Is It Too Late To Start Investing?

What happens when you start investing late? Georgie Frost was in significant debt in her 20s and had only £1,500 in her pension at 31. Now she’s Editor-at-Large at Times Money Mentor and one of the hosts of the Daily Mail’s This Is Money podcast.

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Chapters:

00:00 - From sports journalist to finance broadcaster
10:21 - Stop following ‘traditional’ wisdom
20:59 - Tide ad
22:28 - Getting into and out of debt
31:51 - Why we need to ignore the linear path with money
37:54 - Vanta ad
39:12 - When perfect is the enemy of good
51:44 - Is the economy that bad?
54:57 - Accept and know your money behaviour