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- 0:00Speaker 1: My name's Tatasha Bamblet. I'm a proud First Nations woman
- 0:03Speaker 1: and I'm here to acknowledge country t Glenn Young Ganya Niana,
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- 1:07Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast
- 1:10Speaker 4: that lets you be pervy about other people's money habits
- 1:13Speaker 4: for educational purposes, of course. Welcome back to another one
- 1:17Speaker 4: of our Money Darius episodes where I get the absolute
- 1:19Speaker 4: pleasure of sitting down with one of our community members
- 1:22Speaker 4: and talking all about their journey let's jump straight into it,
- 1:25Speaker 4: because this week I got a message and it sounded
- 1:28Speaker 4: exactly like this, dear, she's on the money. I grew
- 1:31Speaker 4: up with parents on Scentlink, in a household constantly on
- 1:34Speaker 4: a budget, where credit cards and their debt were the norm.
- 1:38Speaker 4: I worked three jobs to put myself through university as
- 1:41Speaker 4: I had to move three hours away to a major
- 1:43Speaker 4: capital city. By doing this, I am proud to say
- 1:46Speaker 4: I broke the cycle of welfare with education. I now
- 1:50Speaker 4: earn one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year as
- 1:53Speaker 4: a teacher. I have two hundred and forty thousand dollars
- 1:57Speaker 4: in superannuation, a one hundred and ten ten thousand dollars
- 2:01Speaker 4: in shares, and two properties with my husband, and I
- 2:04Speaker 4: am currently on maternity leave with my second daughter. Despite
- 2:08Speaker 4: what we've achieved, my husband and I still have a
- 2:10Speaker 4: scarcity mindset with money, but we're working together to ensure
- 2:14Speaker 4: that our daughters have the best life possible. If I
- 2:17Speaker 4: can get to this place, anyone can money.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Naris, I'm so excited about this. Thank you. I'm excited
- 2:23Speaker 2: to hearing it back, like, Wow, that's pretty impressive and
- 2:26Speaker 2: you're thirty four, Like, look, what you've done. What do
- 2:30Speaker 2: your parents think of this? Well, that's actually interesting because
- 2:34Speaker 2: my mom I can't talk to her about money. She
- 2:36Speaker 2: gets really she feels like we're judging her if we
- 2:40Speaker 2: ever bring up money, or that we live differently to
- 2:42Speaker 2: how she lived, So I can't share a lot of
- 2:45Speaker 2: my money wins with her, which is really sad.
- 2:47Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, I'm sorry that's the case, but that's one
- 2:51Speaker 4: of the reasons I ask, because I think your parents
- 2:53Speaker 4: are probably insanely proud of you, like insanely so, but
- 2:57Speaker 4: the reality is it can be quite confronting when you're
- 3:00Speaker 4: child kind of overtakes you. Yes, yeah, and you see
- 3:03Speaker 4: this a lot where and like, that's not how you
- 3:05Speaker 4: see it. I know you don't see it that way,
- 3:07Speaker 4: but like parents, I think, inherently, and this is probably
- 3:10Speaker 4: because she cares so much about you, inherently want to
- 3:13Speaker 4: give their kids better than they had, and then when
- 3:16Speaker 4: they realize that you've had to create that on your own,
- 3:19Speaker 4: they kind of don't like hearing about it because it
- 3:22Speaker 4: feels confrontational.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Yeah, you've totally hit the nail on the head. It
- 3:25Speaker 2: does feel confrontational for her, and she is still struggling.
- 3:28Speaker 2: No it's not like you're not going, oh, look what
- 3:30Speaker 2: we've done. It's like, I'm so proud of myself exactly exactly.
- 3:35Speaker 2: So before we get any further, I want to know
- 3:38Speaker 2: what grade would you give your money habits from A
- 3:39Speaker 2: through to F. If I asked you to give them
- 3:41Speaker 2: a grade, I'm going to say an amnus. I think
- 3:44Speaker 2: we're doing very well, but we're not a plus. You
- 3:47Speaker 2: know what. We'll get to that.
- 3:48Speaker 4: But like hearing your letter in, I'm like, oh, this
- 3:51Speaker 4: is going to be so good and so motivating, because
- 3:54Speaker 4: you know, we share money diaries all across the board,
- 3:57Speaker 4: from people who are living on centralink to people who millionaires,
- 4:01Speaker 4: and I feel so grateful to be able to share
- 4:03Speaker 4: those stories. But sometimes you just want one that you
- 4:05Speaker 4: go that could easily be me, Like I could do that, because,
- 4:09Speaker 4: like you know, not all of us are willing to
- 4:11Speaker 4: move to San Francisco for a tech job, like that's
- 4:14Speaker 4: probably too much, but you know what we could do
- 4:16Speaker 4: go back to university in our own country. So I
- 4:19Speaker 4: want to know before we get any further, talk to me,
- 4:22Speaker 4: what's your money story look like?
- 4:24Speaker 2: Well, I suppose it definitely starts with my parents, which
- 4:28Speaker 2: is they were on Centerlink when I was growing up,
- 4:31Speaker 2: and money was very very tight. It was a constant budget.
- 4:36Speaker 2: My mom had envelopes with all of our weekly spendings
- 4:41Speaker 2: on the envelopes. See that's good. That's a good system.
- 4:44Speaker 2: It was a great system. But it was like, you know,
- 4:46Speaker 2: if there's no money in this envelope, we don't have
- 4:48Speaker 2: money to be able to buy new clothes, buy new books,
- 4:52Speaker 2: buy the food that I maybe wanted. So it definitely
- 4:56Speaker 2: taught me the value of a dollar and the ability budget.
- 5:00Speaker 2: But money was definitely really tight. I did actually go
- 5:04Speaker 2: to a private school, but I went on scholarship and
- 5:07Speaker 2: that really turned it around. So I guess I kind
- 5:12Speaker 2: of had like two I could see how life could
- 5:16Speaker 2: be if my parents had money because I was around
- 5:19Speaker 2: affluent students, like my peers were very affluent. They came
- 5:23Speaker 2: from very well background, and I felt a little bit
- 5:27Speaker 2: isolated and alienated that I didn't have that.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Yeah, I went to a Catholic school, which is kind
- 5:32Speaker 4: of like I guess the middle ground of like a
- 5:34Speaker 4: public and a private school. Like growing up, we definitely
- 5:37Speaker 4: didn't have the cash for me to be going to
- 5:39Speaker 4: a private school, So like Catholic school was perfect.
- 5:43Speaker 2: It did the job.
- 5:44Speaker 4: But because of the location I was in, there was
- 5:46Speaker 4: lots of affluent people at my school, and it was
- 5:49Speaker 4: I found it really confronting. Like there's me who you know,
- 5:52Speaker 4: I'm saving up and hopefully one day I would be
- 5:55Speaker 4: able to buy my very first car, and like they're
- 5:57Speaker 4: being gifted BMW's for their sixteenth birth day. And I
- 6:00Speaker 4: remember just like obviously not wanting the same, but just
- 6:04Speaker 4: being mind blown that that would even be a thing.
- 6:06Speaker 2: I agree, and that people had that extra cash that
- 6:09Speaker 2: they could buy their child a car, or they could
- 6:12Speaker 2: go in a European holiday. It just blew my mind
- 6:14Speaker 2: that that's how some people lived.
- 6:16Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember, and this is me diving into mine,
- 6:19Speaker 4: And I'm sorry for taking your money, Darve, but I
- 6:21Speaker 4: feel like this maybe you'll pull more of yours out.
- 6:23Speaker 4: I remember, like, you know, being early teenage years, you know,
- 6:27Speaker 4: at this school, going to friends' houses and being like,
- 6:31Speaker 4: oh wow, you basically live in like a two story mansion,
- 6:34Speaker 4: and like, when you're the younger teen, the wealth disparity
- 6:38Speaker 4: isn't that obvious because you're like twelve, thirteen, fourteen, you're
- 6:41Speaker 4: kind of into Hillary Duff together.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Yep, we're all singing into our microphone, hair phone.
- 6:46Speaker 4: One hundred percent, and then like you start to talk
- 6:48Speaker 4: about cars and stuff like that because you're sixteen and
- 6:51Speaker 4: you're getting your learners, and like that's where things start
- 6:54Speaker 4: to like go differently. I don't know if you did
- 6:56Speaker 4: the Debutante ball, but we had that and I remember
- 6:58Speaker 4: that was like financially, remember being like I made my dress.
- 7:03Speaker 4: That was what we could afford and what made sense.
