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An Honest AccountNell Frizzell on money, motherhood and her new bookNell Frizzell is a journalist, Vogue columnist and the author of an upcoming memoir, The Panic Years - about the period of your life which has no name, somewhere between adolescence and the menopause. Nell calls it The Flux.
In the book, Nell talks about financial uncertainty, the cost of nursery fees, the gender pay gap, parental leave and more. She writes honestly about how she 'lay out the financial arguments' to help persuade her partner to have a child.
She says she wrote the book not only to document her own experience but also...2020-03-1744 minAn Honest AccountAngelica Malin on girlboss culture, women-only clubs and female entrepreneursAngelica Malin is an entrepreneur who runs a six-figure business including the About Time magazine and the She Started It Live Academy. She is also a writer and podcast host and has interviewed many successful women including Cherie Blair, Melanie Whelan and Natasha Devon.
So, there is really no better person to discuss 'girlboss culture'. It's had a bit of a backlash recently. Is it outdated and patronising? Or is it time we reclaimed the term to define the viewpoint of women entrepreneurs? We also discussed how Angelica built up her business, why she offers free childcare a...2020-03-1044 minAn Honest AccountBridie Jabour on the great millennial malaiseBefore New Year, my mum sent me an op ed by Bridie Jabour, opinion editor of the Guardian Australia, called 'The Millennials at 31: Welcome to the Age of Misery'. It is about the distinct loss of ambition, wondering whether we should be defined by our jobs, our houses, whether we should have children and thinking for too long that we're special.
The article saw a massive reaction and I knew I had to interview Bridie about it. We talked about everything from the fact that it's even harder to get on the property ladder in Sydney than...2020-03-0345 minAn Honest AccountForging a new life on the road with Anna FedorovaResearch shows millennials are travel-obsessed. Not just a quick gap yah at 18 or 19, but also possibly a year out later in our careers, or even a complete lifestyle change.
Heading out on a trip is one thing, but not coming back is another. This is what fellow freelance financial writer Anna Fedorova did in 2017, packing up her entire life and traveling around Asia, and then Europe with her boyfriend - in a van. Currently in Greece, Anna sees no reason to head back to the grind of London. Her life now is cheaper, full of rock climbing, r...2020-02-2538 minAn Honest AccountIona Bain on investing, property, and being asked to work for freeIona Bain is very well known in financial circles. She started the Young Money Blog in 2011, later creating the Young Money Agency, and regularly appears on TV and radio, and writes for places like The Financial Times. Her MO? To empower young people with financial knowledge.
The question is what DIDN'T we talk about - pensions, property, investing, cryptocurrencies, scams, piggy banks, social media, interior decor porn, payday loans and more.
I also asked Iona if she still gets asked to work for free (unfortunately, yes) and how she negotiates her fees (think of a...2020-02-1843 minAn Honest AccountZara Nanu on why women shouldn't have to ask for a payriseThe World Economic Forum says the gender pay gap will take over 200 years to close.
But why should women always have to advocate for their equality by asking for a payrise? Women are constantly told how to negotiate, how to prove their achievements. But data shows that when women do ask for a raise, they don't always get them. And we don't currently have the right to ask our manager what our male counterparts are earning.
Zara Nanu, CEO of GapSquare, uses data to try to change the way companies operate - and the way...2020-02-1140 minAn Honest AccountNicola Slawson and Tola Fisher on money at Christmas, and New Year's resolutionsChristmas is a time of presents (brown paper and string this year), giving relatives the same vouchers as last year and spending money (until you don't have any left). Boxing Day sucks some of us in, and New Year's resolutions are made and broken, in my case, very quickly.
To discuss this exciting and expensive time of year, I'm joined by freelance journalist Nicola Slawson and women's magazine editor Tola Fisher. While sipping mulled wine and eating these strange custard biscuit things, we talk about the biggest money lessons we've learnt in 2019, learning to sew, going on a...2019-12-1740 minAn Honest AccountRachel Hosie on the industry of wellness, paid Instagram posts and 'F45'What are F45 and Orangetheory? How much do you earn for a paid Instagram post? Do you need to be a member of an expensive gym if you want to stick to it? Why are we obsessed with spelt flour in every recipe?
Wellness is big business these days, valued at over $4 trillion. We might laugh at Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, but many of us nonetheless fall into the wellness trap, believing we can buy and exercise our way to a perfect version of ourselves.
Rachael Revesz talks to Rachel Hosie, the senior lifestyle journalist at...2019-12-1045 minAn Honest AccountJenn Selby on politics and money, and standing against Mark FieldJournalist, women's rights campaigner and rape survivor Jenn Selby made headlines this year when she stood as a parliamentary candidate against Mark Field, the Tory MP who was filmed grabbing a female Greenpeace activist by the neck. He stood down shortly after the campaign commenced, citing 'divisive politics'.
