Keep The Change

Alli Kennedy is on a mission to help everyday Kiwis be educated on investing. She has created a board game for people to play to learn more about investing and needs your help to create the first 10,000 orders. In this podcast we discuss how Alli (22 years old) is having a crack at changing the wealth of the nation via her board game and seeking pre-orders plus companies to be involved to turn thi...

Recently I received an awesome message. A 12yo lad is out in his neighbourhood doing something we often talk about. Making an offer to transact. He offers to help and add value to his neighbourhood by solving problems. Wouldn’t it be nice to go back to that sort of mindset where you don’t fear as much as you do now, and you don’t care what people think about you? Let's explore how he is doing this...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. Wow! This could get interesting for you. An insight into some of the comments we often see on social media and whether all of them are true or conspiracies. We dig into the world economic forum and the great reset that we all keep hearing so much about. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action...

We all dream about the freedom of working for ourselves. Being your own boss. So when do we pull the trigger and do it? Are you entrepreneurial deep down? Hate your current role? Know your goals are bigger than your current career path? This will get you thinking about WHEN it might be time to have a crack at something else. This will become a pillar piece of content for people to get them moving...

My good mate Simon pops to Auckland for the All Blacks so I make him sit down for a podcast warm up to tell us about the state of infrastructure in NZ and how we could actually improve it. Simon hires nearly 50 staff and was thrown in the deep end to run the family business some years ago. You’ll learn about his journey, what he thinks of the economy and what economy/tax changes he thinks we will...

Apparently so. That is according to some people who message me and leave me comments. I know and see how tricky it is out there, so I can see what these people are trying to say. Maybe I am too much of a realistic optimist, but I can see better financial times in the future. However, I do believe it will get worse before it gets better. (Again, realistic optimist). So should we accept our fate and...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. When I put together the 30 in 30 podcast series, one of the most mentioned podcasts was around investing in yourself. Investing in businesses and deals seems complicated. It is something that not all of us are familiar with, but I like to remind people to keep it simple. Start by investing in yourself. Hey, tha...

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions from younger people who are looking to get into investing. This is exciting to see, but no matter their age, they probably shouldn’t be asking a random stranger on the internet what to do with their money. So I sat down with James Blair who is a Financial Advisor and the Wealth Director from Lighthouse Financial to discuss what we should be thinking abou...

The 30th of June meant that it was time to do my month-end process. Mapping out what money I have coming in during July vs what’s going to be going out. Then I go through and tally up all asset values + debt values. This process keeps my mind on my money, and I am more in check with where everything is at. However, this time, I had a feeling that my net worth would have gone backwards and by the t...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. Do you know that if you sell a business you shouldn't get taxed on this? We explain why and how you can think about this in terms of your side hustle. 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 Ma...

Mikey comes out swinging with a warning to the government and future governments, as well as councils that they need to be careful with all of these tax and rate increases (including inflation) because people are feeling it and we could lose them to other countries OR they may change their behaviour. We explore how this happens and go through some examples. We even TRY and find the odd solution. T...

I haven’t bought a L0tto ticket for some time. But I will admit, I had to be a part of that recent mega jackpot. I was hoping to win to figure out what it would be like to make $50milli in 2 mins. Then, how to handle it. It’s no secret that many people blitz through L0tto winnings and unexpected inheritances because they haven’t learned to be the person that knows how to handle that level of money...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. Why are people so obsessed with thinking they will have a better life when the system changes? Start by changing yourself instead. 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 Keethechange....

Listening is a skill and it’s becoming harder to do. We look at why that might be and how we can practise listening more than just hearing what we want to hear. It is easy to surround ourselves with what we want to hear but what if that isn’t helping us? We go through some examples where actually listening has been life changing.  I have a goal to help 100,000 Kiwis improve their financial li...

The unemployment rate is currently 4.3% at the end of March 2024. It is projected to rise to over 5%. This means tens of thousands of Kiwi who could still lose their jobs. You don’t want this to be you and I don’t either. But chances are it will happen to someone we know in our wider circles. I have already seen it happen in mine and this week I noticed more KTC followers mentioning redundancy. Bu...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. Dividends. Imputation credits. Withholding Tax. You name it, we break it down so that you can understand. A simple explanation of how dividends work and why you need to be aware it is income that will end up in your tax return. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t j...

Looking to buy your first home and have absolutely no idea where to start? Got a deposit but it’s not quite enough? Do your parents have equity in their property that you could use? Looking to get your first investment property? Slice have made it easy to navigate what can be a complex area which sees property, KiwiSaver, real estate, law and finance overlap. Slice have education and tools availab...

Each quarter the IRD release information about how many people owe them money and how much. If you've been listening to KTC for some time you'll know what I often refer to this as the data worth looking at because no one writes or talks about this. But it shows us how businesses are going out there in the economy. One of the interesting statistics is that 551,000 people owe the IRD. The number of...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. In this podcast we teach you everything you didn't get taught in school about why business is the most favoured way when it comes to tax rules. We explain why employees get the worst deal and explore some of the other types of investment like property. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action f...

The much anticipated tax changes have been announced. How exciting, for the first time in my career, everyone is talking tax. We are going to explore the new tax brackets, why they've been adjusted and when they might next be adjusted. This will give you a VERY solid understanding of tax brackets and rules in NZ. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t ju...

Is it ok to be proud of yourself? Luke thinks so and regularly tells himself that he is (shock). Is it normal? Who knows! Mikey kicks us off with a story of how a country he recently visited is very proud. What about NZ? We explore how we can be more proud of ourselves and what it even means. There is a challenge for you at the end too so tune in! Generate are supporting my vision to improve the f...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. This is Mikey's theory on why playing the long game will ensure you never lose in whatever area it is that you are trying to get ahead in. Tune in and get an understanding of how you can apply this to your life. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consume...

I sit down with Generate’s Global Equities Portfolio Manager, Nathan Field. Nathan has over 25-years' experience in the financial industry and during the period 2013 to 2023 the global equities funds under his management beat the market index by more than 4% p.a. That’s not bad going and has a huge compounding effect. We explore what ‘Thematic investing’ is and how we can get in on the action. Nat...

Whether people like it or not, we all need each other. Perhaps we need each other more now than ever. For many of us, it is the first time we are going through a really challenging economic cycle of high interest rates, persistent inflation and recessionary tests. We are all dealing with what we have going on in our lives and can lose sight of what others are dealing with. I was talking to a teach...

This is a re-release of an earlier podcast that other listeners have found very useful. 30 lessons in 30 days from my life so far. Join me to find out what I learnt from some of my best and worst life choices. See how things that have happened for me have shaped the way I think today. Enjoy and go well. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a co...