We were 48 hours away from leaving the country. $8,000 just for the plane tickets. And a very real risk of losing my income overnight.
This is not a story from the past. This is what I lived in real time — here, in the Gulf, in April 2026.
In this first episode, I take you inside what financial resilience really looks like when life falls apart. Groceries up 20%. The daycare dilemma. The emergency fund we had to completely rethink. And a conversation with my husband — one of the hardest we've ever had about money.
Because financial hardship doesn't only look like losing your job. It looks like uncertainty. Fear. Impossible decisions. And finding the strength to keep going anyway.
A note before you press play 🤍
If you listen to both the French and English versions of this episode, you may notice a difference in my voice. The French version was recorded in the middle of the storm — raw, emotional, unfiltered. The English version was recorded after. With more distance. More peace. That difference is not a mistake. It is the truth of what I lived. And I wanted you to know that before you listen.
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