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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.
- 0:57Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast
- 1:00Speaker 4: for millennials who want financial freedom. Welcome back to another
- 1:04Speaker 4: one of our shop back Money diaries. Wait a minute,
- 1:07Speaker 4: we're not just looking at one on today's episode, but
- 1:10Speaker 4: we're talking about the diaries that shook us in twenty
- 1:13Speaker 4: twenty two. Today and I've wrangled on air the woman
- 1:15Speaker 4: who wrangles us sound producer and a Lisa, Hello and
- 1:18Speaker 4: welcome to my show.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Victoria Devine, Hello, the silent voice here
- 1:24Speaker 2: an Lisa, just rocking it with you. On an episode today.
- 1:26Speaker 5: I love it.
- 1:27Speaker 6: I'm so excited.
- 1:28Speaker 2: I literally made you do this episode. So I need
- 1:30Speaker 2: to take responsibility for this.
- 1:32Speaker 4: Why for those of you who don't know and Aalisa
- 1:34Speaker 4: actually has her own entire radio show and has done
- 1:37Speaker 4: for literal years. So like, if anyone's actually equipped to
- 1:40Speaker 4: be speaking in front of a microphone, it's not.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Me, nod. It's because we love our Money Diaries. They
- 1:48Speaker 2: have my favorite episodes, they are our community's favorite episodes.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Steep dives are great, Friday drinks are great. But I
- 1:54Speaker 2: know that you love each and every episode. But I
- 1:56Speaker 2: literally twisted your arm to make you pick not top
- 1:59Speaker 2: one because they're all amazing, but the ones.
- 2:01Speaker 4: That's impactful, I think, Yeah, I think I was not
- 2:04Speaker 4: happy about it. And that's why you're here, because you
- 2:06Speaker 4: were like I don't even have to convince yes, I'm
- 2:08Speaker 4: gonna sit you down with No, don't worry about availability,
- 2:11Speaker 4: like you will do this for me.
- 2:12Speaker 5: No.
- 2:12Speaker 2: But it makes sense because I talk to these women.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I go through the emails and I like talk to them,
- 2:17Speaker 2: and I get this tremendous privilege of getting to meet
- 2:20Speaker 2: I feel luckier than you because I get to spend
- 2:22Speaker 2: more time with them.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Even I actually get really envious because often before our
- 2:26Speaker 4: money diaries, Analisa will be like, oh my gosh, Emily,
- 2:30Speaker 4: you're gonna love her and gives me like this beautiful rundown.
- 2:33Speaker 4: And then Emily comes on and she might be a
- 2:35Speaker 4: little bit nervous or whatever, and Analyst it's like, oh,
- 2:37Speaker 4: I don't worry, remember X, Y and Z. And I'm like,
- 2:39Speaker 4: why do you know so much about our diarist already?
- 2:42Speaker 4: And that's because every single time, Analsa will spend time
- 2:44Speaker 4: with them, getting them to understand exactly what a money
- 2:48Speaker 4: diary is, how to interview well, to make sure that
- 2:50Speaker 4: they are really comfortable when it comes to being recorded,
- 2:53Speaker 4: because like that's not everybody's forte.
- 2:55Speaker 6: But then also just.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Making sure that they're comfortable with the questions and comfortable
- 2:59Speaker 4: with the city situation and that honestly their MIC's work properly.
- 3:03Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm in thes because I used to get
- 3:05Speaker 4: to do that and now I don't.
- 3:07Speaker 2: But vd you know, low grade, actually high grade gives
- 3:10Speaker 2: me tremendous anxiety. Is anyone asking me my favorite list
- 3:14Speaker 2: of anything, whether it be restaurants, food, like music, can
- 3:17Speaker 2: you feel like I don't get judged. I can't pick,
- 3:19Speaker 2: but I love an end of your list from other people.
- 3:22Speaker 2: So this is also why I forced you to do this,
- 3:24Speaker 2: because I want your picks and I cannot wait to
- 3:26Speaker 2: see the ones because I have my own perspective on
- 3:29Speaker 2: the ones that I went into with one idea about
- 3:31Speaker 2: what the story would be like, but I came out
- 3:34Speaker 2: with a completely other education about what the lives of
- 3:38Speaker 2: these people are like. And I think that's why we
- 3:40Speaker 2: love these episodes so much.
- 3:41Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I'm obsessed with them.
- 3:43Speaker 4: And honestly, when I say each and every single week,
- 3:45Speaker 4: oh my god, Money Diaries is my favorite time of
- 3:47Speaker 4: the week, Like it literally is. Money Diaries can be
- 3:50Speaker 4: so emotional as well, like even just recording them. Sometimes
- 3:54Speaker 4: we get off a diary and I just like cry,
- 3:56Speaker 4: or I'm just so happy that I have to go
- 3:58Speaker 4: for a walk because I can't concentrate on the next
- 4:00Speaker 4: thing I'm going to do.
- 4:01Speaker 6: Or we spend like twenty minutes.
- 4:02Speaker 4: Working out a way that this thing could be solved
- 4:05Speaker 4: for one of our Money diarists, and I just I
- 4:08Speaker 4: feel like you deserve to know how much more time,
- 4:11Speaker 4: energy and effort goes into them than any other segment.
- 4:14Speaker 4: Of our podcast because and Alisa, you spend a lot of
- 4:16Speaker 4: your week as well doing research for deep dives, and
- 4:19Speaker 4: I feel like that's just not nearly as nourishing as
- 4:22Speaker 4: working out what is going to work on Money Diaries
- 4:25Speaker 4: and how to get the right talent together. That really
- 4:28Speaker 4: creates a space of openness, but also that our community
- 4:31Speaker 4: can learn from, because the intention of Money Diaries is
- 4:34Speaker 4: not just to chat to people on a podcast, like
- 4:36Speaker 4: everybody does that, but to actually have an impact with
- 4:39Speaker 4: a podcast, I think is a much harder thing to do,
- 4:41Speaker 4: and you do very well.
- 4:42Speaker 2: It's so true, Victoria, But like I feel like I
- 4:45Speaker 2: get this education you talked about tears before too, because
- 4:47Speaker 2: I feel like every time I speak to someone on
- 4:49Speaker 2: the phone, I end up just like Tiery, and I
- 4:52Speaker 2: feel like they're my best friend, and I'm always so
- 4:54Speaker 2: excited for you to meet them, and also hearing how
- 4:58Speaker 2: each one like no joke go. My life was one
- 5:01Speaker 2: way before I found this podcast and then I learned.
