Financial Independence UK

Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they delve into the world of financial independence in the UK! They cover a wide range of topics such as personal finance, career development, relationships and mental health as they discuss the strategies to success in achieving financial independence.

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Dr Hung Interview

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Alex interviews Dr Hung, a listener of the podcast who got in touch with us. Dr Hung heard our podcast after we launched in early 2021 and asked to share her story. What followed was an interesting conversation about her approach to finances, investing and life. Enjoy! As always, if you have any questions for the team or want to be interviewed yourself, feel free to email us at fi.ukpodcast@gmail.com Piano music for intro and outro: Heroic Recept...

May 03, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 10

Catch Up with Alex and Tom

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about their podcast journey so far and their plans for the future. Since we first decided to create our podcast, it’s been a steep learning curve and a long journey. Our hosts wanted to bring their listeners up to speed with this little fireside chat about where they’ve been and where they’ll go. As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email the team at fi.ukpodcast@gmail.com Piano...

Apr 26, 2021•14 min•Ep. 9

Parenting and FI with LazyFiDad

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Alex as he interviews LazyFiDad on his approach to parenting and FI. As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at fi.ukpodcast@gmail.com Check out the LazyFiDad website here: http://lazyfidad.com/ Topia: https://topia.life The newsletter is worth your time. Piano music for intro and outro: Heroic Reception by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3871-heroic-reception License: http://creativecomm...

Apr 20, 2021•50 min•Ep. 8

Behavioural Investing with Daniel Crosby

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about (enter topic name) and how it impacts your FI journey. Discussion with Dr Daniel Crosby, author of The Behaviour Investor. Realising that your behaviour is the best predictor of whether you reach your financial goals. People think that externalities have the most impact, whereas Daniel’s research suggests human choices have a much greater impact on wealth building. Learn to utilise the emotions alon...

Apr 12, 2021•36 min•Ep. 7

Time is Money

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about time and money and how it impacts your FI journey. In this episode we speak about the link between time and money and much of a role time plays in our modern society. Many of us trade hours at work for money in our payslips at the end of the month, for example. This creates an income ceiling as people won’t work ridiculous hours each week nor be paid a very high hourly rate for their field. Value ba...

Apr 07, 2021•14 min•Ep. 6

Motivation and Discipline for FI

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about the motivation and discipline required on your FI journey. Initial motivation can make starting any new venture seem easy, the enthusiasm can enable you to throw yourself into a new project. But how long does it last? It is the discipline that keeps you on the right path. Especially when this sort of idea goes against what everyone else appears to be doing. The learning curve is steep, there is a pl...

Mar 31, 2021•23 min•Ep. 5

Lifestyle Inflation

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about Lifestyle Inflation and how it impacts your FI journey. Lifestyle inflation can sneak up on you, to define it, your outgoings increase as you earn more money. Most people will earn more over their career, this can lead to higher outgoings due to upgrading your lifestyle with the extra money. A good example of this is mobile phones, the manufacturers release new versions each year and effectively say...

Mar 25, 2021•27 min•Ep. 4

Ethical Investing

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Tom and Alex as they talk about ethical investing and how it impacts your FI journey. Themes in this episode include reasons for ethical investing’s growing popularity, potential downsides of this strategy and Tom and Alex’s personal take on socially responsible funds. As always, if you have any questions for the team, feel free to email us at fi.ukpodcast@gmail.com Piano music for intro and outro licensing: Heroic Reception by Ke...

Mar 25, 2021•23 min•Ep. 3

The What and Why of FI

Welcome to the Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Alex and Tom as they talk about life in the UK and how they are going about achieving FI. In this episode we introduce Alex and discuss how far we are away from FI in order to provide a sense of scale. We talk about the motivation for pursuing FI, how it can help us in our normal lives and what strategies we are using to achieve financial freedom, We also talk about how mental, physical and financial health can affect our journey....

Mar 24, 2021•33 min•Ep. 2

The Beginning

Welcome to the brand new Financial Independence UK podcast! Join your hosts Alex and Tom as they make their first UK focussed episode on life in the UK and how they are going about achieving FI. Both Alex and Tom are young, motivated individuals in their 20s with a keen interest in personal finance and the positive effects it can have on your life. Financial Independence is a movement that was born in the US, and is centered around budgeting, saving and investing enough so that it becomes possib...

Mar 08, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1