You can save a million dollars and still feel broke if the fear behind your money never got the message that you’re safe.
Tiffany Aliche, a former preschool teacher who built The Budgetnista and wrote Get Good With Money, sat down with Lewis to tell how a friend she calls “Jake the thief” talked her into $35,000 in credit card cash advances. The recession took her teaching job soon after, and at 30 she was almost $300,000 in debt and back in her middle school bed.
Her first year in business grossed $8,000. Years later she brought in $10 million in a single year and felt worse than ever. A nurse took her blood pressure twice while she kept typing on her laptop in the exam room.
She calls it post-traumatic broke syndrome. With Lewis she gets into how shame keeps your debt hidden and why she named her older self Wanda, the woman she budgets for today.
Then her husband had a terrible headache on a Monday and was gone by Friday. What came after is something her therapist calls “the gift of grief.”
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