MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 10

What's In This Episode?

In January 2016 Ronnie woke up one morning and went to a job she didn’t much like and wondered how she had reached 39 years of age and still wasn’t rich. In fact she was just one or two pay cheques away from having next to nothing. So she YouTubed “how to be rich” and her journey out of debt began.

LINKS

www.HisAndHerMoney.com - Helping Couples Win With Money

www.DaveRamsey.com - You Can Take Control Of Your Money

www.youtube.com - Wendy Valencia

Kill Your Mortgage & Sort Your Retirement : The Go-to Guide for Getting Ahead - Hannah McQueen

Smart Couples Finish Rich - David Bach

The Automatic Millionaire : A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich - David Bach

Stop Acting Rich and Start Living Like a Real Millionaire - Thomas J Stanley

SmartShares: NZ Top 50 Fund - AUS Top 20 Fund

KiwiSaver: ANZ Balanced Fund

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 9

What's In This Episode?

Jane loves buying individual shares in companies. She enjoys the research, the tracking of her investments and the sporadic hunt for the “next big thing”. Find out how this self taught investor fits share trading in around her busy family life.

LINKS

Shopping for Shares : The Everyday Woman's Guide to Profiting From the Stock Market, Second Edition - Tracey Edwards: www.bookdepository.com

Top Stocks - Martin Roth - Jane referred specifically to Top Stocks but he has a lot of books on investing to choose from: www.bookdepository.com

ASX (Australian Stock Exchange) - Their education section has a huge amount of resources so you can learn how to research, buy and sell shares: www.asx.com.au

Sharesies - Another great place to make a start on investing is with New Zealand company Sharesies: www.sharesies.nz

www.smartshares.co.nz

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 8

What's In This Episode?

SmartShares is an investment product I use and I met their product manager Dean Anderson because I kept contacting him with lots of questions regarding my own ETF funds. He struck me as a guy with a good story to tell and I knew there was more to him than just index funds. During our chat he told me about where, how and most importantly why he is an investor and you will come away from listening to his journey and put some more thought into your own money journey, of that I am certain.

LINKS

www.smartshares.co.nz

www.superlife.co.nz

www.asbsecurities.co.nz

www.hamishandandy.com/listen

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 7

What's In This Episode?

Today I’m telling you all about my sister Liz. While I inherited the saver gene, she inherited the spending gene but a life of debt finally caught up with her and she has spent the last couple of years completely changing her mindset about the money in her life and is now firmly on a path to financial independence.

LINKS

You can follow Liz on Instagram @minimalizzy

Books that Liz has written:

Does This Make My Gun Look Big

Five Foot and Fearless

The Trouble With Tumut

Liz and Mike's campervan business: The Pod Campervan Rentals - www.podrentals.co.nz

Lizzy's blog and podcast recommendations:

Mad Fientist

The Minimalists

The Barefoot Investor (You can get the book from Book Depository)

Slowly Sipping Coffee

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 6

What's In This Episode?

I met Victoria via my blog when we began to chat by email. So when I knew I wanted to create a podcast and wanted to interview a woman who gives her financial situation careful consideration, she was high up on my list. This is a snapshot of a calm and calculated Kiwi woman having a go and succeeding at setting her own financial path.

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 5

What's In This Episode?

If you thought that every teenager spends their days wagging school and walking around with their head down looking at the latest iPhone, then think again. Today we meet James who is finishing up his final year of school before heading on to University in 2018. He is no slouch and is involved in a huge variety of community groups, holds down a job, listens to his mother and is saving hard for the future.

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 4

What's In This Episode?

On this episode of the Happy Saver Podcast I talk with Rachel and David who are a New Zealand success story. When quite young they stumbled upon buying rental properties, in Auckland no less, and over time they bought a few more while working their day jobs. But it was their day job that enabled them to pay off their mortgages and today they go into detail about how they did it.

LINKS

www.vacationstogo.com

www.sit.ac.nz - Southern Institute of Technology has many free courses

The 4-Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris

Dolf de Roos

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 3

What's In This Episode?

Lisa followed a fella all the way back to NZ and set up a successful business in which she toiled day after day. All her time and all of her energy went into it until one day she was forced to walk away, with nothing except a mortgage laden building. Broke, tired and uncertain of the future she started all over again. With no idea about what to do with money she set about teaching herself how and where to invest and now, at the young age of 44 she has reached financial independence and is about to retire!

LINKS

Lisa referred to the following during our chat today:

Deep Dish - Richard Meadows: www.thedeepdish.org

www.mrmoneymustache.com

www.theminimalists.com

www.thehappysaver.com

www.thesmartandlazy.com

Desert Island Discs: www.bbc.co.uk

www.simplicity.kiwi

www.smartshares.co.nz

www.superlife.co.nz

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 2

What's In This Episode?

This week I’m excited to tell you about Ryan Johnson, a fellow blogger on personal finance in New Zealand. He had a very interesting start to his working career as it involved a pack of 52 playing cards. He is self taught when it comes to investing and is putting careful thought into exactly where to invest his savings and he openly shares that with me today. With student loans now paid off he has bucked the home ownership trend for now and has chosen to rent rather than buy a home. Month by month he is building a strong financial footing and he has learned a tonne about investing along the way.

LINKS

You can find Ryan's blog 'Money For Young Kiwis' at: www.ryanjohnson.co.nz

The Barefoot Investor - Scott Pape: www.barefootinvestor.com (Your local library will have this book or get it from Book Depository)

I Will Teach You To Be Rich - Rammet Sethi: www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com

The two SmartShares funds he mentioned are: NZ Top 50 (FNZ) and US 500 (USF)

Simplicity Growth Fund: www.simplicity.kiwi

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MONEY JOURNEYS - EPISODE 1

What's In This Episode?

This week I had a chat with Bradie from Kiwi Girl On A Budget who has gone well down the rabbit hole of debt and is busy finding her way back out. She bought not one but three rental properties in one year in an attempt to set herself up for life. But life has a way of turning you in another direction when you least expect it and a series of events led her to completely rethink the way she thought about money.

LINKS

You can find Bradie on Instagram @kiwigirlonabudget and www.kiwigirlonabudget.com

Dave Ramsey: Debt Free Screams

Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path by Erin Loechner

Movie: The Big Short

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