Having a child doesn’t just shift your sleep schedule. It can shift your relationship with money and, quite possibly, with your partner. Suddenly, you aren’t simply choosing between a holiday or a house deposit; your financial decisions will impact...
Money is not only rands and cents – it is also a currency of emotions, which is why money conversations are so hard. In this podcast, Maya and Andrea have a candid discussion with relationship therapist Connie Valkin about how to have these...
How do you teach your children to manage money? It starts at home, says 13-year-old Alidzulwi Tshikosi, author of Not being authentic can be costly - a warning tale of a young man who uses credit to live beyond his means and which ultimately...
Any financial journey cannot progress unless your partner is on board. If you share a household, you share your finances. Money is a highly emotional topic; it is cited as the number one reason for divorce. So, having a relationship where you can...
Most parents make supreme sacrifices to provide for their children. Research shows that mothers in particular will put their children’s needs before their own. We want to offer our children the perfect world where they want for nothing, where they...
Regardless of how motivated you are to improve your finances, you will struggle to make progress unless your partner is also on board. In our third City Press/ABSA Money Makeover podcast, Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) talk...
As a mom, my goal is to see my two children grow up to be independent and to stand on their own two feet. A big part of this journey is financial education. You can give your children the best academic education you can afford, but if they don’t...
Discussing “what will happen if we get divorced”, particularly financially, is a conversation that is often avoided before entering into a marriage agreement because it is deemed unromantic or tainting a marriage before it’s even started. But this...
Why not skip the chocolates and the bubble bath on Mother’s Day this year, says Emma Heap, Chief Growth Officer at 10X Investments, and give your mother something really meaningful? We know Mother’s Day is upon us when the supermarket shelves are...
Sunel Veldtman, financial planner and founder of Foundation Family Wealth shares her advice to ex-spouses who have made career sacrifices for their family. Too many times I’ve sat across the table from a sobbing woman going through a divorce....
How women are navigating relationships as the breadwinner. After a talk I had given at a Women’s Day breakfast, a woman in her early 30s came to chat to me about an issue that faces many financially independent women. My talk had been about the “Cinderella Complex”...
Yesterday marked the day that I had been a mother for exactly 16 years, as this year my son’s birthday fell on Mother’s Day. The very essence of being a mother is to put our children first, so yesterday was all about his big day ‒ so no breakfast in bed for me,...
Money is consistently the number one thing that couples fight about, so in this episode of Change in your Pocket, we give you practical advice on how to talk to your partner about money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IZxbNdx4rA&feature=youtu.be – Video supplied...
In episode 14 of the Change in your Pocket series, we examine how best to go about discussing money with young children. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoBHYWeKvGY&feature=youtu.be – Video supplied by BrightRock Welcome to The Change Exchange where we're exploring...
I was fortunate growing up to have a really great mom. She was the kind of person one thinks of when you say “mother”. She was a really involved parent – she made the pom-poms for sports day, sewed pretty dresses for me, came to all the parent-teacher meetings, and...
What is it about money that makes it so difficult to discuss with our children? While many taboos around discussing sex, drugs and politics have broken down, for some reason money remains a topic that many parents feel uncomfortable talking about. So how do you go...
How the couple handle their finances, bank accounts and budgeting has a far greater ripple effect on a marriage than the perfect dress or the three-tier red velvet cake, writes Citadel Advisory Partner, Kirsten Smit. White dresses, wedding décor, floral decoration,...
An hour before interviewing Carl Richards, author of The Behavior Gap, my husband and I had just had one of those money arguments that all couples invariably have, so as I shook Carl’s hand I blurted out “how do you speak to your partner about money?” It turned out to...
I was recently relating a story to a friend about a conversation I had with my two boys aged 7 and 11 where they had grilled me on financial matters. They wanted to know if we owed money on our house and if our cars were paid off. They wanted to know what taxes were...