She's On The Money - Jasmine Garnsworthy on Investing In Your Greatest Asset, Yourself!

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

The creator of Female Founder World, Jasmine Garnsworthy delights us with her company on today's show, joining Jessica Ricci and Bec Syed to celebrate your money wins and share some broke tips. Plus w...e unpack a money dilemma about investing in your side hustle, and you slid into our DMs to question receiving vet bills long after you've given your pet to a relative! Acknowledgement of Country By Natarsha Bamblett aka Queen Acknowledgements. The advice shared on She's On The Money is general in nature and does not consider your individual circumstances. She's On The Money exists purely for educational purposes and should not be relied upon to make an investment or financial decision. If you do choose to buy a financial product, read the PDS, TMD and obtain appropriate financial advice tailored towards your needs.  Victoria Devine and She's On The Money are authorised representatives of Money Sherpa PTY LTD ABN - 321649 27708,  AFSL - 451289.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, my name is Natasha Nabanunga-Bamblett. I'm a proud Yorta Yorta, Kernai, Wolperi and Awadjeri woman. And before we get started on She's on the Money podcast, I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land of which this podcast is recorded on Awadjeri country, acknowledging the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming through. As this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing and the storytelling of you to make a difference for today and lasting impact for tomorrow. Let's get into it. She's on the money.
Starting point is 00:00:36 She's on the money. Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast for millennials who want financial freedom. Today is Friday, which means it's time to get the team together and celebrate you, the incredible She's on the Money community. Today, we'll be sharing our favorite money wins, Bec will be sharing a fun broke tip, and we'll be helping to answer a juicy money dilemma, which this week is all about breaking down that mental barrier of investing in your side hustle. We're also going to unpack something that you slid into our DMs about, which this week is what to do when a family member takes a pet off of your hands, but then follows you up
Starting point is 00:01:32 for the vet bills, which I'm very excited to get into. But before we do, no VD this week. I know, this is so weird. She's away with her beautiful, beautiful bubba. So today you might hear a new voice. We are joined today by a friend of the show, Jasmine Garnsworthy. Jazz, you have joined us before on the show, but for those who don't know, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Hi, I am so pumped to be here and also very excited, Victoria. What a time. I am the creator
Starting point is 00:02:03 of Female Found World. We are a community for women building businesses and based out of the US, but we're starting to a bunch in Australia as well. And, you know, I'm based out of New York, so I'm remote today, but so excited to chat with you guys and go through all of those fun topics. Yeah, we had so much fun. Vidi sat down with you when we were in New York, which is so exciting. What a crazy time. People should definitely go back if you haven't listened to that episode because it was such a good one. But should we have a little bit of normalcy? Tell me, how was your week, everybody? Yeah, well, I'll go first just because it's going to be really quick. For me, it's been really chill. I have done nothing but go to the gym. I'm obsessed with the
Starting point is 00:02:41 gym at the moment. And that is my day on a plate. That's my week on a plate, actually. Jaz, how's your week been? It's been pretty good, but quite full on. My husband has been finishing up paternity leave. So I feel like I've been lulled into this false sense of what the situation is, the one-year-old. And I feel like for anyone who has little babies at home, it's full on. And so it was really great having him around to help, but back to work, back to the real world for him. Was he off for that full year? No, he did it in three batches, which has been so lucky. He had three sets of six weeks, which was just incredible. And he took the last six weeks just before our baby turned one. Oh, that is actually a really cool system. I've never heard of anyone breaking
Starting point is 00:03:27 it up like that, but I feel like it's a nice way to almost dip your toe in, isn't it? Into the kind of, you know, having someone there, not having someone there. Then you have them there for a little bit and then you kind of got to reel it back in before you get used to it, which is crazy. But what a wild time for you. I can't imagine doing everything that you do and having a one-year-old in tow now as well while you do it all. Yeah, seriously, that is so impressive. It's full on, but like so many people do it and I've just been, you know, really trying to follow them and watch them and just think, okay, if they can do it, I can do it too. Yeah. Love that. Love that. All right, Jess, have you got some money wins for us? I absolutely do. Let me start off
