We have a bumper crop of episodes coming for you this week. It is a pretty special week as I am celebrating not only my 40th birthday, but also the launch of my long-awaiting book, It’s Not About The Money.

This project was a real tidal wave of emotion as I felt joy, celebration, and gratitude shortly followed by imposter syndrome and the inner critic.

The book launches on Thursday but there is still time to join the VIP waitlist over at itsnotaboutthemoney.co.uk.

In this episode:

• A special thanks to some of the important people who have played a part in this journey
• An excerpt from the introduction of the book, “It’s Not About The Money”
• A powerful real-life story of how trauma can affect our relationship with money
• Sowing the seeds of the 3 steps we will follow through the book

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Joined by Qualified Financial Adviser, Pete Matthew, host of the podcast “Meaningful Money”.

Pete & I explore how necessary it is to seek financial advice and the reasons why you don’t always need to appoint a Financial Adviser to help you make good financial plans. Money is a tool that gets us from A to B and often we are able to make our own empowered choices just by getting the basics in place around money management.

Find out more about why money is a lousy master, but a great servant.

In this episode:

• How necessary it is to seek financial advice and when it becomes and investment worth paying for
• The difference between financial advice and financial guidance
• What situations dictate that you move from a do-it-yourself option to seeking professional financial advice
• Simple steps that will enable people to do the basics themselves
• Why being intentional with time and money can be so powerful

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Books

Meaningful Money Handbook

The Simple Path To Wealth

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Men and women are spoken to differently about money and represented differently by the media. It's time to #MakeMoneyEqual and remove negative gender stereotypes from public conversation around money and finances.

Today I share some of the biggest influences that affect how we step into our wealth and explore how we, as women, can make a difference in the world by embracing our emotions, creating, and growing our wealth.

In this episode:

• How changes in the banking system inspired Anne Boden to go out and create a whole new bank
• Why the #MakeMoneyEqual campaign is making a huge impact on the way that men and women are represented by the media around money
• Top tips around wealth creation for women including why you should make looking at your money a fun experience
• More information around investing, why it doesn’t always need to be medium or high risk, and how to identify investment scams

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Find out more about the #MakeMoneyEqual Campaign

Read Anne’s book Banking On It

Check out the #MakeMoneyEqual Image Library

Find out more about Starling Bank on their Website, on the Play Store & App Store

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The #MakeMoneyEqual campaign aims to help remove negative gender stereotypes from public conversation around money and finances.

Today I share some of the biggest influences that affect how we step into our wealth and further explores how we, as women, can make a difference in the world by embracing our emotions, creating, and growing our wealth.

In this episode:

• How outside influences including the media can affect our relationship with money
• The importance of understanding where our money narrative comes from so that we can return it with love and break generational patterns
• Busting some myths around investing for women
• Why investing our wealth as women can go on to change the world
• The steps we need to take to safeguard our current financial situation to be able to support us in the future

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Find out more about the #MakeMoneyEqual Campaign

What does success actually mean?

Success is actually a feeling and not a destination or physical state. It is individual to each person and there is no cookie cutter approach when it comes to achieving success.

I have talked often about the importance of separating self worth and net worth, and that the two should be exclusive of one another. Listen in as I share details around each money narrative and some tips on how we can change limiting beliefs surrounding these.

In this episode:

• What you can do to feel more successful in relation to our wealth and personal money stories
• The belief of charging your worth is flawed when women often have a very low self worth meaning that we would never achieve the level of wealth that we desire and deserve
• Money narratives are not personality types
• Key characteristics around each money narrative and top tips for managing that money narrative
• The importance of being mindful of the language that we use and how that can encourage our brain to look for evidence to further support limiting beliefs

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Listen back to previous podcast episodes around emotional spending:

Your Relationship With Money: It’s Not About the Money

5 Reasons Why You Overspend and How To Stop It

How Catherine Overcame the Avoidance of Fee Disclosure with Clients

Today’s episode is short but very powerful. Catherine is spending some time reflecting on her forthcoming book “It’s Not About The Money” due for release on 9th December. Catherine is exploring ways that we can step into being a wealthy woman. A quote by Margaret Bonnano says that “being rich is having money and being wealthy is having time”. This powerful quote really highlights the important of language. We often trade time for money but we don’t often look to generate more time for ourselves.

Catherine shares a very powerful 10 minute exercise to help us really step into our wealth. Find yourself a quiet space and immerse yourself in your own wealthy future.

In this episode:

• A practical exercise that you can do again and again to help women really step into wealth
• 4 important questions to journal around following the practical exercise
• Something that we find is that the person that we often must forgive is our own inner voice
• Exploring a message that you would give to your future self to help support this step into wealth

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This week we are celebrating National Pension Tracing Day and today I discuss how to find lost pensions.

It is very easy to lose track of your retirement savings. The wonderful thing is that there are a few really easy steps that we can take to prepare for retirement with ease.

In this episode:

• What key information you need to be able to track lost pensions
• Top tips for finding pensions that you have forgotten about
• How out of date pension information can prevent your beneficiaries from accessing your hard earned retirement savings
• Why a pension may not necessarily be lost
• Details of how you can better equip yourself to manage and track your pensions and retirement savings

My Online Courses – Pensions Made Simple with Pension Checklist just £31 on October 31st 2021 only!

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To find your lost pensions, visit the Pension Tracing Service

Find the Money Closet document in The Money Circle

I speak with Symmie Swill, the head of business banking at Starling bank, about how to manage your business finances. Symmie shares the journey of Starling bank, the kind of accounts and businesses that they support, and talks us through some of the features that they have available that can support you in your business finance journey.

In this episode:

• What is a challenger bank?
• What kind of businesses can open a Starling account?
• What features do Starling Bank provide for businesses?
• Can a Starling business account save you money in your business?
• Implementing Profit First with a Starling business account
• How does the application process work?
• What if you have an existing business account elsewhere?
• Tips to manage finances in your business
• How to open a Starling Business Account

Open a Starling Bank business account

Open a Starling Bank personal account

Compare Starling VS Monzo

The 15 Minute Exercise to Change the Way You Manage Money in Your Business

How to Use the Profit First Method in Your Small Business

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A big part of creating wealth is understanding where on the journey you are. While many people are trying to reach financial freedom, they often lack the basic foundations. It can be difficult to know whether our problem is spending or income. I take a deep look at how we can understand the issues that we may have with spending versus income and just how we can make changes to achieve the financial freedom that you deserve.

In this episode:

• The importance of trusting ourselves to be able to step into alignment with our money
• How you can tell if you have a spending problem or an income problem
• What to do if you have issues with spending
• Practical steps to take if your issues are with your income
• What you can do to help move the needle forward

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Overspending and impulsive financial decisions are coping mechanisms and a distraction from what is really going on. Spending gives our brain a reward, a fleeting “high”. We often act from an emotional irrational state that leads us to make bad decisions or bury our head in the sand.

I explore exactly why overspending occurs including the science behind it. Once we have discovered the why, we can then explore the how.

In this episode:

• 5 top tips on how we can prevent overspending from happening
• The things that happen when we are acting from our emotional irrational state
• How the link between trauma and addiction can affect our spending
• Why we need to look at healing our relationship with money to help break bad habits with our spending
• How changing our behaviours from reactive to proactive will increase our bank balance
• The importance of creating a delay before making a purchase and why that can have a massive impact

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