Hate maths, love finance: tips from award-winning journalist Iona Bain to budget and boost your finances
Iona Bain is a broadcaster and personal finance journalist who appears on BBC television and across the media. She’s a respected and trusted money expert with a knack for making complicated things easy to understand and the author of books including Spare Change and Own It!.
“There’s no shame admitting that numbers don’t come naturally to you,” says Iona, who struggled with them herself in the past. Now she is a National Numeracy ambassador.
Iona joined us for a brilliant new episode of Salad Talks Money, which you can watch or listen to below, on YouTube or your favourite podcast platform. She describes her dyscalculia and how she has developed some helpful strategies to get to grips with numbers and look after her finances.
In the interview, she explores how to gain confidence with maths and numeracy, looking after your finances if you struggle with numbers and how parents and carers can best support kids who have difficulties with numbers.
We also discuss the what ‘financial literacy’, ‘financial well-being' and ‘financial inclusion’ all mean, how to spot and protect yourself from financial and economic abuse, and the pitfalls of outsourcing financial planning to AI.
Trust, standards and regulation across traditional and new media come up too, with an impassioned commentary on who you should be able to trust when it comes to personal finances, and why.
Watch the interview here.
Or find it on YouTube , Spotify, Amazon Musicand other podcast platforms – just search for Salad Talks Money.
