David James Wealth - Financial Planning with Purpose: Recent Episodes
James Reiss
A podcast series explaining the value of purpose-based financial planning with special guests from the worlds of Finance, Sport and Music.
Our guest is Louis Saha. Louis doesn’t need much introduction. He is a two time premier league winner, a European Cup winner, a League Cup winner and a World Cup Finalist. Louis comes from humble beginnings and down to his hard work and success, has been able to financially help and support many people and causes close to his heart.
Our guest today is one of the most successful amateur golfers ever to have lived. Gary has won two Amateur Championships, played in the Walker Cup six times and is the all time leading points scores for GB&I – a record that will probably never be beaten. Gary famously beat Tiger Woods in his last appearance before turning professional.
Our guest today is current Wasps professional rugby player and for the sake of full disclosure, a client of David James Wealth Sport, Jimmy Gopperth.
What a career Jimmy has had. He has played for the Auckland Blues and the Hurricanes in Super Rugby in his native New Zealand before moving over to the UK in 2009 where he joined Newcastle Falcons, where he spent 4 seasons.
Our guest today is Louis Saha. Louis doesn’t need much introduction. He is a two time premier league winner, a European Cup winner, a League Cup winner and a World Cup Finalist. Louis comes from humble beginnings and down to his hard work and success, has been able to financially help and support many people and causes close to his heart. His passion to educate and pass on lessons learned from his own experiences shines through in his latest business venture Axis Stars, where he and his co-Director Kate Hamer, are providing a platform for Stars access to trusted advice and services.
This podcast will humanise household stars, most of who openly acknowledge they wish they began planning for their future earlier – even at the height of their careers. We will be joined by my co-hosts Mark Pittaccio, behavioural economist, who will help shed light onto why we all struggle to take action and do the basics, even when in principle everybody agrees with the sentiment. Brendan Macken, retired Rugby Professional will round off our panel with direct insights into the changing room and behind the player’s mindsets.
Our guest today is one of the most successful amateur golfers ever to have lived. Gary has won two Amateur Championships, played in the Walker Cup six times and is the all time leading points scores for GB&I – a record that will probably never be beaten. Gary famously beat Tiger Woods in his last appearance before turning professional. On reaching eligibility for playing on the seniors tour, Gary finally turned professional – where he has amassed three wins.
Gary has had 21 hole in ones, played in two Masters, two Opens and one US Open. He was awarded an MBE for his services to golf in 2007. Gary has seen stars rise and fall – from Palmer, Nicklaus, Seve, Faldo, to Woods and Westwood and into the modern day bombers like Rory. Gary has played with, and beaten, them all.
In his book, The Long and Short of It, Gary writes about how he struggled to finance competing week to week, often against the wealthy golfing elite. We talk to Gary about his longevity, how he financed his career and lifestyle and the steps he wished he taken earlier.
This podcast will humanise household stars, most of who openly acknowledge they wish they began planning for their future earlier – even at the height of their careers. We will be joined by my co-hosts Mark Pittaccio, behavioural economist, who will help shed light onto why we all struggle to take action and do the basics, even when in principle everybody agrees with the sentiment. Brendan Macken, retired Rugby Professional will round off our panel with direct insights into the changing room and behind the player’s mindsets.
Our guest today is current Wasps professional rugby player and for the sake of full disclosure, a client of David James Wealth Sport, Jimmy Gopperth.
What a career Jimmy has had. He has played for the Auckland Blues and the Hurricanes in Super Rugby in his native New Zealand before moving over to the UK in 2009 where he joined Newcastle Falcons, where he spent 4 seasons. Jimmy then moved onto European giants Leinster Rugby and now resides at Wasps.
Jimmy has left his mark in all the clubs he has represented. In 2017 Jimmy won Aviva Premiership Player of the year, the Rugby Players association player of the year and the Wasps players player of the year. Wow!
