Why Am I Always Broke — Even When I’m Trying?
No one really tells you how heavy money feels.
It’s not just numbers. It’s that constant awareness in the background—checking your balance, hesitating before you spend, wondering if you can actually afford things. Even when nothing’s gone wrong, it still feels like you’re a bit too close to the edge.
And when it keeps happening, it starts to feel personal.
Like you should be better at this. Like other people have figured something out that you haven’t. So instead of it just being about money, it turns into something about you.
That’s where this episode sits.
Because struggling with money at this stage isn’t just about what’s coming in and going out. It’s about pressure, comparison, and trying to manage something no one really taught you how to handle.
And once that pressure builds, it can pull you into a loop—avoid it, react to it, feel bad about it, then avoid it again.
This breaks that down properly.
Not by trying to fix everything, but by making sense of why it feels the way it does—and how to step out of that cycle without turning it into a judgement on yourself.
Because this isn’t about being bad with money.
It’s about learning to handle something that carries weight, in real time, while you’re still figuring everything else out.
Not perfectly. Just more steadily.
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