Tammy Barton: The cost of hard - money, stress and the things that shape us.

Tammy Barton: What is hard? And who gets to decide?In this episode of Unpacked – When Life Happens, I sit down with Tammy Barton from My Budget for a conversation that goes far beyond budgeting and bank accounts.We talk about our relationship with money, financial stress, and the impact that growing up has on the way we see security, success and what we believe we can handle.Tammy also shares her experience of growing up alongside her brother who has a disability, and how that shaped her perspective on life.Because sometimes the things we experience early in life become the measuring stick for everything that comes after.We talk about money. We talk about stress. We talk about family.And we unpack a question that stayed with me:What is hard?Because hard isn't always something we can compare.What feels overwhelming to one person might be something another person has learned to navigate. And sometimes, what makes us resilient isn't that life was easy — it's that we had to learn how to adapt to the life in front of us.A conversation about finances, family, perspective and the experiences that quietly shape who we become.