The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast

This week I'm pleased to welcome back Tom Baigrie of Lifesearch for a bit of a study into Income Protection which, while misunderstood and underused, is inarguably the most important personal insurance you can have.

So here's a little bonus episode that came out of a conversation between my good friend Andy Hart and myself. We're noticing a pattern in the people who are getting in touch and wanting to work with us, and we're concerned…

Today's guests are giants in the FI/RE community. Their podcast and blog is massive and deservedly so as they communicate a clear passion for their subject and inspire others to follow them on their journey. Today I'm speaking with Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa from ChooseFI

Continuing in this series of interviewing other luminaries in the world of wealth-building and FI, today I chat with Andrew Craig, Author of How To Own The World and founder of Plain English Finance.

Today I'm chatting with Dave Sawyer, author of a book called RESET. A few of you have mentioned the book to me, and asked me to get Dave on. His book has received high praise indeed from none other than Monevator and also Brad and Jonathan from ChooseFI.

My guest today, Catherine Morgan, is really going places and is doing great work as a financial coach, financial planner, podcaster - I'm telling you, she's tireless! I wanted to get Catherine on to the show to help her spread her message about financial wellbeing.

I get a load of request for people wanting to come on the show, but today's guest asked the opposite - could she use my resources at her live events? I emailed back to find out what those events were, and I was impressed by her passion and mission so I invited her on to the show. Today I'm chatting with Tara Gillespie of Best Intentions

Finishing the little series here about investment behaviours that can derail our investing success, I cover Overconfidence bias, Loss-aversion bias and Endowment bias.

I think you're going to enjoy this. Lots of you have suggested that I get today's guest onto the show, and though it took a while (down to me, not him) I'm delighted that we've made it happen, and I don't think it'll be the last time, either. Stay tuned for a blinding conversation with Barney Whiter, AKA The Escape Artist.

Confirmation bias is an insidious threat to our future wealth by keeping us closed against alternative views of investing and wealth-building approaches. In this week's Five Minute Friday, I offer three tips to keep it at bay.

My good friend Justin King is a fellow financial planner, and one of the good guys. More than most advisers he really has a passion for spreading the word about the power of financial planning, in his case specifically to retirees, more widely than just to his local clients. Remind you of anyone?!

Right, time to tie things off at the end of Season 14. It's the now traditional Season-ending Q&A! You've been sending in your questions throughout the season and I've done my best to curate the key questions that have arisen and this week I'll be attempting to answer them.

I'm rounding off this season (except for the Q&A next week) by summarising what I think New Accumulators need to DO to crack on with their wealth-building. I think it's also important to know what you DON'T need to do…

We're on the home straight on this New Accumulators season now, and we dealt last week with the massive subject of our behaviour around our money. Today I have something pretty special for you, or rather, someone pretty special…

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Except when you're investing, when it tries to trick you. Constant Vigilance!

Of all the influencing factors that will determine the success or otherwise of your wealth-building, your own behaviour is the biggest deal of all. As New Accumulators, we have some lessons to learn…

We're spending some time looking at some of the major biases that we bring to bear when we're investing, and how they often hold us back from being really successful investors. Today, we're talking about ANCHORING.

As New Accumulators, we need to understand that when we invest, we are converting our cash into assets which we hope will increase in value over time, so we can beat inflation and meet our financial goals. So we need to spend some time today discussing the main assets that we can buy as investors so that we know what we're getting into…

Long-time listeners and viewers will know that I have a fascination with the subject of behavioural finance. This is simply biggest there is no bigger determinant of your future financial success than your won behaviour towards money. If it's that big a deal, I figured I should dedicate a few videos to the subject, starting today.

Risk is an essential part of investing, and I want to say right off the bat that it is a GOOD THING! We're conditioned to understand the word risk as a negative, but in today's show, I want to reinforce the exact opposite. Plus, I chat with my friend Nick Lincoln of Values to Vision about his strong views on the idea of capacity for loss.

We've looked at what trusts are and a little bit about how they work, so let's cover some practicalities now, when it comes to YOUR financial planning

I know that you're itching to get going with your investing and wealth-building, and I keep putting the brakes on. But it will serve you well to put a little bit of forethought into the whole exercise, and in my world, we call that financial planning…

Last week we talked about what a trust actually is, but this week we need to go deeper and look at the benefits, and the downsides and how they can be used in your financial planning.

Investing is most definitely the interesting part of personal finance. Budgeting can be a grind, and insurance is a necessity, but hardly full of fun and japes. But investing is where you get to see your money grow and move and change, and eventually you'll build something which will enable you to live how you want to live. Getting started on that process is exciting, and today, that's what we're...

I get asked about trusts a great deal, but they're something of an abstract concept. My goals today is to try and explain them to you!