It's not actually Christmas Eve when we're recording.

We're not mental.

No.

You know, we don't like it that much. No, but it's less than a week to go. Well, exactly. So it does feel like it's still coming in fairly quick. Hi, folks, and welcome back to the Meaningful Money podcast. It is session number 602, and it's Christmas Eve when this is coming out. So very Merry Christmas to everybody and to you, my dear friend, Mr Ebenezer Weeks.

Oh, bah, humbug, dear Peter. I don't know. I've been forced to work on Christmas Eve, and I got loads of ghost home. Way to talk to me. I wonder what they would say. Talk about your past and your present and your future. Yeah, I'm not quite sure I'd amass my past, but the future.

I'm not sure what it holds now after this. I'm dressing up for a podcast, didn't it? It is a lovely Christmas jumper. Well, I did try hard. I sought everywhere. And you had a bargain. And had a bargain. Vinted. I'm lucky they get you. Fantastic, because that's an M&S jumper, isn't it?

It's an MNS jumper, and it's brand new with labels.

So, yeah, I wouldn't just go for any jump. Look at you. Fantastic, because that's an M&S jumper, isn't it?

It's a M&S jumper, and it's brand new with labels. So, yeah, I wouldn't just go for any jumper. Well, no, exactly. It's, we'll expect nothing less. So what are we talking about today then? Well, actually, we're going to reflect on 2025, and we've not actually done much prep for this. Very little. It could be fun. It could be fun or it could be a sort of halting, unstructured mess.

We'll just have to see.

Let's hope that our... for this. Very little. It could be fun. It could be fun or it could be a sort of halting, unstructured mess.

We'll just have to see. Let's hope that our ability to riff sort of honed over decades of dealing with clients and thinking on our feet. It should be easy. Hopefully that'll stand by us. But remember notes and links, there probably won't be any links today, let's face it. But if there are, they'll be at the show notes, which is the only link you need to remember.

Meaningfulmoney.tv slash session 602. Right, let's crack on. So I thought we could maybe talk about meaningful money first, of which you've been an integral part again this year. Try. Work, which obviously don't really apply to you. No. And then maybe just some personal stuff. Just, obviously going a little bit easier on ourselves at the end of the year. It's not actually Christmas Eve when we're recording. We're not mental. No. You know, we don't like it that much. No. But it's less than a week to go. Well, exactly. So it does feel like it's sort of coming in fairly quick. So last going on this year in Meaningful Money. One highlight for me is the release of Book 2, Meaningful Money Retirement Guide, which, if you just cut to Rodge, Kate, is there it is? It? Just there. Here, no, the other side.

That will work on audio, will it?

So that came out in May.

The publishers are really happy. I'm actually still waiting for the first six months.

Oh, you've not had the notice yet, no.

No, it's because I'm on a slightly different deal now.

On the first one, I basically get the numbers like 8 o'clock in the morning at the end of the sort of six-monthly window. But with this one, they have to work it out a bit more manually, apparently. But I'm hoping that's better for me. But that's good and it's gone down really, really well. It was a less enjoyable process writing that one than the first one.

You remember I wrote?

Yeah.

I took like two weeks and just rolled the first one in that sort of opium-fueled writing binge.

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