Speaker 1: Just before we get started, we'd like to acknowledge and
Speaker 1: pay respect to Australia's Aboriginal and torrest Rate islander peoples.
Speaker 1: They're the traditional custodians of the lands, the waterways and
Speaker 1: the skies all across Australia. We thank you for sharing
Speaker 1: and for caring for the land on which we are
Speaker 1: able to learn. We pay respects to elders past and present,
Speaker 1: and we share our friendship and our kindness.
Speaker 2: She's on the Money.
Speaker 3: She's on the Money, Hello, and welcome to She's on
Speaker 3: the Money, the podcast for millennials who want financial freedom.
Speaker 1: And what a huge week it has been, my friends.
Speaker 1: We are still feeling a love and we are absolutely
Speaker 1: reeling from our very first She's on the many International
Speaker 1: Women's Day events, which, as you guys might already know,
Speaker 1: we held in both Melbourne and in Sydney and the
Speaker 1: whole team was there, which is very, very exciting. It
Speaker 1: was something that we have wanted to do for so
Speaker 1: so very long, and unfortunately, due to our friend COVID,
Speaker 1: we haven't been able to do until now. And of course, guys,
Speaker 1: with so much happening in the world and in Australia
Speaker 1: right now, we are so genuinely grateful for everybody who
Speaker 1: was able to come and spend some time with us
Speaker 1: and the team in person. Jess and Elsa, you guys
Speaker 1: were both there and for those of you listening, you
Speaker 1: might know Jess, Hi, Jess, hello, but you probably haven't
Speaker 1: met Annalisa before, but if you have, it was because
Speaker 1: she came to our She's on the Money events in
Speaker 1: both Melbourne and Sydney, Because Annalisa, who are you?
Speaker 2: Oh hello, ladies, I am your brand new producer.
Speaker 1: Oh how shiny, how fresh sh you?
Speaker 2: Longtime listener, first time voice on She's on the money,
Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled to be here and even more surrilled
Speaker 2: to be at those incredible events last week. I'm still
Speaker 2: kind of rolling around and reeling in how incredible the
Speaker 2: community was and how great the vibers.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. When I say I'm obsessed with the community,
Speaker 1: you can see why now, though, can't you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we know that.
Speaker 4: The community is really spread across the country and even
Speaker 4: the world, which is super cool and exciting, but in
Speaker 4: person events aren't accessible for every single person. We got
Speaker 4: lots of dms from people saying, come to Brisbane, come
Speaker 4: to Tasmania. We hope to, We would love to, but
Speaker 4: we are a small business and turns out events are
Speaker 4: very expensive, so we're working our way up to those.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, who would have known that they were
Speaker 1: as expensive as they are, Like, guys, I can't even
Speaker 1: like I did not realize how expensive they were. So
Speaker 1: to everyone who purchased a ticket, I am so eternally
Speaker 1: grateful that you put your value in coming and seeing
Speaker 1: us and hanging out with us, because it meant a lot.
Speaker 1: But over time, hopefully, Jess and Elisa, the plan is
Speaker 1: to get more sponsors on board so we can make
Speaker 1: ticket prices even more affordable and much more accessible. But
Speaker 1: as the first off event, I think we did pretty
Speaker 1: damn well.
Speaker 4: Guys, I agree, And for anyone who couldn't make it,
Speaker 4: which we totally understand with so many things going on
Speaker 4: right now, we wanted to bring you a little piece
Speaker 4: of the event. So today's episode is going to be
Speaker 4: a special Friday Drinks where we can't necessarily bring everyone
Speaker 4: like our speakers we had Manel al Shreve, Tracy Spicer,
Speaker 4: Maria Fattill, and Ashley Strata Jones, and we can't necessarily
Speaker 4: bring the goodie bags or the food or are incredible
Speaker 4: speakers who did the acknowledgement of country. We had Victoria,
Speaker 4: your friend Natasha who is queen acknowledgments, and we also
Speaker 4: had Auntie Anne Walden, who were both phenomenal. But what
Speaker 4: we can bring you is the community, which is arguably
Speaker 4: one of the best bits. Getting to meet you, getting
Speaker 4: to talk to you, listen to your stories, watch you
Speaker 4: make friendships, and make friends with you ourselves was just
Speaker 4: such a privilege. And Lisa was scooting around with her
Speaker 4: little microphone getting some voices, getting some stories, and that's
Speaker 4: what we're going to be sharing with you today. V
Speaker 4: and I have not heard this yet. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: I'm not impressed because I've wanted to all week listen
Speaker 1: to this, but I haven't because I've waited till here.
