Kia ora, welcome!

We’ve been on a five-year journey to explore the link between our psychology and our finances. 

We’re keen to keep learning and growing this work in community, to support women to have more choice, financial freedom and fun. Please join us.

Our mission? Use what we’ve learned to support other women to enjoy a better relationship with money and greater financial wellbeing. Together, we created Hi Money.

Why? 

We’re tired of women retiring in poverty
and all that bullshit. We’re tired of it for ourselves. And we’re tired of it for others. We want to support women to have as much freedom as possible—particularly financial freedom.

We started this journey by lamenting our own relationships to money. They were complicated, tense, weird and fraught. As we explored—just by chatting casually, applying a few simple therapeutic tools and having a few jokes, things started to change. What was going on? All we’d done was gotten a little bit clearer about how we felt about money. Then we asked ourselves what really mattered to us. Was it treats, more shoes and shots of tequila? Or was it more time and space? Or the ability to study and learn things? Or the resources to support our families and communities better? Or what?

These gentle questions seemed to open up a whole world of natural and easy changes for us. We didn’t try too hard. Things just began to change. Excited, we went deeper, applying more advanced therapeutic tools. And the results got even better.

We wondered, might other women find this useful?

So we tested it with hundreds of women around Aotearoa. We heard lots of laughing, as well as women telling us they’d discovered something really useful about their relationships with money. We even heard of radical changes in wellbeing, huge shifts in attitude and a new desire to learn, understand and master the world of money.

So, here it is—Hi Money!

Inside is everything we’ve harvested and collected, everything that’s been useful in transforming our and others’ relationships with money so far.

It’s an 12-part online course, designed to be explored however you like. With some big shared, community zooms, because it’s always fun to do the mahi together.

Meet your instructors

Ange Meyer

Gender equity specialist.
Mama.
FSC Emerging Trailblazer ‘23.

Why this? Why now? I’ve had loans that I had no idea how I was going to repay. I never, ever thought I would buy a house. I put myself in some pretty dodgy situations just to make ends meet. 

For most of my life, I had very little understanding of money. I didn’t want to think about money, but I desperately wanted more of it. I guess a lot of this came from fear and shame and not ever really getting clear about my relationship with money. 

Then, I did some work for an Australian Super Fund. It was a crash course in all things money. It opened up a whole new world for me. And all the mahi I do with Project Gender showed that me women are having a really hard time with money. 

I’m angry that women are often the ones that miss out. I really want to make sure that all women have an opportunity to feel good about their relationship with money. 

Rach and I started talking, we were playing around and decided to have a conversation with money. Something clicked. I got it. I felt it. 

Like Rach, I am so thankful we had that conversation. It’s changed my life. I hope that Hi Money helps you explore and change your relationship with money. Plus, I love the idea of flooding the patriarchy with loads of financially-free women. :) 

Thanks for joining us.  

Rach Davies

Therapist.
Consultant.
Facilitator.

I’ve had all sorts of different kinds of relationships with money.

A while back, I’d started earning again after a long period of being broke. I started buying myself treats—whatever I wanted, all the time. I didn’t want to think about money. I wanted a rest from having to sweat every cent.

This reckless spending went on for ages. If I’d thought clearly, I might have realised that what I really wanted wasn’t more treats or clothes or fancy kai. It was something more meaningful. But I didn’t think. I avoided it.

Then Ange and I did one of these Hi Money explorations. In one simple, short “conversation with money”, I suddenly realised what I was doing. And that I was ready to do something else. My whole attitude changed right then! From that moment, I started using and thinking about money really differently. It was amazing.

I’m so grateful for that conversation. And for everything I’ve learned in exploring and developing this Hi Money course.

I hope you find many, many things that are revelatory, useful and fun in your exploration of Hi Money. Most of all, I hope you find plenty of financial freedom and choice.

I’m really glad you’re here!


Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome to Hi Money!