- 5:04Speaker 6: It breaks me and this.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Bit like has changed has shook me. So now we're
- 5:09Speaker 2: going to tell you about how you shook us. Well,
- 5:11Speaker 2: actually I don't even know who you've chosen, Victoria, So.
- 5:13Speaker 6: So do you want to get into it, Ana Lisa.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Oh yeah, all right, here is the first one.
- 5:22Speaker 7: So I grew up in a single parent family and
- 5:25Speaker 7: money was kind of always tight for us. Like we're
- 5:28Speaker 7: talking black and gold food and homemade clothes and stuff,
- 5:31Speaker 7: like I never went hungry. There was always a roof
- 5:33Speaker 7: over my head and food in the pantry. We just
- 5:35Speaker 7: didn't have anything more than the basics. And once I
- 5:39Speaker 7: kind of left home, it led me to to not
- 5:42Speaker 7: want to replicate that for myself. But because of like
- 5:46Speaker 7: a few life circumstances with growing up, I just I
- 5:49Speaker 7: made a bunch of really silly decisions, and yeah, I
- 5:53Speaker 7: ended up getting involved with someone who really was the
- 5:57Speaker 7: worst person I could have ever gotten involved with. But yeah,
- 6:01Speaker 7: as I said in my letter, I was in a
- 6:03Speaker 7: very very deep hole financially. But I decided that I
- 6:06Speaker 7: didn't want to go bankrupt and I didn't want to
- 6:08Speaker 7: kind of escape from it, So I fought my way
- 6:11Speaker 7: back to the top. Painted all off, and I'm so
- 6:13Speaker 7: happy that my life is so much different now.
- 6:16Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I'm so proud of you and we've
- 6:18Speaker 4: only just met.
- 6:20Speaker 6: Can you tell me a.
- 6:21Speaker 4: Little bit about what your attitude towards money is now,
- 6:24Speaker 4: Like obviously, growing up it was quite tight, and there's
- 6:27Speaker 4: absolutely nothing wrong with black and gold. I still buy
- 6:30Speaker 4: that every day, but it does become kind of a
- 6:32Speaker 4: stigma in your life, right, Like you kind of look
- 6:34Speaker 4: at it and go, oh, that means that I can't
- 6:36Speaker 4: afford you know, the CSR sugar. And I know that
- 6:39Speaker 4: that is, you know, something that I've spoken to friends
- 6:41Speaker 4: about who have been through situations like that.
- 6:43Speaker 6: But what do you see money as?
- 6:45Speaker 5: Now?
- 6:46Speaker 7: I see money as it's not the scarce resource that
- 6:51Speaker 7: I used to think it was. I think I've got
- 6:53Speaker 7: my head screwed on straight finally. And to me, it's
- 6:57Speaker 7: a means to enjoy myself, Like it's the real that
- 7:00Speaker 7: I get for putting in so much hard work. Like
- 7:03Speaker 7: I have a day job and you know, a couple
- 7:04Speaker 7: of side hustles, so I put in a lot of
- 7:06Speaker 7: hours and so the money's the reward from that. So
- 7:09Speaker 7: I like to enjoy it. Like when I go out,
- 7:11Speaker 7: I like to kind of splurge every now and then.
- 7:13Speaker 7: And I don't think that's a bad thing because I'm
- 7:15Speaker 7: not robbing from Peter to pay Paul. I budget for
- 7:18Speaker 7: my splurges.
- 7:18Speaker 4: Now, so Analisa, I'm assuming you remember this one now.
- 7:24Speaker 2: My gosh, I'm seriously I'm sitting here with goosebumps. Of
- 7:27Speaker 2: course I remember this one.
- 7:28Speaker 6: So I now follow her on Instagram. I love her.
- 7:31Speaker 4: I'm obviously not going to share her on Instagram. I
- 7:34Speaker 4: don't even know if I should tell you that I'm
- 7:35Speaker 4: following her on Instagram. But I follow thousands of people
- 7:38Speaker 4: because I have no self control and like cut dress company,
- 7:40Speaker 4: follow cute person followed, Like that's why if you go
- 7:43Speaker 4: on my profile, you'll be like, she follows thousands. You
- 7:45Speaker 4: know those people and alsa that have like minimal follows,
- 7:48Speaker 4: they're like really selective.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Not me.
- 7:50Speaker 4: But I'm really grateful to have followed her because I
- 7:52Speaker 4: feel like I have an ongoing connection with her, even
- 7:54Speaker 4: though we don't speak all that often. The Phoenix rising
- 7:58Speaker 4: from the Ashes is what this episode was called, and
- 8:01Speaker 4: she survived and emotionally and physically abusive relationship. She's the
- 8:05Speaker 4: one that ended up in one hundred and twenty thousand
- 8:07Speaker 4: dollars worth of debt on credit cards that she didn't
- 8:11Speaker 4: know was existing, and she paid it off like she
- 8:14Speaker 4: didn't negotiate her way out of it. She just paid
- 8:16Speaker 4: it off because she was like, that is the easiest
- 8:18Speaker 4: thing for my heart. And I just remember listening to
- 8:22Speaker 4: that and resonating so much with it because I was
- 8:24Speaker 4: just like, are you joking? Like that's so much money
- 8:27Speaker 4: and I would be fighting tooth and nail to get
- 8:29Speaker 4: out of it. But she knew how to somehow during
- 8:32Speaker 4: that circumstance put her emotional and mental well being.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Before that, andr X was controlling to the level of
- 8:40Speaker 2: not allowing her bus passes or something. I think I'm
- 8:43Speaker 2: remembering from this story too, and there's no good level
- 8:46Speaker 2: of financial control. But like the phoenix rising from the
- 8:49Speaker 2: ashes is the perfect metaphor for what this incredible woman.
- 8:53Speaker 4: Yeah, she changed everything about her life and is now
- 8:57Speaker 4: living her best life. I mean, it did take her
- 8:59Speaker 4: seven years to get out of debt, so this was
- 9:01Speaker 4: not an overnight turnaround in you know, a financial circumstance
- 9:05Speaker 4: and Anelisa had ended up costing her two hundred and
- 9:07Speaker 4: fifty thousand dollars to get out of all of the
- 9:10Speaker 4: debt that she was in. But she's now debt free,
- 9:12Speaker 4: She's now leaving her best life. She has a brand
- 9:15Speaker 4: new partner, her dream job, she is a homeowner now
- 9:18Speaker 4: and she honestly has a very successful side hustle, which
- 9:22Speaker 4: I'm also watching with just so much awe and I
- 9:25Speaker 4: am so proud of her.
