Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Can I tell you the most important thing I know about money?

Now this isn't an investment tip, although I recommend you definitely invest as early as you can.

And yes, I've got my own thinking around money, how I make it, how I save it, how I spend it,

how I invest it.

But that's not what this is about.

This is actually about something deeper, but that boosts and enhances all of those things and more.

Okay.

When it comes to money, most people think about how much they have, right?

So how much they earn, how much they have in savings, how much they have in retirement,

it comes down to, or it's reduced to, let's say,

numbers on a screen, right, or numbers in your head. You're like, okay, I've got $700 here,

I've got $10,000 there, I owe $2,000 for that, right? I get it, right? Dollars and cents.

The practical piece of money is pure mathematics. Even children understand that, right?

That piece is easy to get.

But what I know about money, and I'm really, really happy about this, this was something that I learned when I was very young because we grew up on welfare. I lived on hand-me-downs.

We lived in domestic violence shelters. There was not an abundance of anything in the material sense to go around, right? Everything was, you know, this is how much food we have.

This is how we live life. Everything we do we do as much for free as possible. Even when, you know,

for example, just say me, my mother, my sister were out

and it was a hot day and I was like, Mom, can I get a drink? She was like, wait till we get home,

right? We just, we wouldn't even buy a soda or a bottle of water, right? That's how I grew up.

But something interesting shifted in me big time when I started learning about the brain, when I started studying

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