About Me

I help people who have got to a point in their lives with money where they are willing to consider getting external help. They suspect that it is easier, faster and less costly to get someone trained and experienced to help them get the results they need or want. They want to and are willing to take action for change and want help do this.

Experience

I have been helping people with their money for more than 30 years. I ran my own financial planning business until 2013 when I sold it to devote my working hours as a money coach.

Trained. Educated and Qualified

I qualified as an Advanced Financial Planner with the PFS. Chartered Insurance Institute UKhttps://www.thepfs.org/ 

I also qualified with the Certified Financial Planning Certificate with the IFP UK https://www.financialplanning.org.uk

I graduated with Wise Monkey Financial Coaching which is owned by Simonne Gnessen. https://www.financial-coaching.co.uk/

I gained my initial formal training as a coach with the Academy for Coaching Excellence (ACE), accredited with the ICF the International Coaching Federation. https://acecoachtraining.com. 

I am member of the Association of Coaching UK. https://www.associationforcoaching.com

Important Notice: I am NOT a regulated financial adviser. I do not give regulated financial advice, recommend products or earn commission, royalties and income from 3rd parties. 

Why I am a Money Coach

I became a money coach because I felt there was a need and an unrealised desire with many people to have a very different relationship with money. 

I witnessed the impact upon the quality of life of my clients a healthy relationship with money could have. I also witnessed how the impact of a dysfucational relationship with money could have on the lives of people. 

I believe that a money coaching service can have a real and positive impact in the day-to-day lives of people and this has many knock on effects for the individual's wellbeing, their personal lives in other areas such as family and work.  In turn, these benefits impact in the wider community, for employers and society as a whole. 

For me, simply helping one person at a time improve their financial situation is my way of making a contribution to humanity which is one of my life values. 

Although there is obviously a place and a need for financial products and insurance policies what I learned as a Financial Planner was that most people needed a better relationship with their money and how money can impact their lives in a much more positive and productive way. 

What stood out for me was that people’s sense of identity was very wrapped up with money issues. Their perceptions and world view were seen through a money tainted pair of glasses, influencing their feelings, self-image, self-esteem, confidences and competences, fears, beliefs, all would show up (but unseen and unrealised by them) in everyday situations in their lives: their spending habits, savings habits, eating and snacking behaviours, what they bought and why they bought stuff – all of these and much more represented chapters and verses of their individual life stories, for good and bad.

So money was seen both as a friend and foe, lover and hater, creator and destroyer. This multi-personality thing called money was in fact the symbolic representation of our own masks.

Money Masquerades:

I see money as a metaphor a mirror which, invariably reflects back to us our deeper beliefs, fears, behaviours, hopes and dreams. It is this mirror effect that points to the word RELATIONSHIP.

A good coaching experience:

If you go with the idea of masks then you may like the idea that a good coaching experience allows you to look and see the masks that you may be wearing about money. A good coaching experience allows you to unmask and see the truth the mask is hiding. The truth is liberating. It liberates us from the negative thoughts, feelings, decisions and actions we have about money. At the same time the liberation can bring life to new insights, reframe beliefs, and act as a catalyst for new behaviour and thus habits – that produce better results and outcomes.