

The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
Pete Matthew discusses and explains all aspects of your personal finances in simple, everyday language. Personal finance, investing, insurance, pensions and getting financial advice can all seem daunting, but with the right knowledge and easy-to-follow action steps, Pete will help you to get your money matters in order.
Each show is in two segments: Firstly, everything you need to KNOW, and secondly, everything you need to DO to move forward on the subject of that episode.
This podcast will appeal to listeners of MoneyBox Live, Wake Up To Money, Listen to Lucy, Which? Money and The Property Podcast.
To leave feedback or ask a question, go to http://meaningfulmoney.tv/askpete
Archived episodes can be found at http://meaningfulmoney.tv/mmpodcast
Each show is in two segments: Firstly, everything you need to KNOW, and secondly, everything you need to DO to move forward on the subject of that episode.
This podcast will appeal to listeners of MoneyBox Live, Wake Up To Money, Listen to Lucy, Which? Money and The Property Podcast.
To leave feedback or ask a question, go to http://meaningfulmoney.tv/askpete
Archived episodes can be found at http://meaningfulmoney.tv/mmpodcast
Episodes
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Mar 1, 2023 • 30min
Simplify Your Annual Review
I have a ten-point checklist for an annual financial review, but even that might seem a bit daunting, so how can we simplify the process of keeping on top of your finances? IN this episode, Roger and I do our best to help…

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Feb 22, 2023 • 38min
Simplify Your Investments
Today we’re continuing our season about Simplifying Everything and talking specifically about simplifying your investments. We certainly see a lot of complexity here when clients come to us. And while not everyone has a super-simple situation - sometimes complexity happens by accident - in almost every case, there’s a level of simplification that can be achieved, and usually quite easily and quickly.

4 snips
Feb 15, 2023 • 41min
Simplify Your Pensions
Today we’re talking about simplifying pensions, an area of personal finance which is fraught with potential complication.

4 snips
Feb 8, 2023 • 27min
Simplify Your Budget
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.

7 snips
Feb 1, 2023 • 32min
Simplify Your Planning
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.

Jan 25, 2023 • 27min
Simplify Everything - An Introduction
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.

Jan 18, 2023 • 29min
Your money and its carbon footprint, with Dan Sherrard-Smith of Mother Tree
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.

Jan 11, 2023 • 28min
Investing as a family with Youssef Darwich of Nosso
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…

Jan 5, 2023 • 8min
Welcome to 2023 - Here's what's coming up…
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.

Dec 7, 2022 • 28min
Strategies For Keeping Money In Its Place
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.