- 9:26Speaker 2: Like augh, I also remember that she liked to spend
- 9:29Speaker 2: cash so that she could watch, like feel the very
- 9:32Speaker 2: real feeling of the money.
- 9:33Speaker 4: Yeah, she envelopes like money envelopes and I'm just like
- 9:37Speaker 4: you do you boo? That is absolutely working. But to me,
- 9:40Speaker 4: this was one of the ones that jumped out immediately.
- 9:44Speaker 4: It was a tale of incredible strength and survival and
- 9:48Speaker 4: honestly so into the spreadsheets that she has, and she's
- 9:52Speaker 4: a boss. I think we can all learn a lot
- 9:54Speaker 4: from her. And this is just Quintessentially, she's on the money.
- 9:58Speaker 6: It is this.
- 9:59Speaker 4: Story of a powerful woman overcoming absolutely everything and getting
- 10:03Speaker 4: back on her financial stability train.
- 10:05Speaker 6: And I just that's a good place to.
- 10:07Speaker 2: Start for me, mate, I'm with you all the way.
- 10:10Speaker 6: I love it. Do you want to hear the next one?
- 10:13Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
- 10:17Speaker 8: So growing up I had two like really hard working parents.
- 10:20Speaker 8: They both did shift work. We had a nice home,
- 10:24Speaker 8: and me and my siblings we all got to do
- 10:26Speaker 8: like dancing and like gymnastics, whatever we wanted to do
- 10:30Speaker 8: asides from that we didn't really have much else, but
- 10:33Speaker 8: like that we had more than enough.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Really.
- 10:36Speaker 8: My parents would often like talk about money in front
- 10:40Speaker 8: of us, But I just remember always hearing we're so broke,
- 10:43Speaker 8: we're so broke, We're so broke. And in hindsight, I
- 10:46Speaker 8: don't think my parents were ever so broke. They just yeah,
- 10:49Speaker 8: I'm not sure where they put their money. They were
- 10:50Speaker 8: pretty good with it though, to be honest, Like looking
- 10:53Speaker 8: at them now, they've you know, they've got a house
- 10:55Speaker 8: paid off, and they've got a good chunk of souper
- 10:57Speaker 8: and stuff like that. So that's what money was like
- 10:59Speaker 8: growing up for me.
- 11:00Speaker 4: Yeah, So talk to me about how when you were
- 11:02Speaker 4: fifteen you found yourself in government housing? Like how did
- 11:05Speaker 4: you go from this beautiful lifestyle that you just explained
- 11:09Speaker 4: to going, all, right, now I'm in government housing because
- 11:11Speaker 4: of a turbulent home life.
- 11:12Speaker 6: Like what happened my friend?
- 11:14Speaker 8: Yeah, So they were like they're good, they're great, hard workers,
- 11:17Speaker 8: and I have a great relationship with them now. But
- 11:19Speaker 8: as a teenager, my mum had lots of physical and
- 11:24Speaker 8: mental health issues and it was very, very turbulent, and
- 11:29Speaker 8: I got kicked out of home. My older sister left
- 11:32Speaker 8: my other sister ended up getting kicked out as well,
- 11:35Speaker 8: and it was all sorts of fun. So it was
- 11:37Speaker 8: It's weird because we kind of came from like a
- 11:39Speaker 8: decent home, but it was real. We had a really rough,
- 11:42Speaker 8: like teenage year. So yeah, so into government housing.
- 11:48Speaker 4: That's a really interesting juxtaposition. How did you deal with that?
- 11:51Speaker 4: Because I feel like, going from a lifestyle that you
- 11:53Speaker 4: just explained to going to government housing and having to
- 11:57Speaker 4: have your own income and then obviously deciding at a
- 12:00Speaker 4: team to drop out, that's a very big shift.
- 12:02Speaker 6: How did you deal with that?
- 12:04Speaker 8: Were you okay, Well, I've always been like really independent.
- 12:09Speaker 8: Looking back, I probably did go through like moments of
- 12:12Speaker 8: like depression and stuff like that, but at the time
- 12:15Speaker 8: I didn't really understand my own feelings and I didn't
- 12:18Speaker 8: recognize like what depression was. But like, looking back, I
- 12:21Speaker 8: probably definitely experienced it as a teenager.
- 12:24Speaker 6: But I was always really independent.
- 12:26Speaker 8: I had a part time job, so I just picked
- 12:28Speaker 8: up extra shifts there. I was happy to work and
- 12:30Speaker 8: that sort of thing. So I had a lot of
- 12:32Speaker 8: good like friends as well at the time, so that
- 12:34Speaker 8: was really good.
- 12:35Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that all right, Next question, my friend,
- 12:38Speaker 4: I think we already got here. But what do you
- 12:40Speaker 4: do for work? And the juicy part, how much money
- 12:42Speaker 4: do you earn?
- 12:44Speaker 8: So I do OnlyFans and I do in person like
- 12:47Speaker 8: sex works. I'm an escort. It varies a lot. So
- 12:53Speaker 8: I averaged between five and ten K a week, but
- 12:56Speaker 8: that's because I have like I have two kids. I
- 12:59Speaker 8: don't really work too hard. If I wanted to work harder,
- 13:02Speaker 8: I could definitely.
- 13:02Speaker 6: What do you mean you don't work too hard?
- 13:04Speaker 4: You're like, oh, five and ten k a week, but
- 13:07Speaker 4: I don't work hard. I'm like, what I know that's
- 13:10Speaker 4: beyond most people's wildest dreams.
- 13:13Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm pretty lazy. I only really work like I
- 13:15Speaker 8: do one booking a day roughly, but that's all I
- 13:18Speaker 8: really need to do. And like I've got such a
- 13:20Speaker 8: busy home life. It's a perfect like balance. There has
- 13:23Speaker 8: been times where I've worked a lot harder and you know,
- 13:26Speaker 8: made double or triple that in a week, but generally speaking,
- 13:29Speaker 8: between five and ten k.
- 13:32Speaker 4: All right, and a Lisa, I'm a bit biased here.
- 13:36Speaker 4: This is also a friend of mine that I dragged
- 13:38Speaker 4: on the show because I was like, we need your story,
- 13:41Speaker 4: we need it.
