Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to another episode of Good Influence.

This is the podcast where I welcome our guests to discuss their experiences, answer your

questions and teach us something new.

This week we're talking about financial literacy.

The role of financial knowledge are self-care, making conversations about money less intimidating

and not falling prey to online comparison.

So joining me this week is Emmanuel Asuco.

Emmanuel aka Uncle Eman if you watch his videos is a financial advisor, speaker, TV presenter

and now author.

His debut book Get Your Money Right, Understand Your Money and Make It Work For You is

out now and explores financial literacy from building good habits to borrowing, to philanthropy

in practical jargon free language.

We literally make money and financial decisions every single day, but we never really talk

about how do we do it properly.

So you and I met originally when we did a panel together about wellness and you were there

to talk about finance and kind of financial well-being.

Could you tell us a bit about why financial literacy can be kind of an important part

of that wellness, self-care sort of conversation?

The reason it's really important is that for a lot of people money can bring anxiety

because there's a fear of making a mistake.

Now we've got the fear of being scanned so at a desperate situation like now where people

are struggling with finances and money, people tend to look for opportunities to make money

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