Dr. Eliza Philby

Oh, yeah, completely.

Other parts of her family.

And I was listening to a podcast with Michelle Obama, and she was referring to the fact that when she entered the White House...

Everyone, like family, extended family, friends were like, tap, tap, help me out, help me out.

There was an expectation.

And she was like, she had to really hold firm and say, no, I'm A, not as rich as you think I am.

And B, I have to, you know, make our family supported and good before we can then extend that.

The help.

40 years later.

That's right.

It's the idea that we're all starting from the same point in the race.

We're not.

We're not.

And so the sort of pretense of that, I wanted to kind of literally lift the lid on.

Just what wealth band you are at.

Oh, definitely.

Depends what risk you can take, what mechanisms you can pull, you know, the kind of advice that you get, you know, and it is.

Right.

Well, I mean, I had that kind of scenario and I write about it in the book because, you know, being a woman, there is a sort of still this perception that, you know, your husband is the breadwinner.

And I went with my husband to go and see a financial advisor.