Starting point is 00:04:05 this week with a money win from Belinda who said, money win. I've become obsessed with audiobooks recently. Spotify include them on a premium subscription, but only 15 hours worth, which doesn't always cover the book. Didn't realize it took so long to listen to a book. That's crazy. I googled and found that Audible was $16.95 a month, which I didn't think was too bad, but then I realized that only includes one credit. Then my auntie told me you can download the Libby app. It's free with a local library card subscription and there's always something to listen to. So effectively you can check out an audio book in the same way that you would check out a regular book. She said, what a win. Plus I'm getting through lots more books while driving
Starting point is 00:04:43 and cooking than I ever could read physically. I really like that. I'd never heard of, or actually I think someone had mentioned that app in the group before, but a really good reminder. It's free with a library card. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:04:54 Next, I've got a money win from Nicole, who said I bought a couple of bits in the post-Christmas sales from Mecca and Sephora to save for friends' birthday gifts that are coming up. Cool. Really smart. We love thinking ahead. Mel said, money win.
Starting point is 00:05:07 I've gotten two zippers repaired this week at a local outdoor type store, one for my running pack and the other for hubby's day pack it cost less than a hundred dollars to repair them and it saved me like five hundred dollars that I was going to spend on buying new replacements plus it also gave me the warm fuzzies to repair something rather than throwing it out nothing more satisfying I so often think oh I need to replace something when it breaks instead of just going how can I fix it and I feel like that's a habit of our generation because I think if I think about my parents whenever something would break they'd be darning it
Starting point is 00:05:39 or they'd be patching it or they'd be finding a way to keep it going. Darning. I haven't heard that word in a while. After you brought up haberdasherous a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure you're haberdasherous. I did some research. But I really like, I love the idea of finding a way to kind of make it work. And then lastly, I have a money win from Kayla who said,
Starting point is 00:05:58 I got a second housemate and now I'm getting $400 a week between the two housemates that I have, which is just shy of my mortgage repayment. Plus I'm getting back into selling and reselling things. so I'm making money back there too. So it sounds like she's a live-in landlord with housemates who are almost covering the mortgage, which sounds pretty nice to me. That sounds pretty nice and that I shouldn't say too much because it's good.
Starting point is 00:06:23 It's clever. It's very clever. It is very clever, but that's not all because we did say anyone who's going to come on the show, you had to bring a little something of your own. So, Jazz, have you got a money win of your own to share with us? Yes, actually very similar to one of the ones that we just heard. But I have been visiting Australia, visiting family and heading back to the US and have just stocked up on our winter
Starting point is 00:06:47 wardrobe from Australia where everything is discounted because we're in the middle of summer over there. So that has been a big save when I look at the year ahead. And the other thing is I also dropped an online course and made more money than I thought that we would. And it's just been a real eye-opener about different ways of increasing your income. I've never really thought about those kind of like digital products as being something that would really work. And it launched this week and has just been, yeah, pretty incredible and a big eye-opener about the potential there. Congrats. That's so exciting. She's On The Money does a few different online courses and it's really cool because it's such a great way to help other people. It allows them to
Starting point is 00:07:29 learn at their own pace. We have a lot of people who are neurodiverse in our community and, you know, people with ADHD and things like that. Often traditional learning doesn't work for them. So online courses are awesome because as you said, as a business owner for you or for someone like Victoria, it's an additional income stream. It's a really cool way to connect with people, but it's such a cool way to help consumers as well. What was your course about? It's called Retail Bootcamp and it's all about how to prepare a business to grow through independent retail stockists, which is something that a lot of those small businesses, you know, they want to go after a big target or a Sephora or one of those big retailers, but, or in Australia,
