Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Alex interviews Dr Hung, a listener of the podcast who got in touch with us.

Dr Hung heard our podcast after we launched in early 2021 and asked to share her story. What followed was an interesting conversation about her approach to finances, investing and life. Enjoy!

As always, if you have any questions for the team or want to be interviewed yourself, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about their podcast journey so far and their plans for the future.

Since we first decided to create our podcast, it’s been a steep learning curve and a long journey. Our hosts wanted to bring their listeners up to speed with this little fireside chat about where they’ve been and where they’ll go.

As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email the team at [email protected]

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Alex as he interviews LazyFiDad on his approach to parenting and FI.

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Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about (enter topic name) and how it impacts your FI journey.

Discussion with Dr Daniel Crosby, author of The Behaviour Investor.

Realising that your behaviour is the best predictor of whether you reach your financial goals. People think that externalities have the most impact, whereas Daniel’s research suggests human choices have a much greater impact on wealth building.

Learn to utilise the emotions along your journey of self discovery so they are recognised rather than a detriment.

Awareness of your emotions is key, allow yourself to feel them, recognise why you feel like that. As attempts to control emotions can lead to worse results. Automation to remove decision making from the journey.

Managing market volatility from an emotional view. Market historians, look at historical data. Understand that severe drops do not frequently occur but be prepared for them. Look at things from a wider perspective to allow a clearer view. This drop will be a small squiggle on a long chart just like the past ones.

Financial plans are powerful, to help you through the fear. A route through the chaos.

It can also help you decide when to make decisions to enable you to make the highest quality, best thought out decision. We have least access to our faculties when we need them most.

“Money can buy you the absence of misery, it cannot buy you happiness.”

“Maximise your own earning power” Earn more per hour of your time, if it is time you sell.

As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about time and money and how it impacts your FI journey.

In this episode we speak about the link between time and money and much of a role time plays in our modern society. Many of us trade hours at work for money in our payslips at the end of the month, for example. This creates an income ceiling as people won’t work ridiculous hours each week nor be paid a very high hourly rate for their field.

Value based payment instead of an hourly rate.

Breaking the time barrier, how to unlock your true earning potential - Mike McDerment and Donald Cowper.

The way to increase income is to either work more hours or increase the amount you earn per hour. These both have limitations.

As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about the motivation and discipline required on your FI journey.

Initial motivation can make starting any new venture seem easy, the enthusiasm can enable you to throw yourself into a new project. But how long does it last? It is the discipline that keeps you on the right path. Especially when this sort of idea goes against what everyone else appears to be doing.

The learning curve is steep, there is a plethora of information out there, it can be hard to filter out the less useful information. Our reading list can help with this, we did the research, so you don’t have to: https://fiuk.org/reading/

What can keep you optimistic?

1) Having more than one method of earning money, the choice, the different challenges and other social circles can help keep you motivated.

2) One page financial plan for you to read back to help keep you on the right path when life gets in the way and it will.

3) Celebrate the smaller milestone. Hit a figure on the way to your FI number? Celebrate it. Made a positive change in your life, celebrate it. Worked smarter to get promoted or new idea becoming profitable, celebrate it!

As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about Lifestyle Inflation and how it impacts your FI journey.

Lifestyle inflation can sneak up on you, to define it, your outgoings increase as you earn more money. Most people will earn more over their career, this can lead to higher outgoings due to upgrading your lifestyle with the extra money. A good example of this is mobile phones, the manufacturers release new versions each year and effectively say their old thing is rubbish, you need this new one. Ever wondered why Apple is the most valuable business in the world? Also see; cars on 3 year finance cycles and luxury watches.

Pressure in life can make it very easy to spend all the money you have to feel like you ‘fit’ in.

Delayed gratification can help with making intentional purchases. Allowing a gap before parting with your money you trade hours of your life for will enable clarity as to whether you would really value a purchase rather than it being impulsive.

Lifestyle inflation will keep you forever on the hamster wheel. You get off when you retire or you die.

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about ethical investing and how it impacts your FI journey.

Themes in this episode include reasons for ethical investing’s growing popularity, potential downsides of this strategy and Tom and Alex’s personal take on socially responsible funds.

As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast!

Join your hosts Alex and Tom as they talk about life in the UK and how they are going about achieving FI.

In this episode we introduce Alex and discuss how far we are away from FI in order to provide a sense of scale. We talk about the motivation for pursuing FI, how it can help us in our normal lives and what strategies we are using to achieve financial freedom,

We also talk about how mental, physical and financial health can affect our journey.

As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at [email protected]

Welcome to the brand new Financial Independence UK podcast!

Join your hosts Alex and Tom as they make their first UK focussed episode on life in the UK and how they are going about achieving FI.

Both Alvar and Tom are young, motivated individuals in their 20s with a keen interest in personal finance and the positive effects it can have on your life. Financial Independence is a movement that was born in the US, and is centered around budgeting, saving and investing enough so that it becomes possible to fund your lifestyle from returns on your invested assets alone.

In this episode, our hosts introduce themselves and discuss how they plan on achieving FI, what they do to make it easier for them and why they wanted to start a podcast.

This will be the first episode of many, so stay tuned to continue gaining a useful insight into the benefits of and tactics for achieving Financial Independence in the UK.