- 13:42Speaker 6: Like I just need it. On the show. It's very
- 13:45Speaker 6: different to the last story I shared with you.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Fascinating this one and again another one that I went
- 13:51Speaker 2: into Well not I have friends who are sex workers too,
- 13:56Speaker 2: haven't sort of asked too much about their finances. But
- 13:59Speaker 2: there were so many us of this story that were
- 14:00Speaker 2: fascinating to me. And I loved meeting her on the
- 14:03Speaker 2: phone too.
- 14:04Speaker 4: She's one just a bubbly, bright human that you just
- 14:08Speaker 4: enjoy interacting with. But I just also love that we're
- 14:12Speaker 4: talking about this journey of she grew up in public housing,
- 14:15Speaker 4: she was disadvantaged, and now she's making ten grand a
- 14:19Speaker 4: week as a sex worker. And we're not talking about
- 14:22Speaker 4: sex work as a bad thing, like we're talking about
- 14:25Speaker 4: sex She wanted to do this, she knew, she wanted
- 14:27Speaker 4: to grow up to do this, she knows she's good
- 14:29Speaker 4: at it. Get it, queen, And I just I think
- 14:32Speaker 4: we should be lifting the veil a bit more on
- 14:34Speaker 4: our friends that are sex workers, because it's twenty twenty two,
- 14:39Speaker 4: Like this is the oldest career in the entire world,
- 14:42Speaker 4: Like literally it has been around longer than financial advice here,
- 14:45Speaker 4: So maybe I could learn something about tenure because like
- 14:48Speaker 4: I'm clearly not that good at it.
- 14:50Speaker 2: What struck me so much too about her story was
- 14:52Speaker 2: the level of responsibility and work ethic. And I know
- 14:55Speaker 2: she was saying as well that she works harder some
- 14:58Speaker 2: weeks like she could. Yeah, she worked hard, So it
- 15:01Speaker 2: sounds like she's working hard, but the level of pressure
- 15:04Speaker 2: and financial responsibility that is required of her because her
- 15:08Speaker 2: industry is so stigmatized and is not regarded by lots
- 15:12Speaker 2: of the population as being legitimate and okay, it's just like,
- 15:16Speaker 2: actually you are completely ruling it, and stuff is really hard.
- 15:19Speaker 2: It's almost like danger money. You know, she gets paid
- 15:22Speaker 2: so much because it's really hard for her to manage
- 15:25Speaker 2: that money.
- 15:26Speaker 4: I can't imagine having to go to work and do
- 15:30Speaker 4: something so physically demanding, so not just sex, Like I
- 15:34Speaker 4: couldn't do a trade, I couldn't do something like even waitressing.
- 15:37Speaker 4: I used to be a waitress. I just don't have
- 15:39Speaker 4: it in me anymore to be so physically present and
- 15:42Speaker 4: have a job that is so physically demanding. So props
- 15:45Speaker 4: to literally anyone who does that, because I just I can't,
- 15:48Speaker 4: Like I wake up on the wrong side of the
- 15:50Speaker 4: bed and I'm like, oh, I'm going to change my
- 15:52Speaker 4: day around so that it suits my life.
- 15:54Speaker 6: I just can't do it.
- 15:55Speaker 7: I did.
- 15:56Speaker 2: Your life seems incredibly busy and very very full on.
- 16:00Speaker 6: Let me I walk into recordings.
- 16:01Speaker 4: I'm like, yep, so we're not doing that one today
- 16:03Speaker 4: because I'm Alie on the floor and you're.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Like, I don't care, okay, right day of the bus.
- 16:08Speaker 4: But I just I think it's so important to talk
- 16:10Speaker 4: about sex work because sex work is also something that
- 16:13Speaker 4: you know, obviously our diarist was a full service sex worker,
- 16:17Speaker 4: and that's cool, but there's just so many different ways,
- 16:20Speaker 4: shapes and forms that people engage with in the sex
- 16:23Speaker 4: work industry, from you know, selling their nudes all the
- 16:26Speaker 4: way through to full service sex workers. Like I remember
- 16:30Speaker 4: talking to a woman and if you're listening to this,
- 16:32Speaker 4: I cannot, for the life of me remember your Instagram name.
- 16:35Speaker 4: But we had this really exciting voice memo conversation she
- 16:38Speaker 4: was talking about having I think it was this episode,
- 16:40Speaker 4: having loved the episode about a sex worker because she
- 16:43Speaker 4: didn't feel like her industry was as stigmatized as it
- 16:45Speaker 4: used to be. And she told me how she does
- 16:47Speaker 4: phone sex work and like she works, you know, late
- 16:50Speaker 4: into the evenings, being a sex worker, just like doing
- 16:53Speaker 4: telephone stuff, and I'm like, yeah, great, like get it, queen.
- 16:56Speaker 4: And she's like, but do you know what people who
- 16:58Speaker 4: call me don't realize I'm a quadriplegic and I can't
- 17:03Speaker 4: do any of the stuff I'm telling them I would
- 17:05Speaker 4: do to them, but that's not necessary to do the job.
- 17:08Speaker 4: And she's apparently one of the best that you know,
- 17:10Speaker 4: these people engage with, and she makes so much money
- 17:14Speaker 4: and I am just so impressed. Wow, I'm like, get it, queen,
- 17:18Speaker 4: like you do you? But I think the thing with
- 17:21Speaker 4: sex work is people just think it's, you know, a
- 17:23Speaker 4: bit icky. But I have this friend in the community
- 17:26Speaker 4: who please slide into my DMS. You'd make it an
- 17:28Speaker 4: insane money diary. But she has managed to make more
- 17:32Speaker 4: than a full time income with the injuries she has
- 17:35Speaker 4: in an industry that she had not considered before, you know,
- 17:38Speaker 4: having her accident, and now can financially do the things
- 17:43Speaker 4: that she wants to do that she would have otherwise
- 17:45Speaker 4: not been able to do and had to be on
- 17:46Speaker 4: disability because what else do you do? And I just
- 17:48Speaker 4: I think that there's I'm not saying everyone needs to
- 17:51Speaker 4: do sex work.
- 17:51Speaker 6: It's not for me either.
- 17:53Speaker 4: I totally get it, but like, I just think that
- 17:55Speaker 4: people who work in that industry do not deserve your
- 17:57Speaker 4: judgment because they are stronger people than I ever could be.