Starting point is 00:08:05 you know, Coles or something like that. But really the way that a lot of these businesses are getting significant revenue and enough income to, you know, quit their jobs and do it full time is through these independent stockists. And so we worked with a bunch of businesses who are doing a lot of revenue through those channels and just put together this course, like this is how you do that. And I've done the money bootcamp or the budget bootcamp with She's On The Money and loved it. I was very inspired by it. It's very cool. I love the budget tool in that course, but that's a really cool concept. I always wonder how products get into big companies. Like you go, how do Coles decide to have this brand of oatmeal instead of that brand of oatmeal or whatever it
Starting point is 00:08:40 is. That's so interesting. Congrats. Thank you. Okay. So I actually have two broke tips, one for myself, one from the community. And I think Jaz, you might have one for yourself after that. Amazing. Okay. So first one from me, this one comes from Amy. This one again, I'm trying to steer away from this, but it probably is more for people who live in Melbourne. I'm sure there's an equivalent in other cities and states, but Amy says shop at Cheaper By Miles for cheap pantry items. Have you heard of Cheaper By Miles? I feel like we've mentioned it on the pod before, but for those who don't know. Yes. For those who don't know, it's basically, I believe it's like a store it's like a regular grocery store but I think it's like things that are being thrown out
Starting point is 00:09:22 or discontinued that are still good it's still edible you can still use them but they're just for whatever reason not good enough for Woolworths and so and everything is so so so cheap so I would recommend seeing if there's anything like that around you and shopping there instead of your Woolworths your Coles your you know places like that shop there too I don't know if they're gonna we're going to get in trouble for saying that. I'm sure if we pop a thread in the Facebook group, I'm sure that people would be able to share an equivalent of that kind of store in the state that they're in. Totally, totally. I agree. And then one for myself. So I used to do this when I lived with my best friend on the peninsula. We had a fireplace, but this is also handy for
Starting point is 00:10:02 if you have a bonfire or anything like that, especially during the winter. We would look on marketplace and oftentimes there would be like in the free section, like spare bits of firewood from work sites or residential houses, from like renovations and things like that. Just like spare bits of firewood that make sure you've got to make sure it's not treated and make sure you have permission. But if you're on Marketplace, you have permission. It's good for everyone involved because you get free firewood for your fireplace. That's warmth during the winter. And also they don't want to have to pay to get rid of it. So it's win, win, win. That's me. Jaz, if you feel free to share your broke tip. Okay. So I just went through and did this in my business and now I'm
Starting point is 00:10:43 about to go through and do it in my personal life as well. And I went through all of my subscriptions. So the businesses that I'm subscribed to annually, and I reached out to them and I said, Hey, I'm a small business. I'm a small woman owned business. We are doing this service and we're really rooted in social good. Is there anything you can do to reduce your subscription rate? And so many of them came back and said, yes. So I've instantly saved a couple of hundred bucks in the business looking ahead for 2024. That's cool. Yes, yes. And a lot of these startups, so you know who we subscribe to, to host the podcast, they have a small team and I've reached out to them directly, got an email back and instantly saved on that, which I'm
Starting point is 00:11:29 thrilled about. And now I'm like, okay, how many subscriptions do I have in my personal life? And who can I email to get a reduction on that when I'm signing up for the year as well? I love that. If you don't ask, you don't get. Yeah. And we have a lot of people in the She's on the Money community who are small business owners or who work in nonprofits. So I feel like it would never have occurred to me. We've spoken before about going through and doing an audit of your subscriptions and getting rid of things that you don't need. But I don't think we've ever thought of going through and seeing if you can get a discount, particularly, you know, if you share a bit about you and your background and what you do, that is such a good idea.
