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- 0:01SPEAKER_00: Remember how exciting money felt before it became a list of things that you should be doing?
- 0:08SPEAKER_00: When I was about eight years old, I'd spent the morning washing my uncle's car, helping my granny around the house, and just as we left to go on holiday, she handed me this five pound note.
- 0:19SPEAKER_00: Now I looked at this paper money and my eyes opened.
- 0:25SPEAKER_00: It was not something I'd ever thought about before.
- 0:27SPEAKER_00: I had some pocket money, but back in those days you got a handful of coins and you went to the sweet shop and you got a few bits and pieces, but this was more money than I had ever seen in my entire life, and suddenly I felt like the world was my oyster.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: I put it in my pocket with that little smile and we headed off on holiday.
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: Now I did spend the fibre at the airport and I'll tell you more about that another day.
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, when you first have that level of excitement around money, it just means that you feel like anything is possible.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: And that's the feeling that I want to bring back.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: Because money can make life more fun now and give you choices later.
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: I'm Claire Sweet and this is Fun Money Serious Wealth.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: Each week we'll take one money question, make sense of the numbers, and find something useful that you can actually do to bring the fun feeling back whilst building wealth.
- 1:20SPEAKER_00: Hi, I'm Claire and I'm really excited to tell you about the Fun Money Smart Wealth podcast, which is coming out really soon.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: Now, this is a podcast for people who want to know more about how their money works and how they can turn their money into lasting wealth.
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be talking about everything from how to organise your finances through to digging out all pension statements and understanding what that pension statement is telling you so that you can have the right amount of money now to live an amazing life and be putting the right amount of money away from your future so that you don't end up sat in the dark and creating economy like being by candlelight because you run out of money.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: So if you want to know more, make sure you subscribe and catch out for the next episode, which is going to be our reason.
- 2:04SPEAKER_00: It doesn't need to be a huge decision.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: Just take a few minutes and get curious about what your money is doing for you.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: If this episode made you think, subscribe to Fun Money Serious Wealth and check out the show notes on where to follow me so you don't miss the next one.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: And if you know someone who's earning good money, who's wondering what to do with it, send this their way.
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: Enjoy the fun of it, build the wealth from it.