Sharna Burgess
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113 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Sharna Burgess’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's interesting. She works with us individually, both the same way. And we have our own stuff and things, but we also have our home accounts and our things that are for the both of us that we put into every month. And she puts the same in for us, or she lets us know where we're at, if things need to be adjusted because someone hasn't worked as much or whatever, life is life.
She's helped me understand taxes and money and being better at being accountable for it. Because before her, Nicole, let me tell you, when I came to Los Angeles and started earning TV money, I spent every dollar of that TV money, not understanding or not realizing that Had a bad business manager before that that didn't keep me accountable for anything, didn't help me build credit.
I was in the worst of ways before Laurie came along. And she's taught me a lot since then.
Well, you know what? It's wild. I didn't realize I was doing that because I wasn't going and buying Louis Vuitton handbags. I was spending it on convenience. I was always buying extra stuff at the airport that I didn't really need on the plane, always valeting, always this. It's all the little things that would add up.
I could have cut all of that back, bought two Louis Vuitton handbags that year and still had money left over if I had just paid attention to the way that I was spending. It was overspending on...
uh convenience and and just the abundance of things that i didn't need overspending on having more than i needed just cause or i don't know if i feel like eating that or that so i'll get both terrible but there is like mindful eating there's mindfulness in so many other aspects now i like to talk about mindful spending too because you can do it or you can online shop without even
It really goes a long way.
Yeah. And I don't know what he has personally. Well, I know Ish, but I don't look at it. Do you know what I mean? That's his business. I have my business. We're very transparent with each other. If anyone's having a month or two where it's like things are a little tighter this month or whatever, we'll be open with each other. But I'm not on top of his finances and he's not on top of mine.
We have a lorry for that, but I don't want to be either. I think for me, I have trauma with it because I watched it destroy my mom and dad. My dad had a business. My mom tried to help because she was an accountant and it just, it didn't work. The money conversations in the house were really rough. So I also have an aversion to knowing too much about what's going on with him.
I just need to know where solid or if we're on rocky ground and like where we're at, but I don't want to know. I don't want him to feel like he has to tell me. And I don't want to feel like I have to check in on it all the time. Because I feel like it's one of those things.
Once you unlock your boyfriend's phone and you start going through his stuff, you'll unlock it every week to go through his stuff. And I don't want to do that to someone's personal business. I just want transparency if you're having a hard time and let me know what you need from me to assist with that and vice versa.
Yeah.
Over finances? Over many things. They honestly weren't the greatest match in the world. They stayed together for me. And so all the things went wrong with them. And it was a pretty tumultuous household. But one of the big things was money. My dad was terrible with it. terrible with spending on convenience and some of the little habits that I'd picked up.
But he also had this idea of wanting to appear that he had more money than he did. So it was the house that we rented. It was the cars that we drove. It was all the things that he'd spend money on luxury things to appear more wealthy than he was. But the crazy thing was that I did pick up from him was he earned so much money. He just spent it all and didn't live within his means.
And so therefore he had nothing at the end of his life. And there is a whole lot of money trauma and financial trauma there. I lent him money so much as an adult. He blew it on all sorts of crazy things. Until it got to a point where I had to cut it off and say, no, I had to stop enabling him that way. So I'm always constantly aware of a fear of being like him.
Now that I've learned about money more than when I first got here, because I don't want to end up like him, you know?
Not so much the keeping up with the Joneses, but I certainly love nice things. But it would be more the convenience spending. If it makes it easier, then yeah. If it saves five minutes, then yeah. Valet all the time. Sure. I love that. It's just something that's built in me and I have to be a bit more aware of that, which I am now.
And certainly having kids puts those priorities above your convenience and comfort. I'd rather save for things for them than spend on convenience things for me. So that's also changed my spending a lot. But I will never forget the first time I sat down and got a statement of what was left in my account. And I think that year I had earned $480,000, right? That's a very decent amount of money.
And there was, after paying taxes at the end of the year, absolutely nothing left. Like we're talking less than five grand that was going to be left in my account. And I did not understand. I thought there was fraud. I thought there was something going on. Someone's taking my money, like all of this. And I got moved over to a new business manager and she took me through all my spending.
She's like, no, Shana, look, here's where it's all going. And I was floored, absolutely floored that all those little things ended up costing so much money. And that's where I made my adjustments.
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