Neurodivergent Money Management | Budgeting, Debt-free, Savings, Income, Executive Function, Burnout

About Neurodivergent Money Management | Budgeting, Debt-free, Savings, Income, Executive Function, Burnout

Are you constantly spending to cope with stress, even after promising yourself you wouldn't? Does opening bills, letters, or financial reminders instantly trigger overwhelm or shame? Is sticking to a budget a struggle, even though you know you earn enough? Do money thoughts leave you feeling guilty, anxious, or like you're always “behind” in life? If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place. Neurodivergent Money Management is the podcast that helps you finally feel calmer, clearer, and more in control of your finances. Here, you’ll learn how to: ✨ pay off debt without shame ✨ budget in a way your brain can actually follow ✨ reduce emotional and impulsive spending ✨ build savings you can rely on ✨ feel genuinely less anxious about money I’m Esther Bangura, your host — financial coach for neurodivergent adults. I spent years trapped in a vicious debt cycle, constantly overspending, constantly stressed, and constantly feeling like I was failing at something everyone else seemed to manage easily. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult that everything finally made sense. I tried all the same things you’ve probably tried too — strict budget spreadsheets, colour-coded tracking apps, discipline, willpower, “no-spend days.” None of it worked. Not because I wasn’t trying hard enough, but because I was using systems built for neurotypical brains. Everything changed when I realised I needed to: 💛 manage my anxiety around money 💛 interrupt stress-spending before it spirals 💛 build a money routine that works with my brain, not against it When I did that, I reduced my stress spending, became more organised with my finances, and eventually became completely debt-free. And now? I’m here to help you do the same. Neurodivergent Money Management features both solo teaching episodes and guest interviews, covering ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia through a shame-free, brain-friendly money lens. If you’re ready to get 1:1 support to understand your money stressors, reframe your anxiety around money, and finally become debt-free — (https://estherbangura.com/coaching)Apply for 1:1 Neurodivergent and Money Coaching. (https://estherbangura.com/coaching) Your brain works differently. Your money can too.

Publisher

Esther Bangura | ADHD & Neurodivergent Executive Function Finance Expert

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Aug 2025

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

99 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   98 | ADHD and Executive Dysfunction: Only Have 5 Minutes for Your Money Day?

   ADHD and executive dysfunction can make a money system stop after a few weeks. Here is how to keep your Money Day going when you only have 5 minutes, without starting over. You notice you have skipped your money check in. 2 days, then a week. Quietly, you decide it is over, and you will start again next month. Learn how to build a 5 minute version of your money system, so a low week means switching down instead of giving up. In this episode, Esther Bangura, financial coach for neurodivergent adults, explains what executive dysfunction is in plain language, and why discipline, motivation and building habits work differently with ADHD. She shares how her own Friday Money Day keeps running on low capacity days, with gears from 5 minutes to 3 hours, and how it handles starting, planning, switching and changing the plan in advance. In her survey of 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK, 80 per cent said they overspend when they are stressed. You will also hear how to find your own 5 minute list by noticing which small money tasks leave you calm and in control. Highlights What executive dysfunction is, and why discipline, motivation and habits take a different route with ADHD. How one Money Day can have gears, from 5 minutes to 3 hours, so a low week does not end the system. How to find your own 5 minute list by noticing which small money tasks leave you calm and in control. Work with me If you are tired of starting over every month, I would love to work with you. Ninety minute one to one coaching session. We build your Money Day and your 5 minute list together, and set up anything that needs setting up, so you leave with it finished rather than planned. https://estherbangura.com/coaching Links and resources PocketSmith, the budgeting app I use myself and with my clients. Get 50% off the PocketSmith Foundation Monthly plan for the first two months: https://my.pocketsmith.com/redeem?tap_a=77627-d2024d&ref=mzjlndb&code=50OFFPREMIUM-F4RG This is an affiliate link. If you sign up through it I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I use myself and with my clients. I am an official PocketSmith coach, listed in their coaching directory as a neurodivergent money coach. If signing up is easy but setting it up is the part that never happens, that is exactly the kind of thing we do together in a session. The ND Money Insider, my weekly newsletter. This week it includes my full Money Day list, from 5 minutes to an hour. https://estherbangura.com/newsletter The Neurodivergence and Money Report, the full findings from my research with 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK. https://estherbangura.com/nd-money-report Questions, feedback or reviews https://estherbangura.com/ask Related episodes 95 | ADHD and Budgeting: How to Build a Spending Plan (The Preparation Nobody Talks About) 81 | Burnout Proof Your Money: The Neurodivergent System That Keeps Your Bills Paid When Your Capacity Hits Zero 47 | Executive Dysfunction + Automation | Tools That Do the Work for Your Brain

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   14 Oct 2026

   97 | Dyslexia and Executive Function: The Reading Support You Get at Work and Never Get With Money

