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It's Personal Finance Canada
Helping you understand , budgeting, investing, insurance and all things personal finance from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Featuring Christine Conway, a Certified Financial Planner, author and owner of Braun Financial. Along with her husband Cameron Conway, an author in his own right whose tryin...
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Why You Can't Get Ahead
This week we want to look at how to build wealth, even when you don’t have any to start with. How to get out of survival mode, better understanding ca...
What Should Your Savings Rate Be?
This week tackle the concept of savings rate and see what rate could be best for you. Plus we talk about how ability, willingness and time are the big...
Behavioural Economics and You
I’m just a strong and independent person that simply does what others tell me. This week we explore the book “Nudge – The Final Edition” by Richard Th...
Maintaining FIRE
Why read something when you can just misquote it instead. This week we delve into the holy document of the FIRE movement, the Trinity study. What does...
Reviewing Suze Orman’s Retirement Guide
This week we talk about a popular personal finance book Christine actually liked, “The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+” by Suze Orman. We lay out ou...
Why You Need Insurance
This week we talk about the ins and outs of health and life insurance and see how we can pre-pay today to solves tomorrow's problems. What is Disabili...
Unorthodox Money Saving Tips
This week we track down some odd but helpful money\ saving tips to help out with your day to day spending. Everything from finding things for free, ma...
Mastering Procrastination
I have a bad habit of putting the “pro” in procrastination. This week we talk about “The Procrastination Equation” by Piers Steel and see how procrast...
Why You Don’t Save For Retirement
This week we take a look at the work of Gary Selnow and see the top reasons people don’t save for retirement. Problems such as lack of instant gratifi...
What To Do With Found Money
This week we find out how to take advantage of the money you got back from the government. What strategy is best depending on your income, how to bala...
Advice That Sounds Good But Can Go Bad
This week we talk about two common financial advice tips that if not done properly can leave you in a worse position than when you started. That’s rig...
Tidying Up Your Finances
This week we search for joy in the philosophy of Marie Kondo's book "The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Up" and see how to set our financial house in...
Dealing With Debt
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Later. Later who? “Buy now pay later” that’s who! This week we come face to face with the everyone’s favorite frenemy, cons...
Money and Stress in 2025
This week we break down the “Financial Stress Index 2025” published by FP Canada. Get a clear picture of how poorly so many of us are doing and how de...
The “Seven Habits” and Personal Finance Part 2
Who’d a though personal finance is just personal development with budgeting? This week we continue our look at “The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective P...
The “7 Habits” and Personal Finance
This week Christine talks about Stephen Covey’s book “The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People,” and finds a way to apply it to our personal financ...
The Employee Handbook
Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler. This week we help you become a better and hopefully higher paid employee. What do bosses want, how to stand...
The Entrepreneurial Handbook
When you’re at the top there’s no one left to blame. This week we go over some key concepts to better help you run a small business. Everything from d...
Popular Advice That Can Lead You Astray
If advice is popular that means it’s right… right? This week we tackle 2 popular personal finance myths that might sound like a sure thing, but what w...
The Most Valuable Thing You Can Buy
Turns out the secret to happiness is painting Warhammer 40K figures and pretending the rest of the world doesn’t exist. This week we tackle the great...
Pulling the Trigger on Retirement
I’m getting too old for this… or am I? This week we talk about why people struggle to start their retirement. Concerns about the markets, what to do w...
Better Understanding 60/40 Portfolios
Wait if it's balanced shouldn’t it be 50/50? This week we peel back the mystery of the 60/40 “Balanced” portfolio and find out not only why they’re so...
Is Your Ego Bankrupting You?
Being rational is overrated. This week we review “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” by Dan Ariely and learn about wh...
Taking Money Out of Your RRSP
The show must go on. This week we push through the haze of sickness and talk about the little talked about parts of RRSP's, taking money out of it, bo...
First 60 Day RRSP Contribution
This week it's time once again for our obligatory RRSP season episode for 2025! Find out what you need to know to make the most of your legal tax shen...
Why Is Retirement About Age?
This week we tackle the idea that is less about age and more about the choices we make today to create a more stable tomorrow (is stable even an optio...
Entrepreneurs and Mental Health
Turns out your boss was crazy after all. This we go over the some of the negative aspects of entrepreneurship and how it can challenge our mental heal...
Money and Emotional Regulation
I’ve got a gut feeling I’m not listening to myself enough, meh, must just the pizza talking. This week we talk about the book “Anchored’ by Deb Dana a...
Redefining Retirement
Retirement: noun, being too “tired” to deal with any of this. This week Christine goes through Tim Ferris’ The Four Hour and talks about how apply his...
The 5 Page Financial Plan
Step 1 listen to this podcast, steps 2-4 ?, Step 5 profit. This week we talk about our new streamlined financial planning process and how it can help...
Our Best Tips of 2024
As a kid I related to “A Christmas Story” but as I get older I find myself living in “Christmas Vacation.” This week we end the year and recap our mos...
The Power of Peer Pressure
Obey… Consume… Subscribe. This week we talk about the power of following the herd and how it can impact your financial decisions. Why does your brain...
2024 Year End Checklist
He’s checking his list, checking it twice, gonna find out
whose bankrupt or nice. Santa Clause is coming to town. This week we check our persona...
Help For First Time Home Buyers
This week we talk about the pros and cons of the First Home Savings plan and how it can work with other programs to help you buy your first major debt...
Facing Money Fears
I must not fear. Fear is the wallet-killer. Fear is the little debt that brings financial obliteration. I will face my fear and I will permit it to pa...
How to Beat Inflation
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This week we give our opinion on a recent Globe & Mail article about the Fire movement and being inflation proof. The benefits...
Bank of Canada Rate Cut
What goes up must come down, except for taxes of course. This week we make sense of the most recent rate cut by Bank of Canada and what that means for...
Benefiting Beneficiaries
And to my loved ones, “You get nothing, you loose, good day sir!” This week Christine shares valuable tips from a recent Estate Planning conference th...
The 5 Worst Mistakes Investors Make
When I was young I played a computer game called “Lemmings,” little did I know then, it was a documentary. This week we talk about several ways invest...
Warren Buffet’s Best Tips
Turns out the story of the Tortoise and the Hare was about investing all along. This week we’ve collected some of the best advice from Warren Buffet a...