In our emails this year we have discussed money to make you think about:

• Your behaviours and habits towards it
• How you save and spend it
• How to manage it and use it to build wealth
• How you view your own value against it

However, money can be a sensitive and personal topic for many people.

Discussing it can feel uncomfortable.

This discomfort impacts how we use and learn about money.

It hinders our education around it, impacts our relationship with it, and distorts how we value it.

Many of my students, and other people that I meet, ask me how to achieve financial security. It's a topic of conversation I am often involved in.

Talking about money in a practical way has never been an issue for me.

But I am often surprised at how uncomfortable many people are in these conversations.

It's motivated me to think about why talking about money is so taboo when it's a fundamental part of our lives?

There are a variety of reasons why people don't talk about money.

They are all co...