Your income has not dropped. You are on a good salary. And your money is still disappearing faster than it used to, and you cannot say where it went. The cost of living squeeze is real, it is measurable, and it does not land on an ADHD brain the way it lands on everybody else.

In this episode of Neurodivergent Money Management, Esther Bangura looks at what is really happening to household costs in the UK and the US in 2026, including the frozen tax thresholds quietly taking more of every pay rise.

Then she gets to the part nobody explains: why the cost of living squeeze compounds for ADHD brains, from the convenience spending that is actually holding your week together, to the fact that every saving available to you right now requires exactly the executive function you have least of. You will leave with four things you can do at low capacity, and a clear reason to stop carrying this alone.

• Why the pay rise did not feel like a pay rise, and what frozen tax thresholds have to do with it
• The convenience premium reframe: why cutting the takeaways and taxis can cost you more than it saves
• The one admin session that could be worth hundreds, and why it suits an ADHD brain

If today landed, come and sit with Esther for an hour. Five Money Mistakes Neurodivergent Adults Make, Tuesday 15 September, 7pm UK time, live and completely free. She will walk you through the five mistakes costing neurodivergent adults their savings, their debt progress and their earning potential, and teach the Pause Protocol live so you leave with something you can use that night. Register at estherbangura.com/workshop

• Free live workshop, Five Money Mistakes Neurodivergent Adults Make. Tuesday 15 September, 7pm UK, one hour live. Register: estherbangura.com/workshop
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• Free ND Money Report: estherbangura.com/nd-money-report
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