- 7:06Speaker 4: But I remember all the girls talking about the local
- 7:09Speaker 4: bridal boutique that did it, and I was like, that
- 7:11Speaker 4: would never be me anyway.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Is that similar? That is so like you've hit the
- 7:16Speaker 2: nail on the head with that. And even like people
- 7:18Speaker 2: had double doors, like fridges, double doors. Oh my god.
- 7:22Speaker 4: I was saying this to the team the other day.
- 7:23Speaker 4: We should do a thread in our Facebook group of
- 7:25Speaker 4: like what are signs that you're rich? But I was like,
- 7:28Speaker 4: I don't know how to word it, so people take
- 7:30Speaker 4: me for what it is, not for like, what are
- 7:33Speaker 4: signs you rich?
- 7:34Speaker 2: You've got money? No? No, no, you.
- 7:35Speaker 4: Had to me if you had the French doors on
- 7:38Speaker 4: your fridge, if your fridge wasn't white, yes, you know
- 7:41Speaker 4: those people that had the water machine or the front
- 7:43Speaker 4: of the fridge or the ice rich.
- 7:45Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I just so envious, so envious of that. Rich.
- 7:50Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you mean you have not home brand
- 7:52Speaker 4: tomato sauce bridge yep?
- 7:53Speaker 2: Literally, or like you don't have to go to the
- 7:56Speaker 2: local bakery when they've like thrown out their pies and like,
- 7:59Speaker 2: get it through. We're not all going down at six thirty. Oh,
- 8:03Speaker 2: that's so weird, weird, so weird.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Yeah, And like I was grateful, Like, don't get me wrong,
- 8:08Speaker 4: Like my parents weren't on Centerlink. I feel like I
- 8:10Speaker 4: might have had that like slight step up. We're definitely
- 8:12Speaker 4: middle class, but like I feel like there's just so
- 8:15Speaker 4: many wealth indicators that kids see. You're like, oh, you've
- 8:19Speaker 4: got electric windows in your car, rich.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Yeah, look at me winding it down with my big arm.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Right, So tell me more about that.
- 8:28Speaker 4: Growing up going to a private school, it's obviously like
- 8:31Speaker 4: a very stuck contrast.
- 8:32Speaker 2: But what happened at the end of high school. At
- 8:34Speaker 2: the end of high school, I got into A and
- 8:37Speaker 2: U and I was like, yay, I get to move
- 8:41Speaker 2: to Canberra. I get to go and meet some new friends,
- 8:45Speaker 2: and I, you know, hopefully get to change the trajectory
- 8:47Speaker 2: of my life and get out of this this welfare cycle.
- 8:52Speaker 2: And so I did, but that came with hardship financially
- 8:56Speaker 2: because I was obviously moving three hours away from home.
- 8:59Speaker 2: I was living in a rental accommodation on campus. I
- 9:04Speaker 2: had two jobs when I was doing my HSC, so
- 9:07Speaker 2: I was able to save quite a bit of savings
- 9:10Speaker 2: and squirrel that away so I didn't have to work
- 9:12Speaker 2: for the first six months of UNI.
- 9:15Speaker 4: How did you know, Sorry, if we go back, like, yes,
- 9:18Speaker 4: you got to go to a private school, But at
- 9:20Speaker 4: what point were you like, Okay, I can see both
- 9:23Speaker 4: of my parents are on standlink and I can finally
- 9:26Speaker 4: see that that's not what I want for me. How
- 9:29Speaker 4: old were you at that point? Because I feel like
- 9:31Speaker 4: some of us just go, well, that's the way life is.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Yeah. And being a teacher now, I see some students
- 9:38Speaker 2: that had that mentality that they're like, oh, well, my
- 9:41Speaker 2: parents are on centlink. I'll just get that. But I
- 9:44Speaker 2: think I was probably about maybe thirteen or fourteen when
- 9:48Speaker 2: I started at my first job, which was at a cafe.
- 9:51Speaker 2: I saw that I could buy things that I wanted,
- 9:55Speaker 2: or I could Yeah, save up for things that my
- 9:58Speaker 2: parents wouldn't be able to afford on their Center Link payments.
- 10:02Speaker 2: So I just was like, well, you know, life's expensive,
- 10:05Speaker 2: and I want more for my life. I want to
- 10:07Speaker 2: be comfortable. I want to be able to buy a house,
- 10:10Speaker 2: and I don't want this for my children. That was
- 10:12Speaker 2: really big for me, Like, I want to be providing
- 10:14Speaker 2: a good role model to my future children, and you've
- 10:16Speaker 2: done that. How cool is that? A baby? You would
- 10:19Speaker 2: be so proud. She would be she'd be over the moon. Oh,
- 10:22Speaker 2: she'd be stoked.
- 10:24Speaker 4: So you know, you moved to camera, you didn't have
- 10:26Speaker 4: to work for the first six months.
- 10:27Speaker 2: What happens next? Then I was like, oh my gosh,
- 10:30Speaker 2: I have no money. I've been partying too hard. I've
- 10:33Speaker 2: had too many vodka raspberries. I need to Reina back
- 10:37Speaker 2: in and I need to be able to pay my
- 10:39Speaker 2: rent and still have a lifestyle. So I got a
- 10:43Speaker 2: really fabulous job at like a Tatasol's. I was selling
- 10:46Speaker 2: lotto tickets and I actually sold a ten million dollar
- 10:50Speaker 2: winning powerball ticket. Oh my god, ten million dollars. It
- 10:54Speaker 2: was ten million dollars. Yeah, it was crazy, And did
- 10:56Speaker 2: you go that was that guy? And then he came
- 10:58Speaker 2: back in or like what happens there. He wrote a letter.
- 11:01Speaker 2: It was obviously an older person because they wanted to
- 11:04Speaker 2: remain anonymous, but you could tell with the writing that
- 11:06Speaker 2: it was an older person, and they thanked us for
- 11:10Speaker 2: selling them the ticket. They described who the person that
- 11:12Speaker 2: sold the ticket, and they gave us I think it
- 11:14Speaker 2: was one thousand dollars and we just shared it amongst
- 11:16Speaker 2: everyone who worked there. So that was really really kind
- 11:19Speaker 2: of them.
- 11:20Speaker 4: That's so wild. But I'm always girl, I'm she's on
- 11:23Speaker 4: the money. I need to know who won. I know
- 11:26Speaker 4: what did they do with their winning? You know, I
- 11:27Speaker 4: just need to know.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Ten million dollars is not just a lot of money.
- 11:31Speaker 2: That's like a life trajectory amount of money. That's insane
- 11:35Speaker 2: to me. I agree, But in saying that, I think
- 11:37Speaker 2: that that job really taught me a bit about money too,
- 11:39Speaker 2: because some people who actually won or got like second
- 11:42Speaker 2: division or there was a first division winner. He actually
- 11:45Speaker 2: kept like gambling and he used all of his earnings
- 11:48Speaker 2: because he was like chasing that high. He wanted to
- 11:52Speaker 2: win again. And it was really sad to see all
- 11:54Speaker 2: the same people coming in every week spending hundreds of
- 11:57Speaker 2: dollars on money that they were just kind of throwing
- 12:00Speaker 2: down the drain. So that was interesting.
- 12:02Speaker 4: Research actually tells us that you significantly increase your probability
- 12:06Speaker 4: of going broke if you win.
- 12:08Speaker 2: Yeah. It's crazy, isn't them because you think it would
- 12:10Speaker 2: be the opposite.
- 12:11Speaker 4: Yeah, it's actually crazy. You would think that it would
- 12:13Speaker 4: change the trajectory of your life. But I think that
- 12:16Speaker 4: goes back to that quote, which I've said a million
- 12:18Speaker 4: times and is it not my quote?
- 12:20Speaker 2: I stole this from the internet. But like, if you.
- 12:22Speaker 4: Can't manage one hundred dollars, you can't manage ten thousand dollars,
- 12:26Speaker 4: And like, that's just it. It's these people who arguably you
- 12:29Speaker 4: saw it, they can't actually manage money. They're not very
- 12:31Speaker 4: good at it. They're spending a lot of money on
- 12:34Speaker 4: the pokes basically, and then they win ten million dollars.
- 12:38Speaker 4: They don't know what to do with that responsibly, and
- 12:40Speaker 4: they go, well, I could win more, it's still fun.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Yeah, and so then they just squander it all, which
- 12:45Speaker 2: is crazy. My goodness. So that taught you a lot
- 12:47Speaker 2: about money. Yeah, So got that job, but then I
- 12:51Speaker 2: ended up getting two other jobs, so I had three
- 12:53Speaker 2: jobs while doing UNI, which was wild and full time UNI.
