🌟Alex Stedman started The Frugality in 2012, after spending 15 years working in the fashion media industry. With over a quarter of a million followers, she’s a mum-of-two offering accessible tips on smart spending and saving up for things you really love.

🌳We talk about building a sustainable business you love, tips on managing your finances, the challenges of being a freelancer and a parent, and how to stand up for yourself and try not to please everyone.

☎️In today’s episode, I answer a question I received on Vestpod’s Instagram: What can you do when you’re feeling stuck about money?

💸 Sometimes when we feel stuck, we don’t know where to start. We don’t have the time, or we can feel that we’re losing our financial confidence. So few of us have access to a financial adviser. We’re not sure how to find financial help; if we should; if we can afford it. While I would always advise you to find some form of professional help, here are some pointers you can try to apply, simply to breathe and feel good again about money.

🌸 In 2017, Farah Kabir launched HANX, the sexual wellness brand with women in mind with her childhood friend Sarah. HANX sells a range of products, from their award-winning ultra-thin, vegan, biodegradable condoms to oestrogen-free hormonal contraception. Now stocked online and in Boots, Sainsbury's and other major UK retailers, they are genuinely disrupting the feminine care industry.

When you’re in a financial crisis and seeking help, the first conversation (where you open up about the reality of the situation) can be the hardest. Although this initial conversation might not provide all the solutions overnight, it can be a crucial step in lightening the load, enabling clearer long-term thinking.

When Clare Seal faced a difficult financial situation in 2019, she turned to Instagram to make herself accountable, posting anonymously as @myfrugalyear. In under a year, she had grown a following and went on to start The Financial Wellbeing Forum. Clare is also Glamour’s Money Matters columnist and the author of three books.

Tamara Gillan is a successful entrepreneur, founder and CEO of The WealthiHer Network. Her mission is to bring together the UK’s leading financial institutions to work in partnership for the first time to celebrate and support female wealth. As a single mother, Tamara has had to fight for her own success and passionately believes women deserve to be recognised and championed by the financial sector.

When you’re in a financial crisis and seeking help, the first conversation (where you open up about the reality of the situation) can be the hardest. Although this initial conversation might not provide all the solutions overnight, it can be a crucial step in lightening the load, enabling clearer long-term thinking.