Speaker 1: I knew it was on the share drive, so I
Speaker 1: just didn't go find it, and I feel like that
Speaker 1: took a lot of self restraint.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you right now, and I'll still in
Speaker 2: my defense. So Victoria, you cried enough on both days,
Speaker 2: so I really didn't want to crying for the rest
Speaker 2: of the week. That the community is so important to
Speaker 2: the show, and with everything that everyone's been through. How
Speaker 2: wonderful to get some voices on this show who are
Speaker 2: so dedicated and who the program means.
Speaker 5: So much to you.
Speaker 2: So let's have a listen. Are we ready? I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: I'm not already. I'm already thinking about it. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go, let's play it.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I'm so nervous. I
Speaker 4: think like I just I so desperately want everyone to
Speaker 4: have the best time. I'm just thinking, oh, is everyone happy?
Speaker 4: Do they have what they need? Can they find their seats?
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: How you going be good?
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 6: I'm so love It.
Speaker 7: Had been international Homesday. I'm really excited to be here,
Speaker 7: so so exciting, feeling thrilled to be here, so exciting.
Speaker 7: It's feminist Christmas exactly. I am here for the amazing
Speaker 7: ladies around here, to be inspired by ladies, but also
Speaker 7: because of the lovely Victoria, who's an absolute rock star.
Speaker 7: So I'm excited.
Speaker 6: It's just so nice to be around so many like
Speaker 6: minded women.
Speaker 2: It's just really empowering, and especially we are surrounded by
Speaker 2: so many incredible way women and men and just everyone
Speaker 2: in general is just amazing.
Speaker 7: Lots of fune office or empowered and refreshed, and I'll
Speaker 7: be stepping out here feeling more confident and ready to
Speaker 7: achieve more big things.
Speaker 5: Well, it's very exciting. I was actually very surprised when
Speaker 5: we walked out on the deck here to see so
Speaker 5: many people this time in the morning, looking very smart
Speaker 5: and very energized. I work in the financial planning industry myself,
Speaker 5: and I think traditionally, far too many women have for
Speaker 5: allied on men to take care of the finances, and
Speaker 5: I think it's the single most important thing a woman
Speaker 5: can do to empower herself.
Speaker 8: My name is Natasha Nabananga Bamblet, and I'm known as
Speaker 8: Queen Acknowledgments today felt like a world class presentation from
Speaker 8: real life experience, from women who have walked in the
Speaker 8: footsteps of those that are living in breaking the bias,
Speaker 8: and to have them speak from their heart and their
Speaker 8: own experience. That's what leadership is. It's leadership by living
Speaker 8: that life. And it really spoke to me my heart,
Speaker 8: and I felt the room of women moved with me.
Speaker 8: I acknowledge the country and hearing and seeing it. It's
Speaker 8: about feeling it, embracing it, embodying it, and for me,
Speaker 8: the invitation to have somebody to feel what acknowledging the
Speaker 8: country is like, It's a gift. It's a gift that
Speaker 8: I get to share as a First Nations woman on
Speaker 8: this land, in this country, knowing that I've come from
Speaker 8: women and their sacrifices of my ancestors and line of
Speaker 8: women before me. You know, my grandmother was a part
Speaker 8: of the Solen generation and she did anything she could
Speaker 8: to survive than my parents were, you know, striving for
Speaker 8: the next best thing, better future for their children. And
Speaker 8: I get to live in a world that I now
Speaker 8: get to thrive because of how people are continuing to
Speaker 8: acknowledge and share and embrace the culture here and the
Speaker 8: country and what it gives, what it offers us.
Speaker 9: I'm here rewarding myself because I just finished paying a
Speaker 9: seven year debt agreement. I finished it two years early
Speaker 9: by starting to listen to the podcast and I started
Speaker 9: doing Ubert's deliveries during lockdowns, and yeah, Victoria's just totally
Speaker 9: changed the way I think of money. And now I
Speaker 9: am debt free and I just made Victoria divine and cry,
Speaker 9: which is beautiful. We all came here by ourselves and
Speaker 9: we just started chatting.
Speaker 10: We actually just met today and we've just been like
Speaker 10: sharing stories and love like how we found the podcast
Speaker 10: and like our live stories and stuff.
Speaker 2: I love listening to it.
Speaker 3: It's probably their only podcast that I listened to religiously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, she got me into the podcast as well.
Speaker 4: Seeing Victorian real life is already pretty.
Speaker 6: Crazy, little fang girling a little just hearing us week
Speaker 6: and yeah, everything she says is like so good and
Speaker 6: so empowering.
Speaker 5: I think that it just.
Speaker 8: Opens up a lot of us who may not particularly
Speaker 8: know some of these topics and just educates us in
Speaker 8: a nice and simple way.
Speaker 6: Just listening to the podcast each week and hearing stories,
Speaker 6: but then the deep dive on things and being able
Speaker 6: to understand so much more and be financially literate.
