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The stigma about women & money...

21 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker—Emma— contrasts how men freely discuss financial matters, such as investments, crypto, and deal structuring, with how women often avoid the topic due to lingering stigma. She shares a personal anecdote about her husband’s business calls where money is openly talked about, while she has never had similar conversations with her female friends. Emma recounts being told on a panel titled “Women, Power, and Money” that she talks about money “too much,” highlighting the discomfort many feel when women bring up finances. She argues that avoiding the subject only perpetuates the problem and urges women to speak up, ask for what they deserve, and take responsibility for securing their own financial outcomes, emphasizing that nothing will be handed to them without proactive effort.

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I have a husband who's in business and he sits on the phone to his guys and they chat and they tell each other like what, you know, they're investing in and what money they're putting in the market and what crypto thing to do and how they paid this lawyer and this like deal that they did to structure for the house before they had the money. And I'm literally sitting there going, I haven't had one of those calls with any of my girlfriends. Why not? Because still there is some stigma attached to the way that we think about money. And somehow it's like, ew, like she's gross. She said money. like 20 times. I, I write in the book that I did, um, a panel, and this wonderful, incredible woman said to me, Emma, darling, you really speak about money too much. And I was like, but the name of the panel is Women, Power, and Money. What are you talking about? You know? And so I don't think that we should avoid subjects when that's exactly what we want. Yeah. Right? I think that we have to put ourselves in line to get what we're owed. And I don't expect that anybody is coming to save me, that anybody's gonna pluck me from obscurity and go, here's the thing that you want. It never happened to me like that. So if you don't ask, you don't get. 100%.