Selby also managed to get the Lib Dems to adopt Women's Equality Party policies in exchange for her standing down in the seat of Cities of London and Westminster, handing over the reigns to Chuka Umunna.
But how do you campaign for parliament (and also gear up...2019-12-0332 minAn Honest AccountBola Sol on #debtstagram, what success means and being our parents' retirement planBola Sol is a self-defined personal finance guru - but not because she has a lot of money or because she has it all sorted.
The new generation of money 'influencers' are about being open and relatable and real, rather than posting pictures with designer handbags. Bola encourages us to have a total rethink on how we talk about and behave around money. At 27, she is open about her personal challenges and learning from failure. In fact, the phrase 'money philosopher' feels more accurate.
We talked about staring at old people (pensions... ), why a credit c...2019-11-2649 minAn Honest AccountAlice Pelton, founder of The Lowdown, and the price of contraceptionAlice Pelton is founder of The Lowdown, the world's first peer to peer review platform for contraceptives. Alice thinks that women spend a lot of time, energy and days off work trying to find the best contraception for them - and her business is designed to make that process easier.
Alice spoke to An Honest Account host Rachael Revesz about the £53 million business that inspired her to get her idea off the ground, how we are physically able to reduce our Netflix intake to launch a femtech business and why contraception choices / research / information are so underfunded.2019-11-1933 minAn Honest AccountLucy Pasha-Robinson on the cost of living with endometriosisHow does a chronic health condition affect our work, mental health and our bank balance?
For the first episode of season 2, Huffington Post opinion editor Lucy Pasha-Robinson opens up about the very personal cost of endometriosis and pelvic pain. Lucy talks about how to succeed when you have a health condition, menopause at 25 and all the cash she's spent on 'miracle cures'.
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Read Lucy's Buzzfeed...2019-11-1229 minAn Honest AccountAnna Codrea-Rado on freelance financesMore and more of us are working for ourselves. How can we stay focused and make a decent living?
Anna Codrea-Rado is a familiar name in the worlds of freelancing and journalism. Her work has appeared in places like The Guardian, The New York Times and Wired. She is also the founder of FJ&Co, a platform for freelancers, as well as the #FairPayForFreelancers Campaign, co-hosts a podcast called Is This Working? and writes a weekly freelancing newsletter with thousands of subscribers. Man, that's a lot.
But she hasn't always had it easy. She was...2019-10-1550 minAn Honest AccountThe cost of being a bridesmaidResearch shows the average cost of being a bridesmaid is £998. Would you be willing to spend that?
Join me, Rachael Revesz, as I chat to journalists Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith and Anya Meyerowitz to discuss the joys and monetary burdens of our best mates' special day. Followed by some practical advice from Catherine Morgan of The Money Panel.
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2019-10-0848 minAn Honest AccountJasmine Andersson on debt and being working classSocial class, debt and privilege are still underdiscussed topics.
Jasmine Andersson, a reporter who focuses on equality at inews.co.uk, spoke movingly about her experience of growing up in Hull, the impact of debt at university, and how she navigates the middle class and privileged world of journalism.
Please read her piece that sparked this conversation here:
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/for-working-class-people-like-me-who-move-into-middle-class-worlds-the-fear-of-debt-is-always-there-500803
And - how do you counter the myth that the gender pay gap 'does not exist'? Expert advice from Mary-Ann Stephenson, director of the Women's Budget...2019-10-0142 minAn Honest AccountMarisa Bate on what it was like to lose £9kWhat does it feel like to do £9,000 worth of work and realise you won't be paid? That's what happened to Marisa Bate, the writer and women's advocate, when online publication The Pool went under earlier this year. Marisa talked about guarding her money 'like a cocaine baron' and other lessons she learnt.
The UnderPinned article we refer to:
https://underpinned.co/magazine/2019/03/the-pool/
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2019-09-2451 minAn Honest AccountMoney and datingDo you split the bill? How do money and dating come into the MeToo era? Do you pretend to grope around in your bag until the other person offers to pay?
I'm Rachael Revesz and joining me to answer these pressing questions are journalists Kuba Shand-Baptiste and Lucy Handley. Our chat is followed by a listener's query on whether she should even bother trying to save for a house when the market is so expensive.
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Please rate, review and...2019-09-1744 minAn Honest AccountWhy does talking about money... feel so dirty?Journalists Elle Hunt and Sirena Bergman join me to discuss why we need to start talking more openly about money - including what we wish we'd known earlier and why we're obsessed with judging each other's spending.
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