Steven Bartlett

Yeah, so my dad had a good job and we'd moved into this area. And my mother got into business. And she left school when she was extremely young in Nigeria. Five, seven, ten years old, roughly. She didn't get an education. So when she... And in Africa, business is, in my mother's village, is... put out a stall and sell everything you have. Business in the UK was different.

Yeah, so my dad had a good job and we'd moved into this area. And my mother got into business. And she left school when she was extremely young in Nigeria. Five, seven, ten years old, roughly. She didn't get an education. So when she... And in Africa, business is, in my mother's village, is... put out a stall and sell everything you have. Business in the UK was different.

So she really, really struggled to adapt. She hadn't learned to read or write. So that was an exacerbating factor. And all of that meant that the family money was invested into the businesses, the businesses

So she really, really struggled to adapt. She hadn't learned to read or write. So that was an exacerbating factor. And all of that meant that the family money was invested into the businesses, the businesses

So she really, really struggled to adapt. She hadn't learned to read or write. So that was an exacerbating factor. And all of that meant that the family money was invested into the businesses, the businesses

failed they failed they failed they failed they failed and that kind of took the money out of our home and it was kind of a downward spiral from there until you know properties we had our stuff repossessed at one point and it was a downward spiral from there

failed they failed they failed they failed they failed and that kind of took the money out of our home and it was kind of a downward spiral from there until you know properties we had our stuff repossessed at one point and it was a downward spiral from there

failed they failed they failed they failed they failed and that kind of took the money out of our home and it was kind of a downward spiral from there until you know properties we had our stuff repossessed at one point and it was a downward spiral from there

As I was listening to you talk backstage about your relationship with money and the lessons that your father taught you, I was thinking to myself, money is this other person in the room for our entire childhood. And just like we're developing a relationship with people and other things, we're developing this really clear, explicit, emotional relationship with money.

As I was listening to you talk backstage about your relationship with money and the lessons that your father taught you, I was thinking to myself, money is this other person in the room for our entire childhood. And just like we're developing a relationship with people and other things, we're developing this really clear, explicit, emotional relationship with money.

As I was listening to you talk backstage about your relationship with money and the lessons that your father taught you, I was thinking to myself, money is this other person in the room for our entire childhood. And just like we're developing a relationship with people and other things, we're developing this really clear, explicit, emotional relationship with money.

In the same way that we talk about attachment styles, we say you're an anxious attachment style or you're secure or you're avoidant.

In the same way that we talk about attachment styles, we say you're an anxious attachment style or you're secure or you're avoidant.

In the same way that we talk about attachment styles, we say you're an anxious attachment style or you're secure or you're avoidant.

In my household, I learned to be both anxious and avoidant with money. And you can see that in me as an adult, avoiding bills, hiding bills, not looking at my banking app. Because as a young age, my relationship with money, which is also kind of a proxy for your relationship with yourself, was that this person, this second person in the room, which I'm going to call money...

In my household, I learned to be both anxious and avoidant with money. And you can see that in me as an adult, avoiding bills, hiding bills, not looking at my banking app. Because as a young age, my relationship with money, which is also kind of a proxy for your relationship with yourself, was that this person, this second person in the room, which I'm going to call money...

In my household, I learned to be both anxious and avoidant with money. And you can see that in me as an adult, avoiding bills, hiding bills, not looking at my banking app. Because as a young age, my relationship with money, which is also kind of a proxy for your relationship with yourself, was that this person, this second person in the room, which I'm going to call money...

isn't around enough and its absence is making me feel insecure. And this is a bit more sort of esoteric, but when you think about the concept of wealth and money, it isn't something that our prehistoric human brain knows anything about. We had tribes. We didn't have wealth. It was what you could carry back then. We had food. We had love. We had tribe. We had status.

isn't around enough and its absence is making me feel insecure. And this is a bit more sort of esoteric, but when you think about the concept of wealth and money, it isn't something that our prehistoric human brain knows anything about. We had tribes. We didn't have wealth. It was what you could carry back then. We had food. We had love. We had tribe. We had status.

isn't around enough and its absence is making me feel insecure. And this is a bit more sort of esoteric, but when you think about the concept of wealth and money, it isn't something that our prehistoric human brain knows anything about. We had tribes. We didn't have wealth. It was what you could carry back then. We had food. We had love. We had tribe. We had status.