#103 Why Is Talking About Money So Awkward? (Live Podcast at Starling Bank)

Ctrl Alt Delete

emma gannon

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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I did a live podcast recording of Ctrl Alt Delete at Starling Bank offices where we spoke about the awkwardness of money and the taboo that surrounds it. How often do you check your bank account? What keeps you up at night? Why don't we talk about these things?

It's a weird, emotional, vulnerable topic. We all have our own personal relationship with money and we all keep a lot hidden in the depths of our own minds. For this very special one-off live recording of Ctrl Alt Delete, hosted at Starling Bank offices, I wanted the whole episode to be around this topic and open up a wider conversation.

We spoke about all sorts of different areas of money awkwardness: asking for it, not having it, having a lot of it, social sitchs when you have more than your friends, or less than your partner, or wanting a raise at work, or saving for a child, or late-night worries in bed and wtf is an ISA and oh shit moments when you realise you don't have a pension. We covered a lot and the aim of the night wasn't to financially advise but to get us simply *talking* about money in an open non-awk way. Sarah who works at Starling shows her colleagues her bank balance most days as they work on the live app. That level of transparency scares me, but I also want to be more open, with myself and others.

The panelists for this event were Michelle Kennedy from Peanut app, Serena Guen the founder of SUITCASE, Otegha Uwagba founder of Women Who and best-selling author of The Little Black Book and Sarah Guha from Starling Bank. Thank you to my amazing panellists for for wearing your hearts on your sleeve for the recording. Think it was the most vulnerable live recording I've personally done. And the questions from the audience were ace. And thank you to those that came and people who listen to the podcast. I started it at home with minimal DIY tools and so to partner with brands I respect and admire is just amazing. I frigging love this community.

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0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
0:04.9	recognisable home improvement brands such as B&Q and Screw Fix who help make
0:09.7	better homes accessible for everyone and who by the way doesn't love a pop down to be in queue? I definitely do.
0:16.0	Kingfisher have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will support and prepare for retail's next digital age.
0:24.3	From infrastructure to data analytics, they are looking for the right people to help them succeed,
0:29.8	and that could be you.
0:31.2	They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data
0:35.0	analytics, data science, e-commerce and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits,
0:41.1	competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.
0:46.0	So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher
0:55.3	for sponsoring this podcast.
0:58.7	Hello everyone, you all sat down pretty speedy. Thank you so much. Everyone's got their Starling notebook. So if you want to write notes, I mean, you don't have to, but we'll be flattered if you do. So just to welcome you all. So I'm just looking out at some amazing faces and this is really exciting,
1:16.6	mainly because every time I do a live podcast episode, I'm just so honored that people like listening to it and that I get to talk about interesting I hope topics in the tech industry.
1:28.0	So the topic of today as you all know because we are sat in a bank, Starling Bank, a mobile only app and it's a
1:39.0	bank that I use, it's a bank that I've partnered with to talk about this and really talk about it in an honest and open way.
1:46.0	So just a bit of background before we could kick off and not introduce the panel.
1:50.0	I have been very bad with money. Only in the past year or so have I really been very bad with money.
1:53.0	Only in the past year or so have I really sort of uncovered actually
1:58.6	a lot of negative feelings that I had with it
2:00.8	and also things that I've done in the past that I regret. You know, I was
2:04.8	that person that thought a student loan was free money. No, it's not. But yes, lots of things
2:10.1	along the way, I've realized that I have to really look at myself in the
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