You spend years saving towards a big goal, whether it’s a home, a wedding, launching something new. And then one day, you get there. But what no one really talks about is what comes next.This episode is sponsored by PensionBee - a leading online pension provider. They’re on a mission to make managing your retirement savings simple. With PensionBee you can combine and contribute to your pension from the palm of your hand. Their award-winning app and helpful tools make understanding and managing your pension straightforward.Take control of your pension, so that you can enjoy a happy retirement and join over 275,000 customers saving with PensionBee. When investing, your capital is at risk.We’re joined by friend Gabriel Nussbaum, one of the UK’s most followed financial creators to discuss the cost of arrival. The moment you’ve spent all that money… and find yourself right back at the start. In this episode we’ll be discussing the very real cost of arrival.If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can.
AI is the talk of the town. In this weeks episode we sit down with AI Consultant Minisha Goel to discuss all things AI and what it could mean for the future of work.This episode is sponsored by PensionBee - a leading online pension provider. They’re on a mission to make managing your retirement savings simple. With PensionBee you can combine and contribute to your pension from the palm of your hand. Their award-winning app and helpful tools make understanding and managing your pension straightforward.Take control of your pension, so that you can enjoy a happy retirement and join over 275,000 customers saving with PensionBee. When investing, your capital is at risk.If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. #ai #money #work
Can you uphold faith based values with the pursuit of wealth? Can faith and finance really coexist? This episode is sponsored by PensionBee - a leading online pension provider. They’re on a mission to make managing your retirement savings simple with their easy-to-use app. With PensionBee you can combine and contribute to your pension from the palm of your hand. They offer a curated range of plans to suit various savings needs, including a Shariah Plan which only invests in Shariah-compliant companies.Join over 265,000 customers saving with PensionBee. When investing, your capital is at risk.In this episode I'm joined by Adel and Ahmad, co-founders of financial education platform Nisba. We discuss the many virtues and challenges we face balancing faith based values with wealth accumulation. We talk about shariah compliant investing, what it comprises and how to implement it.If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. #money #wealth #faith #finance
This week we sit down with Sammie Ellard-King, founder of financial education platform 'Up the Gains'.Sammie shares his inspiring story of how he decided to take control of his life and turn things around from being in significant debt, to building a business helping him live his life on his own terms. If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. #money #saving #wealth
We are talking all things investing with our guest Ryan King who recently published 'Stop Waiting. Start Investing.' In this episode we will talk you through the beginning on how you can get started with investing, why it's important and how it will contribute to your future. We also discuss our own investment journeys. On current affairs, yes we talk about crypto and also what the looming Donald Trump presidency means for us all. If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. #money #saving #wealth
We sat down with savings expert and money coach Laura Ann Moore to discuss the best ways to get into the mindset of a saver. Laura shares with us her personal financial journey and how her childhood and family experiences shaped her attitude to money. Laura also diagnoses some of Niaz’s money traumas and unpicks how these may have formed. This is a wonderful and revealing episode to say the least! If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. #money #saving #wealth
On this episode I speak to Ken Costa, one of the most renowned investment bankers of our lifetimes to discuss his latest book ‘The 100 Hundred Trillion Wealth Transfer’. This immense transfer of wealth between the generations is going to shape the future of our world and Ken believes we are in a crucial juncture where we can shape, or ultimately break the future of Capitalism. If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on Instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. #money #capitalism #wealth #wealthtransfer
To kick off the year, I have one of the most important and sobering conversations I’ve had in a long time to share with you. I had the pleasure of speaking to a Amr, who is from Gaza, to tell us in his own words, what this experience has been like, as well as life under occupation, living through many wars and making the most of life despite these circumstances. Views are all my own and referenced from the authors cited in the quotes in the episode If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can.
This isn't an easy conversation to start and it's the first time I've ever just sat and spoken by myself so openly. The situation in Palestine is dire and I wanted to take some time to understand how things have become so polarised with this scale of human suffering... Views are all my own and referenced from the authors cited in the quotes in the episode If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can.
