42. DIY a Financial Plan

What is a financial plan? And do you need one?

Julie & Catherine are going to walk you through the 3 steps to building your own financial plan. You can make it as complicated as you want, or you can keep it to one page.

To us, the plan is a like road trip across Europe. We may not have a fixed destination, but we have lots of things we want to see along the way.

1. What is important to you
2. Start to shape your goals
3. Plug in the numbers

Along the way we’ve made up some golden rules. The 1st one is that the plan is not about perfection. Don’t get hung up on precise details.
Rule number 2 is remember this is about guessing, so it will not turn out exactly as you planned at the beginning. And that’s ok, because most of us change as we go through life.
Rule number 3, money is not your only commodity. You have time and talent!
4.23 Rule 3 explained
7.49 what is a financial plan
11.40 questions to help you with step 1
14.42 how the goals emerge from step 1
25.48 recap of the questions to ask yourself
27.43 Moving from step 2 to step 3
35.26 The numbers
42.30 Calculate your net worth
46.52 Another golden rule

Grab a copy of our One Page Plan as a PDF or word doc.
The savings plan section of this Calculator can do all of the numbers you need for step 3

YOUR HOSTS:Catherine Thomas-Humphreys is an Award Wining Financial Coach, Qualified Financial Adviser and Family Will Writer.
Catherine believes money is a force for good and when in the hands of good people can be used to do great things. She loves working with purpose-led parents who are ready to change their money habits & beliefs to achieve financial success for themselves and their family.

She founded #TheFinfluencer as a safe space to coach and empower parents to influence, make, save, spend and grow money, consciously, ethically and positively.

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Julie Flynn is an experienced independent financial adviser and financial coach. Justice and equality drive Julie. Which is why she’s spent years studying and researching how stress affects our financial decision making.

She uses her years of experience and research to support women experiencing or planning significant change in their lives.

Julie is best known for her work with women who have lost their partner and coaching financial services business who want to implement fair and transparent charges.

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