Starting point is 00:12:05 I love that. All right, let's head to a really quick break, you guys. And when we come back, we're going to jump into our juicy, juicy money dilemma, as well as answering a question all about what to do when a family member is looking after a pet for you. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back, everyone. Here's our money dilemma. Hi there. Have you got a money dilemma you just can't solve? The She's On The Money team is here to help. Every week, we tackle your dilemmas, both big and small, to answer your most burning money,
Starting point is 00:12:38 career and life questions. To get involved, simply head to our website and leave us a short voice recording and you might just find yourself on the show. Now, let's take a listen to this week's money dilemma. Hi girls, I've made the decision this year to pursue my dream of starting my side hustle, which I'm so excited about. But as I've started doing research into everything, I'm realizing that it's a super big investment. I do have the money saved, but I'm finding I have a bit of a mental block parting with the money thinking that I may not get it back. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks. Oh, good one. I like that our listener used the word investing
Starting point is 00:13:12 in their side hustle because I feel like that kind of aligns with what they're saying about not knowing if the money is going to come back or not, which is kind of true for any investment that you make. But I feel like, Jaz, you have so much to kind of share on this. I would love to hear how you decided that it was time to take that jump. Did you have the same kind of feelings about investing in what may have been a side hustle to start off with? Absolutely. Okay. I do have so many thoughts about this. First of all, I just want to tell this person to do it and I'll give some tips about overcoming that mental block in a second, but do it. Don't hold back. You're not going to regret it. If you're in the same place in a year's time and you didn't invest in
Starting point is 00:13:51 and try to do this, you're going to regret it. So 100% go and do it is one of those things that even if this isn't the thing, it's going to get you a step closer to the thing. And that is always worth investing in. But in terms of actually overcoming that mental block for me, I worked full time while doing my side hustle and made sure that what I was investing into the business was what I could genuinely afford. So it really took the pressure off in that way. And I also built the business to be profitable from the beginning. And if you're somebody who has an inventory-based business, you're selling a physical product, that can be difficult because product is expensive to get started. You may be doing some branding and you have to put some
Starting point is 00:14:37 money up front, but you have to understand the numbers there to realize, okay, if I sell this many products within this amount of time, or if I get this many clients within this amount of time, I'm going to be profitable. I think that there's so much content out there right now that is actually geared towards these big companies that have investors and venture backing and they're talking about grow at all costs and get as many customers as you can. And it's just not the right advice for most of us building businesses and side hustles. We need to be thinking about that profitability and really the practical stuff about how do I support my life or how do I actually add more money to my life through this venture. And so make sure all of that math is mathing
Starting point is 00:15:20 before you do that. That is such a good call. The math's got a math or it's not going to work. The math has got a math. Yes. Bec, I know that you haven't necessarily leapt into side hustling, but I'm interested to see what you think about the idea of being brave enough almost to take that step. This is something I do say, and I had said this a couple of weeks ago when I was talking about like moving to Melbourne and like career wise climbing a ladder. If you're starting at the bottom of a ladder, make sure it's one you want to climb or rather than being like halfway up, you don't really feel any passionate about. So I guess my thing is like similar to what you're
Starting point is 00:15:58 saying. Let's say, for example, myself, I am going to be 40 at some point. If I wanted to start something, what I'm telling myself is I can either be 40 with X, say 40 with a small business, 40 with more experience in kind of growing a business or running a business or whatever that might be 40 and let's say for example I want to you know take up an instrument or something either way I'm going to be 40 and do I want to get there and still be wanting that or do I want to get there and be like a couple years into nine years into the thing that I'm trying to get you comfortable with and learn about and skilled in and things like that. Does that make sense? Yeah, 100%.
