YouTube is big business these days. In this episode we chat with finance creator Brandon van der Kolk who built a 1M+ subscriber channel; New Money. We hear about his investing journey, his money philosophy and how he built his internet hobby into a full time business. 

We chat about: 

• How Brandon built his hobby channel into a full time gig
• His investing journey from questionable single stocks to ETFs back to Warren Buffet Value style single stock investing
• How he manages his money as a business owner 
• His “make more not save more” money mindset

Links Referenced: 

👋 Check out Brandon’s Channel here

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on our brand new Get Started Investing YouTube channel Subscribe here.

📝 Download our FREE 4 step checklist to analyse any stock (It’s beginner investor friendly). 

📝 Download our FREE ETF Handbook: everything you need to get started with ETFs.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

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Kara tracks every cent she spends in a detailed spreadsheet… yet still feels her budget’s slipping away.

With a single income, two kids, and the goal of retiring at 60 with a fully paid off property- Her monthly retail spend could be holding her back. Can financial coach Lexi Smith help Kara swap the impulse buys for investing?

In this edition of Boost My Budget, we unpack Kara’s cashflow, tackle her doom-scroll fuelled spending sprees and help her find ways to tame that onerous spreadsheet. 

We cover:

• Kara’s monthly spending breakdown.
• Quick wins to make budgeting feel less restrictive and more sustainable.
• How to spot and manage spending triggers. 

Why focusing on just one category can simplify money management.

Links Referenced: 

💲 PocketSmith is offering Equity Mates listeners 50% off the first 2 months of a Foundation Plan. To try PocketSmith for yourself head to pocketsmith.com/equitymates

🎧 Listen to: all Boost my Budget episodes

📞 Want your budget boosted? Apply here.

🙋‍♀️ Want to get in touch with Lexi? Use this form.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

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We don’t call ourselves ‘The Index Boys’ for nothing. Index funds are the bread and butter of how we invest. They’re low cost, diversified and make it possible to grow meaningful wealth without spending hours stock picking.

In fact, we believe index investing alone, can be enough.

So in this episode, we explain what index funds are and why we think they’re the best investing method for beginners and seasoned investors alike. Plus, we share how we each use them in our own portfolios.

We cover: 

• What is an index fund and how do they work?
• A look through their historical performance.
• How we invest these funds.
• Examples of ASX listed Index ETFs.

Links Referenced in this episode: 

🎧 Best ETFs for Quitting Your Job

📚 Don’t Stress, Just Invest.

📞 Thanks Emily for sending in today's question! Have one too? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

🎥 Watch Get Started Investing on YouTube here.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Revenue and Profit might sound like the same thing, but they can tell very different stories about a company. In this episode, we cut through the jargon and explain in clear, simple terms what revenue and profit each actually mean and why they matter to you as an investor.

We cover:

• What revenue and profit are.
• How they're different.
• Why this difference matters to you as an investor.
• How to use them when evaluating or researching a company.

Links Referenced: 

🎧 Listen to: What is the stock market | Dividend Reinvestment Plans 

📝 Download our FREE 4 step checklist to analyse any stock (It’s beginner friendly). 

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on our new Get Started Investing YouTube channel here.

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Listen to our original podcast: Equity Mates Investing (Apple | Spotify)

Pick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don’t Stress, Just Invest

Follow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No one can predict the market, but anyone can Dollar Cost Average. In this episode we show you how. 

This simple strategy is the ultimate approach to long term investing. DCA or Dollar Cost Averaging is how we invest, and it’s proven to build wealth over the long term. 

In this episode we cover: 

• What is DCA?
• When does it make sense to use it?
• Examples of the compounding power of DCA
• How to automate it. 

Links Referenced: 

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

📝 Download our FREE ETF Handbook: everything you need to get started with ETFs.

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on our brand new Get Started Investing YouTube channel Subscribe here.

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Listen to our original podcast: Equity Mates Investing (Apple | Spotify)

Pick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don’t Stress, Just Invest

Follow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The stock market: A magical place where wealth is made. But when you buy a stock or an ETF- what actually happens? In this episode we explain in simple terms, how the stock market actually works (and what as an investor, you need to understand about it.) 

We cover: 

• What is a stock market 
• How trading works 
• What moves share prices 
• What matters & what doesn’t matter as an investor 

Links: 

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on our brand new Get Started Investing YouTube channel Subscribe here.

