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Sister Wives star says family was ‘poor’ before fame – ‘poverty mindset’ to ‘get-rich-quick schemes’
Sister Wives star says family was ‘poor’ before fame – ‘poverty mindset’ to ‘get-rich-quick schemes’
Sister Wives star Madison Brush is lifting the lid on her family’s past financial situation. The reality star takes to the airwaves on her podcast, The Authentic Society, this winter. Madison has appeared on the TLC series for years and she and her mom, Janelle Brown, are teaming up this season and moving away from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Many Sister Wives stans will already know how Janelle and her daughter Madison are opting for farm life this season. The ladies have ventured away from some of their other family members and opened Taeda Farms. As Madison expands her family this year, she’s also looking back on her own upbringing, including her dad’s apparent love of a “get-rich-quick scheme.”
Madison Brush delves into ‘poverty mindset’
Speaking to her Authentic Society co-host, Jayme Byrd Langley, Maddie gets talking about her family’s lack of money growing up.
“I think that we inherit so much of our thought processes about money from our parents,” she tells Jayme.
Maddie continues: “My dad always chose a get-rich-quick scheme, almost always. And that was something that was such a foreign thought to Caleb.”
Talking about “poverty mindset” and how she and her husband, Caleb, navigate their finances, Madison adds: “When we got our tax returns when I was younger, my parents immediately spent it on something.”
“Caleb’s family, they were both educated and they did not. They saved it. They saved every penny they could. It was very different than my parents,” she adds.
Madison says Kody loved a ‘get-rich-quick scheme’
These days, Maddie and Caleb are parents themselves, she says the idea of “get-rich-quick schemes,” was “such a weird concept” to her husband.
Jayme asks Maddie: “Before the show, did you grow up poor?”
The Sister Wives star explains: “Yeah. Before the show we were very poor. I think my dad made decent money but you have 15 kids… right?! A lot of kids, right?”
Speaking of her parents’ different jobs, Maddie adds: “…my dad was always in sign sales, and Christine usually did like stuff here or there, my mom, she worked for the state a lot of the time.”
Maddie says her mom, Janelle, also worked as a secretary before getting a degree.
“She was in between jobs when she got an accounting degree,” she explains.
Maddie adds how her dad, Kody Brown, was “always a sign salesman but always doing something” additional.
By the looks of things, fame turned the family’s finances around as Kody now has a reported net worth of $800,000 per Celebrity Net Worth.
Maddie doesn’t say she wishes her parents had “taught her better” when it comes to money, though.
“I don’t know,” she says, adding how her “mom is relatively good” with money.
She continues: “That’s why it’s so weird to me, because you’d think… I don’t know…”
Nowadays, Maddie explains she and her husband are focusing on “longevity” for their family.
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