- 18:00Speaker 2: And absolutely outrageous the prejudice that exists with the banking
- 18:04Speaker 2: system and even how she was talking about going overseas
- 18:07Speaker 2: and all that.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Stuff and that she literally can't travel to some countries
- 18:11Speaker 4: because ten years get in insane, insane, And I mean
- 18:15Speaker 4: this story as well was a good one about really
- 18:18Speaker 4: understanding that just because you make bank and you're making
- 18:20Speaker 4: ten K week does not mean that you know how
- 18:22Speaker 4: to manage money because this money darist has got a
- 18:25Speaker 4: little bit to learn. And we've been working on it,
- 18:27Speaker 4: I promise since that episode. But I just think it's
- 18:30Speaker 4: such an incredible story. It's such a different one, and
- 18:33Speaker 4: I mean it's not stereotypically she's on the money, but
- 18:36Speaker 4: it just seemed a miss to not include it in
- 18:38Speaker 4: this list.
- 18:39Speaker 2: Well, I cannot wait, Victoria Devine to hear what is
- 18:43Speaker 2: coming up next? But I am the producer here, so
- 18:46Speaker 2: shall I just just take us to Shall I take.
- 18:48Speaker 6: Us to a break and then we'll come straight back.
- 18:50Speaker 2: That's it, will see there.
- 18:55Speaker 6: All right? Anna Lisa to recap.
- 18:57Speaker 4: We're doing the diarists that shook us in twenty two,
- 19:00Speaker 4: twenty two, and we have two more for you.
- 19:02Speaker 2: I made you, Victoria, pick a couple, but not the best,
- 19:06Speaker 2: not the favorites, just ones that like, we went in
- 19:08Speaker 2: with some sort of an idea about something we thought
- 19:10Speaker 2: we'd learned, and we came out with a whole bunch
- 19:13Speaker 2: of other stuff.
- 19:13Speaker 4: We absolutely did, And I just don't have favorites, but
- 19:17Speaker 4: I want to say that this was one of my favorites.
- 19:19Speaker 6: Again.
- 19:20Speaker 4: It was so powerful, so moving, so inspiring. Here it is.
- 19:27Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, I've had a bit of a thought about
- 19:29Speaker 9: this growing up. I'm one of five kids, and we
- 19:34Speaker 9: grew up in a very small rural town in the
- 19:38Speaker 9: South Island population less than a thousand people and one
- 19:43Speaker 9: and come family. So Dad worked and he worked very hard.
- 19:47Speaker 9: Money was extremely stressful growing up. It was never talked
- 19:53Speaker 9: about and there were always many arguments about it, to
- 19:59Speaker 9: the point where I think all of us kids there
- 20:04Speaker 9: was just so much stress around it. And I knew
- 20:06Speaker 9: that in order to live a life how I wanted,
- 20:12Speaker 9: I needed to get a good career. So back then
- 20:17Speaker 9: I would say very stressful, pessimistic about money. But now
- 20:23Speaker 9: that's obviously change over the last sort of good five years.
- 20:28Speaker 9: Are more positive about money and optimistic. I would say, Yeah,
- 20:34Speaker 9: i am a paramedic and I'm part time and I'm
- 20:39Speaker 9: on one hundred and six K. It's challenging and every
- 20:44Speaker 9: day is different. I'm coming up to twelve years in
- 20:48Speaker 9: the job, and obviously the last couple of years have
- 20:52Speaker 9: been stressful for everyone. And this year in particularly, I've
- 20:58Speaker 9: really really struggled work, just with workload and with you know,
- 21:04Speaker 9: what was going on with lockdown, and then I've had
- 21:07Speaker 9: a few family members that died as well, and I've
- 21:10Speaker 9: ended up having to take a good eight weeks off work.
- 21:14Speaker 9: I was burnt out and I ended up having to
- 21:17Speaker 9: see a psychologist, which I still see. She's fantastic, and
- 21:22Speaker 9: she said, you know you need time off. You either
- 21:25Speaker 9: go down work cover or we used yestically, she goes,
- 21:30Speaker 9: because I don't want you to get to a point
- 21:33Speaker 9: where it's too late, where you've gone past that exhaustion
- 21:39Speaker 9: and you're off work and you can't get back on road.
- 21:41Speaker 9: Because she said that she's got paramedics that have had
- 21:46Speaker 9: two years off road and they can't get back on
- 21:48Speaker 9: road because they just went past the point of exhaustion
- 21:52Speaker 9: and burnout, and so at a much better place now
- 21:56Speaker 9: I'm back at work and yeah, feeling better.
- 21:59Speaker 10: But seeing the psychologists, Oh, I'm glad, Like, I'm glad
- 22:03Speaker 10: that you got to pick it up as early as that,
- 22:06Speaker 10: because you do hear about people in our frontline roles
- 22:10Speaker 10: that just get so burnt out.
- 22:12Speaker 4: But I also just don't think, you know, this is
- 22:14Speaker 4: maybe another stereotype jest that we need to break, But
- 22:17Speaker 4: I just feel like people in those roles care so
- 22:19Speaker 4: much about other people that when it comes to caring
- 22:21Speaker 4: for themselves, they just don't reach out for the help.
- 22:23Speaker 6: When they need it.
- 22:25Speaker 4: And it's like, well, guys, like you need more support
- 22:27Speaker 4: than anybody, Like you're carrying the weight of the world
- 22:30Speaker 4: and so much trauma that other people go through on you. Like,
- 22:34Speaker 4: it just makes sense that burnout would be a very
- 22:37Speaker 4: real reality. However, we just need to identify it earlier
- 22:41Speaker 4: and give ourselves the self care and the space to
- 22:44Speaker 4: get through that. So I'm glad that you're back on
- 22:47Speaker 4: the road. That's so exciting. We're so lucky.
- 22:50Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, and you're absolutely right, like and normalize it
- 22:54Speaker 9: by talking about it. I talk very openly to any
- 22:58Speaker 9: of my colleagues that working with because all of us
- 23:02Speaker 9: need help at some stage.
- 23:04Speaker 2: All of us do.
- 23:05Speaker 9: And yeah, like I talked to my family about it.
- 23:09Speaker 9: Whereas you know, growing up, mental health was another thing
- 23:11Speaker 9: that was never talked about. It was everything was sweept
- 23:14Speaker 9: under the rugue.
