Keep The Change

In July, we locked in over $50,000 worth of work directly from the Keep The Change audience. Last week we spoke about the concept of investing in yourself and how it's the best investment to make. Many successful people say things like that. People also say that if you follow your passion, the money will come. July is proof of that for me. BUT look at how long that has taken and how much effort. Let's get into some details!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke gets a rogue email from someone wanting a job, who won't be getting a job. We dive into what this person could have done better and some general principles for you if you're thinking of approaching strangers.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are now thousands of supercars on the roads in NZ, we look at some numbers from back in 2000 through to today to see how this has changed and whether it is a good thing or bad thing, as well as how it's all been funded.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke sits down with James from Lighthouse Financial to discuss your questions from Augusts webinar regarding the 10 Commandments of building wealth. There are some rippers in here and as always the live comments take on us a tangent - thanks for tuning in! Hopefully something in here really gets you thinking.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘’Invest in yourself’’, ‘’The best investment you can make is in yourself!’’. We’ve all heard these sayings but not everyone is interested in this. These sayings are almost thrown around so much that I don’t think people believe it to be true anymore. I got me thinking, why? Because so many smart, wealthy, happy and experienced people say things like this.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join James Blair from Lighthouse Financial for an interactive webinar where we go through the fundamental wealth principles you need to know to successfully start on your wealth creation journey.This webinar is all about the psychological concepts you need to understand to become financially bulletproof.The 10 commandments:Understand your motivation for wealth creationPlans are nothing, planning is everythingNever spend more than what you earnMake your money work harder than youKnow how you can benefit from the power of compoundingKnow how to implement leverageGive your investments sufficient time to growDo not compare your wealth goals to that of peersGive more value than you takeTreat your wealth like a business (because it is)Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A recent Keep The Change Instagram poll revealed that a lot of people are questioning their recent decisions to buy a property. In this podcast we review why you didn’t have the info that you have now and how your thinking could be very normal. Perhaps you have buyer's remorse but zoom out and think longer term.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something a little different today, Luke sits down with Shane from lateral lawyers and answers a few of his questions about his journey and what that has led to over the last 7 years, hopefully you can learn something from this. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now that a number of you hate me after suggesting last week's income exercise, I thought I would keep that theme going. Did you know that your purchasing power decreased 15% in 3 years? This is why you really do need to understand inflation! At 11.59pm on March 25, 2020 , New Zealand shut down. Remember that? Regardless of what you believe to have caused inflation, know that it has been compounding at a rate of 5.5% for the last 3 years.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you are in business or looking to make some extra cash then have a look at this framework to think about how you are going to need to position your solution to people whilst the economy is contracting. This is a Sabri Suby's idea around making sure that you can still sell things in a recession. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For many mortgage holders your interest rates will be rolling off in the next six months and you have a decision to make. I ask Mikey what people should be thinking about when it comes to rates, changing banks, and certainty.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine knowing what you’ve earned for the last 8 financial years combined? Well ya can! Uh oh. Do you really want to know? The IRD will let you run a report of your income summary online going right back to the 1st of April 2015. If you’re brave, go back and look at your income through the years. Who's keen?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve learnt about what Tama does and why he’s doing it. Now he’s on a journey to teach other people to do the same thing. I ask him how we know if this is our thing and where to start if we want to get into flipping property. Tama explains why starting small and learning the skills is the most valuable piece of the journey, then it’s just rinse and repeat. Find out how much Tama has made through the journey so far and whether he’s going to slow down. Enjoy. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a listener request from somebody who has everything a lot of people would love to have but is still feeling stuck. We dive into how to think about this differently and think about designing your life plus the seasons that go through that life as well. This will be really helpful for so many people so please listen to this one.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Plenty of people are excited about inflation decreasing but you still need to understand the long-term impacts of inflation. This episode will show you what the devaluation of the New Zealand currency looks like and once you know, you’ll need to figure out what you will do to protect your money longer term. This is critical to understand if you want to look after your finances in the long run. This episode is bought you by the good people at Double Yolk. Check out their recent article about scaling their business from $100,000 in turnover to $5 million turnover in 4 years in the NZ Entrepreneur magazine.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recently you may have seen more stories about businesses going into ‘liquidation’, which can be tricky to understand. We are going to go over some basics of what liquidation is and how it can happen. Liquidation is effectively winding up the operations of a business and selling or distributing the assets of the business to cover the debts that it owes (to what are called creditors).Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke’s partner is back in the studio to bring another top 10 podcast to your ears. In this podcast we discuss why it’s important to run your own race and not compare yourself to your partner, your friends, or the people you're following on social media. As always the conversation gets a little but tense when some of our relationship differences start coming to the forefront. Enjoy this one!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you’re heading for a wedding or somewhere where you need to provide a gift, there’s a high chance that you’re questioning what is enough? The ole ‘my presence is your present’ doesn’t really cut it at a wedding does it? I found a NZ poll from 2017 where 5,600 people voted and 67% of people said they would take $100 or less to a wedding as a gift. Now that the money printers have had their way with us, I’d imagine that if they ran that poll again in 2023; $100 may not quite cut it?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What would it take for you to make $1 million per year? Chances are you don't know right now but if you have the right information we are sure that that's exactly what you would do and you wouldn't stay in your $50,000 job so let's explore exactly how we need to be thinking differently to get on a different path and increase what we earn and what we save. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

48 property flips in 2 years and never once lost money. How the hell does one person manage this? I sit down with Tama Singh and find out what sparked this interest in property flipping and what is driving him. Tama lets us in on a time management secret he’s never spoken about which will shock you. I ask him whether you need a background in property or can anyone follow this journey? I ask all of the questions that you want answered.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The latest official cash rate announcement came out today and some good news for people with it not moving at all. This was no surprise because last time they told us it wouldn't move, but will it go up in the future? What's all of these tax changes from the government all about?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is that what we really are? We’ve been trained to be like this from a young age and history supports this. No wonder so few of us think. OR set goals. OR have a vision. Not you though, you know the importance of having those things in your life and we explore a clip explaining exactly this. Enjoy!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An insight to the tremendous doco 'Stutz' now playing on Netflix. I won’t ruin it for you and go into too much detail, but please go and learn from one of the most expensive psychotherapists who you’d normally not get access to. Let’s just explore 2 concepts I picked up during the documentary: Part X & The Maze.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is now a bad time to switch providers? What about funds? How much should I contribute? Will the government steal it all? To clear debt or contribute to KiwiSaver? Adam Stewart runs CompoundWealth.co.nz and lives and breathes KiwiSaver so we get stuck into some FAQ’s and myths around KiwiSaver.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

’50% of people won’t get out of bed’ - D Sullivan. You’ll compete with less people during a low growth period because people will simply find it too hard and won’t be bothered. The good thing is you don’t need to reinvent the wheel, you need to be practical. Here’s how…Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get access to Centrix's June credit data reports and have a look at who is overdue on their Buy Now Pay Later and credit card's and what we should be thinking about if we are still using those YUCK tools that get pushed down our throats all the time. Enjoy!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today marks the 1/2 way point of 2023. Ya kidding me, how has that happened? So far this year it’s been 6 months of a gentle economic grind down. I get the sense most people are finding things tricky and we haven’t seen a massive reprieve from things like inflation and interest rates, but we are all staying in the fight. Many people are now paying higher interest rates for mortgages, food is still expensive, the recession is here, BUT so are us resilient humans. Today, I want you to simply think about what victories you have had?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We get Adam back in the studio to help us understand what we don’t know about KiwiSaver. How big is it going to get? What’s up with all of these new DIY Kiwisavers, good or bad? It seemed so simple but now there seems to be a lot of choice. Adam Stewart runs CompoundWealth.co.nz and lives and breathes this space. Get learning.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Smith (GuardianSmith.co.nz) NZ’s greatest opportunity. To turn self employed people into business owners. Luke runs Mikey through some business statistics that will shock a lot of you. Many people work for large businesses and assume that’s what everyone else’s life must be like. Incorrect. Let’s explore!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well, it is finally here the mega pod to help you understand how to think differently and where your thoughts even come from to start with. You won't want to this podcast because we dive into ways for you to help improve your thinking and therefore your life and some of the principles behind this. We would love to know what your biggest takeaway from this podcast is so please send us a message once you've listened.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"You cannot overtake 15 cars in sunny weather…but you can when it’s raining.” Now that the rain is here and the difficult times appear to be more in our faces than previously, how do we keep our eyes on the prize and continue to make progress? If other people aren’t willing to get out there and take action to sort out their issues, that’s not your concern. What is your opportunity is that you’ve got a window where you’re less likely to be competing with them.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this podcast we let one of the most powerful people in the world talk to us like children and tell us there is nothing to be worried about. We dig back into the archives to see what we were told about inflation here in NZ over the last 2 years too. Buckle up and accept that the powers that be may not have the answers we hope they do.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You might be surprised to know that over 400,000 of our 546,000 businesses in NZ hire 0 staff. I think this is single-handedly our biggest opportunity in New Zealand. If they’re solving a problem in the market that can be scaled, imagine if we could teach these people to be employers and to scale? (IF they want to!). Let's look at some stats!