Speaker 11: Two years ago, I you know, I had a lot
Speaker 11: of bad debt and I know the difference now between
Speaker 11: bad debt and good debt, and it was really overwhelming
Speaker 11: and it was kind of like like how do I
Speaker 11: get myself out of this?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 11: And little by little there were little things that they
Speaker 11: gave me, like, you know, automating savings and you know,
Speaker 11: money month set and all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 11: You don't know what you're going to use until you
Speaker 11: take all the knowledge in. So yeah, it's really helped
Speaker 11: me a lot.
Speaker 10: I really love the Money Diaries. With the friendship group
Speaker 10: that I have, Like, there's very few conversations around finance
Speaker 10: and pay and whatnot, so I think just being able
Speaker 10: to like listen to people's experiences, it feels like I
Speaker 10: can have those conversations with friends and have that kind
Speaker 10: of community. Being able to hear conversations of those different
Speaker 10: experiences has just been really enlightening. And being able to
Speaker 10: like expand by world.
Speaker 2: Has been really nice.
Speaker 6: It's really nice to just have that diversity of stories
Speaker 6: that you hear on the podcast and it yeah, it
Speaker 6: just kind of helps you not feel alone and it
Speaker 6: helps you feel supported, and yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: You just learn different ways of doing things. I have
Speaker 1: more confidence around issues like bringing up finances.
Speaker 9: With your part and your family.
Speaker 12: The tone of the show really spoke to me.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of money podcasts out there that are
Speaker 6: a bit more white men in suits. I think for me,
Speaker 6: my money story was a little bit complicated. So it's
Speaker 6: given me a lot of financial guidance and a lot
Speaker 6: of the help that I've needed to kind of get
Speaker 6: my budget on track and become more savvy when it
Speaker 6: comes to money. I've started investing, which is really exciting.
Speaker 6: It's just kind of changed my life in a really
Speaker 6: corny sounding way.
Speaker 12: Victoria makes these really kind of complicated or kind of scary,
Speaker 12: and I'm doing that in inverted commerce concepts way more
Speaker 12: accessible for women. And she doesn't obviously like talk down
Speaker 12: to anyone. It's all on our level, that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: I think there's just an authenticity there. I feel it's
Speaker 7: very inapproachable kind of community. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 7: of communities out there, but then there's just this feeling
Speaker 7: and I think a lot of that has to do
Speaker 7: with the people behind it, whether it's Victoria or her team.
Speaker 7: They just exue this energy which is just so warm
Speaker 7: and in fighting, and for me, that's just who Victoria is.
Speaker 7: I love you, guys, I love.
Speaker 8: Your Victoria girl.
Speaker 7: She's on the money's on the money.
Speaker 3: She's on the money.
Speaker 1: She's on the money.
Speaker 7: She's on the money.
Speaker 12: She's on the money.
Speaker 7: She's on the money.
Speaker 5: She's on the money.
Speaker 7: She's on the money. She's on the money.
Speaker 11: What good is that?
Speaker 1: I can't all right, alright, a.
Speaker 4: Right, it's so fungy if people say those things, because
Speaker 4: I think one of the harder aspects of these events
Speaker 4: is we're so blessed to have hundreds of incredible people there.
Speaker 4: But it makes you really conscious of time, and it's
Speaker 4: so hard because you just want to sit down and
Speaker 4: spend an hour talking to every single person. But we
Speaker 4: just didn't have that luxury, or we would have been
Speaker 4: kicked out of the hotel and never let back in.
Speaker 4: So being able to hear people talk a little bit
Speaker 4: more about their why and their how, and it also
Speaker 4: can feel very self absorbed, like I wouldn't know how
Speaker 4: to turn around to someone and say, so, how have
Speaker 4: we changed your life? Or how have we impacted like that?
Speaker 1: Just that sounds so strange someone, Like even hearing people
Speaker 1: talk about it, it's just overwhelming. Like I feel like
Speaker 1: it's not often that Victoria Devine doesn't have words, but
Speaker 1: now it is one of those times.
Speaker 4: One thousand percent, and it's just so touching. I think,
Speaker 4: to hear people say those kind things about you and
Speaker 4: about me and about the podcast, it just you get
Speaker 4: bogged down in the bad and to hear people say
Speaker 4: I've pulled through this, I've worked really hard and you
Speaker 4: were able to be a part of that. Like, how
Speaker 4: many jobs in the world are there where you can
Speaker 4: genuinely say that you had that kind of impact on people.
Speaker 4: Not that many, I would guess.
