“I need to push myself to build that and get myself to a point where I feel that I am financially secure. And probably that's one of the main drivers for why I'm so passionate about encouraging people to learn about money and understand money and be empowered by it so that they can reap benefits later on.” Louise co-founded GoHenry in 2012 when she realised that her children needed to learn how to manage money in an increasingly digital world. At the time her son was eight and her daughter...

EP129: Olive recently celebrated her 94th birthday and is still in fine form. Her active mind and unfussy approach to life is refreshing in people of any age, not least those in their 10th decade. She narrates her story in exactly the same way, and even when tragedy strikes - for example the loss of a dear cousin and step-sister in a car accident - she is able to see the bigger picture. This is a lively and spirited account of a long life lived to the full. Olive's story is a remarkable...

EP128: "We are in a very interesting time. On one side, we have the Chancellor trying to encourage house sales with fiscal stimulus. And on the other, we have the Bank of England using monetary policies to control lending. What makes the decision of when to invest more interesting is exchange rates." In the first of a new monthly series I met with Eyeedul Haque of My Property Consultant for a live discussion on the UK house prices. Each month Eyeedul puts together a tracker plotting the...

EP#127 "If you've had some sort of trauma in your early life...the problem you potentially suffer with is an inherent feeling of a lack of self worth. And success won't fill that." Sam White tragically lost her mother to an overdose at age 23. By 24 Sam launched her first business from her sister’s conservatory and she hasn’t stopped since. Starting as a small uninsured loss company in 1999, Sam has grown the Freedom Group to become a hugely influential and expanding business. In the past 20...

"We've had amazing news in the last few weeks. We had interest rates go up again last week... We then had the mini-budget with the changes to stamp duty...to come into play. There's a third element with the pound taking the biggest fall in 37 years against the US dollar. All these moving parts make it an interesting conversation around when is the right time to invest." Join us live every month as Eyeedul Haque of My Property Consultant and I crunch the data behind the UK house price...

“My whole life has been one safari and I am still living it now. Even as I sit here in Monaco, I cannot wait to get up and have another adventure.” My guest today, Geoffrey Kent, is the founder of luxury international travel company, Abercrombie & Kent, and the pioneer behind safari being a “hunt with a camera, and not with a gun.”  After being expelled from school, riding a motorbike off into the Kenyan sunset, and later training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Geoffrey brought...

EP125: “I was on fire. I was fighting well. Then I've got to one of the most important fights I just needed to get through. This fight was probably the most important fight to get that chance to have the Olympic gold medal. I received a head kick with two seconds to go, and two seconds just wasn't enough to get the points back.” Jordan was on the pathway to Tokyo Olympics 2020 when he missed his dream by two seconds. Rather than wallow in the disappointment Jordan has shown incredible...

EP124: My podcast is back! We have another series of 12 guests to share with you over the coming weeks. “Many people reach the age of 50 having been on a treadmill of career and families and they're faced with this realisation…they need to take responsibility for themselves as they move into the last period of their working life…If they don't, they may face a retirement…which could be less comfortable than they had in mind.” Paul Green came from a conservative background where money wasn't...

It's time to say goodbye but welcome you to my brand new podcast, the Prosperity Podcast. Please do pop over and listen to our fresh new sound at a fresh new location. The feed is here: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1568677.rss Thank you for all the support and we look forward to this new stage in our lifespan.  Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NicoleBremner)

“Being a stripper taught me more lessons than I could possibly imagine, a lot of which I’ve been able to apply to my business life..”  For the penultimate episode of The Nicole Bremner Podcast, I’m joined by former stripper Paulina Tenner. Paulina is the founder of GrantTree, where she leads a team of 50 people in helping businesses secure government funding. To date, the company has raised over £200m for tech start-ups and larger companies.  Originally from Poland, Paulina is a true...

“‘Workations’ have become really popular. We’ve ditched the office and have really embraced ‘out of office’ work.”  My guest today, Ivo Gospodinov, is one of the entrepreneurs behind industry leading prop-tech company Staykeepers, which he runs with his brother, Miroslav across the UK, US, Spain, Ireland, Germany and France.  Aimed at the Build to Rent market, Staykeepers is a fully-compliant, user-friendly online platform which ‘uses Smart Technology to sell empty rooms’, generating passive...

“A career in construction is not just about muddy boots.” Today my guest is Julia Starzyk, a property quantity surveyor, project construction manager and founder of Stars Projects London, a dynamic property consultancy focusing on cost consultancy and project management in the luxury £1m to £6m property sector.  From converting a 150-year-old building in Mayfair into a luxury seven-bed hotel to a modern apartment in Chancery Lane with raw concrete ceilings, she has project managed over 90...

“It’s so important to think about what you put into your body and so we should be taking that view with our skin too.” For anyone who has ever had problem skin or is fed up with trying endless beauty products in a bid for that healthy glow we all long for, this is the episode for you. As a beauty blogger in London, Rachel Noble was living the dream being sent skincare to try and write about and attending big brand launch events. But her blogging career soon led her down the path of deep...

