#233 Rewriting Money for Future Generations | Ben Bolger

19/10/2025 47 min Episodio 233

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High performers aren’t immune to stress—they’re masters at transforming it. Take the Scorecard to find your edge: resilience, focus, and impact that last 👉https://bit.ly/4g5NevwMost people learn about money too late. After the debt piles up. After the stress sets in. After the regrets.In this powerful episode, Ben Bolger—former professional rugby player, financial planner, and co-founder of Squirrel Education—shares how he’s reshaping the way young people think about money. From tackling financial stress early to making money management instinctive, Ben shows how financial literacy can transform not just bank accounts—but confidence, wellbeing, and impact.If you’ve ever felt stressed about money or wished you’d learned sooner, this conversation will shift how you see financial habits, resilience, and the link between money and mental health.About Ben Bolger: Ben is the co-founder of Squirrel Education, an award-winning platform reaching tens of thousands of students weekly. With a background in professional sport and behavioural finance, Ben is on a mission to rewire how money is taught—making financial literacy a foundation for confidence, performance, and long-term wellbeing.✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why money stress starts earlier than we thinkThe parental gap in teaching kids about financeTips for reducing financial stress in everyday lifeWhy early education changes future wellbeingHow money confidence fuels performance and resilienceWhy “action beats everything” when it comes to changeTime Stamps00:11-16:32 Meet Ben Bolger16:32-17:00 Why Squirrel Education17:00-19:32 Engaged Education, Early Intervention19:33-20:54 Parental Kid Finance Gap20:55-21:22 The Worlds Waking Up21:51 -25:34  Tips for Financial Stress 25:39 - 27:03 Why not make the rich richer? Why the future of kids.27:10 - 29:50 Bens vision - Impact on wider society 29:58 - 31:33 Financial happiness31:33 - 32:55 Ben’s personal experience with money32:55 -35:54  Personal Development as force for good35:54 - 37:15 Fulfilment 37:15 - 42:39 Staying Balanced and Not Burning Out42:40 - 47:34 Action Beats Everything47:35 - 45:22 Moral Ambition45:22 - 46:24 Wrap Up46:24 - 47:23 Meals on Me (Sponsor)Money stress isn’t inevitable—when we rewire how we learn, we rewire how we live.Be sure to follow Ben’s work here:www.squirreledu.cohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-bolger/

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