I Grew Up Terrified of Money. Now I'm Saving $2,000 a Week
5/31/202642 min
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 job at 14, worked multiple jobs through uni, saved obsessively and thought financial security would come from earning more. But after graduating and looking closely at her spending for the first time, she realised something surprising: the problem wasn't how much she earned. It was how little attention she was paying to where it was going.
Fast forward to today and she's investing in ETFs, saving around $2,000 a week, planning to buy her first property, and building wealth with far more confidence than she ever thought possible. This conversation is about scarcity mindset, the stories we inherit about money, and what happens when you finally stop being scared of it.
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First 90 secondsNatasha Bamblett· Soundbite0:00
My name's Natasha Bamblett. I'm a proud First Nations woman, and I'm here to acknowledge country. Tiikali yunganya, ngaya nakaka yawa yambina waka. Ngaya nakayi nambini yakarim ja, duminya gumika dummika itho waka nitu wamin damin emalan. Mumu bangara buma ene nyalan waka, gana yakarim ja, wutu narana. Hello, beautiful friends. We gather on the lands of the Aboriginal people. We thank, acknowledge, and respect the Aboriginal people's land that we're gathering on today. Take pleasure in all the land, and respect all that you see. She's On The Money podcast acknowledges culture, country, community, and connections, bringing you the tools, knowledge, and resources for you to thrive.
Victoria Devine· Host0:44
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Natasha Bamblett· Soundbite0:46
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Victoria Devine· Host0:47
[laughs] [laughs] [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to She's On The Money, the podcast that lets you be pervy about other people's money stories, for educational purposes, of course. Welcome back to another one of our Money Diaries, brought to you by our friends at Sky Wealth, where I get the absolute privilege of sitting down with one of our incredible She's On The Money community members and talking to them all about their journey. Let's jump straight into it because this week I got a message, and it sounded exactly like this: "Hey, V and team. I spent most of my childhood and adolescence fearful of money and in a scarcity mindset. I started working immediately after I turned 14, and I saved as hard as I