- 23:15Speaker 4: It's just not helpful, Analisa, Oh my goodness, these ones
- 23:22Speaker 4: that you're like, you are just a better human than
- 23:24Speaker 4: I will be.
- 23:25Speaker 6: Like me, She's a better human the both of us combined, like,
- 23:28Speaker 6: it's just not going to happen.
- 23:29Speaker 4: We put the whole She's on the Money team together
- 23:31Speaker 4: and we're like cool.
- 23:32Speaker 6: Still not good for those of you who caught on
- 23:36Speaker 6: this was the episode.
- 23:37Speaker 4: She's an egg donor and an inspiration and ah, I
- 23:41Speaker 4: can't like literally a better human than I'll ever be.
- 23:44Speaker 4: She gives so much to everyone around her. She was
- 23:48Speaker 4: a maudie mother of two and an emergency services worker
- 23:51Speaker 4: of course she was, and an egg donor, which was
- 23:54Speaker 4: so so special. And she told us an Lisa that
- 23:57Speaker 4: she was the first in her family to get a
- 23:59Speaker 4: degree at all, and she'd been working on the money
- 24:01Speaker 4: story that she grew up with and she's been changing
- 24:03Speaker 4: the narrative, which obviously I'm obsessed with, But the story
- 24:06Speaker 4: about her being an egg donor, I just I can't, like,
- 24:10Speaker 4: it's so perfect, Like she was so caring and kind,
- 24:15Speaker 4: but it also just seemed really serendipitous that it happened
- 24:18Speaker 4: the way it did for her and her donor parents.
- 24:22Speaker 4: Is that the right terminology? I think so, the parents
- 24:24Speaker 4: that were getting the donor egg, And I just I
- 24:27Speaker 4: think it's so perfect because the family that she was
- 24:31Speaker 4: you know, donating to, which she's doing again by the way,
- 24:34Speaker 4: and makes me so happy. So these two siblings are
- 24:37Speaker 4: going to be in some way related, but more importantly
- 24:40Speaker 4: to that family, they're also Moldy, so for them to
- 24:44Speaker 4: be able to have some level of their heritage involved
- 24:46Speaker 4: in their relationship, Like, oh, I.
- 24:49Speaker 2: Just and she started that journey because her brother is
- 24:52Speaker 2: in the same sex relationship and she was like.
- 24:54Speaker 6: I hope someone dies for him one day.
- 24:56Speaker 2: Yeah, he should have those opportunities as well if he
- 24:59Speaker 2: wants to be a father. And she heard a call
- 25:01Speaker 2: out on the news or a new story or something,
- 25:03Speaker 2: and now.
- 25:03Speaker 4: I can't remember how she found it, but she heard
- 25:06Speaker 4: a call out for a moldy couple or one of
- 25:09Speaker 4: the people in the couple was Maldy and they would
- 25:12Speaker 4: love to find somebody that could help them, you know,
- 25:14Speaker 4: embrace their culture because like that to me is something
- 25:17Speaker 4: I hadn't thought about, Anna, Lisa, Like, I just think
- 25:19Speaker 4: that this space is so special and we live in
- 25:22Speaker 4: a world where, you know, I had clients when I
- 25:25Speaker 4: was a financial advisor that had surrogate children and like
- 25:29Speaker 4: had you know, gone overseas to make sure that they
- 25:31Speaker 4: were biologically theirs because they were in same sex relationships
- 25:34Speaker 4: and they just couldn't, you know, have their own kids.
- 25:36Speaker 4: It just physically wasn't possible. And it's just it's such
- 25:39Speaker 4: a special process to be a part of. But just
- 25:42Speaker 4: thinking about those donors, like and the process involved too,
- 25:45Speaker 4: because she told us a bit more about that, which
- 25:47Speaker 4: is honestly not something I've ever thought about until this point,
- 25:50Speaker 4: but just the time commitment and the cost and they
- 25:53Speaker 4: paid for everything. But it was really interesting learning the
- 25:55Speaker 4: ins and outs of that stuff too, you know, and
- 25:58Speaker 4: the idea that you do this and it sounds so giving,
- 26:00Speaker 4: but you know, we've all heard of IVF and IVF
- 26:04Speaker 4: freaks havoc on your body because you have to take
- 26:06Speaker 4: hormones and you have to go through this entire process,
- 26:08Speaker 4: and it's actually wild. You have to do that to
- 26:11Speaker 4: be an egg donor. So she did that. It's not
- 26:13Speaker 4: even for her, Like I can completely understand why.
- 26:17Speaker 6: People like it doesn't matter.
- 26:18Speaker 4: I'm going through this, Like I feel like crap, my
- 26:20Speaker 4: hormones are up up the creek, I'm bloated, I'm this,
- 26:23Speaker 4: I'm that, Like this is awful, but like it's so
- 26:25Speaker 4: I can achieve my dream of having a baby. And like,
- 26:27Speaker 4: people go through this because they want to have babies,
- 26:29Speaker 4: and I totally get it. But she did it for
- 26:32Speaker 4: somebody else to have babies. So it wasn't just like,
- 26:35Speaker 4: oh I don't ended my time or my energy or
- 26:37Speaker 4: my effort. She donated twenty four seven during this process
- 26:40Speaker 4: to these people, and oh, I just obsessed, obsessed, And
- 26:45Speaker 4: I feel like this diarist has a huge heart. She's
- 26:49Speaker 4: endlessly giving again and again and she's doing it again.
- 26:52Speaker 4: And obviously we love our frontline workers. I cannot believe
- 26:56Speaker 4: that she's also doing that though, like Anily, so it
- 26:58Speaker 4: makes sense. Of course, she's a frontline worker.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Like I say, better people than me.
- 27:03Speaker 6: I think it was.
- 27:04Speaker 4: Just fascinating, Like I think the whole story of understanding.
- 27:07Speaker 6: How, when, where, why? Like what does this look like?
- 27:10Speaker 6: What does that end up? Like?
- 27:11Speaker 4: Like just a special human doing special things and she's
- 27:15Speaker 4: in our community?
- 27:15Speaker 2: How wellcky we top.
- 27:17Speaker 6: Not ten out of ten? Would would record again?
- 27:21Speaker 4: Would you like me to introduce you to our last
- 27:24Speaker 4: but not least absolutely Victoria.
- 27:27Speaker 2: I cannot wait to visit whatever you've got up next.
- 27:30Speaker 6: Here you go.
