

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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Nov 29, 2019 • 9min
How Income Tax Works, Part One
Income Tax is a part of all our lives, but how does it really work? It's important to know how income tax works, so that we can understand ways to pay a bit less of it...

Nov 27, 2019 • 23min
Rolling with the punches
In the long journey towards financial independence, life sometimes happens. When it does, you’re going to need to adjust, deal with the challenges and refocus. Today I want to help you do just that.

Nov 20, 2019 • 35min
Exercising Control - Internal Factors
The conversations we have with ourselves around money are vital to our successful wealth-building. Today I’m bringing back repeat guest Neil Bage to go into this vital area of our financial journey.

Nov 13, 2019 • 41min
Exercising Financial Control - Part One
How we behave around our money has far greater impact on our wealth-building than our investment decisions, or level of diversification and whether or not we use leverage. Today I welcome back my good friend Neil Bage, founder of Be-IQ (a behavioural insights company), to talk us through how we cope with the various influences over our behaviour.

Nov 6, 2019 • 30min
Next-Level Diversification
We all know that diversification is a good thing when it comes to investing and wealth-building, but is there a limit to how useful it can be? Can you be TOO diversified? Today I’m talking about next-level diversification.

Oct 30, 2019 • 32min
Mastering Leverage
Experienced investors need to understand leverage in all its forms, and today we’re going to be talking about what it means to apply leverage to your own wealth-building.

Oct 23, 2019 • 27min
Accelerating Your Progress Towards FI
We’ve covered a ton of ground in the season so far, and we’re only now approaching the half-way point. We’ve spent time looking at goals and actions and reviews, but the journey to financial independence is a long one, and just like on a long drive when you come to an open road, it feels good to put your foot down, it feels good to accelerate your financial plans too.

Oct 18, 2019 • 5min
The importance of PERSPECTIVE (and reinvesting income) - 5MF057
Listener Chris called me out on a comment I made in a recent episode of the podcast, talking about long term returns of stock markets. Turns out that income reinvestment REALLY matters, and that it's important to take a long term view.

Oct 16, 2019 • 25min
Robust Reviews
Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at setting goals and building plans to achieve those goals. But working towards financial independence can take a while, and you need to know whether or not you’re on track as you go along. And you do that by having a robust review process in place.

Oct 11, 2019 • 7min
The Greatest Personal Finance Book Ever?
The Maven Adviser calls J L Collins' 'The Simple Path To Wealth' the greatest personal finance book ever, and I'm inclined to agree. Here's my review of the book.