On todays episode, we discussed business in the music industry with the self-made Rapper and Independent Record Label Owner, Aewon Wolf. Looking back at the evolution of his illustrious career in music - a career more in the mould of Tech N9ne in approach than your standard signed artist music deal - we discuss some of the mistakes that music artists usually made regarding contracts and ownership of masters. We specifically look at how hard it is for an up and coming artist in the middle of the music industry to get their legal affairs in order and how they usually fall victim to unscrupulous ..read more

On todays episode, we discussed business in the music industry with the self-made Rapper and Independent Record Label Owner, Aewon Wolf. Looking back at the evolution of his illustrious career in music - a career more in the mould of Tech N9ne in approach than your standard signed artist music deal - we discuss some of the mistakes that music artists usually made regarding contracts and ownership of masters. We specifically look at how hard it is for an up and coming artist in the middle of the music industry to get their legal affairs in order and how they usually fall victim to unscrupulous ..read more

Finance for Hippies is invited to present a podcast the Turbine Art Fair, and our guest in this episode is Kristia van Heerden who is the former host of the The Fat Wallet Podcast and CEO of Just One Lap. Most people find the path to financial freedom to be very difficult to navigate and adjusting your financial vision after a global pandemic can be just another barrier. To make this easier, we explore a few financial concepts and principles that will help the artists and everyday people to make better financial decisions and adaptions post pandemic. Kristia speaks on how adhering to these pri ..read more

Please note that this episode was recorded in 2020. Standwa has since left EasyEquities and is based at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Please also note that the contents of this episode do not constitute as financial advise.   We invited the brand manager of EasyEquities Standwa Nongauza to tell us who they are and how they are serving the market with their share trading platform. EasyEquities aims to disrupt and remove the barriers to entry in local and international stock markets, making the purchase of shares easy, cheap and available to as many people as possible.  Standwa c ..read more

We visited Soweto to spend a day with a street icon, creative entrepreneur and podcaster, Mpumelelo Frypan Mfula. Over Black Label beer we discuss the topic of Street culture, how it can be monetized and some of the pitfalls that people continue to fall into in their path for economic freedom. We also discussed how he has been able to have garnered street credibility and cultural reputation that he has, to the point of even being called the mayor of Braamfontein.    We cover how he has managed to build solid relationships with high-end sneaker brands and how he has nurtured it so tha ..read more

We visited Soweto to spend a day with a street icon, creative entrepreneur and podcaster, Mpumelelo Frypan Mfula. Over Black Label beer we discuss the topic of Street culture, how it can be monetized and some of the pitfalls that people continue to fall into in their path for economic freedom. We also discussed how he has been able to have garnered street credibility and cultural reputation that he has, to the point of even being called the mayor of Braamfontein.    We cover how he has managed to build solid relationships with high-end sneaker brands and how he has nurtured it so tha ..read more

In our first episode of 2022, we interviewed the Managing Director of 22Seven Budgeting Mobile App, Jikku Joseph. After a prosperous December period for many of our listeners, we try to assist people to answer the age old Finance for Hippies question, "Where did my money go?"   We aim to understand the nature of the expenditures people mostly spend their money on. The aim is to assist the people in better management of their personal finances whilst focusing specifically on looking at small expenditures that usually go under the radar and people consider insignificant but accumulate to a ..read more

Official trailer for the Finance for Hippies Podcast. Available on YouTube and all your favorite podcast streaming platforms ..read more

Official trailer for the Finance for Hippies Podcast. Available on YouTube and all your favorite podcast streaming platforms ..read more

We interviewed Andre Bothma, Founder of Tax Maverick at BankerX, a tax account manager and a YouTuber providing content on tax within South Africa. We discuss:    The key topics around the difficult and complicated topic of tax specifically for normal people as well as for artists.   We explore issues such as different types of tax that people need to pay.  - We discuss the tax system, why it exists and how it contributes to the economy and social support.   We also look at the basic pillars of tax and what people need to understand regarding tax, the aim is to make i ..read more