Starting point is 00:16:43 Yeah, the time is going to pass anyway. So do the thing. Exactly. That is such a good way to say it. I said it the longest way possible. That's why she is the expert. She's the expert. I think for me, I really like what you said about doing it on the side. We have our segment called The Business Bible that we do episodes every month that is specifically aimed at small business and side hustlers because as you were saying, Jazz, there's so much content out there for people who want to grow and scale and be huge, but not a lot of support for people who are maybe just trying to
Starting point is 00:17:17 make a bit of extra cash or they have this dream, but they can't afford to go all in. They need to do it on the side and they've still got to support themselves and their family. And we spoke a few weeks ago about how sometimes you need to just take the risk, but do it safely. So start doing on the side of your full-time job. Start investing small amounts that you can afford to lose because any investment involves risk. Investing in a business is just like investing in the share, maybe not just like investing in the share market, but it still comes with that risk. And you're totally right. There is a chance that it won't work. But if that's the case, I think that there's something that you can take from that. Most businesses have failures before
Starting point is 00:17:59 they have successes. And I'd be really interested to know if you had any experiences like that when you were starting to build out your business where, you know, something went wrong and you kind of had the option of throwing in the towel or, you know, taking it as a learning and improving and continuing to build? Did something like that happen? Yeah. I would also say like all businesses have failures, but all business owners have failures. I have multiple failed businesses that didn't work out before I got to the one that is now, you know, actually be able to pay for my life and is growing year over year and is, you know, reaching lots of people. I had a beauty company and it was called The Buff. I started it back in 2016. Oh my God. I remember The Buff.
Starting point is 00:18:42 Yeah, that was me. Whoa. I did not know that. Yeah. I started it back in 2016. We were one of the first customized beauty brands out there. Now they're everywhere. And I built that business, you know, within a week of launching, I was in vogue and this was, I was labeling, hand labeling these products. And it was very bootstrapped. And in the end, there was a lot happening in the space. The business couldn't keep up with competition. I didn't have the skills that I needed to be able to do it. And I had to close the business. And that was devastating in so many ways. Personally, I put myself out there. Financially, I'd put so much money into it. And I was just like, how am I going to come back from this? And what does this mean to me
Starting point is 00:19:22 personally, financially, professionally. And then out of that came what I'm doing now and have been doing for the last few years, which is female founder world, which is a much better business and way more suited to me and much more profitable. But if I hadn't done the first one, I never would have got here. And I could not have predicted that this is where I would have ended up and all of the things that I'm doing now, I learned through the fire of entrepreneurship. And so I really think that those big failures are actually learnings and you need to take the long view when it comes to having a side hustle or starting a new venture or project and really committing to that as like a life rather than maybe like just one idea.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Can I ask, this might be a little bit personal, but, and feel free to obviously, we can change it. But can I ask, when you had that experience, when the buff hit the point where you were like point of no return. It's not sustainable. I can't do it anymore. How did you reconcile, I guess, with yourself that you were going to take a hit? You were going to take a loss. You said you invested a lot financially. You had invested your time. I imagine there was probably a little bit of embarrassment because you'd been in vogue and then all of a sudden to have to turn around and go, oh, actually we're closing down. It sounds like our listener is nervous
Starting point is 00:20:42 about the potential failure. How did you navigate through that failure? Because it was an experience that you had, but you came out the other side and now you're thriving. What did it look like to get from A to B? Honestly, it was talking with other people doing the same thing. And I think this is applicable to, yes, if you're in business and having that community of other business owners around you, but anything that you want to do, go and surround yourself with other people who are doing it because they'll be getting, having the same challenges, getting the same knockbacks and they're the ones that really hold your hand and walk you through it and help kind of normalize the challenges and the ups and downs or whatever the thing is that you're pursuing that you've
Starting point is 00:21:21 committed to. I was, you know, I didn't have a great community of founders around me and that's one of the reasons why I started Female Founder World, but I was just reaching out to people on Instagram. And then I was doing Zoom calls with the ones who would, and I was kind of talking it through. And so many of them had had failed businesses before they did the thing that I knew them for and that I had idolized them for and that they had built kind of their dream life. Many of them had failed businesses before they did that. And so I think just having that visibility and really seeing that other people had been where I had been and normalizing that, I think was such a big thing. So I think that this listener should go and find other people who
