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Episode 77: Kickstart your 2022 - Money skills for Kids & Teens
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022.
Gen and Tim explore various ways that we can educate and discuss the value of money with our younger and teenage children. Plus we discuss some options for your children's savings vehicle.
Episode 76: Kickstart your 2022 - Daily decisions of Sustainable Living
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022.
Gen and Tim discuss the daily decisions that we all face in relation to supporting a sustainable world.
Episode 75: Kickstart your 2022 - Your path to Ethical Investing
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022.
Gen and Tim define Ethical Investing, and discuss the importance of getting in touch with your specific ESG values and how to search for funds that support causes that are important to you.
Episode 74: Kickstart your 2022 - Easy ways to Invest: Micro, Robo and more
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022.
So, you are ready to invest...but how do you actually begin? We discuss options for investing for all budgets and balances from Micro-Investing and round-Up's to Robo-Advice and more.
Episode 73: Kickstart your 2022 - Getting Ready to Invest
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022. There are some key concepts to consider when you are beginning (or continuing) your investment journey.
We discuss the importance of understanding your risk appetite and building your investment choices in line with your goals.
Episode 72: Kickstart your 2022 - Get in touch with your Financial Emotions
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022. How much do your inherited beliefs, biases, and ultimately behaviours impact the financial decisions you make?
We discuss some of the elements from your childhood, through adult relationships, and the many external factors around us that can alter our habits and dictate the financial decisions we make.
Episode 71: Kickstart your 2022 - Get your Wishes in writing
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks, and ideas to Kickstart your 2022.
Did you know that only 25% of people in Australia have a valid and up-to-date Will?
Implementing a Will and Powers of Attorney is your opportunity to ensure that the wishes you have for your family are put into writing.
Episode 70: Kickstart your 2022 - Get ahead on interest rates
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with financial tips, tricks and ideas to Kickstart your 2022.
This year we will be bombarded by the media about the likelihood of rising Interest Rates. Why will Interest Rates increase? How can you get a better understanding of what this means for your household? What can you do to get ahead of any changes?
Episode 69: Kickstart your 2022 - Getting real with your money
Join Tim (The Grass is Greener) and Gen (The Reality Cheque) as they come together with tips to Kickstart your 2022. Starting with your household income, expenses and spending habits. How can you change your attitudes and habits to ensure you are living your best life, while being able to afford the essentials. It is all about sleeping easy at night and enjoying the journey.
Episode 68: Fearless about Economic Equality
Bianca Hartge-Hazleman is a champion of Economic Equality for Women. Bianca created Financy, a financial literacy, media and data insights platform.
Bianca is also the initiator of the Financy Women's Index which measures and reports each quarter on women’s financial progress and the timeframe to achieving gender equality in Australia.
Episode 67: Approaching Retirement & Aspire Planning
Planning for retirement is much more than planning the financials. A healthy, meaningful and connected life normally has key "life ingredients" that together, provide purpose and balance.
This year, Tim was a guest on "A Bite from the Money Sandwich" podcast. He and host Marc Bineham discussed these key ingredients as well as the "life first" approach that Aspire Planning provides to its clients.
Episode 66: Financial Advice for Aged Care
Planning for a loved one to be admitted into an Aged Care home is undoubtedly a very emotional time for a family.
Whilst dealing with these emotions, families are faced with trying to learn and understand Aged Care rules, how the rules interact with their own situation and any future impacts regarding centrelink entitlements.
Episode 65: Granny Flat Arrangements
Granny Flat arrangements are becoming a very popular way for families to support their ageing family members.
These arrangements can be hugely beneficial, bring families closer together. However, before entering into such an arrangement it is vital that all parties fully understand the ramifications for the arrangement - and also should obtain specialised advice.
Episode 64: Intergenerational Relationships & Mental Health conversations
The response to the COVID pandemic placed heavily restrictions on all of us. Over the past two years, we have all faced moments that challenged our Mental Health.
However, research is already showing that of all the generations, children & young adults have been impacted hardest. Our younger people can benefit greatly from the support and care of older generations.
Episode 63: Family finances - Raising financially resilient children
A significant portion of a child's money beliefs are basically formed by the age of 7.
What can parents of younger and older children do to help their children develop a healthy and empowered relationship with money?
How do we help cultivate financial resilience in our children?
How should we be talking to kids about money?
Episode 62: Get Deliberate - Mortgage Rates & Investment Risk
Making deliberate decisions in a proactive manner is clearly a preferred option to making decisions in a reactive manner.
This week Tim discusses two areas of your financial world in which you could take proactive and deliberate action - your Mortgage and your Superannuation.
Episode 61: Guiding 20’s & 30’s to ‘take charge’ of their money
There are not that many financial advisers or financial coaches that actively assist people in their 20's, 30's and 40's.
When Adele started her own business she chose to work only with people in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s to help them master their money and live a life they love now - so they aren’t waiting to live in retirement.
Episode 60: Guiding with modern, open & authentic financial advice
Many younger people might wonder how financial advice can help them. After all, they are miles off retirement.
But what if they were able to engage with a business that was focused on delivering financial solutions for the specific problems that they were facing?
Episode 59: Guiding & aligning your ’Ethos’ to your investments
Ethical investing is simply choosing ethical and responsible investments that focus on 1. growing your money and 2. improving your impact on the planet.
There are now more options than ever for consumers to achieve these dual objectives with their choice of personal investments and also their choice of Superannuation.
Episode 58: Guiding to make '“Your Good Life” a reality
Financial security. Life experiences. And a lasting legacy. They’re the aspirational goals of many people.
But what that actually represent for any one individual is very very different from another individual. What does your version look like?