Speaker 1: No, and not that many that are that vocal. Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's incredibly special to be in this
Speaker 1: position where we've done that. But I guess the thing
Speaker 1: that I think about is when I was thinking of
Speaker 1: starting this podcast, I was so close to not doing
Speaker 1: it because I was so afraid of what people might
Speaker 1: think or say, or you know, they might not think
Speaker 1: it was a good piece of content. And I am
Speaker 1: just like everybody else, Like I am a real person
Speaker 1: who has real feelings and you know, just wants to
Speaker 1: do the best that they can. So it's very challenging
Speaker 1: when you're like, do I put myself out there and
Speaker 1: do this or not. Like, podcasting was arguably very new
Speaker 1: in Australia when I had started. It's not like I
Speaker 1: broke into the industry. It definitely existed, but it definitely
Speaker 1: didn't need exist in the commercial way that it does today.
Speaker 1: So when I started it, it was very much let's do
Speaker 1: this little podcast. Because the Facebook group I have, which
Speaker 1: at the time it's still burnt into my mind, had
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred people in it, and I thought that I
Speaker 1: could have a small impact on them, like that's what
Speaker 1: the podcast started for. And now two.
Speaker 4: Hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1: I can't talk about it. It's crazy, Like it's ah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's actually crazy to think that from doing
Speaker 1: a Facebook group where if you're one of my family
Speaker 1: or friends, you would know that I used to pester
Speaker 1: you to comment on the posts because no one would
Speaker 1: communicate with me. And I just really wanted it to
Speaker 1: look like people were communicating and being open because in
Speaker 1: my mind, that was going to be the start of
Speaker 1: other people communicating and being open.
Speaker 3: Ahah.
Speaker 1: Why you doiced to me? Because to me, that was
Speaker 1: kind of like the start of other people being open
Speaker 1: to being able to communicate, right, Like I saw other
Speaker 1: people commenting, even if it was my friends or my family,
Speaker 1: and you guys didn't know that that that might have
Speaker 1: given you permission to share your story and known that
Speaker 1: it was a safe place, which it absolutely was and
Speaker 1: always has been. But for me, it didn't just start
Speaker 1: and you know, become this big thing. It became this
Speaker 1: thing that I had to put so much time, energy
Speaker 1: and effort into and so many days I'd be like,
Speaker 1: is this worth it to finally have people turn around
Speaker 1: and say that their entire lives are changed, Like.
Speaker 2: What, maybe I'll just give you guys a little bit
Speaker 2: of space to feel the feelings too. And I just
Speaker 2: want to say, as someone who was there on the
Speaker 2: day and talking to these incredible women and people. I mean,
Speaker 2: the speakers are incredible, the food was incredible, the goodie
Speaker 2: bags are incredible. But I loved seeing people meeting each
Speaker 2: other for the first time. They came to the event
Speaker 2: on their own, and they forged some friendships and they
Speaker 2: literally there were so many people that I went up
Speaker 2: to who'd never spoken before, and I could hear them
Speaker 2: sharing stories about different tips that they got off the show,
Speaker 2: or figuring out their money stories, or feeling okay about
Speaker 2: broaching certain topics with partners or friends, or even starting
Speaker 2: a trend in their friendship groups to talk about this stuff.
Speaker 2: And that was so exciting.
Speaker 1: So that was one of my favorite things. Like, honestly,
Speaker 1: this sounds so wanky, but like Jess and I at
Speaker 1: the Sydney event were up the front and people were
Speaker 1: just coming up to us and were having chats with them,
Speaker 1: and like groups of girls would come up and Jess
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, oh my gosh, hi, where have
Speaker 1: you guys come from? And they're like, oh, we all
Speaker 1: came from different places. We'd be like, oh, did you
Speaker 1: like catch the train together, and they're like, no, we
Speaker 1: met today. And it was crazy to think that we
Speaker 1: just made this grand assumption that, you know, if a
Speaker 1: group of three girls came up to us, they were
Speaker 1: actually already friends, when in reality that actually all come
Speaker 1: alone and found each other. And I, as somebody who
Speaker 1: loves a good networking event, I've never been to a
Speaker 1: networking event and made a friend and been like, oh,
Speaker 1: hey and a Lisa, I would love to, you know,
Speaker 1: hang out with you. Let's go see the speaker that
Speaker 1: we want to talk to. Like that's not a thing.
Speaker 1: So for me to see these people coming together and
Speaker 1: making friends and connecting and you know, swapping numbers, and
Speaker 1: then later seeing them post on social media that they'd
Speaker 1: either gone out for a coffee after or they'd added
Speaker 1: each other on social media or tagging each other, I
Speaker 1: was like, what, Like, you guys all little pals now,
Speaker 1: Like it just made my heart so full knowing that
Speaker 1: we all have these shared values, and I think having
Speaker 1: so many people in one room with so many shared
Speaker 1: values meant it was very easy to make friends and
Speaker 1: just such a cool thing because Jess and I were
Speaker 1: talking before the event and Roche, who is our events
Speaker 1: coordinator and the person who you know, made all of
Speaker 1: this come to life for us, and as an absolute legend,
Speaker 1: she actually was talking to us about like do we
Speaker 1: do little singles tags or something so that if someone
Speaker 1: is there on their own, other people know to embrace them,
Speaker 1: Like we didn't even need that, they were just doing
Speaker 1: it themselves. And you know, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: times where I even saw I think I scared a
Speaker 1: couple of people and I didn't mean to, but I
Speaker 1: saw people standing on their own and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, did you come on your own? And
Speaker 1: They're like what, why are you here? And I'd be like,
Speaker 1: because that going to be a friend, Like I'm here
Speaker 1: to know you. Like I genuinely felt like I was
Speaker 1: in a room full of people who were my friends
Speaker 1: that I just hadn't met yet, Like they were people
Speaker 1: that were my people, even if I didn't know your
Speaker 1: name yet, because I felt like you knew me in
Speaker 1: a way, and that's it's a very strange feeling. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you that right now.
