A six-year-old whispers in the dark: "Mommy, I think there's something wrong with me." He doesn't love his old stuffies anymore. Melissa Leong, author of Happy Go Money, realized in that moment that her son isn't broken — but the system he's growing up in might be.
In this conversation, Melissa and Shaun go deep on the money stories we inherit from our families, why spending is rarely a budgeting problem (and often a neurological one), how couples with opposite money mindsets can stop fighting and start building, and what "enough" actually feels like when you stop comparing.
Melissa shares stories from her grandfather who helped build Winnipeg's Chinatown, her scarcity mindset inherited from immigrant parents who survived war, living in a cockroach-filled basement in Taiwan on five dollars — and calling it one of the happiest times of her life.
