This week I speak to Laura Whateley, consumer affairs journalist and best-selling personal finance author.

Laura explains that she fell into writing about personal finance after starting her journalist career. She went from money not being ‘her thing’ to writing a best-selling book on personal finance.

This week I speak to Roland Rawicz-Szczerbo, serial entrepreneur, qualified financial advisor, director and owner of Time4Advice and Angels High.

As a child, Rowland admired the drive of his father who, as a Polish immigrant, came from nothing but worked his way up and had a successful career as managing director of a major company.

This week I speak to Caroline Hughes, tech lawyer and co-founder and CEO of award-winning fintech start-up Lifetise.

Caroline began her career as a solicitor and was well along the path towards becoming a partner in a big law firm. But she decided to change career and co-found Lifetise, to help consumers under 40 to plan how to afford their most important life goals.

This week, I talk to NHS doctor Nikki Ramskill who, having seen firsthand how money stress affects the health and wellbeing of her patients and colleagues, is also a money coach. Nikki candidly shares her early relationship with her finances which, largely influenced by her money personality, was full of impulse spending, accumulating debt and never saying ‘no’.

This week, I speak to Megan Brennan, portfolio manager at Sarasin and Partners LLP.

Megan explains the timeless money lessons her father taught her, which are the foundations of her relationship with money, and how she ended up as a fund manager, despite not knowing what she wanted to do after university.

This week, I speak to Tim Harford, “the Undercover Economist”, Financial Times columnist, BBC broadcaster, and the author of nine books and the presenter of BBC Radio’s “More or Less” and “How To Vaccinate The World”. Growing up in what Tim describes as ‘a very British way’, the topic of money was one rarely discussed in the Harford household…

This week I speak to Holly Morphew, award-winning financial coach and founder of Financial Impact, the company helping people create wealth and feel confident when it comes to money. Holly and I discuss the fear around money and how to change this, building wealth by plugging spending leaks and maximising your income, and how behaviour around money is far more significant than strategy.

This week, I speak to Daniel Mangena, author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. Daniel describes his early relationship with money as a mixed one. His parents were Zimbabwe immigrants and they initially lived a comfortable lifestyle. However, through various business foibles, Daniel saw his family’s financial situation shifted from abundance to scarcity over the course of his upbringing.

This week I speak to Kalpana Fitzpatrick, finance editor for Hearst magazines, which includes Good Housekeeping, Red, Prima, Cosmopolitan. Kalpana’s parents taught her the importance of education and a good career to achieving financial independence. After university Kalpana pursues a career in journalism; which evolved into writing about personal finance.

This week I speak to David Blatt, founder and CEO of CapStack Partners, real estate expert and international speaker. David had a very modest upbringing and always had an innate desire to work hard and apply himself. As a young man trying to break into real estate David ‘interviewed’ people in the industry to find out the essential principles of what it took to make it in the industry.

This week, I speak to Lucy Mullins, Co-Founder and COO of StepLadder, a fast-growing and award-winning FinTech company pioneering collaborative finance and revolutionising the home buying process. Through their collaborative lending circles StepLadder are supporting people to buy their first home faster, reach their financial goals, and championing financial wellbeing.

This week, I speak to Asesh Sarkar, Global CEO and co-founder of Salary Finance, a fast-growing FinTech platform working to improve the financial health of employees in the UK and US.