She's On The Money

What do you mean someone wants to jeopardise your First Home Buyers eligibility without some sort of equity in return?!

This week’s Friday Drinks is filled with diabolical dilemmas and chats concerning guarantorships, LMCT petrol stations, and *checks notes* if kids should be Airtagged?

Join Victoria, Bec and Jess for car-heavy Broke Tips, Money Wins and a bunch of solid podcast rec’s. True crime, anyone?

ASK AN EXPERT:...

Some of us want to buy a house. Some of us wanna retire early. Some of us want a little more coin on the other side of our retirement. No matter what your financial goals are, here are our very best tips for making $100k by the time you turn 35. 

Join Victoria and Bec on the Deep Dive couch as they discuss how to tackle this goal in three parts: earning, spending and managing your money. Plus, some things you can do to ensure ...

At 18, this week’s Money Diarist was approached at work by a man who told her she could make serious money at a club. Plot twist: it was a strip club.
She went from earning almost nothing to making hundreds of dollars an hour, and at one point tracked nearly $200,000 in cash earnings over a relatively short period. The problem? She was spending almost as quickly as she could earn it. Then life changed completely. She left ...

Towards, away, or rotisserie-chicken style? It’s Friday Drinks time, and this week the gang are discussing all of the important issues; namely which direction they face in the shower.

Join Victoria, Jess and Bec for this week’s best Money Wins, Broke Tips and community dilemmas that you might find particularly useful if you’ve been sleeping on super. Hear from the gang about whether it’s most fruitful to sal...

Chats about super are slipping by the wayside, so we’re running it back for all the baddies who are ready to salary sacrifice for their retirement. 

On this week’s Deep Dive, Bec and Victoria are discussing the power of your superannuation to completely transform your wealth today (as a lucrative tax vehicle) and well-into the future. The gang explains what superannuation is, how salary sacrificing works, and how y...

At 27, this week’s Money Diarist has two STEM degrees, earns $140,000 a year, has $90,000 in super and owns a townhouse two kilometres from the beach. And no, there wasn’t a giant cheque from Mum and Dad hiding somewhere in the background. After becoming financially independent young and spending her uni years juggling study and work, she and her partner made buying a home one of their first big goals after graduating. ...

New intro, who dis? This week’s Friday Drinks is hosted by Victoria Devine, your favourite linen lover Jessica Ricci, and budding ceramicist Bec Syed.

During this episode, the gang will be bringing you the very best Money Wins, Broke Tips and polarising opinions of the week. They will be having a heated chat about superior sundae toppings and whether choc mint is ever a welcomed flavour sensation.

They’ll also b...

Endo. Chronic injury. Mental illness diagnoses. Updates to genetic testing. Let’s talk about it. 

This episode comes at a time where the NDIS is being wound back for approx. 241,000 Australians. So, what does this mean if you are experiencing chronic illness, permanent injury or disability? And what financial support is in place to help you sustain a decent quality of life when government services are being pared back?

D...

Sometimes the biggest financial setbacks have nothing to do with money. After migrating to Australia from Malaysia, she watched her family go from a comfortable life to starting over from scratch. Money wasn't something anyone talked about, especially the women in her family, so when she entered her first serious relationships, she had no idea what financial abuse or manipulation could look like.

By 28, she'd lost thousands, moved ...

Hypothetically, if you were offered a role abroad that you couldn’t refuse, but you’d finally saved enough for a house deposit, would you stick around and try to enter the property market or further your place in the career department?

This week on Friday Drinks, Victoria, Bec and Jess cover all the important topics: career aspirations, home ownership and relationships. 

We find out where the gang would travel to i...

Something we hear super often is, “How do I invest now, to prepare for a comfortable retirement later on?”. To which we say, “That depends…” 

In this week’s Deep Dive, Victoria and Bec unpack what you might need to invest each month to reach $1m by the time you reach retirement. Better than that, they’ll break it down by life stage so that there are relatable and actionable things...

Growing up, her mum believed in spending now and worrying later. Her dad was the complete opposite. He planned ahead, saved where he could, and quietly showed her what financial security could look like.

After her parents separated, everything changed.

By 14, she'd landed her first job and was handing over every pay cheque, believing it was going straight into savings. It wasn't. When she finally asked for the money back, there was...

Join Victoria and Bec for this week’s edition of Friday Drinks, filled with Broke Tips, Money Wins and a Question of the Week which puts our shower routines in the spotlight.

As always, the crew will be answering your Money Dilemmas, this time concerning income-protection insurance and whether a community member is being medically gaslit by their workplace. 

They also chat about how one listener might invest their inheri...

In favour of frivolity, we’ve given Victoria a week off from Deep Dive to bring you another acclaimed edition of Q&A with B&J! 

Bec and Jess are back to answer all of your fun community questions, including what reality TV shows they’d each do well at. (Give Jess the glass cake stand already!)

Tune in for a lighthearted episode with your two fave co-hosts covering casual yaps about fave weird flavour combos...

This week's Money Diary starts with a sentence I don't think I've ever heard before.

"I think I accidentally became rich."

Growing up, money was something her family never really talked about. She was raised by a single mum, grew up on Centrelink, won a scholarship to a private school, and didn't realise just how little they had until she was much older.

Fast forward to today and she's 34, has more than $100,000 invested, over $218...

Which school do you fall into? Karaoke-forward or karaoke-averse? 

This week on Friday Drinks, Victoria, Bec and Jess are bringing you all the best Broke Tips and Money Wins from our community, plus money dilemmas that tread the investment line. 

They’ll discuss the pros and cons of lumped contributions versus dollar-cost averaging and whether you can make a relationship work if you’ve got opposing money value...

What do financial advisers actually do? Am I ready for financial advice? $10k has landed in my account, what do I do?!

On this week’s Deep Dive, Victoria invites friend-of-the-pod Daisy Egan, financial adviser with Everest Wealth to answer all of your pressing (and pure unhinged) financial questions. And sure, while some of them are normal and fine and reasonable, others verge on despicable. 

Come to learn about the larg...

This week's Money Diary proves there isn't just one way to build wealth.

Growing up in a working-class family, she didn't inherit financial advice, a house deposit or a roadmap. So she made one herself.

From 18 to 25, she skipped renting altogether, house-sitting her way across Melbourne, looking after other people's homes and pets while quietly saving every dollar she could. It wasn't glamorous, but it helped her buy her first hom...

Just when you think you’ve paid it down, debt has this pesky way of rearing its ugly head. But why?

It’s Friday Drinks time, and this week Victoria and Bec are taking on money dilemmas big and small. One community member questions where her tax return is best spent repaying her HECS debt or salary sacrificing into super. While another questions why she keeps finding herself in debt-y situations when she’s never mi...