Real Money Stories Podcast

This week I speak to Jazz Rose, entrepreneur, property investor, mentor and speaker.

Shaped by his won challenges and experiences, Jazz is on a mission to transform people’s relationship with money. You can check out more about Jazz’s work, as well as access his popular Money Tracker, here.

This week I speak to Max Rofagha, a man on a mission to build the world's largest and most engaged finance community at finimize.com.

Wanting to financially educate himself, Max was perplexed at the complexity and reliability of financial resources available. This gave him his next business idea: to explain to every day people in under 3 minutes, what is happening in the world of finance and why you should care.

You can check out more about Finimize and the resources they offer here.

This week I speak to Simonne Gnessen, one of the UK's leading money coaches and trainer, about her own money story.

A humble childhood taught Simonne that money wasn't the source of happiness and fullfillment, but could provide some options and flexibility.

Working as a student in a shoe shop while at university gave way to travelling before eventually training as an actuary. But a sudden change of heart to find work that really fullfilled her led Simonne decide to train to become a financial adviser.

Disillusionment with the sales culture that prevailed in financial services at the time, and a chance encounter with a financial adviser who suggested the possibility of becoming a coach, motivated Simonne to re-engineer her career a third time.

From humble and tentative early beginnings in the early 2000s, Simonne tells how she developed one of the first money coaching business in the UK, to the stage where she has now trained nearly 100 other money coaches.

Simonne has some wonderful insights and wisdom on working, earning, spending, saving, borrowing and investing in yourself.

https://financial-coaching.co.uk/

This week I'm joined by the UK media's favourite residential property expert and buying agent Henry Pryor.

Henry tells of how a false start at agricultural collage saw him fall into the world of property with a firm of chartered surveyors, followed by a rollercoaster 10 years with a major property firm, and a decade of extravagent spending.

After a short daliance with another property firm, Henry started his first business, met his now wife, and started a family.

After selling his first business, Henry explains why and how he started his current business, which was based on the previously unheard of concept of helping people to buy a home, rather than selling them one.

And Henry makes the important point that taking considered risks is a key part of his approach and what has helped him improve his financial situation and life enjoyment. And do listen to the end when Henry explains why he includes his competitors on his website and never asks clients to sign a contract.

Henry's interview is peppered with great insights, wisdom, humour, humility and honesty. I could have spoken to him all day so I suggest you listen to this one twice.

This week I speak to Nick Earls and Eric DiNicola, co-founders and principals of Winterspring Capital, a company looking to simplify the process of passive real estate investing.

Nick and Eric share the highs and lows of their empire-building journey and some of the most important things they learnt along the way.