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Most 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 think
The parental gap in teaching kids about finance
Tips for reducing financial stress in everyday life
Why early education changes future wellbeing
How money confidence fuels performance and resilience
Why “action beats everything” when it comes to change
Time Stamps
00:11-16:32 Meet Ben Bolger
16:32-17:00 Why Squirrel Education
17:00-19:32 Engaged Education, Early Intervention
19:33-20:54 Parental Kid Finance Gap
20:55-21:22 The Worlds Waking Up
21:51 -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 happiness
31:33 - 32:55 Ben’s personal experience with money
32:55 -35:54 Personal Development as force for good
35:54 - 37:15 Fulfilment
37:15 - 42:39 Staying Balanced and Not Burning Out
42:40 - 47:34 Action Beats Everything
47:35 - 45:22 Moral Ambition
45:22 - 46:24 Wrap Up
46:24 - 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:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-bolger/
