We need to talk.

Last week I released an episode of the podcast

with my great friend and fellow financial planner

Andy Hart of the Maven Money Podcast.

Fair to say that that episode received,

shall we say, a mixed response.

So I want to address that today.

Yes, Five Minute Friday is back

and I wanted to just have a little chat with you today just to clarify a few things.

So let's put five minutes on the clock down here.

Say thank you to my good friends at 7 Investment Management for continuing to sponsor meaningful money

and let's crack on. So first day I want to say thank you to everybody who left a comment in the

Facebook group or who sent an email and even to the person who left the pretty scathing iTunes review.

I'm not just saying this I am grateful I read every single comment and I've

managed to personally respond to pretty much all of them. I actually take great

encouragement from the fact that there are enough of you who care enough about this

show to let me know when you're not happy. It's worth saying that there was plenty of

very positive comments as well and I

think it's true to say that those who are unhappy are more likely to comment than

those who are fine with it. So the episode was polarizing and sometimes that's a good thing.

Now if you haven't heard the episode, Andy and I vented our frustration a little bit that so many people

approach us to work with us as professional financial planners and they're just in a mess of

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