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Podcast Recommendations
Two voices worth having in your ear.
I listen to a lot of podcasts about money. Most of them talk at you. These two talk with you. One is the best UK financial education I've found anywhere — calm, clear, and never condescending. The other will crack you open. It's about couples and money, but really it's about everything money stands for: power, safety, love, fear, freedom. Between them, they cover the full territory of this room.
Podcast One
Meaningful Money
Pete Matthew · UK · Weekly
Why this podcast belongs in Room 3
Pete Matthew is a UK financial planner who has spent over a decade making money simple, and he's the best at it. No jargon. No condescension. Just clear, practical, UK-specific guidance on everything from pensions and ISAs to budgeting and investing — explained as if you're an intelligent person who hasn't had the chance to learn this yet. His voice is warm, patient, and methodical. Listening to him feels like having a kind, knowledgeable friend walk you through the thing you've been too embarrassed to ask about.
This is the podcast companion to the practical side of Room 3. If the budgeting page, the cash flow map, the pension section in Protecting Yourself, or The Independence Number left you wanting more depth, Pete has an episode for it. Probably three.
Start here
The Meaningful Money Basics Series
A structured series covering budgeting, debt, saving, investing, and pensions from the ground up. Designed for people starting with little knowledge. The perfect place to begin.
Any episode on pensions or ISAs
If the pension section in Protecting Yourself made you realise how much you don't know, Pete's pension episodes are the clearest explanation you'll find anywhere. Search his archive for your specific question — he's covered it.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and meaningfulmoney.tv · Episodes typically 20–40 minutes · Over 500 episodes — use his website to search by topic.
Podcast Two
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi · US · Weekly
Why this podcast belongs in Room 3
The title is misleading. This isn't about getting rich. It's about what happens when two people sit in a room with Ramit Sethi and talk honestly — sometimes for the first time ever — about money. Each episode is a single real couple, unscripted, confronting everything they've avoided: the debt they hid, the resentment about who earns what, the fear that they can never catch up, the silent power dynamics that money creates in a relationship.
I recommend this podcast for Room 3 not because of the financial advice — the specifics are American — but because of what it reveals about money and relationships. If you've ever felt that money was used as control in your relationship, that you weren't trusted with financial decisions, or that your earning history made you less-than — you will hear yourself in these conversations. And you'll hear Ramit say the things nobody said to you: that your feelings about money are valid, that the imbalance wasn't in your head, and that it's not too late.
Start here
Any episode where one partner controlled the finances
Search for episodes where one partner didn't know what was in the accounts, or where one person made all the money decisions. These are the episodes that connect most directly to When Money Is Danger and to the experience of women rebuilding financial independence.
Episodes featuring couples with large debt
If the Debt Conversation page was hard for you, hearing real couples speak openly about their debt — the shame, the avoidance, the first steps toward clarity — can make you feel less alone in it.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube · Episodes typically 60–90 minutes · Also a Netflix series. The financial specifics are US-based, but the emotional content is universal.
A note on listening
You don't need to binge either of these. One episode a week — on the school run, on a walk, while cooking — is enough. The point isn't to become a financial expert. It's to normalise hearing people talk about money honestly, openly, without shame. The more you hear it, the easier it becomes to do it yourself. And the easier it becomes to do it yourself, the less power money has over you.
The right voice at the right moment
can make you feel less alone
in the thing you thought
only you were carrying.
can make you feel less alone
in the thing you thought
only you were carrying.
With love and headphones on,
Lada
Founder, Inner Rooms
Alma
Listened to an episode that stirred something up? Tell me about it — I'd love to help you make sense of what landed. Or if you're looking for more, let me know what you're drawn to: practical UK money education, the emotional side of money and relationships, women's financial independence, investing for beginners, or something else. I'll find you the right next listen.
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