You're not bad with money. You're responding to everything money has always meant - to women, to safety, to the question of whether you get to leave, stay, or choose. That tightness isn't a character flaw. It's data.
Every financial book written for women says budget harder. She's Giving Wealth says something else: the gender wealth gap is a design problem, not a personal failing - and a woman cannot build wealth from a threat state, because shame shuts down the exact part of the brain she needs in order to act.
Caitlin Bath started at fifteen on a Kmart checkout and built her first portfolio by twenty-one. No finance degree, no family money, and a childhood inside a fundamentalist community where women were not permitted to hold money. She built it anyway.
Through the Five Wealth Seasons, the Eight Wealth Archetypes and the Four Money Streams - and the true stories of fourteen women - this is a book about power as much as money.
The shame was never yours to carry. Your money. Your power. Yours.