A few weeks ago I wrote a post "How much does it take to retire?".  This particular post sparked a lot of questions and comments that needed addressing! 

There is so much mis-information and bad advice out there I wanted to give you my perspective!  And it is only my perspective! Read with a pinch of salt!

How is your relationship with money?  Do you have a relationship?  If money was personaified and sitting accross from you right now what would you want to say to her?

Money plays such a major role in all our lives but have you ever really considered the current state of your relationship with it?

Announcing The Rebel Entrepreneur Podcast launching on the 4th of May in partnership with ChooseFI Radio. After months of planning and preparation we have a launch date and Season 1 Outline, we are ready to go!   This is it launch time!

How many companies have messaged you this week offering to extend your credit limit? Offering you free overdrafts for a month?  Offering to lend you money?

With the Coronavirus lock-down in full swing, flow of money slowing and businesses having to lay people off we are at our most vulnerable in many years!

Are you stuck in the house?  Have you been quarantined? Wondering what to do with al the new time on your hands? Netflix calling to you?

​Katie and I are in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Normally a hot bed of music, food and partying.  Not at the moment though!

The world seems to be changing faster than ever before and with these changing times comes uncertainty.  This post is inspired by the fact that PopUp Business School (an events business) has had 10 events cancelled this week because of the Coronavirus.  
With change happening so quickly and so out of the blue it is difficult to prepare.  What is important is how you react. 

"The biggest challenge we have is that we can't be seen to fail" said the director of innovation for one of the biggest companies in the UK as we sat sipping flavoursome coffee, outside some of the swankiest offices I have ever seen in my life.  

I had spent an hour understanding his company's goals (to create an innovative, entrepreneurial culture) and what was stopping them (A HUGE list!). ​

My friends used to laugh at me when I said "You can learn anything from a book; anything".  

Especially my friend Mike, he roasted me continuously!  But I truly believed it!  I read a book when I was 21 that changed everything and set me on a new path for ever!

The extraordinary belongs to those who create it.  This is written over and over again throughout my notebooks as a reminder that if you want to have an extraordinary life then you have to create it, build it and make it happen.  No one else is going to create it for you.  You have to create it.

The PopUp Business School team and I had a huge amount of fun last week coming up with advice for Meghan and Harry on their journey to Financial Independence.  Jon and Corinne Card the fabulous PR people that help PopUp helped us write it into an article and here it is!  The traditional media weren't brave enough to publish it!  But I think it is too good to waste so here is the full article. 

Our advice to Meghan and Harry on their journey to Financial Independence