The Power of Small Increments, with Vanessa Kettner
The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast
Pete Matthew
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
I do love it when listeners get in touch, which happens nearly every day. When Vanessa Kettner got in touch and we traded emails, it quickly became apparent that she had something to offer all of us, so I invited her on, specifically to talk about something she calls The Seinfeld Trick, or the power of small increments.
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The Power of Small Increments
Vanessa Kettner got in touch via voicemail, which you'll hear in this week's show. She told a brief story of how she has used a little trick, learned from her mother. She has applied to various areas of her life, from learning a musical instrument, and latterly to improving her personal financial situation. She joins me to talk about her journey...
In this show, you'll learn:
- The origins of what Vanessa calls The Seinfeld Trick
- How it enabled her to move up to first clarinet
- How she has applied it to educate herself financially...
- ...and also take action to improve her financial situation
Resources mentioned in this week's show
Book: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Goals Sheet: Here's Vanessa's own fold-up goals sheet which she keeps with her Oyster Card Designer: Lindsay Derecola (designed the fold-up goals sheet) - Portfolio, LinkedIn, Email
Vanessa Kettner Contact Details
Website: Personal Best - Personal Productivity Training & Coaching Email: Send Vanessa a message LinkedIn: Connect with Vanessa
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money podcast season three, episode five. |
| 0:04.8 | You all catch a Seinfeld show last night? |
| 0:07.4 | Yep. |
| 0:08.3 | Oh, hell, I missed it. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order. |
| 0:22.3 | 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 |
| 0:26.3 | financial future. I'm here to have you with me once again. This is Season 3, Episode 5, and it's actually number 179, if you're counting, right from the start of this podcast, which nobody is except for me. Of course, I absolutely love it when listeners get in touch. And that happens nearly every day. Mostly, |
| 0:55.7 | it's fantastic stories of how many of you've made a difference to your financial lives through |
| 1:00.4 | actions that you've taken since listening to this show. Sometimes it's just somebody saying, |
| 1:04.9 | thanks. And occasionally somebody gets in touch with me with such a great story to tell, |
| 1:09.4 | I just have to get them on the show. And when |
| 1:12.4 | Vanessa Ketner got in touch, she left me a voicemail, which I'm going to play to you in a minute, |
| 1:17.6 | we traded emails subsequently. It quickly became apparent that she had something to offer to all |
| 1:22.3 | of us, and her energy was just infectious in the way she practically pursued me in her email conversation, which is fantastic. |
| 1:29.5 | So I just invited her on to the show, and specifically to talk about something she calls the Seinfeld trick. |
| 1:35.0 | Now, we'll get to more of that in a minute, and obviously after we've done that, I'll look at a couple of reviews that have been left. |
| 1:40.5 | I'll announce what we're going to be talking about next week. |
| 1:42.2 | But remember, this podcast is brought to you with the help of seven investment management. They're a firm of investment |
| 1:47.2 | managers based in London, and they specialize in multi-asset investing, which brings institutional |
| 1:52.3 | investing techniques to ordinary people, just like you and me. And 7.m. put their name to the show |
| 1:57.1 | and to the site because they believe in what I'm doing, trying to get decent, easy to understand financial information out to those who need it. So I'm really grateful to them |
| 2:04.9 | for their support. You can see what they're up to at 7im.com.uk. That's the number 7im.com. |
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