She's On The Money

POV: You outearn your partner. Should you be contributing more to things like shared costs, savings and goals because your income is higher? Or is there a more equitable way to split things? This week on Friday Drinks, Victoria, Bec and Jess discuss the ins and outs of relationship finances, especially when you have different attitudes towards money. From honest communication to the heavy money st...

GP appointments, vitamins, and not to mention the added snack budget; having a baby sounds expensive. So, we asked our very own VD just how much it cost her… with receipts. This week’s Deep Dive episode unpacks the costs associated with having a baby in modern times. Victoria shares receipts and line items from weeks 4 till 40, with a trimester-by-trimester breakdown of exactly how mu...

Our diarist this week went from being a flat-broke uni student who could barely afford rent to paying off a $25,000 car loan on a graduate salary in less than a year. She built her emergency fund, started investing, got serious about her money and completely transformed her financial situation. But now there's a new problem. Every time she spends money, she feels guilty. We chat about moving away...

Happy 1,000th episode, friends! On his very special episode of She’s on the Money, we’re celebrating this huge milestone in true Friday Drinks fashion, complete with festive hats.  Join Victoria, Bec and Jess for a stroll down memory lane. We’ll be sharing mic drop moments from the She’s on the Money socials, updates from a returned Money Diarist from season one, shari...

Spoiler: Our goal-setting habits are broken. But, it’s not your fault. It’s the psychology we’re raised with. It’s Deep Dive time! And this financial new year, Victoria and Jess are here to help you get out of your own way, so you can start ticking off those EOFY resolutions nice and early. How? By revisiting the psychology behind setting and sustaining financial goals for...

This week's Money Diary starts with what should have been a straightforward hospital visit. Her husband was 32, healthy, active, and recovering from glandular fever when doctors spotted something completely unexpected on a scan. A few months later, they received the news nobody expects to hear: it was cancer. What followed was months of waiting, uncertainty and trying to keep life moving while liv...

Who among us has struggled with spending? Alright, how many of you answered ‘yes’ because you struggle to *spend* money, rather than spending it too freely? This week on Friday Drinks, Bec and Jess discuss a handful of money dilemmas from our community, including one about having a frugal money mindset that’s actively impacting your ability to spend. They also discuss whether it&...

Tax. You’ll do it “later”, right? Famous last words, my friends. This week’s Deep Dive is here to save your EOFY by giving you a laundry list of things to consider ahead of June 30.  Whether you’re employed, a side-hustler or a sole trader, Victoria and Jess have gathered their recommendations for approaching the new financial year with confidence – and the...

Growing up this week's money diarist remembers boiling water on the stove for baths because the gas had been disconnected, landlords turning up at the front door looking for unpaid rent, and feeling like she never quite fit in because everyone else seemed to have things her family couldn't afford. Determined to create a different life for herself, she worked hard, saved aggressively, finished univ...

Say it with me: equal isn’t always equitable. On Friday Drinks, Jess and Bec cover a very juicy DM concerning inheritances, where one sister has received a lifetime of financial support, while the other is fighting for what she believes is her fair share of the will. Is it considered equal for the more independent child to get a larger share in the end or is there more to it than that? This...

You’ve started your investing journey (yay!), but you’re oblivious about how your portfolio is going to be taxed during this financial year (boo!).  If this year’s budget convos about Capital Gains Tax (CGT) have you sweating, strap in for a deliciously informative Deep Dive. In this episode, Victoria and Jess discuss how shares and ETFs are taxed, explaining the difference...

  She's 25, owns her home, has paid off her HECS debt, has more than $50,000 in super, is building an investment portfolio and somehow still rated herself a B- when I asked how she felt about her money habits. Growing up in regional Victoria, she got her first job at 14 and never really slowed down. While most of us were spending our weekends hanging out with friends, she was working supermar...

Be honest. Has money ever got in the way of a friendship? Sure. It’s nice when everyone you know has the same money values as you, but it’s far more likely that your earnings, spending habits, and beliefs are just as different as your birth charts!  This week on Friday Drinks, Bec and Jess answer your pressing questions around pausing investments to pay for a wedding, fast food pr...

It’s mid-year money reset-time! The end of financial year brings all of that new money energy, without the post fireworks slump. Not only is it a time where people are already looking at their finances (or looking out for a tax return), it’s a brand new chapter for folks who want to rewrite their money story. Frankly, with all of the cost of living pressures adding up, it feels right t...

This week's Money Diary feels a little bit like proof that where you start doesn't have to determine where you end up. She grew up in a tiny village in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of communism, where family holidays weren't a thing, money was scarce, and the future often looked a lot like the past. But even as a kid, she couldn't stop wondering what was on the other side of the horizon. A...

Your bestie just asked you to be their bridesmaid, which has you wondering: will you (or your friendship) ever financially recover from this? Happy Friday Drinks to all who celebrate. In this week’s episode, Victoria and Jess cover the costs of being a bridesmaid in a distressed (but very relatable) DM. With nuptials on the menu, they also respond to a Money Dilemma which asks which money ch...

Skincare, makeup, and beauty treatments. When did they first pop up on our spending radar and why? This week’s Deep Dive gets a little… deep. Bec and Jess discuss the cost of beauty standards: who sets them, sustains them, and how we might look at the whole topic with a raised (and sometimes fluffed) eyebrow.  Because, whether you overtly subscribe to them or not, beauty standard...

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 jo...

They’re in the same role as you, have less experience and are somehow being paid more? A whopping $25k more. So, are you being underpaid or simply not asking for what you’re really worth? On this week’s Friday Drinks, we’re covering career-coded Money Dilemmas. One person asks whether it’s ever worth it to stay in a job you love, even if it means taking longer to reac...

So you can be overinsured and you can be underinsured, but can you ever just be insured enough in your super?  ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ jokes aside, we yapped about insurance with friend of the pod Phil Thompson from Skye Wealth . Join us on the Deep Dive couch as we unpack a couple of case studies to demonstrate what it might look like to be overinsured, plus how an underinsu...

A little heads up before you press play: this episode contains conversations about financial abuse and coercive control. It’s an incredibly important conversation, but please look after yourself while listening. This week’s Money Diary is raw in a way I don’t think I was fully prepared for. At 21, she fell in love with an older man and slowly built a life around him. Over time, s...

The dentist can be spenny, but necessary. So what happens when you can’t afford an appointment? And what if your treatment is kinda important or worse… urgent? This week on Friday Drinks, we discuss a Money Dilemma that questions whether we can ever really afford to miss health-related appointments when we’re in debt. We also answer a DM that’s all about diversification an...

Spoiler: ETFs aren’t that deep. So why are so many of us (okay, you) still so intimidated by them when it comes to investing? On this week’s Deep Dive, Bec and Victoria cover the acronym that’s causing a stir in our comments section.  Exchange Traded Funds or ETFs are just one of the ways that many Aussies are investing, and for good reason too. They’re a bundle of sha...

This week’s Money Diary is one of those “wait… this is actually so relatable” conversations. She’s a newly admitted lawyer who spent years living paycheck to paycheck while studying, prioritising travel over investing and genuinely having no idea what an ETF even was. Fast forward a few years and life suddenly got very expensive, very quickly. An apartment. A we...

Okay… this one still feels a bit surreal to say out loud. Right after the federal budget dropped, I sat down with Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher to ask the questions our She’s on the Money community actually wants answered. We covered a lot. We spoke about housing affordability, negative gearing, capital gains tax changes, child...