Keep The Change

‘’Invest in yourself’’, ‘’The best investment you can make is in yourself!’’. We’ve all heard these sayings but not everyone is interested in this. These sayings are almost thrown around so much that I don’t think people believe it to be true anymore. I got me thinking, why? Because so many smart, wealthy, happy and experienced people say things like this. Hey thanks for listening! Please take som...

Join James Blair from Lighthouse Financial for an interactive webinar where we go through the fundamental wealth principles you need to know to successfully start on your wealth creation journey. This webinar is all about the psychological concepts you need to understand to become financially bulletproof. The 10 commandments: Understand your motivation for wealth creation Plans are nothing, planni...

A recent Keep The Change Instagram poll revealed that a lot of people are questioning their recent decisions to buy a property. In this podcast we review why you didn’t have the info that you have now and how your thinking could be very normal. Perhaps you have buyer's remorse but zoom out and think longer term. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t jus...

Something a little different today, Luke sits down with Shane from lateral lawyers and answers a few of his questions about his journey and what that has led to over the last 7 years, hopefully you can learn something from this. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Kee...

Now that a number of you hate me after suggesting last week's income exercise, I thought I would keep that theme going. Did you know that your purchasing power decreased 15% in 3 years? This is why you really do need to understand inflation! At 11.59pm on March 25, 2020 , New Zealand shut down. Remember that? Regardless of what you believe to have caused inflation, know that it has been compoundin...

If you are in business or looking to make some extra cash then have a look at this framework to think about how you are going to need to position your solution to people whilst the economy is contracting. This is a Sabri Suby's idea around making sure that you can still sell things in a recession. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer...

For many mortgage holders your interest rates will be rolling off in the next six months and you have a decision to make. I ask Mikey what people should be thinking about when it comes to rates, changing banks, and certainty. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepth...

Imagine knowing what you’ve earned for the last 8 financial years combined? Well ya can! Uh oh. Do you really want to know? The IRD will let you run a report of your income summary online going right back to the 1st of April 2015. If you’re brave, go back and look at your income through the years. Who's keen? Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just b...

We’ve learnt about what Tama does and why he’s doing it. Now he’s on a journey to teach other people to do the same thing. I ask him how we know if this is our thing and where to start if we want to get into flipping property. Tama explains why starting small and learning the skills is the most valuable piece of the journey, then it’s just rinse and repeat. Find out how much Tama has made through...

This is a listener request from somebody who has everything a lot of people would love to have but is still feeling stuck. We dive into how to think about this differently and think about designing your life plus the seasons that go through that life as well. This will be really helpful for so many people so please listen to this one. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from...

Plenty of people are excited about inflation decreasing but you still need to understand the long-term impacts of inflation. This episode will show you what the devaluation of the New Zealand currency looks like and once you know, you’ll need to figure out what you will do to protect your money longer term. This is critical to understand if you want to look after your finances in the long run. Thi...

Recently you may have seen more stories about businesses going into ‘liquidation’, which can be tricky to understand. We are going to go over some basics of what liquidation is and how it can happen. Liquidation is effectively winding up the operations of a business and selling or distributing the assets of the business to cover the debts that it owes (to what are called creditors). Hey thanks for...

Luke’s partner is back in the studio to bring another top 10 podcast to your ears. In this podcast we discuss why it’s important to run your own race and not compare yourself to your partner, your friends, or the people you're following on social media. As always the conversation gets a little but tense when some of our relationship differences start coming to the forefront. Enjoy this one! Hey th...

If you’re heading for a wedding or somewhere where you need to provide a gift, there’s a high chance that you’re questioning what is enough? The ole ‘my presence is your present’ doesn’t really cut it at a wedding does it? I found a NZ poll from 2017 where 5,600 people voted and 67% of people said they would take $100 or less to a wedding as a gift. Now that the money printers have had their way w...

What would it take for you to make $1 million per year? Chances are you don't know right now but if you have the right information we are sure that that's exactly what you would do and you wouldn't stay in your $50,000 job so let's explore exactly how we need to be thinking differently to get on a different path and increase what we earn and what we save. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some...

48 property flips in 2 years and never once lost money. How the hell does one person manage this? I sit down with Tama Singh and find out what sparked this interest in property flipping and what is driving him. Tama lets us in on a time management secret he’s never spoken about which will shock you. I ask him whether you need a background in property or can anyone follow this journey? I ask all of...

The latest official cash rate announcement came out today and some good news for people with it not moving at all. This was no surprise because last time they told us it wouldn't move, but will it go up in the future? What's all of these tax changes from the government all about? Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a produce...

Is that what we really are? We’ve been trained to be like this from a young age and history supports this. No wonder so few of us think. OR set goals. OR have a vision. Not you though, you know the importance of having those things in your life and we explore a clip explaining exactly this. Enjoy! Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer...

An insight to the tremendous doco 'Stutz' now playing on Netflix. I won’t ruin it for you and go into too much detail, but please go and learn from one of the most expensive psychotherapists who you’d normally not get access to. Let’s just explore 2 concepts I picked up during the documentary: Part X & The Maze. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t...

Is now a bad time to switch providers? What about funds? How much should I contribute? Will the government steal it all? To clear debt or contribute to KiwiSaver? Adam Stewart runs CompoundWealth.co.nz and lives and breathes KiwiSaver so we get stuck into some FAQ’s and myths around KiwiSaver. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, be...

’50% of people won’t get out of bed’ - D Sullivan. You’ll compete with less people during a low growth period because people will simply find it too hard and won’t be bothered. The good thing is you don’t need to reinvent the wheel, you need to be practical. Here’s how… Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make su...

We get access to Centrix's June credit data reports and have a look at who is overdue on their Buy Now Pay Later and credit card's and what we should be thinking about if we are still using those YUCK tools that get pushed down our throats all the time. Enjoy! Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re...

Today marks the 1/2 way point of 2023. Ya kidding me, how has that happened? So far this year it’s been 6 months of a gentle economic grind down. I get the sense most people are finding things tricky and we haven’t seen a massive reprieve from things like inflation and interest rates, but we are all staying in the fight. Many people are now paying higher interest rates for mortgages, food is still...

We get Adam back in the studio to help us understand what we don’t know about KiwiSaver. How big is it going to get? What’s up with all of these new DIY Kiwisavers, good or bad? It seemed so simple but now there seems to be a lot of choice. Adam Stewart runs CompoundWealth.co.nz and lives and breathes this space. Get learning. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this con...

Smith ( GuardianSmith.co.nz ) NZ’s greatest opportunity. To turn self employed people into business owners. Luke runs Mikey through some business statistics that will shock a lot of you. Many people work for large businesses and assume that’s what everyone else’s life must be like. Incorrect. Let’s explore! Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be...