Dr. Eliza Philby

We were told to go by my in-laws.

Yeah.

because we need to sort out our money.

I was six months pregnant.

And you know, immediately as I walked through that door, the two financial advisors went to shake my husband's hand and kind of just sort of looked at my bump and went, when are you due?

Is that kind of like, that's what you do.

That's what you do.

And I kept the meeting was just like literally none of it directed at me.

It was like I didn't exist.

And we came out of that interview and I said to my husband, I was like, we are not going with them.

Like, even if we need a financial advisor, like I do not want to ever encounter those men again.

And I was like reflecting on why.

And A, they had not obviously credited me as someone that was capable of earning or out-earning.

Or even being part of the decisions.

Understanding financial advice and being, thank you, being part of the decisions.

I do the weekly household budget, but I'm not making the investment, the big investment decisions.

And it's like, that's so short-sighted because now...

You know, you are seeing what I'm calling the great gender wealth transfer, because we talk about the money going from the parents to the kids.

Well, quite often it doesn't go from the parents to the kids.

It goes from the patriarch to the matriarch.