Speaker 2: The tape of both of you at the start, I
Speaker 2: think is gorgeous. But yes, you were like very much
Speaker 2: hovering around like a little hummingbird, like trying to make
Speaker 2: sure everything was running smoothly, and you sound really nervous
Speaker 2: about wanting to make sure everyone has the best time.
Speaker 2: How was it for you?
Speaker 4: It was really like I had so much fun, but
Speaker 4: I did. I felt so much not anxiety, but I
Speaker 4: just so desperately wanted everyone to have the best time ever.
Speaker 4: I was really conscious that it's a big ask to
Speaker 4: have people turn up at the venue at you know,
Speaker 4: seven o'clock, So most people are getting up at like
Speaker 4: five thirty six o'clock on a cold morning to come
Speaker 4: see us, And people just have invested so much to
Speaker 4: come and see us, and I think that it might
Speaker 4: be easy to forget that we were as excited to
Speaker 4: this as everybody else. I don't think I slept for
Speaker 4: it like the entire week, because I was just so
Speaker 4: nervous and excited and I wanted everyone to be happy
Speaker 4: and have it be everything that everyone had hoped for.
Speaker 4: And I mean I really felt that I felt so
Speaker 4: much love. I saw so many people connecting and meeting
Speaker 4: and having an incredible time. But yeah, I think I
Speaker 4: definitely was hovering around a little bit, trying to make
Speaker 4: sure that if anyone needed anything. At one point, the
Speaker 4: water dispenser run out and I was just standing there
Speaker 4: like a waiter directing people spener there was water and
Speaker 4: it run out. It was all ice, and I was
Speaker 4: just like, oh my god, they can't get their water,
Speaker 4: and so standing because like people would come and they'd
Speaker 4: just be like, oh, like I have no water.
Speaker 7: That's not happy, No, no, no.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 3: Just like someone's coming.
Speaker 1: Nobody panic, losing your mind. You're like that in the office.
Speaker 2: This is basically a personality test, and I think just
Speaker 2: is the one who's great in a crisis.
Speaker 1: I'm like, now was water, like we had access to water, and.
Speaker 4: Then the people were so nice, And I just think
Speaker 4: I wish I had the confidence that these people, these
Speaker 4: women had, because I in my earlier years and even now,
Speaker 4: I don't know that I could stand in a room
Speaker 4: of people I don't know and just be like, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm Jess. How's it going. And so many people came
Speaker 4: up to me and said, hey, like I know who
Speaker 4: you are. I just wanted to say thank you. I
Speaker 4: just wanted to talk to you. And I cried, as
Speaker 4: you know, Victoria cried a lot. But it made my
Speaker 4: day and I truly was just like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: These people are the people that are going to create change.
Speaker 4: They're the people that are going to change their lives.
Speaker 4: They're going to change the lives of other people, They're
Speaker 4: going to educate the next generation. Like there's just I
Speaker 4: felt a lot of power in that room, and not
Speaker 4: because it was people who work in high paying jobs
Speaker 4: or people hold positions of you know, political report or whatever.
Speaker 4: It was genuinely just these people want to see and
Speaker 4: make change, and they have made change, and there is
Speaker 4: just so much value in that. And it really took
Speaker 4: the breath out of me. I think like we sat
Speaker 4: down right before we kicked the event off and did
Speaker 4: our acknowledgment, and I just was like, oh, because I
Speaker 4: could just feel it, you know, you could feel it
Speaker 4: in the air. And I don't know how to describe that,
Speaker 4: and I don't think we could ever capture that in audio.
Speaker 2: Wall video.
Speaker 4: But just this, this sensation that I felt like in
Speaker 4: my soul was incredible.
Speaker 1: You're literally the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my
Speaker 1: entire life. Just cut Like, oh, it makes my heart
Speaker 1: so full, Like it literally makes my heart so full
Speaker 1: knowing that we, like, as a team, care so much
Speaker 1: about the community that we've created. And I can't tell you,
Speaker 1: as the person who created She's on the money, how
Speaker 1: much it means to have my team buy into that.
