
- 48:04Speaker 4: percent of people said yes, I've got the travel bug,
- 48:07Speaker 4: but I fear for my career, which is crazy how
- 48:10Speaker 4: many people that is. And twenty five percent of people
- 48:13Speaker 4: said no, I don't feel the desire to travel or move. Next,
- 48:16Speaker 4: we said, have you made the move overseas before and
- 48:19Speaker 4: left behind a stable job to do it? Twenty nine
- 48:22Speaker 4: percent of people said yes and it was truly the
- 48:24Speaker 4: best decision I have ever made. Two percent of people
- 48:28Speaker 4: said yes and I regretted it later on thirty nine
- 48:32Speaker 4: percent of people said no, but I really want to,
- 48:35Speaker 4: and thirty percent of people said no, and I don't
- 48:37Speaker 4: plan on trying it. So if you look at those numbers,
- 48:40Speaker 4: two percent regretted it, and that is such a take
- 48:44Speaker 4: those on sliver. The chances are really, I think, in
- 48:46Speaker 4: your favor when it comes to doing this.
- 48:49Speaker 2: But it's not for everybody, you see, which is much
- 48:52Speaker 2: like the world, yeah, isn't it. I mean, most people
- 48:57Speaker 2: like for very good reasons, more charted course.
- 49:02Speaker 4: And there's nothing wrong with that.
- 49:03Speaker 2: No, the world couldn't function if everyone wanted to go off.
- 49:06Speaker 4: Pieced exactly and do whatever they wanted.
- 49:08Speaker 2: That's piste, by the way.
- 49:12Speaker 4: It is just one of those things they think, do
- 49:15Speaker 4: the work, make sure it's viable. But life is for
- 49:18Speaker 4: a living, and that's something that I've really been working
- 49:21Speaker 4: on this year, is just recognizing the fact that you've.
- 49:23Speaker 2: Got to work to live. That's what they always say
- 49:26Speaker 2: about the Italians not live to work.
- 49:27Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that you don't want to be,
- 49:31Speaker 4: you know, one day on your deathbed and not able
- 49:33Speaker 4: to travel and go, oh if only I'd done that thing.
- 49:36Speaker 4: So I think make sure you can do it. Absolutely,
- 49:38Speaker 4: do your due diligence, Like we always say, but ya,
- 49:41Speaker 4: why's they go for it? Why not? You can always
- 49:44Speaker 4: come home if you don't love it.
- 49:45Speaker 2: So true, And Peter and I would say this all
- 49:48Speaker 2: the time when we were in the planning stages of
- 49:51Speaker 2: going whatever, and when there was there's a lot of
- 49:54Speaker 2: attendant pressure, by the way, that you need to be
- 49:56Speaker 2: prepared for if you decide to take that sort of leap.
- 50:01Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like you doing it for
- 50:03Speaker 2: reasons that I think are They think you're holding a
- 50:06Speaker 2: mirror up to them and saying something about their life
- 50:10Speaker 2: that's so strange. It's sort of but people are like
- 50:13Speaker 2: that all the time.
- 50:14Speaker 1: You know.
- 50:14Speaker 2: Anyone who gives up drinking knows they have a lot
- 50:16Speaker 2: of friends who don't like it. Yeah, they lose weight,
- 50:19Speaker 2: they have friends who don't like it. You know. There's
- 50:22Speaker 2: something about the herd mentality sometimes of what we draw
- 50:26Speaker 2: comforting that everyone's doing what we're doing. Yeah, but if
- 50:31Speaker 2: you can push through that, the rewards of that are enormous.
- 50:37Speaker 4: I'm excited. Move over there, come back and tell us
- 50:40Speaker 4: how you went, because yes, it'll be a great money there.
- 50:42Speaker 2: I've already got her coming back. She might not come back.
- 50:45Speaker 2: She can write to us. Even if she's not come back.
- 50:48Speaker 4: You can dial in from wherever you are, exactly right,
- 50:50Speaker 4: and I think that is the perfect spot for us
- 50:52Speaker 4: to leave it today. Kate, Thank you so much for
- 50:55Speaker 4: joining us. If you want to hear more of your
- 50:57Speaker 4: wonderful self, where do they find you.
- 51:00Speaker 2: Buck Up Podcast? We're on socials at the buck Up Podcast,
- 51:05Speaker 2: and we're on iHeart or anywhere you get your pods.
- 51:09Speaker 2: And it's a money back guarantee.
- 51:12Speaker 4: Oh there you go, She's.
- 51:14Speaker 2: On the Money. Nice money back guarantee that at the
- 51:17Speaker 2: end of the pod you will feel better than you
- 51:19Speaker 2: did at the start. It's an antidote to the times.
- 51:22Speaker 4: It's a great show. I really really recommend you guys
- 51:24Speaker 4: give a listen. It's awesome. It's just a dose of joy,
- 51:27Speaker 4: which I think we can all use at the.
- 51:29Speaker 2: Moment, so absolutely light joy.
- 51:32Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us. Guys, have an
- 51:33Speaker 4: amazing weekend, and Victoria will see you bright and early
- 51:36Speaker 4: on Monday for a money diary.
- 51:38Speaker 2: Brilliant.
- 51:38Speaker 4: Bye.
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