Mel Browne

So I don't want her putting her limiting beliefs on what I think I'm capable of.

So I'll ask her curious questions.

I'll share things with her that might be interesting, but I absolutely have strong boundaries around what I'll share as far as what I'm doing.

And that's where sometimes we feel that we need to be able to talk eventually with this to people.

You know, we're excited about it.

We want to talk to everyone about it.

But it's not necessarily something you should do if they're going to be putting their limiting beliefs on you.

That might be someone that you go, right, that's a boundary around that one and this is what I'm prepared to talk to you about.

Yeah, so the Relationships Australia, money is the number one thing we fight about and the average is we fight about it twice a month.

So if that's going on in your household, you're not going to want to talk about money with your partner because you want it to be pleasant.

So and that's why for me, when you said, how would you bring it up?

For me, it's always about curiosity and not judgment in a way that's positive rather than negative, because otherwise the presumption is going to be great.

You're just going to hassle me.

And also and this is something for heterosexual couples.

The media talks to men and to money about men and women differently.

So, Starling Bank research showed that 90% of articles directed at men is all about having, you know, it's using fear as techniques about with money and money makes you more of a man.

You know, those awful messages.

Whereas with women, more than two-thirds of articles are that we're overspenders and that we need to cut back.

So what message are we taking?

We're saying that you need to have more money and you need to stop spending it.