Starting point is 00:22:04 are doing a small business in a similar area that she is and get them in her orbit in some way, because it'll just normalize so many of these challenges that she's going to face. That is awesome advice. I don't mean to do a full 180 away from this incredible wisdom that you're just dropping on all of us, but we do have a very fun segment now. It's arguably, I would say, would you say our favorite bit of the week? Yeah, our favorite bit of the week for sure. lives for this segment and it's where we chat through our community DMs. So let me tell you what our listener said this week. Hey girls, I have a dilemma. So I had to give away one of my
Starting point is 00:22:40 beautiful dogs, unfortunately, as he was not getting along with my other dog and the situation had become too hard. My brother-in-law and his partner offered to take the dog, which was the perfect outcome. They've had the dog for about five months now and all has been going well until the other day that they text me saying they had got the dog de-sexed and asked me to transfer them $500. I was shocked that they asked me for this. I never asked them to get him de-sexed and it was their decision to do this. Also, since they are now his owners, I thought they would have taken the financial responsibility of the dog on. I'm not too sure what to say. I don't think that I should have to pay for this. What do you think? Anybody got some thoughts? Well, what do you think
Starting point is 00:23:27 Jaz? Okay. I have really strong thoughts. Also, my dad is a vet and I have a very, yes. So I feel like I have a perspective here and I get very worked up about people not taking responsibility for their pets. New owners are the new owners. They have taken responsibility. It'd be different maybe if there was like some underlying condition that they had known about and, and agreed to something. But if you take on the responsibility of having a pet, that includes a financial responsibility and it was their decision to get the dog desexed. So I really, really believe that it's on them. And you don't want to set a precedent because what happens in five years when that dog needs something else, are they going to come back asking for more help? I don't know. I wouldn't be,
Starting point is 00:24:11 I wouldn't be transferring that $500. That's for sure. I completely agree. And desexing, I feel like is something that it's you really need unless you're planning on having your pet have puppy well not puppies but having kids effectively that feels weird to say but unless you're unless you're planning on having your pet procreate you need to be getting a desex it's like a basic health thing it's a you know if they get out and they you don't want your dog populating everywhere the dog on the no totally I feel like that's such a standard expense too like you said it's not as if it it was a shock that came out of nowhere yeah i guess like maybe and i but i am on your side both of your side because i definitely think the new owner should be paying for this
Starting point is 00:24:51 absolutely i guess though because it is a standard expense one that you almost expect to already have happened and then you receive the pet and like it hasn't been de-sexed then you might be like you might be inclined to say hey what the hell like why Why do you do this already? I see. You think that they assumed that the dog was de-sexed when they got it. That's what I'm thinking. That, I think, is the missing context here because it's the only thing I'm thinking.
Starting point is 00:25:19 Otherwise, like, any other vet bill, any other anything, maybe microchip, I'm not sure if that's a thing with dogs. You would just have to transfer it, I think, assuming the original owner had chipped their pet. Sure, okay. But, yeah, if it's something that's, like, necessary, that hasn't been done, you give the dog away. But even then, definitely the new owner should be paying for it. That's something I do not disagree with.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Yeah, it's bizarre that this is the first time that they're asking for money, which almost sways me to think that you might be right, because if they were expecting expenses to be covered, it sounds like they haven't asked for food costs to be covered or anything like that, which is really interesting. But what we do is we ask our community a few questions to get their input because they're very smart. And so we said, firstly, who do you think should pay for this?
Starting point is 00:26:03 5% of people said the old dog owner. 95% of people said the new dog owner. Then we asked, do you think the financial responsibility of the dog became the brother's when he offered to take it? 97% of people said yes, 100%. 3% of people said no, he was doing her a favour in looking after it, which I don't necessarily think he's doing her a favour. He agreed to become the owner, but. Yeah, not looking after it, really just owning it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Next we said, do you think being a pet owner is a big financial commitment? And 99% of people said yes and 1% of people said no. And I want to know what the 1% of people were thinking. I am dying to know. They've never had a pet. No. Or, like, what are they skimping out on? Like, are they just, like, not feeding them or something?