- 12:57Speaker 4: I should say, oh, I did the same thing, and
- 12:59Speaker 4: now that I look, I'm also thirty four.
- 13:01Speaker 2: I look back at it and I just go, how
- 13:04Speaker 2: did you have the time?
- 13:05Speaker 4: Like last night, I had to be in bed by
- 13:07Speaker 4: eight thirty, not because I had a time limit on me,
- 13:09Speaker 4: but because that's the time that I was crashing out
- 13:12Speaker 4: and I said to my husband, you finished this TV series,
- 13:14Speaker 4: I'll me in bed.
- 13:15Speaker 2: I'm so tight. Sorry.
- 13:17Speaker 4: I didn't leave the house sin til ten pm. Back then,
- 13:19Speaker 4: I wasn't coming home from working.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Till like eleven twelve. Like, what do you mean I
- 13:23Speaker 2: could function like that? It's wild. Youth is just wasted
- 13:27Speaker 2: on the youth is all I can say. I'm with
- 13:29Speaker 2: you on the eight thirty, especially having two children, I'm like,
- 13:32Speaker 2: they're in bed. I need to go to sleep. I'm exhausted. Yeah,
- 13:35Speaker 2: if my kid is up late, it's not Oh no,
- 13:37Speaker 2: like Harvey's not getting sleep. I'm thinking, dude, I'm meant
- 13:40Speaker 2: to be in bed. What are you doing? Yeah? Literally,
- 13:42Speaker 2: it's rude. If you're up past nine, that's sorry, that's
- 13:46Speaker 2: really late. Yeah, I'm like, what is this midnight on
- 13:49Speaker 2: a week night, No, that's school night literally, So long
- 13:53Speaker 2: story short, I worked my ass off and I put
- 13:56Speaker 2: myself through UNI, including placements.
- 13:59Speaker 4: And you don't get for teaching placements, which one rude,
- 14:03Speaker 4: but two like you would have had to work your
- 14:04Speaker 4: butt off to then be able to afford the time
- 14:06Speaker 4: for those.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had to save up enough to be
- 14:09Speaker 2: able to still cover my rent and my food. And
- 14:11Speaker 2: I worked on the weekends as well, so I was teaching,
- 14:14Speaker 2: like doing my placement all through the week, and then
- 14:16Speaker 2: on the weekends I'd be working at my normal jobs
- 14:18Speaker 2: as well, an icon.
- 14:19Speaker 4: And then you finish ally placements and you get to
- 14:21Speaker 4: become a teacher. Tell me what was your first job where?
- 14:24Speaker 2: When?
- 14:24Speaker 4: Not like not actually where, but like what kind of
- 14:27Speaker 4: teaching role did you land?
- 14:28Speaker 2: I am qualified in English and hissing teaching. So I
- 14:34Speaker 2: started my teaching in a small country town in New
- 14:37Speaker 2: South Wales and I was there for a year and
- 14:41Speaker 2: a little bit and then I ended up moving back
- 14:43Speaker 2: to Canberra and I got a permanent job there and
- 14:48Speaker 2: I've just been teaching for I think this is my
- 14:51Speaker 2: twelfth twelfth year now, and I'm now a coordinator. I
- 14:56Speaker 2: look after a lot of kids and there will be,
- 15:00Speaker 2: which is pretty cool.
- 15:01Speaker 4: Of course you do. You're just a good human doing
- 15:03Speaker 4: good things. I love this so much. Tell me a
- 15:07Speaker 4: little bit more. You've met your husband?
- 15:09Speaker 2: I did when where? Like, how do we meet a
- 15:12Speaker 2: husband in I don't know when? Well, we actually met
- 15:15Speaker 2: on Tinder?
- 15:15Speaker 4: Oh my god, I met my husband on Tinder? Biggest fan?
- 15:17Speaker 4: Were you really embarrassed of that too at the start?
- 15:20Speaker 4: So you'd be like, oh, no, I do, don't now,
- 15:21Speaker 4: I'll just tell everyone.
- 15:22Speaker 2: But like, and it came out at our wedding, like
- 15:24Speaker 2: at our wedding speech. Oh, I like me too. And
- 15:28Speaker 2: it wasn't even Steve or I. It was our wedding celebrant. Oh.
- 15:32Speaker 4: She made this comment about like they both swiped right
- 15:35Speaker 4: and it was love or something, and both Steve and
- 15:38Speaker 4: I like, we're standing at the end of the aisle
- 15:39Speaker 4: kind of looking at each other because we'd told family
- 15:42Speaker 4: that we'd met through friends, you know, just three friends.
- 15:45Speaker 4: We've met three friends, and so later Mom's like, what
- 15:47Speaker 4: do you mean? Because like later she made a comment
- 15:50Speaker 4: as well, because we had the same wedding celebrant be
- 15:53Speaker 4: our EMC, and she made a comment about me looking
- 15:56Speaker 4: like the perfect Tinderella.
- 15:57Speaker 2: We like, just simmer down, girlfriend, Like, stop with the jokes.
- 16:01Speaker 2: I was like, I don't lie about much. But it
- 16:03Speaker 2: turns out what I have lied about is coming out
- 16:05Speaker 2: at my own wedding. I feel like it's a lot
- 16:08Speaker 2: of people our age that was very embarrassed about meeting
- 16:12Speaker 2: people online. Well, when we met through friends, it was
- 16:15Speaker 2: you who introduced Steve and I and I introduced you
- 16:18Speaker 2: and your partner. Yet yep, that's exactly what happened the
- 16:21Speaker 2: MC she got it wrong. Yeah, exactly wrong. So you
- 16:23Speaker 2: met your pathna on Tinder. How long have you been together?
- 16:26Speaker 2: We have been together for almost ten years. Actually, oh
- 16:29Speaker 2: my goodness, same as Steve and I. So cute. My gosh,
- 16:34Speaker 2: this is weird. And we've been married for like I
- 16:36Speaker 2: think four four years are very cute.
- 16:40Speaker 4: So tell me a bit more about like the money
- 16:43Speaker 4: side of things, because now you're an adult, you've got
- 16:44Speaker 4: an adult salary, you now have a husband, you're married.
- 16:48Speaker 4: How are we managing money as a couple, Like, what
- 16:50Speaker 4: does that actually look like?
- 16:52Speaker 2: So we somewhat combine our finances but somewhat keep them
- 16:57Speaker 2: separate because where both parents have divorced as well, which
- 17:01Speaker 2: adds kind of a layer of complexity with our money stories.
- 17:05Speaker 2: I feel because I have seen my mom go through
- 17:09Speaker 2: a horrible divorce and she lost so much money, so
- 17:13Speaker 2: she lost her super as well. So I've said to
- 17:16Speaker 2: my husband, like, obviously, I'm not planning to divorce you
- 17:19Speaker 2: at any point in time, but I want to make
- 17:20Speaker 2: sure that there's a safety net for me.
- 17:22Speaker 4: I want to, like, if for some reason, you go
- 17:25Speaker 4: to a Coldplay concert, I need to be able to
- 17:27Speaker 4: kick you out of.
- 17:28Speaker 2: The house totally. Like I want to have financial options
- 17:31Speaker 2: and financial security. So we have some joint accounts, but
- 17:36Speaker 2: we still have our own personal accounts as well, but
- 17:40Speaker 2: having two children, two morgages, like, obviously we can't keep
- 17:44Speaker 2: things super duper separate, but there is a real delineation
- 17:48Speaker 2: as well, so I know what is my savings and
- 17:50Speaker 2: what is his savings, and if anything were to happen,
- 17:53Speaker 2: we would know how to, you know, part ways amicably
- 17:56Speaker 2: with that.
- 17:57Speaker 4: That sounds honestly ex Financial Advisor music to my ears,
- 18:02Speaker 4: Like it just sounds so sexy, like just the idea
- 18:05Speaker 4: that you're like, oh, like we do it altogether. Life
- 18:08Speaker 4: is together, but like I'm financially secure in my own
- 18:10Speaker 4: right and if I.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Wanted to, like, you know what, and it sounds morbid, right,
- 18:13Speaker 2: but if you wanted to walk out, you could, Yeah, totally.
- 18:15Speaker 4: It's not the finances that are going to stop you.
- 18:17Speaker 4: It's the fact that your bloody's still in love with him,
- 18:19Speaker 4: damn it.
