In the final episode of our Money Makeover Challenge podcast, Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) chat to the two winners Catherien and Nono about their journey and how they turned their finances around. In just six months these women...
In previous podcasts we have discussed the concept of net worth and how to use it to assess your financial progress (take a listen to "Grow your net worth in 2020" and "Do you know your net worth?"). In this podcast, Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo...
In this podcast Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) each discuss an event in their week that made them reflect on the way we engage with money. A negative experience with the way financial products are sold makes Mapalo question...
In this, our fifth Money Makeover podcast, we chat to Elton Govender, senior enterprise development specialist at Absa, to provide some tips to those of us who are self employed or running our own businesses. Elton shares the guidance and tools he...
Payment holidays are a lot like real holidays – they end up costing more than you realise. In this podcast, Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) look at the costs of debt-payment holidays and how to get back on track after taking one.
Have you ever thought about how much you will earn over the next five years? If you have just started working and are taking home R15 000 a month, over the next five years you will earn nearly R1 million – without any promotions or salary...
Due to an urgent personal situation, Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) were unable to record a podcast this week. However, we share with you this excellent discussion we had last year about taking a different perspective on how we...
Have you fallen into property investing by accident? Are you an existing property investor looking to consolidate, or planning on buying your first property? In this podcast Maya (@mayaonmoney) chats to Miguel Martins of Absa Home Loans, a property...
In line with our theme on alternative asset classes, in this week’s podcast Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) discuss investing in gold. Is gold a good investment? What role should it play in your portfolio and how do you go about...
Investors are increasingly looking to non-financial assets to provide further diversification. We have previously discussed Fedgroup Impact Farming, where investors can buy into farming of beehives, blueberries and even solar energy. We have also...
With the economic fallout expected from COVID-19, investors have either seen their portfolios seriously hurt or are too afraid to enter the equity market now. Sitting in cash is an option, but what if markets recover and investors lose out on potentially higher...
Most parents make supreme sacrifices to provide for their children. Research shows that mothers in particular will put their children’s needs before their own. We want to offer our children the perfect world where they want for nothing, where they never feel shunned...
Regardless of how motivated you are to improve your finances, you will struggle to make progress unless your partner is also on board. In our third City Press/ABSA Money Makeover podcast, Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) talk “marriage and money” and...
As a result of the unexpected 100bps cut in interest rates, we received many questions about interest rates, and the impact the rate cut has on both borrowers and savers. Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) unpack how interest rates work and do some...
Whilst you are sitting in lockdown, now may be the time to turn that WhatsApp group into an investment club. Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) chat to Palesa Lengolo, financial educator and author of Stokvels: How they can make your money work for...
Over the last few weeks our discussions have focused on keeping our heads above water during the coronavirus meltdown. We now turn our attention to investing. With markets down significantly, is this the time to start testing the waters? In this podcast Craig...
The topic for this City Press/ABSA Money Makeover podcast could not be more relevant given the financial stress so many households are feeling with the COVID-19 crisis. Falling into a debt trap often happens because of a change in personal circumstances rather than...
The lockdown will affect people in different ways. There are those who will be fortunate enough to still be receiving a salary, others will see a cut in pay, while many business owners or self-employed people will be fighting to keep their heads above water. In this...
In this time of unprecedented events Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) have put together a comprehensive strategy on how to manage your money in light of COVID-19: what to do with your investments, what to do if you are close to retirement, and what...
The weekly My Money, My Lifestyle podcast recording is the latest victim of stage 4 loadshedding. As Maya (@mayaonmoney) and Mapalo (@womanandfinance) were unable to record their weekly podcast, we are re-running a previous episode on a theme which is always topical -...