Speaker 1: Like it could just be a job for you guys,
Speaker 1: it could just be something that you go, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I work nine to five cheese on the money and
Speaker 1: I just do my job, and like I'm the head
Speaker 1: of partnerships, Like that could just be your job.
Speaker 2: But it's not.
Speaker 1: It's like everything that you breathe and it's everything that
Speaker 1: you love and you're so supportive of that. But it's
Speaker 1: like the mission that I'm on and the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, it's not just the community that believe in that,
Speaker 1: it's the team that we've hired and literally paid to
Speaker 1: love it. Like you can't pay people to love their jobs,
Speaker 1: like you can pay them to turn up, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: But the care that the team has and like the
Speaker 1: fact that you were there, and Georgia was there, and
Speaker 1: we had Anna Lisa, and we also had Roche there,
Speaker 1: like the entire team were it, my family were there.
Speaker 1: That was so special to me. Like being able to
Speaker 1: share this is so bad, I like this, but being
Speaker 1: able to share I guess what I've created with my
Speaker 1: mom was just so special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never seen a prouder mummy. We just see
Speaker 4: it written all over her face. I think as well
Speaker 4: for parents, you know, it's hard because they don't really
Speaker 4: comprehend I think the social media era and what that encompasses,
Speaker 4: and I think, you know, I've met your mom and
Speaker 4: bloody love you, Judy, but it's hard for someone who
Speaker 4: isn't as involved in that space to understand it. And
Speaker 4: I think to see her, I saw her walk in
Speaker 4: and stand in a and just kind of take in
Speaker 4: the hundreds upon hundreds of people and chairs, like I
Speaker 4: could see it in her face. She was so proud
Speaker 4: of you, and I think so, you know, not surprised,
Speaker 4: but just to really be able to tangibly see that
Speaker 4: impact and see that these people were so excited to
Speaker 4: be there. I think it meant a lot to her
Speaker 4: as well as a mother.
Speaker 2: Oh, parents are so like that too. And this is
Speaker 2: me not being ages, but like, the tangible nature of
Speaker 2: the stuff that we do is really it's visible, and
Speaker 2: it's meaningful, as like it was incredibly meaningful for everyone
Speaker 2: that was there, and as it was for both of you.
Speaker 1: All Right, guys, I'm adoring this, But let's go to
Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll dive straight back in.
Speaker 2: Were there any money stories or particular anecdotes that you
Speaker 2: guys got told that you took away.
Speaker 1: I can't share them with you. I'll just be a
Speaker 1: blubbering mess. This is already a podcast of how many
Speaker 1: times can you make Victoria cry? So it honestly was
Speaker 1: mind blowing. It wasn't just mind blowing that they'd done it.
Speaker 1: It was mind blowing that they'd taken the time out
Speaker 1: of their day to come and share that with us
Speaker 1: and share the fact that she's on the money was
Speaker 1: a part of that journey for them, because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they don't owe us that, Like
Speaker 1: they didn't need to come and tell me that they
Speaker 1: could have gotten out of debt and been like great,
Speaker 1: like that's behind me. I don't have to do that anymore.
Speaker 1: But They're really embracing how much that was part of
Speaker 1: their money story and wanted to give back to the
Speaker 1: rest of the community to say, well, if I did it,
Speaker 1: you can do it. I didn't know I could do it,
Speaker 1: but you can. You absolutely can. And the amount of
Speaker 1: conversations like that was one of my favorite parts of
Speaker 1: the event was just that we had allocated so much
Speaker 1: time on either side of our speakers to be present
Speaker 1: with the community and walk around and see what you
Speaker 1: guys were up to and what you were talking about,
Speaker 1: and that you were enjoying your late I think going
Speaker 1: up to people and realizing that they're only just met
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, Oh, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Are you having fun?
Speaker 1: And one girl to me was like, oh, I was
Speaker 1: actually just sharing that I got out of debt and
Speaker 1: I know that she can too. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what was your name? And She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: what was your name? Like she couldn't even remember her name,
Speaker 1: but like she was telling this girl that she just
Speaker 1: had so much power and she could do it. And
Speaker 1: I was just like, who are you guys? I love
Speaker 1: you like you are my soul. People like it makes
Speaker 1: me so happy, And also just shocks me. I suppose
Speaker 1: in a world that can be so dark sometimes that
Speaker 1: the only thing in this room was sunshine and brightness
Speaker 1: and people genuinely wanting the best for each other. Like
Speaker 1: how often do you walk into a room of people
Speaker 1: who genuinely just go, I don't know you, but I
Speaker 1: want you to thrive? Like what And Jess, You're right.