- 18:21Speaker 2: The thing that I feel that you'll be very proud
- 18:23Speaker 2: of me was when I went on my first maternity leave,
- 18:25Speaker 2: I said to my husband, I'm not paying for anything
- 18:29Speaker 2: like that's on you. And all of my maternity pay
- 18:32Speaker 2: is going to go into my super and my shares
- 18:35Speaker 2: because I'm taking my back burner with my career for
- 18:40Speaker 2: you know, this period of time, and I don't want
- 18:42Speaker 2: to be negatively impacted. So that was a big thing
- 18:44Speaker 2: for me.
- 18:45Speaker 4: I love you so much. This makes me so happy.
- 18:48Speaker 4: Tell me you're a coordinator and a teacher. How much
- 18:52Speaker 4: money do you earn?
- 18:53Speaker 2: I earn roughly one hundred and forty thousand pre tax,
- 18:57Speaker 2: but they've actually just put through a new enterprise agreement,
- 19:01Speaker 2: so I think it will be going up slightly. But
- 19:04Speaker 2: because I'm on maternity leave, I'm not exactly sure what
- 19:06Speaker 2: that looks like.
- 19:07Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, because you wouldn't have been a part
- 19:09Speaker 4: of all the meetings and stuff. Do you get SUPER
- 19:11Speaker 4: on top of that or is that included in your
- 19:13Speaker 4: one forty that is on top of it?
- 19:15Speaker 2: Oh? Very nice?
- 19:17Speaker 4: And like, is that how you've earned so much in Super?
- 19:20Speaker 4: Because you have two hundred and forty thousand dollars in Super? Girlfriend,
- 19:23Speaker 4: have you been doing like lots of additional contributions or yes?
- 19:27Speaker 2: So I guess this is kind of going down the
- 19:29Speaker 2: line a little bit. But I know that you're going
- 19:31Speaker 2: to ask me what my best money habit is. Don't
- 19:34Speaker 2: spoil it. I've got a structure, I know, but this
- 19:37Speaker 2: is my best spending habit. Yeah, yea, yea. My best
- 19:40Speaker 2: money habit was after I paid off my hex stet,
- 19:43Speaker 2: I didn't cancel the payments coming out from my employer
- 19:46Speaker 2: pulling out the payments for my HEX and so the
- 19:50Speaker 2: next financial year I got a massive lump sum. I
- 19:52Speaker 2: think it was like sixteen thousand dollars or something, and
- 19:55Speaker 2: I actually put that to the side, and then I
- 19:56Speaker 2: started doing voluntary super contributions and both my husband and
- 20:01Speaker 2: I have maxed out our SUPER contributions for the last
- 20:04Speaker 2: I want to say, five years, so we don't have
- 20:09Speaker 2: anything for next year except for the next financial year
- 20:12Speaker 2: because we've done everything that we can. Where did you
- 20:15Speaker 2: learn this? You and my husband, he's very financially literate.
- 20:19Speaker 2: I'm very lucky. Yeah, you said.
- 20:21Speaker 4: Look, I grew up in a Centerlink family, and like, yes,
- 20:25Speaker 4: I think we all want better for ourselves, but to
- 20:27Speaker 4: not only get better, to not only go to university,
- 20:29Speaker 4: but to have this level of financial literacy, Like girl,
- 20:32Speaker 4: what you are changing the world?
- 20:34Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you. I am very passionate about especially SUPER
- 20:38Speaker 2: contributions for females that are taking MATT leave. And when
- 20:42Speaker 2: I was going through my little notes for preparing for this,
- 20:46Speaker 2: I worked out how much my SUPER jumped. In twenty
- 20:49Speaker 2: twenty two, I had one hundred thousand dollars in SUPER,
- 20:52Speaker 2: and so in twenty twenty five, I have two hundred
- 20:55Speaker 2: and forty three thousand. Stop it, I'm maxing it out.
- 20:58Speaker 4: So when she says she's maxing out, Superannuation has a
- 21:01Speaker 4: contribution cap right now of thirty thousand dollars a year,
- 21:05Speaker 4: it's that just your contributions of thirty grand a year
- 21:08Speaker 4: plus compound interest.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's roughly about fifty thousand in compound interests.
- 21:13Speaker 2: So I just wanted to like share that with people
- 21:15Speaker 2: because I think, you go, oh my god, it's so
- 21:18Speaker 2: hard to get to that first hundred thousand, but it
- 21:20Speaker 2: really does snowball.
- 21:21Speaker 4: Yeah, and this is going to sound to a lot
- 21:23Speaker 4: of people who are just not at that spot yet.
- 21:26Speaker 4: Your first hundred thousand, when we're creating wealth is the hardest,
- 21:30Speaker 4: like whether that is the first hundred thousand for your
- 21:32Speaker 4: home deposit or your investments, Like, and it sounds because
- 21:35Speaker 4: like people like but Va, I don't even have a thousand.
- 21:38Speaker 2: I get it.
- 21:38Speaker 4: We're in the middle of a cost of living crisis.
- 21:40Speaker 4: So like, don't think I'm being insensitive. But the second
- 21:43Speaker 4: you hit that, it's kind of like genuinely, the snowball
- 21:47Speaker 4: effects starts to really compound. It's not because you have
- 21:50Speaker 4: more money to contribute, it's because that one hundred thousand
- 21:53Speaker 4: dollars ten percent return is ten grand.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Yeah, like that starts to become really powerful. It does.
- 21:59Speaker 2: It really does. So yeah, that's why I wanted to
- 22:02Speaker 2: really share those numbers because for me, I was like,
- 22:04Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm never going to get to this
- 22:05Speaker 2: one hundred grand, Like it took so long, and now
- 22:08Speaker 2: I'm really seeing the benefits.
- 22:10Speaker 4: She's going to be worth millions when she retires. Guys,
- 22:12Speaker 4: it's lucky. She's anonymous, Like, it's lucky. So what are
- 22:17Speaker 4: your big money goals? You said in passing that you
- 22:20Speaker 4: have two mortgages, you've obviously got a really good salary,
- 22:22Speaker 4: you've got soupy, you've got shares, Like, what are your
- 22:25Speaker 4: big money goals? What are you currently working towards?
- 22:27Speaker 2: Well, we are a little bit unsure about our long
- 22:32Speaker 2: term primary property because we've got two little girls and
- 22:36Speaker 2: we're hoping to have a third one day, so it's
- 22:40Speaker 2: a bit exciting, but we're like, oh my gosh, our
- 22:43Speaker 2: house is too small because we bought the worst house
- 22:46Speaker 2: in a best location to have a lower mortgage while
- 22:51Speaker 2: I was on maternity leave. So now we're tossing up
- 22:53Speaker 2: whether we're going to potentially save up and get some
- 22:57Speaker 2: acreage and get a bigger house that way, or whether
- 23:00Speaker 2: we're going to do a renovation on our investment property
- 23:04Speaker 2: because it's a beautiful old house, like it's a nineteen
- 23:06Speaker 2: ten's house and we can put a big renovation out
- 23:09Speaker 2: of the back and have this beautiful family home. So
- 23:11Speaker 2: that's kind of what we're thinking about.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a hard decision to make as well,
- 23:16Speaker 4: because at that point, and at this point in the market,
- 23:20Speaker 4: renovating's really expensive. Acreage is also really expensive. But we're
- 23:24Speaker 4: also talking about your family home, not an investment, so
- 23:26Speaker 4: it's then seen as a different thing again. And it's
- 23:29Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, not going to be flippant
- 23:32Speaker 4: with money, but like if you spend a couple of
- 23:34Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars more and you get exactly what you want,
- 23:37Speaker 4: but it's for your.
- 23:38Speaker 2: Life, it's worth it.
- 23:39Speaker 4: It's worth it. Yeah, it's a hard thing. It's a
- 23:43Speaker 4: very hard thing to do.
- 23:44Speaker 2: And I guess personally as well, I'm hoping to hit
- 23:47Speaker 2: that two hundred thousand dollars share portfolio probably in like
- 23:51Speaker 2: three years time. I'm hoping, maybe, I have no doubt.
- 23:55Speaker 2: I have no doubt. I can't wait.
- 23:56Speaker 4: All right, let's go to a really quick break because girl,
- 23:59Speaker 4: I have a lot of questions about your superannuation. I
- 24:01Speaker 4: need to know so much more about your share portfolio.
- 24:04Speaker 4: And I mean, I would say we're getting to your
- 24:06Speaker 4: best and worst money habits, but we're only going to
- 24:08Speaker 4: get to your worst because you already shared your best.
