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Why don't WOMEN talk about this?

26 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker contrasts her husband's frequent, detailed conversations about investing, crypto, and financial deals with the silence she experiences among her female friends when it comes to discussing money. She attributes this silence to a lingering stigma that labels women who talk about money as "gross" or inappropriate. The speaker recounts a moment from a panel titled "Women, Power and Money" where a fellow panelist chastised her for speaking about money too much, prompting the speaker to question why such a topic would be discouraged in that very setting. She emphasizes that women should not avoid important subjects like finance, arguing that self‑advocacy is essential to claim what they are owed. The speaker underscores that no one will rescue her from obscurity; she must ask for what she wants, reinforcing a broader call for women to openly engage with financial topics and assert their economic agency.

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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— Mm-hmm. It's like, Like, she's gross. She said money like 20 times. I write in the book that I did 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%.