This podcast will humanise household stars, most of who openly acknowledge they wish they began planning for their future earlier – even at the height of their careers. We will be joined by my co-hosts Mark Pittaccio, behavioural economist, who will help shed light onto why we all struggle to take action and do the basics, even when in principle everybody agrees with the sentiment. Brendan Macken, retired Rugby Professional will round off our panel with direct insights into the changing room and behind the player’s mindsets.
Our Guest today is Katie Mullan. Katie is an Irish hockey player and is the current captain of the Women’s national team. Katie led her country to sporting history in August 2018 captaining the first ever Irish team in any sport to reach a World Cup Final.
In 2019 Katie lead Ireland to more history by beating Canada in a play-off to become the first ever women’s Irish team, in any sport, to qualify for the Olympic Games. Katie made her hockey debut for Ireland in 2012, has amassed over 170 international caps for Ireland, with100 of those caps coming before the age of 22.
In this episode we talk to Katie about her preparations for the upcoming Olympics in Japan, the challenges of being a full time amateur athlete whilst having to work to pay the bills and how she has dealt so successfully with juggling so many plates whilst becoming an icon for aspiring young athletes in Ireland.
Don’t Look Back In Anger's primary objective is to highlight to high earning, talented individuals that they need to take action with their financial planning today, to ensure they have freedom, choices and peace of mind in the future.
The podcast will humanise household stars, most of who openly acknowledge they wish they began planning for their future earlier – even at the height of their careers. We will be joined by my co-hosts Mark Pittaccio, behavioural economist, who will help shed light onto why we all struggle to take action and do the basics, even when in principle everybody agrees with the sentiment. Brendan Macken, retired Rugby Professional will round off our panel with direct insights into the changing room and behind the player’s mindsets.
Our guest today is former Scotland Rugby International Jim Hamilton, Jim had an extremely successful career playing for his country 63 times. He played for Leicester tigers, Edinburgh, captained Gloucester, and became a European Cup winner and Premiership Cup winner multiple times with Saracens. From the outside, it looks as if Jim has seamlessly transitioned into the working world, with rugby pass in addition to being a very popular tv pundit.
In this episode we talk to Jim about his career, his money, his investments, his regrets and his successes. Jim also gives his advice to aspiring and existing successful sportsmen when it comes to thinking about their finances.
Don’t Look Back In Anger's primary objective is to highlight to high earning, talented individuals that they need to take action with their financial planning today, to ensure they have freedom, choices and peace of mind in the future.
The podcast will humanise household stars, most of who openly acknowledge they wish they began planning for their future earlier – even at the height of their careers. We will be joined by my co-hosts Mark Pittaccio, behavioural economist, who will help shed light onto why we all struggle to take action and do the basics, even when in principle everybody agrees with the sentiment. Brendan Macken, retired Rugby Professional will round off our panel with direct insights into the changing room and behind the player’s mindsets.
Our guest today is current Middlesex Cricket player, and former England International Steve Finn. Steve has played 157 first class games since becoming Middlesex’s youngest ever debutant at the age of 16. He’s played 126 matches for England in all formats, including 36 test matches, taking over 250 international wickets.
The highlights of Steve’s career have been playing in 3 Ashes winning series, multiple world cup teams, as well as winning the t20 and county championship for Middlesex. Some of you may not know that Steve is England’s youngest ever bowler to reach 50 test match wickets.
Steve talks to us about how taking financial advice early in his career has been hugely important in his success on and off the field and the stability it has provided him both now and for his future beyond cricket.
Don’t Look Back In Anger's primary objective is to highlight to high earning, talented individuals that they need to take action with their financial planning today, to ensure they have freedom, choices and peace of mind in the future.
The podcast will humanise household stars, most of who openly acknowledge they wish they began planning for their future earlier – even at the height of their careers. We will be joined by my co-hosts Mark Pittaccio, behavioural economist, who will help shed light onto why we all struggle to take action and do the basics, even when in principle everybody agrees with the sentiment. Brendan Macken, retired Rugby Professional will round off our panel with direct insights into the changing room and behind the player’s mindsets.