- 24:10Speaker 4: So guys, don't go anywhere money darist. We are back
- 24:18Speaker 4: and this chat. I feel like you and I are
- 24:19Speaker 4: two peas in a pod. Like we are quite similar
- 24:22Speaker 4: in terms of like upbringing out values, what we're doing,
- 24:25Speaker 4: and the fact that we both love the share market.
- 24:27Speaker 4: You have two hundred and forty thousand dollars in your
- 24:30Speaker 4: superannuation and you have one hundred and ten thousand dollars
- 24:34Speaker 4: in a share portfolio. I want to know how did
- 24:37Speaker 4: you start investing when we're why just all of the
- 24:39Speaker 4: dirty details.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I started investing after listening to your podcast series on
- 24:45Speaker 2: investing stop it. Yeah. Literally, I thought you were going
- 24:48Speaker 2: to say, oh, my husband like set me up and
- 24:51Speaker 2: he was trying to do for years, years And he's like,
- 24:54Speaker 2: you listen to Victoria like once and then you're setting
- 24:57Speaker 2: up a comseck account like I've been trying to get
- 24:59Speaker 2: you to invest for year. And I was like, well,
- 25:00Speaker 2: she just knows what she's talking about.
- 25:02Speaker 4: Well, it's not even that I know what I'm talking about.
- 25:03Speaker 4: I'm just a girl, ye Like, and if I can
- 25:05Speaker 4: do it, can't be that hard, right, And when your
- 25:08Speaker 4: husband says do it, it's probably complex.
- 25:12Speaker 2: Yeah, you gave me the kick up the butt and
- 25:14Speaker 2: I was like, okay, Like I've got some money sitting aside,
- 25:17Speaker 2: like let's do this, like let's see how it goes.
- 25:21Speaker 2: And then it got kind of addictive, I suppose. And
- 25:24Speaker 2: I was going through because when I was listening to
- 25:27Speaker 2: your podcast series about investing and about like short term
- 25:31Speaker 2: long term goals, I had a quick look back through them,
- 25:35Speaker 2: and you have my long term goal at the time.
- 25:37Speaker 2: This was in twenty twenty one. Stop it. This is
- 25:41Speaker 2: so cute. You've got like a diary in front of
- 25:43Speaker 2: you with your goals. I love it. So twenty twenty one,
- 25:46Speaker 2: what was the goal? So short term was to renovated
- 25:49Speaker 2: the bathroom that hasn't happened, which is quite hilarious because
- 25:52Speaker 2: midterm buying an investment property. We've done that. And to
- 25:55Speaker 2: have enough money for a year off to have a baby.
- 25:57Speaker 2: We've done that. And our long term goal was to
- 26:00Speaker 2: have one hundred k invested in ten years time in shares,
- 26:02Speaker 2: and I did that in three slightly.
- 26:05Speaker 4: How have you invested one hundred grand? I think you know,
- 26:10Speaker 4: for a lot of people earning one hundred and forty
- 26:12Speaker 4: thousand dollars is a very very good salary. But also
- 26:15Speaker 4: I know a lot of people earning one hundred and
- 26:17Speaker 4: forty thousand dollars who are still struggling to make ends meet.
- 26:20Speaker 4: I need to be a baby. What does your husband
- 26:22Speaker 4: do and what does he earn? So that you were,
- 26:25Speaker 4: you know, able to invest your money into the share
- 26:28Speaker 4: market and into your super while you're on matt Leve
- 26:30Speaker 4: and stuff like that.
- 26:31Speaker 2: He is an engineer and he earns about one hundred
- 26:35Speaker 2: and ninety thousand a year. So that's how I can
- 26:38Speaker 2: is because we.
- 26:39Speaker 4: Are no But like that's good transparency because I'm like, oh,
- 26:42Speaker 4: some people are going to ask questions. I'm even starting
- 26:45Speaker 4: to go, how were you able to do that? Because like,
- 26:47Speaker 4: you know, it's not life's not cheap but very sexy.
- 26:51Speaker 2: I love that.
- 26:52Speaker 4: And also, like you matched with an engineer on Tinder
- 26:54Speaker 4: money with I know, I was like so lucky. I
- 26:57Speaker 4: didn't match with an engineer. I matched with an and antrition.
- 27:01Speaker 2: Oh I don't even know what that is. I still
- 27:03Speaker 2: don't know what that means. Yeah, yeah, let's move on.
- 27:07Speaker 4: I just know he has like a number of maths degrees, the.
- 27:11Speaker 2: Same as my husband. He's very good at maths. I'm
- 27:13Speaker 2: like good because I am not.
- 27:16Speaker 4: You actually don't have to be good at maths to
- 27:18Speaker 4: be good at investing, so we win.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
- 27:22Speaker 4: So tell me a little bit more about this investment.
- 27:24Speaker 4: You went and you've got a comm Sec account, so
- 27:26Speaker 4: you've got your account.
- 27:28Speaker 2: What are you picking?
- 27:29Speaker 1: Like?
- 27:29Speaker 2: What ETFs have we got? Why did we pick them?
- 27:31Speaker 2: I began with picking individual shares because I was just
- 27:35Speaker 2: testing out the water to see, I guess how they worked.
- 27:40Speaker 2: So I do probably have about five individual shares like Telstra,
- 27:46Speaker 2: wor Worth, but a lot of my portfolio is Vanguard
- 27:50Speaker 2: and then Vanguard for ETFs. Yes, yeah, so most of
- 27:53Speaker 2: my portfolio are ETFs. But the one that I have
- 27:58Speaker 2: loved the most is my my morning Star wide Mote ETF.
- 28:04Speaker 2: I am obsessed with that. Why do we lack that one?
- 28:06Speaker 2: Fabulous dividends? Yeah, Like we love a good dividend pay out,
- 28:10Speaker 2: don't we? Yes? And I've definitely noticed a different since
- 28:13Speaker 2: having quite a lot of that in my portfolio as well.
- 28:16Speaker 4: I think when we start to invest in it can
- 28:18Speaker 4: be so overwhelming and like this just sounds like literally,
- 28:21Speaker 4: in the nicest way possible, the most stereotypical entry. You
- 28:25Speaker 4: kind of buy a couple of like individual shares and
- 28:28Speaker 4: you're like okay, Like Telstra, Woolies, Westpac. I feel comfortable
- 28:31Speaker 4: with those, you like track them for a bit. You
- 28:33Speaker 4: get comfortable with the idea of investing, and then you're like, oh,
- 28:36Speaker 4: I've heard of the ETF thing. I'm going to start
- 28:38Speaker 4: looking at ETF and then you probably get into like
- 28:40Speaker 4: analysis paralysis mode because you're like, all right, there's morning Star,
- 28:44Speaker 4: there's Beta shares, Oh my god, there's Vanguard.
- 28:47Speaker 2: What do I do?
- 28:47Speaker 4: And like then you probably I reckon it took you
- 28:50Speaker 4: a while between individuals and ETFs, and then you do
- 28:53Speaker 4: your first ETF and you do still a little bit.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Yes, I did, like a thousand dollars and now it's
- 28:57Speaker 2: like the biggest chunk of my portfolio. But the time
- 29:00Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, this is so much money. Oh,
- 29:02Speaker 2: like a thousand dollars.
- 29:03Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you might buy a different ETF to
- 29:05Speaker 4: test that one out, and then you start to get favorites,
- 29:09Speaker 4: and that's where we start to get our power. You're like,
- 29:12Speaker 4: you actually, it's like you went to university, but I
- 29:15Speaker 4: can almost promise you've learned more about teaching on the job, haven't.
- 29:18Speaker 2: You, oh one hundred percent?
- 29:20Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So it's like investing, you need to kind
- 29:22Speaker 4: of like, yes, you can learn everything from my podcast
- 29:25Speaker 4: and read my books and do my masterclass, and you're
- 29:28Speaker 4: still going to have that analysis paralysis.
- 29:30Speaker 2: You need to pull the pin.
- 29:31Speaker 4: You need to start investing, because the second you get
- 29:33Speaker 4: that confidence.
- 29:34Speaker 2: You're like, oh, this is what it is. Okay, it's
- 29:36Speaker 2: not that bad.
- 29:37Speaker 4: And now you've got one hundred and ten thousand dollars
- 29:39Speaker 4: in shares. So most is your favorite, which is through
- 29:43Speaker 4: morning Star? What Vanguard ETFs have you picked?