On this episode of Loose Change I sat down with my friend Jack Gadd who was my very own fitness coach in 2021. We talked about just how life transforming really focusing on your own health can be and the wider impacts it can have on your mental health, family life, career, business and more. It was wonderful to finally sit down with Jack and here more about his own story... If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
On this episode of Loose Change I sat down with Nafisa Bakkar to discuss her recently published book 'How to Make Money: A New, Honest Guide to Starting and Building a Six-Figure Business'. Nafisa is a decorated Founder and writer, it was great to find out more about her story. I really loved this conversation, we talked about what it really takes to succeed at business and the sacrifices involved. We discussed (the myth) of imposter syndrome, breaking tradition with entrepreneurship and what the future has in store for Nafisa... If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
On this week’s episode of Loose Change we sat down with Dr Jordan Faulkner about his experience working in the NHS, and ultimately how and why he left to set up his own business in aesthetic medicine. Having invested years of time, effort and resources into training to become a doctor, why is it that Jordan decided to leave? What is actually happening in hospitals and is it as dramatic as the media headlines portray? We discuss all of this on this episode of Loose Change... If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
Building a successful business is tough. Most people take many years and several attempts before they manage to get a business off the ground. Now imagine launching yours at the age of 17, scaling it to six figures, then attracting the attention of a famous billionaire like Lord Alan Sugar all before you turn 19. That’s exactly what Amani did! On this week’s episode I sit down with the wonderful Amani Zubair, who is the founder of jewellery brand Tresor and also happens to be Alan Sugar’s youngest ever business partner. Being a young and successful entrepreneur is easy to glamourise but we discussed all the sacrifices, challenges and isolating experiences that a young, successful woman has to endure. We wanted to find out a bit more about Marnie beyond the business. We loved having this conversation and hope you enjoy it too! If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
ChatGPT has dominated the narrative online for the last couple of weeks. For something which is a prototype released by OpenAI it has really got everyone thinking about the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence. It seems like, the platform has presented quite a terrifying breakthrough in capability. We discuss in this weeks episode, alongside personal musings and plans for the year ahead, continued accountability for some goals we've set and a few laughs too... If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
On this week's episode of the Loose Change Podcast I speak to my friend Karmen Tang about the idea of taking agency of your own life again. Karmen herself trained as an accountant, lived and worked in London before moving to Singapore and making some choices to take more ownership of her journey. For so many of us, we might begin to realise how little control we have over our lives, in the places we work, in what we put into our bodies and societies overall expectations of us. In this episode we discuss how you might consider taking agency in your own life again across the themes of work, health and money. If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
As we approach the end of the year, and look ahead to 2023, we sit down together to reflect on the year just gone by and the lessons learned, things we're grateful for and look ahead to next year. It's hard not to get sentimental this time of year, but this was a very therapeutic exercise and actually made us more grateful for some of the experiences we've had this year. This is a bonus audio only episode as we've been struck down bu the horrible flu! Hope you enjoy nonetheless... If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
On this week's episode of Loose Change we speak to founders of Artful Blend, Randeep and Chetna about their recent journey of quitting the rat race and launching their own business. Many young adults often dream of finally being able to hang up their corporate hats and go it alone with their own business. Imagine doing it with your spouse! The story can be romanticised on so many levels, but what is the reality of giving up a reliable income to launch something for yourself? We discuss all the learnings, challenges and amazing milestones on the couples journey so far. If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
On this week's episode of Loose Change we speak to Jamie Rawsthorne, (ex) YouTuber who amassed a million subscribers in just under three years. Made a huge success of that career before hanging up his hat, and now trying his hand (with great success) as a Consultant for new creators. This was an amazing, inspiring conversation about money management and sustaining wealth for the long term. If you'd like to be involved with Loose Change, or think you have an interesting story for us please do reach out to me! @niazazad on instagram, always open for the community to get involved where they can. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
This week we speak to a professional Art Sales Consultant, Ed Warburton to find out how exactly people are making money from investing into art. Isn't this something that was reserved for the ultra-rich? What business do we have investing in Art? How does Art compare to more traditional investments? We discuss all these questions on this weeks episode of Loose Change... This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng
We're kicking off Season 2 of Loose Change with a conversation with active UK Angel investor Rayan Shaikh. We talk about how to invest in start-ups, the risks and rewards of venture capital and we discuss Rayan's own story with investing in high-risk alternative assets. This is a hugely informative and entertaining conversation. Lot's covered in this one, we hope you enjoy... Follow us: Instagram: @loosechangepod Twitter: @loosechng