Speaker 1: You could feel that energy like they all just wanted
Speaker 1: to be there. They wanted to talk to the speakers,
Speaker 1: they wanted to mingle and chat, and they wanted to
Speaker 1: have a good oat latte. But they also just wanted
Speaker 1: everybody in that room to rise up. And like we
Speaker 1: say it on the podcast all the time, like there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as one succeeding, it's all of us
Speaker 1: succeed Like and the success of one person in our
Speaker 1: community is just a testament to the fact that everybody
Speaker 1: can do that. And we say all the time, and
Speaker 1: I sound like a broken record once again, that rising
Speaker 1: tide lifts all ships. And you could just feel that
Speaker 1: tied like you could genuinely just feel it, like it
Speaker 1: was almost as though you could grab it. It was
Speaker 1: very very surreal. But that's probably very biased coming from
Speaker 1: someone who literally is the podcast co host and was
Speaker 1: obsessed with every single person in the room.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, I really hope that the vibe of those days,
Speaker 2: if you couldn't make it out, is coming across in
Speaker 2: this show. This is definitely intended to be a little
Speaker 2: Friday Hurrah, little Friday drinks cheers to the amazing community.
Speaker 2: And that's everyone out there who listens to the show
Speaker 2: or who just needs a bit of an uplift because
Speaker 2: it is a hard time at the moment all over
Speaker 2: the world and in this country. Hopefully that ViBe's coming
Speaker 2: across to you. And there were so many other people
Speaker 2: that sweetened the deal on the day, Jess, those goodie bags,
Speaker 2: those sponsors, oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: Next level.
Speaker 4: Right, it felt so special to us because we really
Speaker 4: wanted to make sure that, you know, corporate events, you
Speaker 4: walk away with a koozie or a pen. I mean,
Speaker 4: I love a kouzie. I'm definitely like a stubby holder.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, heard that before, and Alisa I have not.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's just me, but you know, you go to
Speaker 4: these events and you kind of all over the time
Speaker 4: walk away with stuff you're probably not going to use, right,
Speaker 4: And we didn't want to contribute to waste in that way,
Speaker 4: but we also wanted people to be able to kind
Speaker 4: of take that good feeling home with them. So we
Speaker 4: sat down and we said, right, what brands do we
Speaker 4: love who would we love to get on board? And
Speaker 4: you know, it was kind of a theoretical. We were like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'd really love to have some like LSKT stuff or
Speaker 4: some beautiful Syreene skincare, which is the cleanse of the
Speaker 4: Futoria and I both love, which is very expensive, very
Speaker 4: very good. And we reached out to these brands and
Speaker 4: we're just astounded by how quickly and how supportive these
Speaker 4: brands were to jump on and we're like, oh my gosh, yes,
Speaker 4: we would love to be involved with what can we do?
Speaker 1: Like obviously I love a good brow and I love
Speaker 1: a good brow. Pencil and Benefit are one of my
Speaker 1: favorite brow brands. So when we reached out, I was
Speaker 1: shocked when they weren't just like, oh, yeah, sorry, we
Speaker 1: can put a flyer in. They literally put a makeup
Speaker 1: bag full of makeup in it for our community.
Speaker 4: Like what I know, MI go to who are girls
Speaker 4: that we've you know, worked with their They started as
Speaker 4: a small business, they're killing it. Now they supported us
Speaker 4: Bang and Body, the moisturizer we all love. We had
Speaker 4: Avianna the label. Another small Melbourne based business five PM Beverages,
Speaker 4: Yes you can drinks, Frankie mag the girls that Keep
Speaker 4: It Cleaner, who we're fricking adore like.
Speaker 1: Just what They put gifts in the gift bags, but
Speaker 1: also did out under the Chair prize which no one
Speaker 1: knew was going to happen, but people literally walked away
Speaker 1: with a year's free subscription to their app, which is
Speaker 1: very very cool and obviously something that the Shees on
Speaker 1: the Money team used basically daily.
Speaker 4: Incredible. They literally got us through lockdown by doing their
Speaker 4: Zoom Polarates classes together. It was so much fun, and
Speaker 4: then of course the Shares his team really brought it
Speaker 4: all together. I'm going to take a little moment here because,
Speaker 4: as you said, Partnerships is my space and have been
Speaker 4: a partner of ours for over a year now, and
Speaker 4: we got to meet them for the first time. They
Speaker 4: were there at the Sydney event, so some of you
Speaker 4: guys might have met them as well. But it is
Speaker 4: such a privilege to work with a business that so
Speaker 4: wholeheartedly believes in what we do, like the Charesa's team
Speaker 4: are always the first business to say, how can we
Speaker 4: support you? We love your idea, how can we uplift that,
Speaker 4: how can we amplify you? How can we really work
Speaker 4: in with what you're doing? And I think anyone who
Speaker 4: works in marketing or advertising knows that sometimes you come
Speaker 4: across brands or businesses that just want to put an
Speaker 4: add up and be done with it, And we don't
Speaker 4: do that here. That's not how we work. We never
Speaker 4: have and we never will. But to have someone buy
Speaker 4: in so strongly and they are in our Facebook group,
Speaker 4: not to advertise, you'll never see them promoing themselves, but
Speaker 4: to interact, to read, to see what's going on, because
Speaker 4: they genuinely want to engage with and support our community.
