Money & Us
Money & Us with Anna Brading is a personal finance podcast that aims to help listeners take control of their finances and change their lives. Anna, a Certified Financial Education Instructor and author, shares her own journey from feeling lost with money to building a community of over 250,000 people. The podcast addresses the lack of financial education in schools and offers practical advice for managing money while juggling work, family, and other life challenges. Each week, Anna sits down with guests to have conversations that can make a difference.
Episodes
Are You Saving Too Much and Investing Too Little? With Clare Francis, Director of Savings and Investments at Barclays
When Clare Francis lost her first husband in 2011, the grief came with a very practical problem too, because his income was gone while the mortgage and the bills were still there. In this episode of the Money & Us podcast, Anna talks to Clare, Director of Savings and Investments at Barclays and a financial journalist for more than 15 years, including as Editor in Chief at MoneySuperma
What It Takes To Rebuild Your Identity From Nothing with England International Anita Asante
Anita Asante won every domestic trophy English football had to offer in a single season, a quadruple no Arsenal team has repeated since, while several of her teammates still worked as teachers, police officers and firefighters because the women's game simply couldn't pay them to do anything else. In this episode of the Money & Us podcast, Anna talks to Anita, a former England internat
Why Losing His Mum Sparked A Business That's Helped A Million People with Sam Grice
In 2016, a single phone call changed the entire course of Sam Grice's life. He lost both his parents within moments of each other, thousands of miles from home, and out of that grief built a company that has since helped more than a million families through their own loss. In this episode of Money & Us, Anna sits down with Sam, founder of Octopus Legacy, to talk honestly about death,
Psychotherapist Paula Williams on The Hidden Anxiety Behind How We Spend, Save And Avoid Our Bank Account
Paula Williams has spent more than 25 years in the therapy room watching money reveal what's really going on underneath the surface of people's lives, long before the numbers ever come into it. In this episode of the Money & Us podcast, Anna talks to Paula, an award winning BACP accredited psychotherapist specialising in trauma, addiction and abuse, about what's really driving our anx
How to Find Your Voice and Speak with Confidence with Caroline Goyder
Caroline Goyder has spent her career teaching people that the way they speak can matter just as much as what they say. In this episode of the Money & Us podcast, Anna talks to Caroline, voice coach and bestselling author of Gravitas, whose TEDx talk has now been watched more than 11 million times, about the surprising, largely unspoken link between how we speak and how far we get in
When Your Financial Problems Aren’t Actually About Money with Money Mindset Expert Laura Moore
Two thirds of young people say their mental and physical health has been affected by their financial situation, and that statistic sits right at the heart of this conversation between Anna and Laura Moore, financial coach, financial wellbeing speaker and author of Find Your Wealth. Laura makes the case that money has been treated as its own separate category for far too long, sitting apar
The Real Cost of Being Afraid to Fail
What would you do differently if you were just 10% less afraid of failing?Across the first ten episodes of the Money & Us podcast, one theme has kept coming up time and time again, albeit in very different ways: failure.In this special episode, your host Anna Brading brings together five of the most powerful perspectives from the series so far, exploring what failure really looks like
What Nobody Tells You About Money, Marriage and Motherhood with Elizabeth Idowu
She has spent years on the front line of one of the most transformative moments in a person's life, and what she has seen challenges so much of what we assume we know. Mamadinya (Elizabeth Idowu) is an NHS midwife, educator, author of I'm Pregnant Now What? and founder of Mama's Classes.In this episode of the Money & Us podcast, Anna sits down with Mamadinya to explore one of the most
What Grief Taught A CEO About Wealth with Stewart McCulloch
There's a photograph Stewart McCulloch still remembers clearly. A red cheeked man in an expensive suit, a false smile, eyes that gave everything away. The world called him a success. He knew he wasn't.In this episode of the Money and Us podcast, Anna talks to Stewart, CEO of Christians Against Poverty, about the years that took him from a childhood of real poverty in Coventry to a million
Why Almost Half of Women Will Be Single by 2030 with Lucy Meggeson
She has been single for eight and a half years, built a career around it, and says she wouldn’t have it any other way. Lucy Meggeson is the author of Shiny Happy Singles (Thrive Solo in the US), host of the Thrive Solo podcast, and one of the most compelling voices challenging everything we think we know about singleness, relationships and what a successful life really looks like.In this
What It Really Costs To Play for England with Zoe Harrison
She debuted for England in 2017, won the Rugby World Cup in 2025, and plays for one of the most successful clubs in the country. Zoe Harrison is one of the most exciting players in women's rugby, and this conversation goes far beyond the sport itself.In this episode of the Money and Us podcast, Anna sits down with Zoe for a candid conversation about elite sport, money and the realities mo
The Money Conversation Every Couple Needs To Have with Rotimi Merriman-Johnson, fiancée Dora Balusa and Simon Brading
Most of us know that money and relationships are deeply connected. Few of us ever talk about it honestly, especially not with our partners in the room.In this episode, Anna does something a little different. She sits down not just with one of the UK's most well regarded finance creators and financial advisors, Rotimi Merriman-Johnson, but with their partners too. Rotimi's fiancée Dora Bal
The Truth About Alcohol, Money and Mental Health with Millie Gooch
She went from a five night a week binge drinker to founding the Sober Girl Society, now the largest sober curious community for women in the world. Today, Millie Gooch is an author, mental health and addiction expert, and one of the most important voices on sobriety and alcohol culture in the UK.In this episode of the Money and Us podcast, Anna sits down with Millie for a candid and compe
Everything You Need To Know About Investing with Joshua Raymond
He spent his first six years working in the finance industry without investing a single penny of his own money. Today, Joshua Raymond is the Managing Director of one of the UK’s fastest growing investment platforms and one of the most straight talking voices on how everyday people can start building real wealth.11.6 million adults in the UK are ready to invest but still haven’t taken the
Why Financial Anxiety Is Already Destroying The Next Generation with Abi Foster
She was the shy one in her family, failed to shine in exams, and much to the dismay of her parents, quit her accountancy career to move to Australia and become a yoga instructor. Today, Abi Foster is not only a qualified accountant, but one of the UK’s leading finance content creators, author, presenter and founder of a business, Elent, taking financial education directly into schools acr
The Truth About AI That Nobody Is Telling You with Jamie Bartlett
He interviewed Sam Altman in 2017, before most of the world had heard of him, spent hundreds of hours inside some of the darkest corners of the internet, from extremist forums to the darknet, and has become one of the most trusted voices on AI and society in the UK. Today, Jamie Bartlett is a five time author, tech journalist, and the person Anna wanted in her corner for this conversation
The Woman Rewriting the Rules of British Entrepreneurship with Alex Depledge MBE
She was bullied at school, didn’t fit in at university, and spent the first 20 years of her life trying to make herself smaller. Today, Alex Depledge MBE is a serial tech entrepreneur who has built and sold multimillion-pound businesses, and was appointed the country’s first ever Entrepreneurship Advisor to the Chancellor.In this episode, Anna sits down with Alex for a candid and compelli
Anna Brading: The Money Conversations We Should Have Been Having All Along
Have you ever felt like you’re doing everything right with money and still feel like you’re falling behind? You’re not alone, and you’re definitely not the problem.In this very first episode, Anna Brading shares the story behind Money and Us and why she felt compelled to create it. The truth is, most of us are navigating real life challenges that nobody else can see. The messy, complicate
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