Tuesday, 12 March 2024 / Published in Money Mindful
We all need money…maybe not as an end… but as means.  We need money as a medium of exchange…to be able to buy goods & services that we can’t make or provide ourselves. So we work in areas we are good at to create surplus, which we convert into money, and convert into whatever goods
Monday, 30 September 2019 / Published in Architect Blueprint, General
People don’t talk about money; women even less so. Strangely, money is still one of the taboo topics in Indian society, along with sex even as politics and religious discussions have become a norm in living rooms. I asked my girlfriends about why they think this is – they simply shrugged and said something along
Be Money Confident series
Tuesday, 21 August 2018 / Published in Architect Blueprint
Women constantly tell me they find investing boring and complicated. They tell me they wouldn’t like to lose their hard-earned money in what appears to be a casino – the sharemarket. They tell me they don’t want to spend their precious time looking at financial investments. Here’s the thing. All these statements show women have
Wednesday, 05 July 2017 / Published in Architect Blueprint
It’s an economic forum for women. The hotel venue is swarming with women. You’d think they would be keen to discuss money given the economic theme. But they don’t turn up to the session. There could be many reasons, but it made me think about the topic generally, as I’ve been told repeatedly that women