Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast season seven, episode one. Yep, it's a brand new season.

This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. My name is Pete Matthew

and I'm going to share with you everything you need to know and everything you need to do you put your finances in order. My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share

with you everything you need to know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future.

I'm here to help you make sense of money.

Yep, it's a brand new season. Great to have you with me for that. Over the next few weeks,

I'm going to be looking at eight distinct life stages. Yes, eight, right? Believe it or not,

I've identified eight distinct phases of life, which come with unique financial challenges,

and I want to spend some time looking at each of these in detail.

So today I'm going to intro the season, cover off those eight stages fairly quickly,

so you know how the season is going to pan out.

And I've got a bit of homework for you at the end of this session.

You're going to help me out with this season.

I want it to be more interactive than we've ever been before.

So that's where we're going today.

After the main body of the show, I'll look at a couple of reviews that have been left,

very kindly by some listeners announced next week's session topic and all that sort of stuff.

But before any of that, remember, this podcast continues to be brought to you

with the very kind help of my friends at 7 investment management. They're a firm of investment managers based in London who specialise in multi-asset

investing, something I'm always banging on about here. And multi-asset investing brings institutional

level investing techniques to ordinary people, just like you and me. Seven I have been supporting

me here, putting their name to the show,

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