📝 Download our FREE 4 step checklist to analyse any stock (It’s beginner investor friendly). 

📝 Download our FREE ETF Handbook: everything you need to get started with ETFs.

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Want more Equity Mates? Across books, podcasts, video and email, however you want to learn about investing – we’ve got you covered.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the shares you already own could help grow your portfolio faster? In this episode, we break down how Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs) can quietly boost your returns over time. This one's for the set-and-forget investors; your comprehensive guide to dividend reinvestment.

We cover:

• What DRPs are
• How they work and when to use them
• Steps to set them up in your portfolio
• How we use them in our own investing strategies

Links Referenced: 

🎧 Listen to: Everything you need to know about Tax

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

More from Get Started Investing

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on our brand new Get Started Investing YouTube channel here.

📝 Download our FREE 4 step checklist to analyse any stock (It’s beginner investor friendly). 

📝 Download our FREE ETF Handbook: everything you need to get started with ETFs.

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Listen to our original podcast: Equity Mates Investing (Apple | Spotify)

Pick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don’t Stress, Just Invest

Follow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this instalment of Boost My Budget, we meet Chloe; 21 years old, self employed and the first to admit her money habits are a bit of a mess. 

Sporadic saving and impulse spending, blurred lines between business and personal cashflow, a budgeting system based mostly on vibes. 

She’s ready to change that. She wants accountability.

In this episode, with expert help from financial coach Lexi Smith, we help bring structure (and sanity) to her budget. Showing that it’s possible to spend smarter, without sucking the fun out of life.

We cover:

• a live review of Chloe’s spending.
• Tips for separating business and personal cashflow as a sole trader.
• How to tackle irregular saving and impulsive spending.
• The “75 hard” challenge, for your money.

Links Referenced: 

👉 Want your Budget Boosted? Submit here! (under ‘show segments’) 

🤑 PocketSmith is offering Equity Mates listeners 50% off the first 2 months of a Foundation Plan. To try PocketSmith for yourself head to pocketsmith.com/equitymates

🙋‍♀️ Want to get in touch with Lexi? Use this form. 

🎧 Listen to: our previous Boost my Budget’s

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Hi, I’m Glen and I’m a recovering spender”, 

Glen James has built a career helping Aussies feel confident with money, but his own investing journey has been far from textbook. Intuitive, successful and at times unconventional. In this episode, we chat to Glen about how approach has evolved; from impulsive spender, to financial adviser, to now running one of Australia’s biggest money podcasts. (or money ‘show’, we should say 😉)

We cover:

• Why Glen ditched setting investing goals (and what he does instead).
• His “give some, save some, then spend some,” philosophy.
• The guardrails he used to break out of bad money habits.
• How he invests today (including a detailed breakdown of his flows from payday to portfolio).

Links Referenced: 

👋 Find Glen’s show money money money, his books and or his instagram.

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

📝 Download our free ETF Handbook: a guide to get started investing with ETFs.

📝 Check out the Glen James Spending Plan here.

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on the Get Started Investing channel.

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Want more Equity Mates? Across books, podcasts, video and email, however you want to learn about investing – we’ve got you covered.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are only saving your money, you risk falling behind. You can’t argue the numbers- investing beats saving in the long term. They’re both essential in a healthy financial set up. But we believe that too often, savings play a larger role than they should.

In this episode we explain why and help you find a healthy balance between saving and investing. 

We cover: 

• The difference between saving and investing.
• The role they each can play in financial freedom and building wealth.
• Why saving alone won’t make you rich (Meet the dreaded “I” word; Inflation)
• How we each balance saving and investing in our own financial set up. 

If you're a serial saver, we're here to convince you that it's time to start investing.

Links Referenced: 

🎧 Listen to: Could you be getting more for your savings? Australia’s best savings accounts 

– July 2025

📞 Have an investing question? Leave us a voicemail, and we'll answer it on the podcast!

🎥 We're on YouTube! Watch full episodes on our brand new Get Started Investing YouTube channel Subscribe here.

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Listen to our original podcast: Equity Mates Investing (Apple | Spotify)

Pick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don’t Stress, Just Invest

Follow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Get Started Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. 

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Get Started Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. 

This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional.

Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.