I was embarrassed. Ashamed, actually.
At 18 I walked out of a bank with two credit cards and a hefty overdraft. Nobody checked if I knew what I was doing. I certainly did not.
What followed were years of debt, stress, and shame I never spoke about. I walked 90 minutes each way to university three times a week just to save the bus fare. Eventually the weight of it broke me. I had to quit.
For years after that I worked my absolute hardest. I was praised, I was told I was valuable, I made my bosses look good. And I never got a pay rise.
Then in 2004, sitting on a beach in Turkey, I said out loud: something has to change. My phone rang.
Two weeks later I sat down in the hardest interview of my career. When it was over I walked home not knowing how it had gone.
My phone rang as I reached my door. I had the job. Then she went through the offer. At speed. And I said yes before I had even fully processed the number.
My circumstances had not changed. The market had not suddenly decided I was worth more. What changed was what I believed I deserved.
The ceiling was never out there. It was in here.
And that is why I built this course. Mindful Money for Women combines practical money skills with ECT, NLP and hypnosis, so the inner work and the outer work happen together. These are the same tools I use with my private coaching clients.