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everybody loves to believe that property doubles every ten years but maybe we need it to when we factor in the cost of the things we need to pay for in the lifetime of a property. In this example, we will look at purchasing a home over a ten-year window and the things that you should consider paying for during that ten years. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well well well it's finally here the recession has hit. Is it time to freak out or is it time for keep the change listeners to continue to stick to the basics and prepare themselves for what could be further to come. In this episode will explore what this means and what we could be about to go into. Never fear we've got your back!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recently there were changes to the LVR rules so we asked Mikey what the hell that means and also get an update from him about who is borrowing property at the moment because he has been a busy lad as always. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Buying a property can be scary enough from a financial perspective before even thinking about the law. Angus from HouseMeLegal.co.nz stops by to tell us all about the process and what you need to watch out for. It doesn’t need to be daunting if you follow Angus’s BUYIT process. Angus runs us through that and some of the most common mistakes people make when buying.Free: Buying ChecklistHey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For many of us, we price things in a unit we can measure. I.e. If you earn $30 an hour, you may price a $150 bag as 5 hours of work. Don't forget about taxes!!! It can often be good for us to understand how many hours of work items will cost us. This may encourage or discourage you to purchase it. Let's understand this better...Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are constant articles and everyone is talking about how the bottom of the housing market is here, let's dig into this and find out why maybe that is not the case. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mikey tunes in to a webinar with a leading economist from New Zealand who predicts things are going to get very grim here and we are still some time away from this. Mikey takes us through the data to back this up and then we explore some of the ways we could be preparing and what we need to be thinking about if this is the case. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recently a man from America really caught Luke's ear and eye and in this episode we will look at how this happened and what it is that they are talking about that has gotten so much of Luke's attention that he has nearly fallen.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the 1st of April 2023, interest incurred on rental properties will now only be 50% tax deductible. We are going to learn about this because it’s actually quite a big deal and something you will hear a fair bit about this year. Before we do, let’s go back to basics....New Zealanders have long had an obsession with rental property investment.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nzhttps://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Reserve Bank increased the OCR (Official Cash Rate) for the 12th straight time. It now sits at 5.5%. The Reserve Bank, have forecast out into the future and, at present, the OCR looks to have peaked and will decline from here to be just above 3% in 2026. That will no doubt excite a lot of people. But given that it's been so uncertain, it’s not easy to trust the experts in charge at the moment, is it? The KTC Instagram audience voted on whether this would be the end of OCR increases and 79% said no. Should we trust them?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The NZ budget is out again this week and we explore whether we need to change the question of 'whats in it for me?' to 'whats in it for NZ?'. The annual NZ budget always carries a lot of opinion and criticism but it is important to think about your own budget and what you are doing to monitor your money. Let's exploreHey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mikey was recently asked what it is like to not have to care about money. In this episode he breaks down how he answered this question. Just to be clear Mikey does care about money but the perception from the person who asked him this was that he doesn't so let's explore how he thinks about this and what he told the person who asked.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We did it, 3 years of KTC! The very first edition of Money Mail went out on the 22nd of May 2020. There were 201 recipients. Things looked a little different back then as we navigated a pretty unique time. 3 years on, there are now over 7,500 readers each week. There were over 27,500 listeners to the podcast in April 2023. So what have we learnt?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke ventures to the Philippines for a week and sits down with Mikey to go through his lessons from the week. Shit, it was good to be back in a country where youe money can go a little further. Tune in to hear about some of the tales, the different parts of the Philippines, and what we can also learn. Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is being selfish a good or bad thing, or neither? We dig into different situations where you’ll be considered to be selfish even when you might be doing the right thing. There is no winning when it comes to using the word selfish. Check this one out!Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mikey rolls into the stupid with hard data to back up the fact that guys want cars for more than just marketing. Has Luke got it wrong this whole time and it comes back to our desire to have independence and take risk? Let’s be clear we are not advocating for racking up debt to have a fancy car but maybe you can be forgiven for swapping a stack of cash for one?Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you heard people talking about ‘The Lost Decade’? What is that all about and how should we prepare ourselves. We hear from legendary investors, historians and turn how minds to ensuring we don’t stagnate in a time where markets could not be like what they used to be. Just because companies aren’t growing, doesn’t mean we can’t. Let’s get stuck in.Hey thanks for listening! Please take some form of action from this content, don’t just be a consumer, become a producer! Make sure you’re subscribed to Money Mail via Keepthechange.co.nz to receive our weekly lesson on money and financial literacy. Stay close to us on social media and share this with someone that you think this content will help. Together we can collectively improve the financial literacy of New Zealand - let’s get on with it.Find us here:@keepthechange_nz https://www.keepthechange.co.nz/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.