For years, Esther couldn't understand why nothing stuck. Not the budgets, not the discipline, not the advice everyone else swore by. It wasn't a discipline problem, it was a format problem, she was running a neurotypical money system on a neurodivergent brain, and that was never going to hold. In this episode, she shares the real story behind her £18k debt, the financial adviser and the debt charity who both turned her away, and the diagnosis that finally explained why nothing had stuck. If you're neurodivergent and money has felt like an uphill battle no matter how hard you try, this is why, and it's also exactly why an ND friendly money system changes everything. Esther teaches how to build one, live, in her free workshop, 5 Money Mistakes Neurodivergent Adults Make, and this episode is where to start.

Highlights

• Why two different services refused to help her, and what she built instead
• The diagnosis that made years of trying so hard, and still failing, finally make sense
• Why the same brain that got her into debt is the exact same one that got her out

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