   Dyslexia and executive function: why you avoid financial admin like bills and mortgage paperwork, and how to get a second reader for the reading you have always done alone. At work, someone checks the figures before anything goes out. At home, the mortgage renewal pack sits on the table. Is it the 4th or the 14th? Nobody is there to ask. Why listen: you will understand why that paperwork keeps going back in the envelope, and leave with one free way to check your reading at home. Esther Bangura, financial coach for neurodivergent adults, explains why dyslexic adults so often put off financial admin, from bills to mortgage renewals, and why it has far more to do with reading and executive function than with laziness. Many dyslexic professionals have built reliable reading support at work: a colleague who checks, software that reads back, formal adjustments. At home, financial paperwork is often the highest stakes reading they ever do, and nobody checks it. Esther shares what research says about dyslexia and reading numbers, how working memory comes into it, and how the same avoidance looks different with ADHD, autism, dyspraxia and dyscalculia. In her survey of 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK, 76 per cent said they procrastinate on financial admin. Highlights Why avoiding financial admin with dyslexia is often a reasonable response to reading alone, rather than laziness. What research says about dyslexia and reading numbers, and how executive function and working memory make dense paperwork harder. How to use the read aloud tool already on your phone as a second reader, and what to do when the jargon still does not make sense. Work with me One client came to me wanting to get her financial house in order. In her first session we went through her financial documents together, and she went on to chase lost pension investments, get refunds back and set up a weekly money day she now enjoys. In my ninety minute one to one coaching session I am your second reader: we take the thing you have been circling and get it done together, so you leave with it finished rather than planned. https://estherbangura.com/coaching Links and resources PocketSmith, the budgeting app I use myself and with my clients. Get 50% off the PocketSmith Foundation Monthly plan for the first two months: https://my.pocketsmith.com/redeem?tap_a=77627-d2024d&ref=mzjlndb&code=50OFFPREMIUM-F4RG This is an affiliate link. If you sign up through it I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I use myself and with my clients. The ND Money Insider, my weekly newsletter https://estherbangura.com/newsletter The Neurodivergence and Money Report, the full findings from my research with 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK https://estherbangura.com/nd-money-report Questions, feedback or reviews https://estherbangura.com/ask Related episodes 79 | Struggling to Face Your Debt Letters? How to Get Debt-Free as a Dyslexic Adult 64 | Dyslexia and Mortgages: Navigating Complex Financial Systems with Rosemary Ndekwu 51 | Dyslexia Money Management: Three Dyslexia-Friendly Money Solutions

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   12 Oct 2026

   96 | Dyscalculia and Savings: Stop Counting Pounds, Start Counting Nights

   Dyscalculia and savings: how to save for a holiday, a car or an emergency fund when the number never lands, by counting nights, rides and weeks instead of pounds or dollars. You open your savings pot. You see the target. And you feel nothing at all. It could be a lot or a little. You honestly cannot tell. So you close the app and promise yourself you will deal with it next month. You will learn one simple way to save that takes the heaviness out of the numbers. In this episode, Esther Bangura, financial coach for neurodivergent adults, explains why savings goals so often fall apart for dyscalculic brains, and why it is not a lack of discipline. In her survey of 279 neurodivergent adults, about 73 per cent said shame affects how they manage money, and for many people with dyscalculia, often alongside dyslexia and ADHD, that shame began in a maths lesson long before the first bank account. She shares why planning ahead, tracking across accounts and financial apps can feel so overwhelming, then walks through a practical savings method: name the goal by the thing, give it a picture, and count nights, rides or weeks instead of pounds or dollars, with worked examples for a holiday, a car and an emergency fund. Highlights Why a savings target written as a number never feels like progress for many dyscalculic brains, and where the shame really starts. The count the thing method: naming your savings pot, adding a photo, and counting down nights or rides instead of money. Why an emergency fund is the hardest goal to picture, and how counting weeks of breathing room makes it real. Work with me If you keep pushing your savings goal to next year and quietly wondering what is wrong with you, nothing is. You were never given a way to save that makes sense to your brain. Ninety minute one to one coaching session. We work out the number underneath your nights, rides or weeks together and set up your first transfer while we are in the session, so you leave with your savings started rather than planned. estherbangura.com/coaching Links and resources PocketSmith The budgeting app I use myself and with my clients. 50% off the Foundation Monthly plan for the first two months. https://my.pocketsmith.com/redeem?tap_a=77627-d2024d&ref=mzjlndb&code=50OFFPREMIUM-F4RG Affiliate link, at no extra cost to you. The ND Money Insider, my weekly newsletter estherbangura.com/newsletter The Neurodivergence and Money Report The full findings from my research with 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK. estherbangura.com/nd-money-report Questions, feedback or reviews estherbangura.com/ask Related episodes 89 | Debt Payoff Strategies for Dyscalculia: When Numbers Never Feel Real! 74 | Sick of Spreadsheets That Don't Work for Dyscalculia? Try Budgeting in Words Instead 70 | How To Build £1000 Savings With A Neurodivergent Brain Using 8 Steps

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