Ruby Wax: 'You learn more about someone through their relationship with money than sex'

IFW Conference

Sophie King
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Comedian and mental health advocate Ruby Wax has said we can tell a lot more about people through their relationship with money than having sex with them.

Speaking at the Initiative for Financial Wellbeing's (IFW) annual Financial Wellbeing Conference on Wednesday (26 May), Wax (pictured), who has a master's degree in cognitive behavioural therapy from Oxford University, spoke about financial wellbeing and the pressure society might face to have a lot of money. She said that mental threat is as big as physical threat. "We do judge ourselves for things that are signposted within our culture, it's not our fault. We're judging ourselves on how we look probably more than any time than before.  "The competition never stops and it's seriously...

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