- 29:48Speaker 2: I have multiple, I have that so Property, I have
- 29:52Speaker 2: vas SO Australian shares. I have VIDHG, which is the
- 29:56Speaker 2: diversified high growth. I love those and they've definitely as
- 30:01Speaker 2: you would know, like their dividends are pretty consistent as well.
- 30:04Speaker 4: Yeah, no, and we love to see it and they
- 30:06Speaker 4: think that that's a really good conversation opener on let's
- 30:10Speaker 4: not just look at the share price and how much
- 30:11Speaker 4: it goes up, like, let's look at what they pay
- 30:14Speaker 4: you to own that asset long term.
- 30:16Speaker 2: And are they franked or are they not framed? And yeah,
- 30:19Speaker 2: I've definitely noticed the dividends coming in because I haven't
- 30:22Speaker 2: actually put anything into my portfolio for probably about a
- 30:25Speaker 2: year and it's still going up. They're plotting a lot.
- 30:28Speaker 4: And that's where long term, most of your compound growth
- 30:31Speaker 4: is going to come from, is the dividends being reinvested.
- 30:34Speaker 4: And that's what I mean when I say the money
- 30:36Speaker 4: that your money makes starts making money, it's your dividends
- 30:39Speaker 4: being paid out that then get reinvested, and then that
- 30:42Speaker 4: pays out and it becomes a cycle, a cycle of
- 30:45Speaker 4: becoming rich.
- 30:46Speaker 2: And that's what we wants to a cycle of poverty exactly.
- 30:50Speaker 4: So now to flip the narrative, you own two properties,
- 30:53Speaker 4: talk to me about debt.
- 30:54Speaker 2: What do you have? How does it work? So we have,
- 30:57Speaker 2: obviously our two mortgagets. We got really lucky that our
- 31:01Speaker 2: first house was very, very reasonable. It was only three
- 31:04Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars and we bought that with only a
- 31:09Speaker 2: ten percent deposit. And that's one thing that I really
- 31:11Speaker 2: wanted to stress I guess while on here, is that
- 31:14Speaker 2: LMI is not like the worst thing in the world
- 31:16Speaker 2: to have to have.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Oh my god, I just recorded in an episode about
- 31:19Speaker 4: getting into your first property, and it's basically me ranting
- 31:22Speaker 4: about how ELMI is fantastic.
- 31:24Speaker 2: Yeah, And like we just kind of tacked it onto
- 31:26Speaker 2: the end of our mortgage and we didn't notice it
- 31:28Speaker 2: at all, and we managed. We were getting into the
- 31:30Speaker 2: property market so much quicker by doing that. So I'm
- 31:33Speaker 2: a massive advocate for that. And we decided after I
- 31:37Speaker 2: had my first baby while I was on that leave,
- 31:40Speaker 2: we had our mortgage fully offset, so we weren't paying
- 31:42Speaker 2: any interest. Oh very nice, So hold on, hold on,
- 31:45Speaker 2: hold on, backtrack. That is a big deal.
- 31:48Speaker 4: You had a three hundred thousand dollars in savings between
- 31:51Speaker 4: you and your husband to be able to fully offset
- 31:53Speaker 4: your mortgage.
- 31:53Speaker 2: How we're very frugal. We're very very frugal. I love this.
- 31:59Speaker 4: I think I love this because wow, that's so unrelatable,
- 32:02Speaker 4: but coming from somebody so relatable, you've just built this yourself.
- 32:05Speaker 2: Like what did I con That's what I want to
- 32:07Speaker 2: stress to you, Like, my husband doesn't come from marriage,
- 32:09Speaker 2: that's from marriage from money, like both of us.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Yeah, he came from your marriage, Like you made that
- 32:13Speaker 4: man take credit for that.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Yeah he did. He did come from my marriage, but
- 32:16Speaker 2: not from money. So like we both worked for this.
- 32:20Speaker 2: It's not like we've been given anything on a platter.
- 32:23Speaker 2: We've literally just been slogging and like we don't go
- 32:26Speaker 2: on holidays, We don't spend down money on things that
- 32:30Speaker 2: we don't need. We were both driving, you know, ten
- 32:33Speaker 2: year old cars until recently we've just bought a new car.
- 32:36Speaker 2: But like, we are just saving every single penny.
- 32:39Speaker 4: I'm obsessed with that. That makes me so happy. So
- 32:42Speaker 4: two properties. Your first one was three hundred thousand dollars.
- 32:44Speaker 4: What do you currently owe on that property?
- 32:46Speaker 2: We currently owe two hundred and eleven thousand, but most
- 32:51Speaker 2: of that's offset.
- 32:52Speaker 4: Okay, so you've got a nice amount in savings and
- 32:55Speaker 4: before you said, you know, I know personally you've got
- 32:58Speaker 4: that share potfolio and your name, and then you've got
- 33:00Speaker 4: your two forty k in super this savings that is offset.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Is this like shared funds with your husband?
- 33:06Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's just like the shared account side of
- 33:08Speaker 4: things as opposed to the money Darst side of things.
- 33:11Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, so this is our shared and we've only
- 33:14Speaker 2: got thirty six thousand dollars that's not offset red. I'm
- 33:20Speaker 2: pretty proud of that of like both of your mortgages.
- 33:23Speaker 2: Oh no, sorry, that's just our property. But we are
- 33:27Speaker 2: using our investment property for I guess taxable purposes, so
- 33:33Speaker 2: we're not offsetting that because we're using the interest as
- 33:37Speaker 2: a tax deduction.
- 33:38Speaker 4: Genius, So tell me what is that property now worth?
- 33:41Speaker 4: If you purchased it for three hundred thousand dollars.
- 33:43Speaker 2: It's probably just under seven hundred thousand. Stop it, you're
- 33:47Speaker 2: like full rich guys. We got in at the market
- 33:50Speaker 2: at a really good time. It was twenty eighteen that
- 33:53Speaker 2: we bought, and we bought regional. But yeah, it's been
- 33:56Speaker 2: a fabulous house.
- 33:57Speaker 4: And is that the house that you're currently living in
- 33:59Speaker 4: is the primary residence you're talking about?
- 34:01Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we're still in our little three bedroom and
- 34:04Speaker 2: it's working perfectly fine at the moment.
- 34:07Speaker 4: Perfect And so then you know you're plotting along, you're
- 34:10Speaker 4: buying twenty eighteen. When did you buy your first investment property?
- 34:14Speaker 2: We bought that last year, so that was twenty twenty four,
- 34:17Speaker 2: and we used a lot of our cash that was
- 34:21Speaker 2: sitting in our offset to purchase that. We didn't want
- 34:24Speaker 2: to refinance our actual loan. We wanted to use I guess,
- 34:29Speaker 2: our own equity, and so we purchased our investment property
- 34:33Speaker 2: for five hundred and forty five with a twenty percent deposit.
- 34:37Speaker 2: And tell me buying that property? Why that one? Because
- 34:41Speaker 2: it is in the best location in the town that
- 34:46Speaker 2: we live in. It's a beautiful street that we would
- 34:49Speaker 2: one day potentially want to live in. And it was
- 34:54Speaker 2: literally the worst house on the best street. It was dilapidated,
- 34:57Speaker 2: the roof like we had to do a lot of
- 34:59Speaker 2: renovations to get get it up to a Liverpool standard.
- 35:01Speaker 2: I can't believe that they had a tenant in it
- 35:03Speaker 2: like before. Like the roof literally had to get fixed.
- 35:06Speaker 2: There was just so many issues with the property.
- 35:09Speaker 4: That's because some people are horrid, Like honestly, I just
- 35:13Speaker 4: if you're going to be a landlord, just don't be
- 35:15Speaker 4: a bad one.
- 35:15Speaker 2: And so we did everything ourselves that we could, and
- 35:18Speaker 2: that's really big for us as well, that we aren't
- 35:22Speaker 2: spending money when we can do it ourselves. So we
- 35:26Speaker 2: painted the entire exterior of the house.
- 35:29Speaker 4: For example, Painting is the worst. I'm not going to lie.
- 35:31Speaker 4: You think it's going to be easy, and it is
- 35:33Speaker 4: the hardest log in the entire world.
- 35:35Speaker 2: It's horrible. And weatherboards like.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Grooves having to cut in all of your weather boards
- 35:40Speaker 4: absolutely not. We did all of that in our house too,
- 35:43Speaker 4: because I was like to my husband, we got a
- 35:45Speaker 4: painting quote and it came back and I was like, nah,
- 35:48Speaker 4: we're not paying that. I look like a painter. I
- 35:50Speaker 4: can paint. I actually remember I had a meltdown because
- 35:53Speaker 4: I'd been painting for like twelve hours and we were
- 35:55Speaker 4: doing our ceilings. Oh your neck, yeah, my neck, My
- 35:58Speaker 4: back hurt like we hadn't eaten. And it ended up
- 36:01Speaker 4: just like still paint rolling, crying and my husband was like,
- 36:05Speaker 4: do you want to stop and get a pizza?
