Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast Season 7, Episode 4. Oh, I hear the patter of tiny feet.

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 to secure your financial future. I'm here to help you make sense of money.

Hello, hello, great to have you with me once again. Last week there were two, and now there are

three or even more of you. Now, if and when children come along, it really does change a lot of

things for you in many areas of life. But as this is a finance podcast, I'm going to skip the

parts about sleepless nights and endless worry about the future. And instead, I'm going to skip the parts about sleepless nights and

endless worry about the future. And instead, I'm going to concentrate on the money. Okay.

So after the main body of the show, as usual, I'll cover a couple of reviews which have been

left recently, very kindly, announce what we're going to be talking about next time. But first,

remember, this podcast continues to be brought to you with the help of my friends at Seven Investment Management, who are a firm of investment managers based in London.

Seven IM specialise in multi-asset investing, which brings institutional level investing techniques to ordinary people.

That's people just like you and me.

And they continue to put their name to the show, help me out here because they believe

in what I'm doing, which is just trying to get decent, easy to understand, easy to put into action

financial information out to the world. I'm so grateful to them for their support. Do check out

what they're up to. They're at 7im.com.uk. That's the number 7im.com.com. Go check them out.

So yeah, you're having kids, it's a little bit of a sea

change in your finances priorities shift a little or a lot and suddenly you can think of the next

20 or 25 years or so being not so much about you as about them now that's how it should be of course

but it's also important to remember that

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