Starting point is 00:26:51 Literally, my cats have stomach problems, so now they eat $6 tins of cat food. Ridiculous. Pets are little money pits sometimes. Lastly, we asked, on average, how much would you spend on your pet in a year? 5% of people said $100 to $500. 27% of people said $500 to $1,000.
Starting point is 00:27:11 42% of people said $1,000 to $2,000. And 26% said $2,000 or more. Wow, wow, wow. So the majority of people are spending upwards of $1,000 on their pets annually, which doesn't surprise me as a pet owner. Then we said to everybody, give us your two cents. And so a few people sent us their thoughts. I'm excited for this.
Starting point is 00:27:34 it always gets a little bit interesting doesn't it so somebody said it sounds like the poster bought from a backyard breeder oh no I don't care I don't know why they I think maybe they think because it was de-sexed I think a lot of the time if you get them if you get them from shelters I'm pretty sure and Jazz you probably know better than me here they come de-sexed don't they like it is it a requirement that they need to be I think so it does sound unusual for the dog not to be de-sexed unless she got it really young. Yeah. Well, and somebody else has said responsible dog owners de-sex their pets. Owner number one should have done this in the first place. Sure. There's actually a lot of people that have said it was irresponsible to
Starting point is 00:28:16 rehome a dog that wasn't de-sexed. It's very unusual to have a dog that's not de-sexed. So an interesting bit of context there that I feel like we're missing. I'd be curious to know why it wasn't de-sexed in the first place or where it came from. Somebody else has said if the new owners have the pet registered to them, it is legally their property and therefore their responsibility, which I think is kind of the sentiment that we were leaning towards a little bit, which is you're a mum, do the mum things. And someone did actually say being a dog mum or owner is an immense privilege that comes with a huge financial and emotional tax, which I think is a really good point to make. Lots of people are just saying pets are for life,
Starting point is 00:28:55 pets are expensive if you take on that responsibility you take it on for better or worse you don't know what's going to happen and so whether it's de-sexing or whether it's treatments for some kind of illness or whether it's extremely expensive cat food that's on you as the owner now to bear how would you approach the conversation is my next question what would you say to your or to our listeners brother-in-law I think the simple thing here is you should have had the conversation with me beforehand before you did it. If you were expecting me to pay for it or pay for part of it instead of hitting it up after the fact. I totally agree with that because you could be in any, like, you know, you're probably thinking that now I don't have to
Starting point is 00:29:38 budget for this pet as well. You wouldn't have the money to just like throw away 500 bucks to sex this dog that you don't even own anymore, you know? So I feel like, yeah, how would you have that conversation, I guess just maybe send them this exact episode so that they know that it's kind of universally agreed upon that they should be paying for this. But yes, they probably should have asked ahead of time before taking on the dog, is it de-sexed? You can't assume these things. You never know. So I get it. Like I get it. You want, you assume that it's going to be de-sexed and microchipped and whatever else. I haven't owned a dog in my adult life, so I don't really know all this stuff but you assume that's going to be there you assume it's going to happen
Starting point is 00:30:20 already the fact that it wasn't it's unfortunate you still got to pay for it yeah very interesting we'll pop a post up on instagram let us know what you think i think it's a tough one because i kind of do see both sides of the story now but i think ultimately you're a pet owner you've got to do what you've got to do to look after it and you know they're a part of the family and sometimes that means spending a lot of money for things you don't want to spend a lot of money on agreed I think that's the perfect place to leave it. Jaz, thank you so much for joining us. If people want to find you, where can they go?
Starting point is 00:30:51 Yes. Find me at femalfounderworld.com, femalfounderworld on Instagram or TikTok or my personal Instagram. I spend a lot of time on there. It's at Jazmine Gadsworthy. Incredible. She shares so much wonderful content. And if you haven't listened to the original episode that Victoria and Jaz did together, I highly recommend giving it a listen.
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