- 36:06Speaker 3: And I was like, yo, so really do I'm just
- 36:10Speaker 3: so hungry and emotional.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Yep. No, painting is the worst. That was the best
- 36:14Speaker 2: chicken pizza I had in my life. Just to be clear,
- 36:16Speaker 2: I love that for you, but I don't love that
- 36:18Speaker 2: you had to paint. It's horrible. You know what didn't
- 36:20Speaker 2: cost me ten grand? Did it? And you only had
- 36:23Speaker 2: one emotional breakdown? So that's pretty good. And that's basically free.
- 36:26Speaker 2: It is.
- 36:26Speaker 4: Yeah, so tell me this house? Has it got good
- 36:29Speaker 4: rental yield?
- 36:30Speaker 2: It does. We did want it to be negatively geared
- 36:34Speaker 2: for tax purposes, so we are currently getting four hundred
- 36:37Speaker 2: and sixty dollars per week from our investment property. Yeah,
- 36:40Speaker 2: very cool.
- 36:41Speaker 4: I love this, And what's the property plan? In the future,
- 36:44Speaker 4: we're planning on getting in more mortgage debt. Are we
- 36:47Speaker 4: planning on other investment properties or like, is that a
- 36:50Speaker 4: wealth creation strategy for you guys?
- 36:52Speaker 2: It definitely could be, but I think we need to
- 36:54Speaker 2: figure out where we want to live first and whether
- 36:57Speaker 2: we need to have equity for that next property or
- 37:02Speaker 2: whether we are going to buy another investment property. Yep, no, smart, Smart,
- 37:06Speaker 2: so tell me no other debt, just to be sure.
- 37:09Speaker 2: We do have one credit card, but we use that
- 37:11Speaker 2: in a very specific way, and it's just to get points. So,
- 37:15Speaker 2: as I've kind of alluded to, we live in a
- 37:17Speaker 2: regional town that it's quite expensive to fly out of,
- 37:20Speaker 2: and we have family interstates, so we use points to
- 37:24Speaker 2: be able to go and visit them without having to
- 37:26Speaker 2: pay an arm in the lake. Yeah. Absolutely.
- 37:29Speaker 4: So we know that your best money habit is that
- 37:32Speaker 4: you know, after your HEX was completely paid off, you
- 37:36Speaker 4: didn't tell your employer and so therefore your employer was
- 37:40Speaker 4: still paying money to the government for your HEX. So
- 37:42Speaker 4: at tax time, the government was like, hey, money, dirist,
- 37:45Speaker 4: we actually have sixteen grand for you for your HEX
- 37:48Speaker 4: that was already paid off. But you took that money
- 37:50Speaker 4: and then you put it into your super Are you
- 37:52Speaker 4: still doing that?
- 37:54Speaker 2: No, So I only did that for the first year
- 37:56Speaker 2: to get that lump some and then I'm getting lumps
- 38:00Speaker 2: back through doing my tax and then I kind of
- 38:03Speaker 2: put that in my offset, leave it there until the
- 38:06Speaker 2: next May, and then kind of do it again. Yeah.
- 38:09Speaker 2: And do you have any other good money habits you
- 38:11Speaker 2: want to share, because I just feel like you've probably
- 38:14Speaker 2: got a lot of them. Like I feel like your
- 38:15Speaker 2: entire money diary was just a good money habit. I
- 38:18Speaker 2: guess it's just to live beneath your means. I think
- 38:21Speaker 2: that that's really important and you don't have to keep
- 38:22Speaker 2: up with the Joneses, Like, actually, this is a good
- 38:25Speaker 2: money habit. My best friend and I always laugh that
- 38:27Speaker 2: I cosplay being poor, Like I just pretend that I'm
- 38:31Speaker 2: poor all the time, like mentally, and then I just
- 38:34Speaker 2: don't spend things. I'm like, oh, well, I can make
- 38:36Speaker 2: that at home and it tasts fifteen times better.
- 38:38Speaker 4: I feel like this is such a people already know this.
- 38:41Speaker 4: I mean a very lucky and I hate the word lucky,
- 38:45Speaker 4: but like I'm in a very good financial position now
- 38:48Speaker 4: because I have worked really hard. If we're being really honest.
- 38:52Speaker 4: This isn't lucky. It wasn't gifted to me. I've never
- 38:54Speaker 4: had a leg up, none of that. But I still
- 38:57Speaker 4: have it. I think it's like a product of the
- 38:59Speaker 4: way that I grew up. I still have it in
- 39:00Speaker 4: my head, like we've got food at home, Like I'm
- 39:02Speaker 4: still that mum. I'm going on holidays soon. And I
- 39:05Speaker 4: said to my husband, Okay, so what time do we
- 39:07Speaker 4: land and he was like, oh, it's quite late. And
- 39:09Speaker 4: I'm thinking we're not gonna have time to get to
- 39:11Speaker 4: the supermarket after we get there.
- 39:13Speaker 2: And my husband's like, that's fine, and I was like, yeah,
- 39:16Speaker 2: but I need.
- 39:16Speaker 4: Like because I hate buying water when we're traveling. I'm like,
- 39:19Speaker 4: but we need to buy the big thing of water,
- 39:21Speaker 4: and like there's a whole heap of stuff, and he's
- 39:22Speaker 4: just like Victoria. But it's just part of my mental process,
- 39:28Speaker 4: and like, you know, I'll look at something and don't
- 39:30Speaker 4: get me wrong, I've bought a lot of nice things,
- 39:32Speaker 4: but I'll still.
- 39:33Speaker 2: Look at it and go, oh, I can't afford that.
- 39:34Speaker 2: That's ridiculous, And then all of a sudden, I'm like
- 39:37Speaker 2: I can afford that.
- 39:38Speaker 4: Oh okay, Like I need to check myself a little bit,
- 39:41Speaker 4: but like living beneath your means, do you feel like
- 39:44Speaker 4: you're missing out? Like do you feel like that is,
- 39:46Speaker 4: you know, putting you behind, because like not keeping up
- 39:49Speaker 4: with the Joneses. Don't get me wrong, Like in theory
- 39:52Speaker 4: it makes sense, but sometimes that feels a bit trashy,
- 39:54Speaker 4: Like sometimes you're like, Oh, I don't feel so good
- 39:57Speaker 4: about this. I really wanted that, or do you know.
- 39:59Speaker 2: What I mean? Sometimes I think I definitely compare myself
- 40:02Speaker 2: to people who are at the same life stage and
- 40:04Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, you know, they have a nice car,
- 40:07Speaker 2: or they I don't know, have a prior handbag or whatever.
- 40:10Speaker 2: But I guess I have our family long term goals
- 40:14Speaker 2: in mind that we want to be able to give
- 40:17Speaker 2: our daughters the best future, and I don't need a
- 40:20Speaker 2: prior of handbag if I can hopefully help my daughter,
- 40:23Speaker 2: I don't know, buy a house or something later on
- 40:25Speaker 2: down the track, Yeah, one hundred percent.
- 40:27Speaker 4: Like it comes back to zooming out and looking at
- 40:29Speaker 4: your values as a whole, and it can be so
- 40:31Speaker 4: easy to be taken away with those things so quickly,
- 40:35Speaker 4: Like it makes me frustrated because I get taken by
- 40:38Speaker 4: that so often. Like comparison is the thief of joy,
- 40:41Speaker 4: and I will tell you that day in, day out,
- 40:43Speaker 4: And then there's me in the background at eleven pm
- 40:45Speaker 4: on some bloggers TikTok being like, oh, that is.
- 40:48Speaker 2: A really nice outfit. Maybe I do, And then I'm like,
- 40:50Speaker 2: how are you stop this? Yeah? Just stop, put the
- 40:53Speaker 2: phone down, walk away exactly. So what do you reckon
- 40:56Speaker 2: your worst money? How it is? I was thinking long
- 40:59Speaker 2: and hard about this, and it is that we don't
- 41:02Speaker 2: have a budget. And I know that that sounds really wanky.
- 41:05Speaker 4: Wee must be nice or a che rich over here,
- 41:08Speaker 4: yeah yeah, yeah.
