The AllBright Money Podcast

“A man is not a financial plan” - this is the advice Manisha Thakor’s mother gave her in her childhood. The founder of MoneyZen grew up knowing how to track her spending and manage her finances, and she’s made an art of helping others to do the same.

Thekey? Manisha says it’s learning to do away with keeping up with the Joneses. In today’s episode, she tells us why comparisonitis is making us all poorer, why she calls credit cards ‘financial bazookas’, and why it’s so much more expensive to be a woman. And, she’ll tell you how to know whether you’re living within your means - and what to do if the answer is no.

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What’s your purpose? For most of us, it’s probably not money - although we’d all like more of it. Today’s guest on the AllBright Money Podcast believes that women deserve to follow their passions, do good work in the world, and to earn damn good money doing it. And if wealth is about wellbeing, then Patrice Washington wants to empower all of us to find financial wellness. She says that building wealth has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with mindset, which is why so much of today’s conversation focuses on relationships, self-talk, clutter, and possessions. What do they have to do with money? You’re about to find out, as well as hear Patrice’s own journey from feeling ugly and abandoned, riddled with debt, to being fulfilled, debt-free, and thriving.

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Bola Sol wants you to know your worth.

The London-based Financial Wellness Coach and newly published author of How To Save It says it’s key to making confident and informed decisions about your finances - but if you’re not talking about your money, then what’s keeping you accountable?

Accountability, she says, is crucial to your financial success. And she knows from experience, having coached plenty of women through her finance groups Refined Currency and Rich Girl Chronicles. So, how to have those awkward conversations? It starts with saying goodbye to our toxic relationship with money. Let’s hear how...

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Are you young and feeling left behind financially? This is one of the questions today’s guest and the author of new book Own It How our generation can invest our way to a better future asks. Meet Iona Bain - the UK’s leading millennial money expert. She’s a writer, author, speaker, broadcaster and founder of Young Money, and on a mission to help young people own their futures, once and for all.

 Young Money Blog has won plaudits from across the financial industry for its innovative, witty, down-to-earth but clear-eyed approach to finance. The blog was named Money Blog of the Year by Santander Banking Group and Iona was shortly after named Freelancer of the Year in 2018 by IPSE, the leading association for the self-employed. Iona was also was named one of the most influential women in finance by Onalytica in 2019 and shortlisted for the prestigious Georgina Henry Prize at the UK Press Awards in 2020.

Iona explores how due to low wages, high house prices, zero reward for saving and the catastrophic fallout from Covid-19, young people have had a rough ride. But, she points out that they have a choice. She says you can sleepwalk into a poorer future – or you can transform your prospects by embracing the power of investing. Iona believes that investing is the single biggest thing that we can do to change our lives, and society, for the better.  We’re going to find out why today.

 Purchase Own It! here

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Today’s guest is Clare Seal, the author of Real Life Money, founder of Instagram channel @myfrugalyear and founder of The Financial Wellbeing Forum - A place for honest, judgment-free conversation and information about personal finance, emotional wellbeing and mental health. Clare is the first to admit that it took her a decade to realise that she had a broken relationship with money – and hitting rock bottom was the catalyst for real change in her life. 

Her book Real Life Money is a holistic approach to personal finance that addresses the deeper causes of debt and financial difficulties. The goal is not to get rich overnight, or to pay off debt at the expense of all of life's pleasures, but rather to gain an understanding of why we feel the way we do about money, and how we can use that to change our mindset and our finances for good. Just a week or so before our conversation, Clare announced to her followers that she had just paid off £27,438.11 of credit card debt. How did she do it? Let’s find out. 

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Welcome to the AllBright Money podcast, hosted by Melanie Eusebe, where you’ll learn how to make your money work as hard as you do. At AllBright, we’re changing the narrative around females and finance. Knowledge is power – which is why we’re here to supercharge your financial literacy through articles, events, courses, and, this podcast, where I’ll be hosting powerful conversations with industry experts from all over the world.

Today’s guest is Bola Sokunbi, a Certified Financial Education Instructor, money expert, and the CEO, best-selling author, and founder of Clever Girl Finance. Bola’s main goal is to help women become accountable, ditch debt, save money and build real wealth.

As Bola has gotten older, the biggest recurring theme she sees with women is that they’re not talking about money and financial wellness enough, or don't involve themselves as much as we should when it comes to their finances.

She also realised that just like her, there were other women out there who've made money mistakes and are attempting to navigate their own murky financial waters but don't always have the support and encouragement they need.

This is the driving force behind Clever Girl Finance and today we’ll talk about how she made $70,000 through a side hustle at 27 (while working a full-time job), why her passion for finance came from her own mother, how to keep on top of our saving goals – and so much more.

Go to clevergirlfinance.com

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