This week I speak to Tamsin Caine, Chartered Financial Planner at Smart Financial and Director of Financial Planning at Smart Divorce, the specialist financial advice group for people facing divorce. Tamsin began Smart Divorce following her own experience with divorce. She now advises people in the same situation as she once was, enabling them to take back control of their life and finances.

In this episode, I speak to Ryan King, Assurance Associate at EY and social media finance enthusiast. Ryan discusses the beginning of his interest in and around the subject of money and investing, as a teenager in school to a young adult making his way through university. This desire to educate himself through reading and media spurred Ryan on to create his own online platform, Making Money Simple.

This week I speak to Davinia Tomlinson, founder of rainchq, which helps women take control of their financial futures. Of a Caribbean background but born and raised in Birmingham, in her formative years Davinia saw her grandmother as a female role model for taking financial control.

This week I have the pleasure of speaking the leading experts in financial psychology, Dr Brad Klontz. I uncover exclusive answers to questions that even Brad himself has never discussed before: what was his relationship with wealth in childhood? How did this evolve and change in adolescence?

This week I speak to former investment banker, Stacey Lowman, about why and how she swapped her high earning city job for a much simpler life travelling around Europe in a camper van. Key insights include:

Why careers which use money as a measure of success can make you unhappy.

Why you need to be wary of the amount of time you spending earning and working…

This week I speak to Emmanuel Asuquo, qualified financial advisor and founder of the financial empowerment company, The Eman Effect UK.

Riding high as the youngest ever financial adviser at Barclays, a flash company car and extravagant spending, Emmanuel had it all. Then new financial rules led to redundancy, a bad credit rating and a massive rethink of the role of money.

This week, I speak to Robyn Laidlaw, Head of Distribution, Europe for Vanguard Asset Management. Born and raised in New Zealand, with nine-year residency in Australia, Robyn now lives in the UK, working on Vanguard’s sales and servicing activities within the UK market and across Europe.

This week, my guest is Dr. Daniel Crosby, psychologist, behavioural finance expert and Chief Behavioural Officer at Brinker Capital. Daniel talks about financial sacrifice and the relationship between happiness and money (it might not be what you expect!). He also shares his ‘three Es’ when it comes to financial wellbeing: education, environment and encouragement.

This week, I speak to Tara Gillespie, investment consultant at Redington Ltd and co-founder of the financial community, Best Intentions.

Tara describes her early memories of “wealth”, growing in in an ex-pat community in Dubai, and her “never again” moment when she got into money trouble at university.

This week I speak to Sam Sloma, Chartered Financial Planner and Managing Director at Engage Financial Services.

After a career as a professional footballer, Sam retired at 26 and set his sights on the next chapter of his life. Six years into his career change, Sam became a Chartered Financial Planner and went on to set up Engage Financial Services in 2017.

This week, join me as I speak to Timi Merriman-Johnson, finance manager and founder at Mr MoneyJar. Face-to-face with an eviction notice and drowning in expensive living costs, four years ago Timi decided enough was enough. It was time to feel more in control of his life by getting better control of his money.

This week I speak to Prerna Khemlani, chartered accountant and advocate for women building wealth through investing. Growing up in India and Spain, Prerna saw the her mother juggle the family finances living off a single income after her father’s untimely death.

This week I speak to financial services veteran, Phil Smith.  Phil tells how he went from saving his schoolboy pennies in a TSB piggy bank to looking after billions of pounds of other peoples' money as chief executive of financial services support services provider Embark Group. Seizing the opportunity to work in an embryonic business based in Asia turned out to be the springboard to Phil's future career, wealth and family success. 

This week, I speak to Caroline Strawson, award-winning trauma therapist and coach. Having escaped an abusive marriage and crippled by over £70,000 of debt, Caroline once knew what it was like to be at rock bottom in every sense.

Despite being a financially-vulnerable single mum, Caroline was determined to avoid having a ‘victim’ mentality, and worked tirelessly to turn her life around for herself and her two children.