- 27:35Speaker 5: So I feel like I have a bit of a
- 27:37Speaker 5: anxious attachment to money, said like a true psych but
- 27:42Speaker 5: this manifests an almost a scarcity mindset when it comes
- 27:46Speaker 5: to money, and that's probably heavily related to my childhood.
- 27:51Speaker 5: So for context, I am a twenty two year old
- 27:54Speaker 5: first gen immigrant from Sri Lanka and growing up my
- 27:58Speaker 5: family would be classed is low income. So we grew
- 28:02Speaker 5: up receiving family benefits from you know, Centralink and youth Allowance,
- 28:08Speaker 5: which I just want to say, like, we're so privileged
- 28:10Speaker 5: to live in a country that has like such good
- 28:13Speaker 5: social security, so very grateful for that. And my parents
- 28:19Speaker 5: are really you know, smart, skilled, hard working people. But
- 28:24Speaker 5: because of certain circumstances, my dad had to live in
- 28:28Speaker 5: Sri Lanka. Well, my mom essentially raised us on her
- 28:31Speaker 5: own in Australia, in a new country. Props to her
- 28:36Speaker 5: so amazing so in terms of family income, so even
- 28:41Speaker 5: when Sri Lanka wasn't going through a financial crisis, converting
- 28:46Speaker 5: a Sri Lankan salary to Australian dollars is obviously not
- 28:51Speaker 5: that stellar. And because my dad was a I guess
- 28:55Speaker 5: primary income earner. And additionally, my mom had to retire
- 29:00Speaker 5: early or stopped working early because she had a workplace injury,
- 29:05Speaker 5: so she was predominantly a stay at home mum. So
- 29:09Speaker 5: safe to say that money was very tight growing up,
- 29:12Speaker 5: and there was a lot of rhetoric about not being
- 29:15Speaker 5: able to afford things. And I was very very conscious
- 29:18Speaker 5: of the concept of money from a very young age.
- 29:22Speaker 5: But I guess I'm saying that, like, I'm really grateful
- 29:25Speaker 5: for where I came from, and I feel so blessed
- 29:27Speaker 5: that everything that my parents did for my sister and I,
- 29:30Speaker 5: and I genuinely didn't feel like I missed out on
- 29:33Speaker 5: anything as a child. It was more the sacrifice was
- 29:37Speaker 5: on my parents' end, you know, they kind of sacrificed
- 29:40Speaker 5: living with their partner. They didn't really indulge in any
- 29:43Speaker 5: discretionary spending, you know, buying clothes or going out to eat.
- 29:47Speaker 5: But most notably, they didn't invest into their financial future
- 29:51Speaker 5: in the conventional Australian way of you know, super and investments.
- 29:56Speaker 5: So instead they kind of funneled all their into us
- 30:01Speaker 5: and our education and in a weird way where kind
- 30:05Speaker 5: of their investments and sometimes I feel like there's a
- 30:08Speaker 5: huge pressure to almost be a good return on that
- 30:13Speaker 5: investment and be able to take care of them financially
- 30:17Speaker 5: and help them retire and actually enjoy their life. So yeah,
- 30:21Speaker 5: that's kind of my money story in a nutshell, all right, Anna.
- 30:26Speaker 6: Lisa, Oh my goodness, this was.
- 30:29Speaker 4: A recent one, and to be honest, I just couldn't
- 30:33Speaker 4: get it out of my brain when we were pulling
- 30:34Speaker 4: this together. I just feel like that episode was so
- 30:40Speaker 4: special and so different. But for our community, I feel
- 30:44Speaker 4: like really important to share because so many of our
- 30:47Speaker 4: community are first generational immigrants from international or their parents
- 30:52Speaker 4: were immigrants, and then now they're growing up with a
- 30:55Speaker 4: lifestyle that their parents never had and there's just a
- 30:58Speaker 4: lot of guilt and a lot of money trauma and
- 31:01Speaker 4: a lot of money story that you need to work
- 31:03Speaker 4: through here. And there's diarist twenty two years old, first
- 31:07Speaker 4: generation immigrant from Sri Lanka and along with her studying
- 31:10Speaker 4: a master's in psychology. Because she's obviously a smart, quirky
- 31:13Speaker 4: woman after your own heart, Victoria Devine Analisa. She's managing
- 31:16Speaker 4: a full time job and working three casual jobs to
- 31:18Speaker 4: make sure that her parents and her are okay, and
- 31:21Speaker 4: she still feels like she's not doing enough well.
- 31:23Speaker 2: I think that title of this one, carrying the pressure
- 31:25Speaker 2: and bridging two worlds, it's like, I really remember from
- 31:29Speaker 2: this young lady, that this young lady that she she
- 31:33Speaker 2: was way more sure than me.
- 31:34Speaker 10: Let's put it.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Let's put it that way, you.
- 31:36Speaker 6: And me combined.
- 31:37Speaker 2: It's like such love and duty to her family and
- 31:40Speaker 2: obviously concern for her family still living in Sri Lanka,
- 31:44Speaker 2: but still also like wanting to be a twenty two
- 31:47Speaker 2: year old and feeling guilty about just wanting to live
- 31:51Speaker 2: where she's at. You know, it's so tough.
- 31:53Speaker 4: It's a lot, and I mean I appreciated it. We've
- 31:57Speaker 4: had a few immigrant community members on our podcast before,
- 32:01Speaker 4: and I think there've been really special stories. This one
- 32:05Speaker 4: really stood out to me though, because she genuinely was
- 32:09Speaker 4: so hard working but didn't feel like she was doing enough,
- 32:12Speaker 4: didn't feel like it was good enough, and I was
- 32:13Speaker 4: just like, holy moly, like you are above and beyond.
- 32:17Speaker 4: But then also with that overlay that her home country
- 32:21Speaker 4: of Sri Lanka is currently enduring the worst economic crisis
- 32:24Speaker 4: it has ever seen, and her father still lives there
- 32:27Speaker 4: because he can't come to Australia yet, her mum is here,
- 32:30Speaker 4: and she just wants to look after them. She sends
- 32:33Speaker 4: money home to look after them. But we talked about
- 32:36Speaker 4: it on the podcast because of how a baud the
- 32:38Speaker 4: economic crisis is. You can't just send money to people.
- 32:40Speaker 4: There's like this whole back way of getting it there
- 32:42Speaker 4: to make sure that they're okay, and.
- 32:44Speaker 6: It's just it was such a backwards process.
