In this final episode of series one of "Being Pennywise," host Alison welcomes Zoe Bloom of BloomBudd LLP, to discuss providing clients with a more holistic, empathetic, and cost-effective service when it comes to managing divorce. She also reveals her methods for dealing with narcissistic partners who may be hindering divorce proceedings. 

Zoe has been recognised as one of the top 50 recommended family lawyers in the country and has been shortlisted for the Family Lawyer of the Year award. So, who better than Zoe to discuss with Alison the evolving face of family law and the importance of supporting clients through what can be a confusing and traumatic process. Listen in to gain insights into her take on a more compassionate approach to divorce.

You can contact Zoe through her company’s website .

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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In this penultimate episode of the Being Pennywise podcast series on divorce, Alison Porter's guest shines a spotlight on personal protection in acrimonious divorce scenarios and situations involving coercive control.

Simon Giddins is a chartered security professional who also boasts a background in the British Army and counter-terrorism.

Listeners with personal security concerns will find his insights on understanding risk and where to start with comprehensive security measures, extremely valuable.

You can contact Simon on this number +44 203 833 1061 or through this page on Blackstone Consultancy's website.

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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In this podcast episode, Alison introduces us to Andrew Knott, Managing Director at Hampden Private Office, to talk all about wealth management. Andrew's experience in finance and financial engineering has made him an expert in handling the complexities of wealthy families, trusts, and charitable foundations.

The discussion revolves around Andrew’s personal take on when to seek assistance from a Wealth Manager and the most sensible way to invest funds that come as a result of divorce or separation settlements.

As Alison points out, the information discussed should not be considered as advice or recommendations, and professional advice should always be sought before taking action in relation to your finances. 

You can contact Andrew here via this link - https://www.hampden.co.uk/team/andrew-knott

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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In this episode of the Pennywise podcast, Alison interviews Sara Davison, a multi award-winning divorce coach, bestselling author, and host of the Heartbreak to Happiness podcast.

Sara's own traumatic experience of divorce has informed her excellent work from the beginning. In order to survive, she had to put together tools to help her face the divorce process and she now shares these in a multitude of ways with people around the world.

In this episode, the conversation focuses on how a divorce coach can provide emotional support and practical advice during this difficult process.

Sara also  explains how she helps individuals suffering from economic abuse and why she feels the system needs to be changed to deal more sympathetically with their predicament.

We also learn about Sara's divorce coach practitioner accreditation programme and her work in the International Divorce Coach Center of Excellence.

Find Sara on her website, saradavison.com,  on Instagram and on Youtube

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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Alison Porter's guest this week helps couples separate through mediation to bypass a combative process. 
 
John Hind is the Founder of Compass Resolution, as well as the Family Mediation Team UK, offering multi-disciplinary services involving solicitors, financial specialists and children experts working within a mediation framework. 

Having been a solicitor for over 25 years, John has helped thousands of clients to reach their own agreements rather than resorting to the courts for resolution of their problems.
 
In this episode, John explains how mediation for couples offers a clear and structured pathway to manageable divorce, helping them to work in partnership with other experts within a fully integrated team.

Discover John's "The Divorce Manual - For Separating Couples and their Support Team" here.

John can be contacted through the website of Compass Resolution.

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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Mark Hands, a top family lawyer with law firm Irwin Mitchell, is much in demand in divorce cases and is known for his work with former high-earning football players and their partners; he certainly has the inside story on some of the unfair situations that arise when couples separate. 

In conversation with Pennywise Consultants' Alison Porter, Mark highlights the staggering rise in this country of cohabiting couples (126% since 1996). He points out that many labour under the misapprehension that their relationship can be defined as a common-law marriage. The truth is that there is no such thing as a common-law marriage and, the end result in a separation can be phenomenally unfair to one or either side. 

Listen for plenty more from Mark on the importance of independent experts and how financial decisions are made especially for high earners when there is a catastrophic fall in income. You can contact Mark at [email protected] or through the firm's  website. 

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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We tend to think of divorce as a traumatic process that often brings out the worst in separating partners, and results in considerable heartache. But in this episode, Alison Porter's guest, Samantha Woodham, gives us a different understanding of how it can work in a way that helps reduce conflict by seeking amicable solutions where possible. 

Samantha is the co-founder of the Divorce Surgery with her business partner Harry Gates. Their mantra is One Couple One Lawyer and, in the discussion, Alison finds out from Samantha how this arrangement works.  

You can find out how to contact Samantha through The Divorce Surgery's website where you can also order Samantha and Harry's book "The Art of Untying the Knot". 

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

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On the first episode of Being Pennywise, Alison Porter is joined by James Copson, a highly regarded family lawyer who provided the inspiration for her company, Pennywise Consultants. James is a Partner at Sinclair Gibson on Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. 

As James tells us, he should have “impossible cases preferred” tattooed onto his forehead given the complexity of the ground-breaking cases he’s worked on. Some have involved the intervention of world leaders while in others he has experienced personal danger.

James and Alison discuss the significance of which country you choose to conduct your divorce proceedings in, as well as the necessity of working with professionals to prepare and analyse budgets. 

James highlights no-fault divorce as the hottest ticket in town as it allows couples to secure their divorce online without involving lawyers at all. 

Listen in to their discussion in full to hear more about James’ mad cases, as he calls them, on this episode. To contact James, simply look him up on his firm’s website www.sinclair.gibson.com 

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

Follow Pennywise Consultants on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for regular updates from Alison and her team.

The Being Pennywise podcast is coming to you from Pennywise Consultants who are financial lifestyle analysts specialising in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets.

We will feature independent experts discussing how to navigate through divorce, Inheritance Act disputes, financial planning and dispute resolution in a collaborative way.

The first series focuses on divorce, how to cope, and on growing trends to resolve differences without resorting to the courts. 

Alison is the driving force behind Pennywise Consultants, the financial lifestyle analysis experts. In 2010, Alison saw a gap in the market for a new service to help lawyers to build cases and provide outstanding pastoral care to their clients. Since then, Pennywise has specialised in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets to support mediation and legal proceedings, equipping lawyers, professional advisers and private clients with the evidence they need to achieve the fairest outcomes.

You can reach Alison and her team at [email protected] or call them on 01531 640988.

For more information about how Pennywise Consultants can help you, head over to their website at www.pennywiseconsultants.co.uk.

Follow Pennywise Consultants on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for regular updates from Alison and her team.