I Grew Up Terrified of Money. Now I'm Saving $2,000 a Week

She's On The Money · May 31, 2026 · 41m · transcript

This week's Money Diary is proof that earning more money doesn't automatically make you feel secure. Growing up, she was constantly worried about money. Not because her family was struggling, but because she'd picked up on snippets of conversations and quietly convinced herself there was never enough.

So she did what a lot of us do. She worked hard. Really hard.

She got her first job at 14, worked multiple jobs through uni, saved obsessively and thought financial security would come from earning more. But after graduating and looking closely at her spending for the first time, she realised…