Ten years in the past, That is Cash did one thing a bit totally different – we launched a podcast.
That does not sound so radical now, and I am unable to declare it was completely groundbreaking again then, but it surely was actually uncommon.
At this time is the precise day that the That is Cash Podcast celebrates its tenth birthday – we put the primary present out on 7 November, 2014.
And producing an episode just about each week for a decade seems like one thing we should always rejoice, so please indulge me this column.
Decade of podcast: From Brexit to Budgets, Truss to Trump, the podcast has been on a mission to clarify what it means in your funds – with humour, wit and knowledge peppered inside
When you’re not already a listener, then please do go to the That is Cash Podcast channel, or examine us out at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or different platforms and provides it a hear.
Each week, we talk about the monetary information individuals have to learn about and what it means for you with our good host and producer Georgie Frost.
Our goal is for the podcast to be your information to a richer life.
Final week’s podcast episode was a primary instance, overlaying Rachel Reeves’ Funds and our verdict on it.
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This yr, we now have additionally coated the massive occasions, equivalent to charge cuts and the election but additionally checked out whether or not being a Nimby is that unhealthy, how we handle our cash, monetary confidence and accomplished a Steve Webb solutions pension questions particular.
Once we began the podcast, it was additionally broadcast as a Friday mid-morning present on Share Radio with Georgie.
Little did Georgie and I do know again then that we would nonetheless be assembly up each Friday morning a complete ten years later, together with Lee Boyce, Helen Crane, Tanya Jefferies and different members of That is Cash group.
And once we sketched out the concept for a way the podcast may work, together with another key architects of the present, Lee, Rachel Rickard Straus, Sam Lane and our much-missed late colleague Richard Browning, neither did any of us realise fairly how tumultuous the years forward could be.
All through the podcast’s life, we now have seen some momentous occasions happen: the Brexit vote, Donald Trump’s first presidential election, the Covid lockdowns, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the inflation spike – and now a brand new Labour authorities within the UK and Trump’s second election within the US.
We’ll be overlaying that final one and what it means in your cash on the podcast this week.
We owe a giant thanks to all of those that have been concerned within the podcast through the years.
I will not checklist their names for concern of lacking somebody out, however the episodes have seen a roll name of That is Cash group members previous and current.
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Our sponsors through the years additionally deserve thanks. Making a free podcast prices cash and we have had some nice associates through the years, who we now have rigorously chosen as a result of they needed to work in long-term partnership to ship an awesome present.
Funding platform Charles Stanley Direct is the present sponsor and its consultants be a part of us for a phase the place they reply a listener’s monetary planning and investing query every week.
Yesterday, we printed a particular bonus Funds questions podcast episode, the place Charles Stanley’s Rob Morgan joined me to reply what’s come up because the mud settles.
Most of all although – and I understand how tacky this sounds – it is the That is Cash Podcast listeners that I have to thank. In spite of everything, listeners are the essential ingredient for a podcast to rack up a decade of success.
We wish to assume that with the That is Cash Podcast we’re making a distinction, making finance partaking and serving to individuals to reside a richer life.
And there may be nothing extra rewarding than studying the emails and messages we get from podcast listeners telling us how a lot they take pleasure in it.
We have some particular plans lined as much as rejoice the tenth anniversary over the subsequent month and into subsequent yr.
So, if you have not listened, take a look at the That is Cash Podcast right here, and should you do already hear, then thanks very a lot.
