The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast

Today we're focusing on an area of personal finance dear to Roger's heart - budgeting! Everything starts and ends with the budget; income and outgoings. So we're going to look at ways to simplify things and make it all easier to manage.

We're getting into the season in earnest today, talking about Simplifying Your Planning. What do we mean by planning - we mean the reasons why you're saving, investing, insuring - the goals you set and the mechanisms you put in place to achieve those goals. We see people over-complicate this, and hence their financial arrangements follow suit.

This season we're going to be talking about the power of simplicity and suggesting ways you can simplify your financial situation. There are so many benefits for you, for your family, and in all kinds of ways - which we'll get to in due course.

Today I'm chatting with Dan Sherrard-Smith, founder and CEO of MotherTree, a fascinating website which helps us calculate the impact of our investing on the environment, and helps us to figure out how to improve that. This is obviously very timely, so I think you're going to enjoy my conversation with Dan.

I'm joined today by Youssef Darwich, CEO and Co-Founder of Nosso, an interesting app which allows families to invest together for the benefit of children, but also does quite a bit more than that. I thought it was interesting, so I wanted to speak with Youssef to find out more…

Happy New Year! Many of us will be glad to see the back of 2022, but there's plenty to look forward to in 2023 and I wanted to give you a bit of a heads-up as to where we're going here at MeaningfulMoney in the next 12 months, and… to ask for your help.

It might be easy if you're the kind of person who listens to personal finance podcasts, to put money itself on a pedestal and give it an importance it shouldn't have. Today we're going to be talking about keeping money firmly in its place.

Today we're going to talk about Strategies For avoiding scams. It's a pretty messed up world out there and scams seem to continue to proliferate and that's why so many people hesitate to do online banking, or invest in anything other than their high street bank. So let's try and help you spot the bad guys and keep yourselves, your data and your money safe.

Today's subject is one that came up quite a bit when we asked you - dear listeners - for subject ideas for this season. We're going to talk about Strategies For preparing for separation or divorce.

Today we're looking at strategies for spending it all. Not leaving anything behind but putting our wealth to good use while we're alive. Of course, that begs the question: what does it mean to 'put our wealth to good use?'