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How to Lend Money to Strangers

From bankrupt borrower to millionaire lender, with Matt Haycox (Funding Guru)

How to Lend Money to Strangers

Brendan le Grange

Credit, Fintech, Management, Lending, Banking, Business, Careers

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Most consumers have a fairly steady income stream that turns hours into wages on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. Sure, we hope those payments rise over time, but still, we’re typically talking in terms of percentages per year. And when we borrow, it's usually to spread a large expense into a series of smaller payments that better aligns with their earnings.



It’s different for SMEs, though. Not only can their income streams rise and fall in multiples, but they can rise or fall in multiples based on their ability to access credit. As such, it can be frustrating for business owners who get caught up in lenders' red tape: you might want to tick more boxes, but they really need that money. That's often where the Funding Guru steps in.



Matt Haycox was a borrower before he was a lender - a trait that gives him a unique perspective, that allows him to be more commercial as a lender.



You can find more info about the Funding Guru lending products at: https://www.fundingguru.com/



Or more about Matt's other projects at: https://matt-haycox.com/



You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, on my LinkedIn page (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this very show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24 And if you're at Money20/20 in Amsterdam this week, come say hello at the MoneyPot Booth where I'll be recording shows on Wednesday and Thursday.



Oh, and if you’re in need of more banking podcasts, you can find related content at https://blog.feedspot.com/banking_podcasts/



Oh, oh, and if you're at Money20/20 on the day this comes out, let me know!



If you have any feedback, questions, or if you would like to participate in the show, please feel free to reach out to me via the contact page on this site.



Regards, Brendan



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I was a borough before I was a lender and I'm a business owner, not a bank manager and

0:05.1

standing on both sides of that table.

0:06.9

I think gives me a very unique perspective to be able to be more realistic as a lender,

0:11.6

to be more commercial as a lender, knowing what the real world of borrowing is like.

0:19.3

Kids trying to learn something from professional wrestling has certainly broken more bones than

0:23.9

it has four to five minds.

0:26.0

But if there is one lesson we could all take from those bespanned ex-chains, it's that

0:30.4

a fighter is never really down.

0:33.1

Welcome to How To Lend Many Two Strangers with Brendan Lagrange.

0:50.8

At Hey Cox, funding guru and temporary yacht captain, a team welcome to the show.

0:56.0

Thank you very much for having me.

0:57.2

No, I am at yacht passenger, not yacht captain.

1:00.3

That is the better place to be on the yacht, I think.

1:04.2

If social media is not lying to me, I see that there's also a baby on the way any day

1:08.0

now.

1:09.0

So an extra special thank you for making the time to record this.

1:11.9

She's actually just come out.

1:13.6

Oh, okay.

1:14.6

Even more so then.

1:16.2

She popped out early on Sunday, so she's about 40 hours old right now.

1:20.6

Well, congratulations on that.

1:22.2

Yes, thank you.

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