After getting out of debt, Tawnya dedicated herself to help others do the same. She shares how to create a budget to help break free from living paycheck to paycheck. It's not always easy, but it's worth it. We cover: // The impact being broke has on your health.  // Why getting into debt is so common and normalised.  // The first steps you need to take to get out of debt. // Budget fluctuates.  // Is it an income issue or a spending issue? // What can you afford, how much should you spend on rent? Plus other % to know based on your income.   // Out of the box ideas to ..read more

The ethics of AI: AI is neutral but how it’s coded and used will determine if it’s good or bad for us. Here’s the catch: its development is based around profit and private companies are racing each other for it. This race is not democratically run and we have no regulations in place to manage AI’s warpspeed advances and without fail-safes it’s a gloomy prospect. We also cover the link between Green energy, lithium, AI and Tesla. If one day things go south with lithium’s import, will sending that one email be as expensive as heating our home?  Not all gloom and doom, we also touch on the ..read more

Ever wondered how someone is exonerated after 28 years in prison? Innocence Projects are doing an insane amount of work to make that happen.  Today with Louise, Director of The Innocence Project London, we talk about what they do for the wrongfully convicted. Dr Louise Hewitt has many accolades but the one that stands out to me is the pro bono work she’s been doing for over 13 years at the Innocence Project London (IPL).  We go over: + Claiming back your innocence and why it’s such a lengthy process? + Are the requirements to get your case reviewed fair or not? + Various types of wr ..read more

Are memories reliable? Memories can be implanted or misremembered and be used against you or someone else. Not always knowingly but it happens.  Today with Kevin, Director of Communications for the British False Memory Society. We go over what they are, when they occur and we can protect ourselves from others [therapists, police and other officials] to implant memories in us. We go over: // Recovered memories and regression therapy.  // What got him in this line of work. // Repressed memories vs the evolutionary advantage of (partly) forgetting pain (like childbirth & heartbreak ..read more

Shawn, a trained therapist and now a marriage and relationship expert, specialises in couples who are in business together and whose relationships have either fallen asleep or fallen apart.  We go over: // What got her into this line of work. // Power struggles: Why we have them and how to transcend them. // Practice makes permanent.  // The 7 key Emotional Weapons and their Sub-Weapons. // How we pair up with a partner who has our opposite set of emotional weapons.  // Emotional weapons unconsciously used to seek compliance. // How to undo years of relationship damage.  ..read more

While TO4TS is on a break, check out this revisit of a past favourite episode (#086 When Self-Help Goes Horribly Wrong and How To Prevent It). I will return early 2023 with Season 4!!! What led to the death of 3 individuals seeking to better their life and looking for enlightenment at a James Arthur Ray 5-day event? Ray was made famous by the movie The Secret and being featured several times on the Oprah Winfrey show. Together with Kirby Brown’s mother Ginny, a licensed clinical social worker and her sister Jean, we discuss the perfect storm that led to that tragedy, their mission to stop it f ..read more

While TO4TS is on a break, check out this revisit of a past favourite episode (#058 Love Isn’t Enough). I will return early 2023 with Season 4!!! Natasha Koo & Jachym Jerie are a couple and relationship coaches that have gone through the wringer together from long distance, to open, to semi open to polyamorous to closed again, today we discuss its good, bad and ugly and what it takes to make a relationship work. We cover:  - Moving from transactional relationships to being of service to your partner but from a place of synergy, so not to drain yourself. - Being able to receive withou ..read more

Today’s episode is about money, how to save for your pension and even retire early. Jeremy Schneider breaks it down into bitesize steps to regain control over your finances and redirect your financial trajectory.   We cover:  // Index Funds. // How to change your financial trajectory. // Investing vs speculating. // The dirty little secret of Hedge Funds. // Passive and Active management of investments. // [32min] How to calculate the magic number to retire. // Emergency funds vs retirement plan. // Strategies for those with longer time frames and shorter time frames to retire c ..read more

Today is a laughter filled threeway on divorce with Pete & Seth on all things love, and the weird things heartbreak makes us do.   With podcast Producer Pete, married for 23 years and Divorce Lawyer Seth, engaged to be re-married; we cover: // How they met. // Oddest items fought over in past divorce settlements. // What makes for good relationships? // What is love? // When to stick it through and when to leave? // What they learned from their own podcast on what to avoid in relationships. // Their views on infidelity. // Second life marriages, causing terrestrial divorces. Men ..read more

Why do you think black holes exist and where do they lead to? I want to hear your thoughts on this :-)!! Today with Astrophysicist and poet Lindsay we take a fun look at what a black hole is, what lies behind it and where it could all lead to. This is part 2 of this two-part series. We cover: // What are black holes and how are they created? // What’s behind a black hole?  // What happens to the content in the black hole? // What happens to the spatial coordinates after a black hole has gone through it? // Multiverses.  // String theory for beginners.  // And my biggest questio ..read more