She's On The Money

If you want to wow your family with a fancy-looking Christmas feast while secretly spending way less, you need this episode. We called in our favourite bougie-on-a-budget queen, Chelsea Goodwin, to show us how to pull off a Christmas table that  looks rich, festive and fabulous, while your actual grocery bill stays unbothered. Chelsea is dropping 17 genuinely clever hacks that will shrin...

A year after being thrown head first into financial litteracy and producing over 200 episodes of  She’s On The Money, our behind the scenes queen Emma is here to share exactly how her finances and money mindset has changed. This is what happens when real life, rising costs, and a very loud financial education collide. A home that wasn’t meant to be forever suddenly holds the key t...

You’re trying to save, plan, be responsible, do the grown-up things, but underneath it you’re tired in a way that a weekend off doesn’t quite fix. If that’s you, this week we’re talking about the moments where your financial goals start clashing with your wellbeing, and how to tell when you’re pushing yourself for a dream versus pushing yourself past your limits...

Every December starts with good intentions and ends with the same sentence: how did I spend that much? Because Christmas has a way of turning even the most financially competent women into festive chaos elves… not because you’re “bad with money,” but because the whole season is engineered to hijack your brain. This week, Victoria unpacks the psychology behind Christmas ove...

If you’ve ever looked at your payslip and thought “there’s no way I can build anything on this,” this diary is the proof you need. Our Money Diarist started on eight dollars an hour at Macca’s, saved like a girl with a plan, and built a foundation that most of us don’t hit until our thirties.... and she did it before she could legally rent a car. This episo...

This special episode was created for our First Nations community members. Victoria invited Leah Bennett from the First Nations Foundation on the show to talk through the realities, pressures and systems that shape money confidence for First Nations people today. Leah shares how history, culture and community responsibilities influence financial literacy, why trust in institutions can be hard to bu...

Ever seen a crypto bro promising  this coin is going to be the next big thing and thought… okay but what if? Well this week we got a DM from someone whose partner has fallen for the hype hard. So we're taking a closer look at crypto is, what it isn’t, why it feels so convincing online, and how to tell the difference between investing and straight-up gambling. We're also answering...

You know when you’re standing in front of your overflowing wardrobe, absolutely drowning in clothes, and still somehow convincing yourself you have nothing to wear? Today’s guest knew that feeling all too well… until she decided she wasn’t buying a single new item of clothing for a whole year. Yes, Emma Edwards did the thing a lot of us love conceptually but would never ha...

Our very first Investing Diary has landed, and she is the perfect reminder that investing is absolutely for women like us. Before she ever opened an app, she genuinely believed investing was a world reserved for men on Wall Street. Then lockdown hit, the algorithm gods did their thing, and suddenly she was seeing finance content from women who actually looked and sounded like her. One rabbit hole...

If you’ve ever heard “managed portfolio” and thought… okay but what actually are they, this one’s for you. We break down what “managed” really means in practice, how they differ from your usual ETF mix, and the moments when outsourcing the mental load might make more sense than being your own fund manager. Then we get into a dilemma that had the whol...

We all want a bigger super balance… but how do you actually make that happen in real life? Part 1 in our Super Glow-Up series got your foundations sorted, but part 2 is all about small things you can do to turbocharge your growth. We’re talking simple, realistic changes that add up to massive long-term results, even when life is expensive and you’re just trying to get through th...

This is the update you’ve all been waiting for… and a year later, she’s back to tell us what really went down. Last time we spoke, the separation was still fresh. Now the divorce is almost final, and everything that happened in between is the stuff every woman should know long before she ever needs to. We’re talking expectations versus reality, the loopholes no one wa...

You’re ready to start investing… and then someone suggests borrowing money to make your portfolio grow faster. It sounds genius in theory, but is it actually a smart move? This week we’re unpacking the financial advice one community member received about doing just that, and Victoria breaks down how these loans really work, why the maths can be seductive, and the little thing ca...

Want the inside scoop on the seriously simple strategy behind Victoria and Brooke's investment portfolios? This ep is all about the framework they both use today, and Victoria used with her high-wealth clients when she was a financial advisor. They're breaking down exactly how to structure a portfolio that quietly builds wealth without the 3am panic checks, how to balance steady growth with the sp...

Have you ever wanted to see what would happen if you actually sat down and did that budget? This week’s Money Diarist actually did it and everything changed. After hitting rock bottom, the stress of trying to keep up finally broke her. One “yes” to a holiday with her partner she couldn’t afford turned into tears in the car and the realisation that something had to give. So...

\What’s actually better for future you... adding more to your super, or growing that house deposit? This week we’re unpacking one of the biggest money dilemmas of adulthood and how to think about both goals without feeling like you’re failing at either. Turns out you don’t have to choose and there’s a smarter way to grow future-you’s money while still getting cl...

You know that dream of starting something on your own... but the money part feels impossible? Sammy Robinson did it anyway. At 22, she took the savings most of us would use for a house deposit and built One Mile, the self-funded fashion label that’s become everyone’s quiet-luxury obsession (and yes, even Kendall Jenner’s worn it). In this episode, Victoria finds out how Samm...

You know that feeling when you start earning your own money and suddenly everything feels possible... the festivals, the flights, the “let’s just go out”? This week’s Money Diarist lived that era hard. Working double shifts, saying yes to everything, and promising herself she’d deal with the debt later. Then later came… with a $10K maxed-out credit card, a...

You’re smashing your financial goals, debt’s going down, confidence’s going up, and then that little voice pipes up: “Should I be investing too?” This week, we’re unpacking the guilt trip of the financially responsible. Can you actually build wealth while you still owe money? Victoria’s breaking down the maths and the mindset, and proving that sometimes th...

If you’ve ever looked at house prices and thought, “I guess I’ll just marry rich or manifest an inheritance” this ep is for you! Victoria and Jess are here to prove you  can buy property without a trust fund, a partner, or a miracle. They’re breaking down the actually doable ways to get into the market... from decoding your borrowing power and super hacks to the...

They say you end up with someone like your dad... and for this week’s diarist, that was the problem. Her dad was reckless with money, and years later, she married someone just like him. While she worked and saved, he spent, quit jobs on a whim, and left her holding the financial bag. At 30, she’d had enough. She packed two suitcases, took her last $12K, and started again. . Now buildin...

Ever had a job so toxic it makes your morning coffee taste like dread? This week, a community member wrote in ready to walk...  60-hour weeks, zero recognition, and a boss who extended her probation “just because.” She’s got a mortgage, $20K in savings, and one big question: is it smart or reckless to quit with nothing lined up? It’s a debate every burnt-out queen need...

You scrimp, save, and finally book your dream trip… only to spend it fighting for a pool lounger, paying peak rates for accom, and cropping 100 tourists out of your sunset pics. Well, on our recent trip to the NT, we realised we’ve been doing travel wrong. And because we don’t gatekeep at SOTM, this ep is all about our new fave travel hack. One that's completely changed how...

Ever done something just because it’s what you’re supposed to do? Well, this week's diarist did the opposite. While everyone else was drowning in student debt and instant noodles, she was saving, flying, and somehow adulting better than all of us. She bought a house in her early twenties, lived overseas for years, and came home with more life experience than any degree could buy. Spoil...

We all want to be the parent who “sets the kids up,” right? But between savings accounts, offsets, and “future nest egg” fantasies it's hard to know what to do . So this week we’re breaking down how to actually make your money work harder (for you and your mini-me). Then things get spicy with a DM that split the community: she’s saved $150K, he’s got...