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When learning new things, be it a language, a skill and/or a trade, it can sometimes prove difficult and at times very challenging.

For many learning about personal finance, the economy and money – how it works, and how to make it work harder for you, can be daunting and disingenuous due to our understanding of and interest in the subject(s); as well as our limiting beliefs with money and ultimately our relationship with it because of those beliefs.

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Women and their money! This is what  Cherry‘s Cash Dilemmas on BBC3 was all about! Where Cherry Healey, a highly dynamic and down to earth presenter, travelled around the country (UK) looking at women’s relationship with money.

‘She goes to meet women with very different experiences of the folding stuff (money), from a self-made millionaire to a woman on the breadline. Cherry experiences for herself what it’s like to eat from a bin when she spends time with a freegan and gets a complete WAG makeover from a girl on a mission to bag a rich husband. Cherry’s journey takes her around the country as she finds out how financially-independent women really are and if cash can make us happy.’

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