Money Psychology

As I’ve shared before on The Money with Katie Show and likewise on this very blog, I’ve had a fairly fraught relationship with materialism. I’ve gone through phases when I would’ve branded myself with the Chanel logo if given the materials and opportunity to do so, and I’ve also gone through stages when I embraced […]

I know what you’re thinking: Madam, you’d better not tell me I’ve been wasting away hours of my life reading and consuming your opinions for you to tell me that it was all bollocks. (Yes, in this hypothetical, you’re British.) But if you exist in the physical realm, you’ve probably noticed something: We don’t live […]

I live with an interesting cognitive dissonance as a personal finance content creator: On one hand, I’ve always believed knowledge is power. I don’t buy that people are “bad with money” and actively choose to behave in a way that’s disadvantageous to them, and generally speaking, I believe when people know better, they do better. […]

Let me ask you a question: Do you consider yourself wealthy? Whether you do or you don’t, what’s your justification for your answer?  If I had to guess, it has something to do with comparison to people in a similar situation to you, as opposed to any hard-and-fast numbers: If you look around at your […]