“Most folks have $1 to $2 million dollars in hidden capital available to them within the people they know.”  Joining me this week, all the way from British Columbia in Canada, is Dave Dubeau, the creator of the Money Partner Formula.  As a bestselling author and speaker, Dave has shared the stage with people like Robert Kiyosaki, George Foreman, Robert Herjavek, Arlene Dickinson, Ted Thomas and more, sharing how he works with ‘mom ‘n’ pop’ real estate investors to help get started raising...

 “Buying art is a little bit like buying property in Knightsbridge…if you buy a blue-chip artist who’s dead and sit on it long enough then you probably will make money, but that means you need to be able to afford to sit on it for something like 30 or 40 years. “Art is a very difficult asset class generally, it’s felt that if you have a wide portfolio then art is something interesting to put your money into, but you certainly wouldn’t do it as your primary source of investment. It’s also very...

“Mortgage brokers are a bit like the crocodile in that we’ve been around for ‘4 billion years’ and nothing seems to be able to kill us off! We’ve managed to get through the credit crunch and the pandemic – good brokers survive those downturns because they are good business people and quite resilient.” My guest today on The Nicole Bremner Podcast is the CEO of The Money Group and founder and driving force behind its inaugural company, London Money.   Martin Stewart has been working in...

"People will instantly judge a book by its cover, that because you're a woman who wants to have nice hair, have their nails done or have false eyelashes you can't participate in a certain sport...the old stereotypes still exists unfortunately," My guest today is Bev Clifford, who has forged a path for herself in a very male dominated industry...fishing.  Bev's father is Kevin Clifford,  who was one of the founders of the weekly angling magazine, Carp-Talk, and once hailed the 'Carp King...

***TRIGGER WARNING*** This episode contains difficult content about child sexual abuse material (CSAM) that is likely to be particularly sensitive.    In 2019 nearly 30 million images and over 40 million videos relating to child sexual exploitation were released online... "The most surprising part is that it's not hidden, it's on everyday tools that you and I use, it's on Google and Facebook and Microsoft, they are hiding in plain sight." Today's podcast is about a particularly difficult...

This special podcast was aired live from the Pyrenees with my guest Owen Saward, renewable energy developer. During our live interview he shares with me the tragic event that altered his life and lead him to embark on a solo cycle from his home in Bristol to the highest peak in Mallorca. Here Owen tells us why.  "On 6th August 2019, Yann died at home in his bed. He was just 52. He was my best friend, the only person in the world who knew me. He was a lot of people's best friend. The kindness...

“The Real Estate tech space as a whole, from an investment and ownership perspective, has been really resilient…there are various areas that have really boomed.” My guest today is Ben Lerner, a real estate tech veteran with 20 years’ experience in the PropTech sector.  Ben learned his trade in his (now 40-year-old) family business creating software for the real estate industry including property management solutions, high street agency solutions, and everything in-between. He sold the...

“There are a million different solutions out there but how do we get the right solutions into the right hands of the right people?”  My guest today is Tauhira Ali, who is the executive director of industry innovation at NECA, which acts as the voice of the $171 billion electrical construction industry in the US.    Tauhira supports over 4,000 NECA member contractors to find innovative technologies to better the electrical construction industry, which brings power, light, and communication...

“Part of PR is working out what your USP is and what sets you apart from everyone else. The more you can niche that down the better. If you can’t describe what you do in one sentence then a journalist won’t be able to and they’re not going to remember you either.” My guests today launched their business during lockdown when they noticed a gap in the market for a DIY PR membership platform to empowering people to have the confidence to speak to the media. Lucy Sambrook, a PR and journalist who...

“We are one of the few countries in the world where our property agents are not regulated…You can commit a crime under the Estate Agency Act in the morning, effectively be struck off, and then open a lettings office in the afternoon, so we have anomalies.” My guest today has one of the most impressive biographies I have ever read. With 45 years’ experience in the property industry Michael Stephen Day is a hugely influential figure in the sector.  Having held partner and director roles at AC...

“Marriage counselling isn’t a waste of time, it’s not always about getting back together, it’s about seeing if you should part and doing it in a sensible way.” My guest today is family law expert Linda Lamb who has 25 years’ legal experience and is a resolution-trained collaborative lawyer and hybrid mediator.  Linda is accredited by the Law Society and the Family Mediation Council to provide child inclusive mediation and has ‘Leading individual’ status with Chambers UK for expertise in...

“The types of projects we’re working on now, there would have been no technical way to solve those problems five years ago. I’m looking forward to what’s next…what’s the next solution, what’s the next technology?” I’m joined today by a guest in Dublin, Ohio. Christopher Slee is the founder, principal and CPO at AWH, a software engineering firm currently celebrating its 26th year. Whether it’s Internet of Things or blockchain, a phone app, or Artificial Intelligence, AWH offers the...