- 32:46Speaker 4: And you know, I think we should be sharing stories
- 32:48Speaker 4: like this and more stories like this next year because
- 32:52Speaker 4: it's so impactful, so moving, but also so real, Like
- 32:55Speaker 4: this stuff is happening in our world and we are
- 32:58Speaker 4: so so privileged to in Australia and I have an
- 33:01Speaker 4: overlaying level of privilege that I grew up here and
- 33:04Speaker 4: I'm white and I'm female in twenty twenty two, like,
- 33:07Speaker 4: I just I feel like having this platform is a
- 33:11Speaker 4: I have a responsibility to share stories like this with
- 33:14Speaker 4: you so that we can help them. We can make
- 33:16Speaker 4: a difference.
- 33:17Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Like we know that there are listeners
- 33:19Speaker 2: to She's on the Money from all over the world
- 33:21Speaker 2: and in Australia, people with all sorts of different backgrounds,
- 33:24Speaker 2: and that's what makes the community so special. And I
- 33:28Speaker 2: just gosh, you learn so much more when you hear
- 33:32Speaker 2: someone's first hand experiences about what's going on day to day.
- 33:35Speaker 2: And we really do, of course feel for the residents
- 33:38Speaker 2: of Sri Lanka and in so many other countries all
- 33:42Speaker 2: over the world that are not in anywhere near as
- 33:46Speaker 2: safe as secure positions as we are in this country.
- 33:48Speaker 2: And absolute reminder to check our own privilege, right.
- 33:52Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And I think this makes me frustrated, right
- 33:56Speaker 4: And I don't do it because I'm I try to
- 33:58Speaker 4: be a reserved, a nice human Lisa. But I think
- 34:01Speaker 4: having such a special job, because I do think I
- 34:04Speaker 4: have a special job. Yeah, it looks like real fancy
- 34:06Speaker 4: sometimes and I get to go to some fancy events
- 34:08Speaker 4: and I get to podcast all day, like it's so fun.
- 34:10Speaker 4: But my favorite part is really connecting with our community
- 34:13Speaker 4: because to me, there's nothing like it anywhere else, Like,
- 34:16Speaker 4: I don't think I know any other place where there's
- 34:18Speaker 4: such a vibrant and diverse community of people who are
- 34:21Speaker 4: so caring, so kind, so willing to help others, but
- 34:24Speaker 4: also so willing to share their own story so other
- 34:26Speaker 4: people can learn from it. Like to me, it's wild,
- 34:28Speaker 4: But I just I think that we are in such
- 34:31Speaker 4: a privileged position that yeah, it's our responsibility to share
- 34:34Speaker 4: this stuff and share it with you and you know,
- 34:37Speaker 4: really respect it. But also we are a more wholesome
- 34:40Speaker 4: community because of this. I'm a better person because of
- 34:43Speaker 4: your stories, and like, please don't stop sending them.
- 34:45Speaker 2: We're stronger together, mate.
- 34:47Speaker 6: Oh it's so lame, isn't it.
- 34:48Speaker 4: Like it's true though, Like how much more connected do
- 34:51Speaker 4: we feel when we hear another money diary and we
- 34:53Speaker 4: can resonate with a tiny point of it and go wow,
- 34:56Speaker 4: or we can you know, empathize with something that we're like,
- 34:59Speaker 4: oh my god, I didn't know about this. Because there
- 35:02Speaker 4: are so many things in the world that we don't
- 35:03Speaker 4: have time to shine lights on. But with She's on
- 35:06Speaker 4: the money, I think that there's a lot to still
- 35:08Speaker 4: shine a light on into the future and We are
- 35:10Speaker 4: just so damn lucky that we get to do this
- 35:13Speaker 4: every day, and you know, I'm grateful for it.
- 35:16Speaker 2: Victoria to Vine, we were talking about tears before. You're
- 35:18Speaker 2: getting me choked up.
- 35:19Speaker 6: Stop it, we'll go, We'll go through.
- 35:21Speaker 4: Thank you for being along on the journey. She's on
- 35:24Speaker 4: the money. Thank you for allowing us to share this.
- 35:26Speaker 4: Thank you for being there, being present and wanting to
- 35:29Speaker 4: share your stories with us, because without you, we can't
- 35:31Speaker 4: do this. And I'm just I'm so grateful that we're
- 35:34Speaker 4: all friends. What a way to wrap the last money
- 35:36Speaker 4: diary of the year. Victoria, see you, are you glad
- 35:39Speaker 4: I made you do this? I'm glad you made me
- 35:40Speaker 4: do this. I'm very very happy with it.
- 35:43Speaker 2: But we do remind you, though, that we love each
- 35:45Speaker 2: and every one of you, and legitimately every story that
- 35:48Speaker 2: comes through.
- 35:49Speaker 6: Is just so special.
- 35:51Speaker 4: And you know what an underlying theme of all of
- 35:53Speaker 4: the four that I have picked today is that talking
- 35:55Speaker 4: to each and every single one of these people, I
- 35:58Speaker 4: think if we'd ask them and oh, do you reckon
- 36:01Speaker 4: like your diary would make it to the wrap, that
- 36:02Speaker 4: would say, oh no, absolutely not, like absolutely not, Like
- 36:06Speaker 4: they all just don't think that their stories are that inventive. Like,
- 36:10Speaker 4: we had four different dirests on We had the first one,
- 36:13Speaker 4: which was Phoenix Rising from the Ashes. She was so humble,
- 36:16Speaker 4: so kind, but just wanted to share because she knew
- 36:19Speaker 4: that she'd done a really good job. But I don't
- 36:22Speaker 4: think she realizes how impactful it was. We had my
- 36:25Speaker 4: friend who is a sex worker, who I just don't
- 36:27Speaker 4: think she understands how relatable that content is. As much
- 36:31Speaker 4: as not all of us can relate to being a
- 36:33Speaker 4: sex worker, we can all relate not being that great
- 36:35Speaker 4: at money sometimes, and I just think being open and
- 36:37Speaker 4: honest about it is really important. Holy Molly, our egg donor,
- 36:41Speaker 4: she didn't think that her job was that important. She's
- 36:43Speaker 4: just like, oh, I just want to give back click.
- 36:45Speaker 4: My brother's in a same sex relationship and I just
- 36:47Speaker 4: kind of hope that someone would do that for him
- 36:49Speaker 4: one day, and I'm like, what the hell, Like, you
- 36:50Speaker 4: are so special. And then our final money diary that
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