“Rich” is a mindset, says the 26-year-old host of a new podcast aimed at empowering Indigenous women to build wealth.
Young Indigenous women are breaking intergenerational patterns of economic disadvantage and using storytelling to cultivate “rich” mindsets, says a banker turned podcaster., has worked across debt collection, financial hardship, financial capability and financial abuse prevention including at the Commonwealth Bank, Indigenous Business Australia and the Women’s Legal Service Queensland.
As a child growing up in Queensland and western Sydney, finances were not a huge topic of conversation at home for Ms Jerome.An early relationship with a partner who she describes as “really good with money”, however, helped her form good financial foundations and buy a $535,000 house with him at 21.
“It was an eye-opening thing, that financial literacy is so important – [as is] being on top of it and celebrating the wins. That was one of the coolest things.As well as her podcast, Ms Jerome is project lead at the Additionally, the average 67-year-old Indigenous man will have $333,000 in super, compared with $521,000 among the non-Indigenous population. The average Indigenous woman will have $221,000, according to analysis by Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre., compared to 3.2 per cent of the total Australian population.She hopes the Rich Blak Women podcast, which she describes as a “modern-day type of yarning circle”, will help Indigenous women reclaim financial power.
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