Home featured Featured Featured How Tammy Barton built a $34 million a year business Gali Blacher October 26, 2018 Tammy Barton, is an inspirational business woman who now has a $34-million-a-year business. Barton founded MyBudget in 1999 after witnessing the devastating impact debt can have on people’s lives. Today, MyBudget is a financial services company turning over $34 million a year dedicated to reducing financial stress in the community by freeing people from their money worries. In 2017, she won the Telstra South Australian Business Woman of the Year, a program that empowers and celebrates women who have achieved success in business by doing things differently. Dynamic Business had a chat to Barton about her journey in business and how she got to where she is today. How did you start MyBudget? I was 22 and worked at a legal firm where I witnessed the impact of financial hardship on clients who had little understanding about how to control their money. I started at my kitchen table showing friends and family how to put a budget together. This evolved into a business where clients would give me their pay cheque, I would pay their bills for them and then give them back a budgeted amount of money for living expenses. For a lot of people, it was the first time in their lives their finances were under control. Word spread from there. How did you receive the initial funding? MyBudget was entirely bootstrapped. I didn’t draw a wage and I