- 41:10Speaker 2: Yeah, But it's because and I've kind of been doing
- 41:13Speaker 2: some deep diving about it because I lived on such
- 41:16Speaker 2: a tight budget for my entire life until I don't know,
- 41:20Speaker 2: probably twenty five. I feel like I have a bit
- 41:23Speaker 2: of PTSD about it because every dollar had to be
- 41:26Speaker 2: doing something and I had to move everything around and
- 41:29Speaker 2: it was just so stressful. So we don't necessarily know
- 41:33Speaker 2: what's coming in and going out. But because we have
- 41:35Speaker 2: that buffer, we're able to have that luxury, if that
- 41:38Speaker 2: makes sense. But I still think that it's potentially detrimental
- 41:41Speaker 2: because we've got children. Now, we have food budgets and
- 41:45Speaker 2: the cost of living is definitely affecting us as well. Yeah.
- 41:48Speaker 4: I was talking to Jess actually from the show about
- 41:51Speaker 4: this earlier today, and we were talking about the concept
- 41:54Speaker 4: of like date nights, like money date nights and how
- 41:58Speaker 4: you know. I did an episode a couple of years
- 42:00Speaker 4: ago about the date nights that my husband and I
- 42:02Speaker 4: were having, and you know, we always used to have
- 42:04Speaker 4: them every single month, and that was pre wedding, that
- 42:08Speaker 4: was pre baby's, pre our second mortgage.
- 42:11Speaker 2: And I said to Jess, because.
- 42:13Speaker 4: It was a listener question actually and we're answering it
- 42:15Speaker 4: on the show. She said, oh, you guys would still
- 42:17Speaker 4: do them really well? And I was like, well, actually, no,
- 42:19Speaker 4: Like I feel like, now we've achieved some really big things,
- 42:23Speaker 4: we are really really on the same page, so I
- 42:25Speaker 4: actually don't need to check in monthly because in our
- 42:27Speaker 4: heads we both know kind of what's going on. But then,
- 42:30Speaker 4: you know, I spoke about this holiday that we were
- 42:32Speaker 4: about to go on, and I was like, you know,
- 42:34Speaker 4: we checked in when we were booking a holiday because
- 42:36Speaker 4: that's a really big financial expense and we wanted to
- 42:38Speaker 4: like go, okay, well, what's our budget each night for
- 42:40Speaker 4: a hotel and then I'll go find one and you know,
- 42:42Speaker 4: how many points do we have for flights? And okay,
- 42:44Speaker 4: we've got that and I could. Luckily, we spent all
- 42:47Speaker 4: of our points on flights and they had some points
- 42:49Speaker 4: left over so that we spent that on some accommodation
- 42:52Speaker 4: as well. But like it's kind of like a strategy
- 42:55Speaker 4: meeting before we make a big financial decision again. But
- 42:58Speaker 4: we don't need those monthslea ones. Did you used to
- 43:01Speaker 4: do the monthly date and now you feel like you've
- 43:03Speaker 4: fallen off the bandwagon as well?
- 43:05Speaker 2: Oh definitely, And like who has time to date right now?
- 43:08Speaker 2: I'm like barely sleeping.
- 43:09Speaker 4: No, no, no, if the kids are in bed early, sorry,
- 43:11Speaker 4: I'm also going to bed.
- 43:13Speaker 2: Literally, our date is holding hands on the couch for
- 43:15Speaker 2: two seconds and then rolling off and going to sleep. Catcher,
- 43:19Speaker 2: your hand's sweaty. Bye. Yeah, don't even touch me. I've
- 43:21Speaker 2: been touched out. I've had a four month old crawling
- 43:23Speaker 2: on me all day. Oh yeah, so cute. She is
- 43:26Speaker 2: very cute. She's very very sweet. But yeah, we definitely
- 43:30Speaker 2: don't need to have those little check ins because we've
- 43:33Speaker 2: got the game plan. Like we've been together so long
- 43:36Speaker 2: we've had our money merged for so long as well
- 43:39Speaker 2: that we just we know where each other's going. It's
- 43:42Speaker 2: kind of like, yeah, when you've been playing on the
- 43:44Speaker 2: same team for so long, you don't have to look
- 43:45Speaker 2: because you know that they're going to be there. Yeah.
- 43:47Speaker 4: No, I think that that's an important thing to talk
- 43:50Speaker 4: about as well, because I think there's this assumption when
- 43:52Speaker 4: you implement day nights they have to be forever, and like,
- 43:55Speaker 4: if you want them to be, I guess they can be.
- 43:57Speaker 4: But it's just I feel like it would be a
- 43:59Speaker 4: genuine waste of our time at this point because I'd
- 44:01Speaker 4: be like, so our money's doing this and stay We'll
- 44:03Speaker 4: be like yep, I know. I'll be like what about this,
- 44:05Speaker 4: and he'd be like, m hm, it's exactly where we
- 44:07Speaker 4: thought it was going to be.
- 44:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the same as us. And that's good. It's nice.
- 44:11Speaker 2: It's very calming.
- 44:13Speaker 4: It feels like an accomplishment. Like I was saying to Jess,
- 44:15Speaker 4: it genuinely feels so good being like, oh, hold on,
- 44:18Speaker 4: I feel like we've graduated, like we've gone from needing
- 44:20Speaker 4: this and like implementing structure and making change, which can
- 44:23Speaker 4: feel really hard, to being at the easier part, where
- 44:27Speaker 4: you know, I feel like I'm gloating when I say that,
- 44:29Speaker 4: but like, it does get easier when things start compounding,
- 44:32Speaker 4: when your choices start to become ingrained. You're kind of like, oh,
- 44:36Speaker 4: this just works.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Yeah, and you just kind of stick to the same
- 44:39Speaker 2: thing as well. And yeah, it definitely doesn't happen overnight,
- 44:43Speaker 2: but it does eventually happen.
- 44:44Speaker 4: Oh no, it takes a long time, but then all
- 44:46Speaker 4: of a sudden you're there and you can't believe you're
- 44:48Speaker 4: thirty four years old and have two children.
- 44:50Speaker 2: I know, it's wild.
- 44:52Speaker 4: So at the start of this episode, you said I'm
- 44:55Speaker 4: an A minus goal, what's it going to take for
- 44:57Speaker 4: you to say that you're an A plus?
- 44:59Speaker 2: What do we have to do? Because that's crazy talk
- 45:01Speaker 2: to me after hearing your story, I guess it just
- 45:03Speaker 2: feels a bit like up myself, I'm like, I'm an
- 45:05Speaker 2: A plus.
- 45:06Speaker 4: It's totally not because I think it's just logic. You've
- 45:09Speaker 4: worked your ass off to be an A plus. Like
- 45:12Speaker 4: I'm not an A plus and I'm not an A
- 45:14Speaker 4: plus because I'm very good at comparison and I'm very
- 45:18Speaker 4: good at impulse purchasing and I'm very good at, you know,
- 45:22Speaker 4: falling a little bit off the track when I wanted
- 45:24Speaker 4: to stay out.
- 45:24Speaker 2: You didn't say any of that.
- 45:25Speaker 4: Sorry, A plus for you, I'll tell you you're an
- 45:28Speaker 4: A plus.
- 45:29Speaker 2: I think that makes it less wanky. Thank you. I
- 45:31Speaker 2: appreciate that money, Darst.
- 45:34Speaker 4: I wish we had so much more time to chat,
- 45:37Speaker 4: but this has been fun. I feel like I've found
- 45:39Speaker 4: like my little peen a pod and we are so similar.
- 45:42Speaker 4: So thank you so much for sharing your journey with
- 45:44Speaker 4: the community. I just know they're gonna love this. Like
- 45:47Speaker 4: the fact, and just reminding everybody all of this was
- 45:50Speaker 4: achieved by somebody whose parents were on Centerlink and she
- 45:54Speaker 4: had to put herself through university. Like girl, you did
- 45:57Speaker 4: this all yourself. That's crazy, that's so cool.
- 46:00Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I really appreciate having the opportunity
- 46:03Speaker 2: to talk to you, and I hope that it inspires
- 46:05Speaker 2: someone to be able to see that they can change
- 46:07Speaker 2: their story.
- 46:08Speaker 4: They absolutely can, And I feel like you gave so
- 46:10Speaker 4: many like helpful tips and tricks through this that I'm
- 46:13Speaker 4: now worried you're coming.
- 46:14Speaker 2: For my job, so be goot, watch out bed, I'm
- 46:18Speaker 2: watching my back. Thanks so much.
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