Speaker 4: It is not very often that you see people buy
Speaker 4: in that way. And to meet their team, who were
Speaker 4: all female that were there on the day. They have
Speaker 4: two out of three CEOs females.
Speaker 1: And more than half of their entire workforce a female,
Speaker 1: which is epic because they're an investment company. Like what,
Speaker 1: that's not.
Speaker 4: Something you would have heard ten years ago. Ten years ago,
Speaker 4: they've all been men that all probably were white, and
Speaker 4: they have been no diversity whatsoever, and so it is,
Speaker 4: you know, not to bang on about it, but genuinely,
Speaker 4: they are a delight to work with. I talk to
Speaker 4: them weekly and they are so fantastic and they're so
Speaker 4: supportive of us and our community, and we could not
Speaker 4: have made this event happen without them. So I'm incredibly
Speaker 4: thankful for them. I just cannot sing their praises enough. Truly.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, it genuinely felt like we were just catching
Speaker 1: up with old friends, Like it was so surreal to
Speaker 1: meet some people in real life. But the same thing
Speaker 1: happened with a whole heap of community members, Like there
Speaker 1: were actually a heap of community members that would come
Speaker 1: up to me and be like, oh my god, hi Victoria,
Speaker 1: I'm Simran And I was like, no, I know who
Speaker 1: you are. They're like how, and I'm like, cause we
Speaker 1: talk on Instagram all the time. I just to see
Speaker 1: him to be all friends. And they're like, wait, you
Speaker 1: know and I'm like yeah, because I know your face,
Speaker 1: like you comment all the time in our Facebook group.
Speaker 1: And there was one girl and for the life of me,
Speaker 1: I can't think of her name right now, and she
Speaker 1: came up and she said hi, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you look so familiar. I was like, we've met before.
Speaker 1: What's your name? And she's like no, like we've definitely
Speaker 1: never met. And I was like, are you sure, and
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, I comment a lot in the Facebook group.
Speaker 1: I'm like I knew it because they stalk everybody. That
Speaker 1: sounds so creepy, but like I always look at your
Speaker 1: profile picture. If you've been commenting stuff, then I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can get behind that, Like I want to know
Speaker 1: who our community is. So I've definitely creeped on all
Speaker 1: of you, which just sounds very strange, but it was
Speaker 1: so special in that room to be like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I know you. Where are you from? And there would
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I was in the Facebook group, or
Speaker 1: oh we talk all the time in your Instagram dms.
Speaker 1: It's usually about your cat, but we talk a lot,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh. It genuinely feels like
Speaker 1: I'm meeting my friends. And that's exactly how I felt
Speaker 1: about the Chareseas team. And I spotted Adrian from across
Speaker 1: the room and I was like, oh my gosh and
Speaker 1: gave her the biggest target. Was like I just hadn't
Speaker 1: seen her in a while it was very strange and surreal,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure Jaz, we're not the only people experiencing this.
Speaker 1: Having had COVID take us out of the market for
Speaker 1: two years, not being able to see people, or talk
Speaker 1: to people or hug them, it does feel very surreal.
Speaker 1: And I'm very aware that there's lots of friendships and
Speaker 1: things going on that you know, are happening outside of
Speaker 1: the She's on the many community that mean that this
Speaker 1: is happening for them too, But they were very special
Speaker 1: days to be a part of, and I genuinely cannot
Speaker 1: wait to see what else we get up to, because,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, we've mentioned Roche on the show already,
Speaker 1: but Roche has actually just joined us full time and
Speaker 1: her entire job, guys, is to make sure that she's
Speaker 1: on the money events come to life. So if you
Speaker 1: think you've seen the last of us, you absolutely haven't,
Speaker 1: because we will be back again and again, especially with
Speaker 1: the Roche on our team. But in saying that, Jess
Speaker 1: and Elisa, I do think it is time for us
Speaker 1: to say goodbye. But I hope you guys have absolutely
Speaker 1: hearing a little bit about our events. If you weren't
Speaker 1: able to come to them. I hope that it has
Speaker 1: filled the void of not being able to be with us.
Speaker 1: And if you went to them last week, hopefully it
Speaker 1: was a very cute reminiscing session with the team. So
Speaker 1: we will see you next week for an actual Friday drink,
Speaker 1: so not a celebratory Friday drinks, albeit they all do
Speaker 1: feel that way. But as always, that is all we
Speaker 1: have time for today, So Jess, why don't you wrap
Speaker 1: it for us?
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