Helen keeps her finances lean and mean

This week I speak to financial education champion and ex City fund manager Helen. Helen tells how she learnt the value of money from her mother's careful management of the family budget and then going on to do a variety of low paid jobs when she was a student, including a stint as a fitness instructor.  Being able to speak German lead to an interview with a major UK bank, and a job as a trainee investment manager, for which she had no qualifications or experience. Helen gives some great insights into how she and her husband transitioned to being parents, including how they both convinced their employers to let them both work 4 days a week, so they could balance their careers with raising their family. And the detailed written analysis Helen was required to give her employer to justify flexible working puts into sharp relief today's legal right to request flexible working. Many happy years in Edinburgh gave way to even happier days in Suffolk. Followed by Helen deciding to retire from fund management at a relatively young age, so she could focus on building her own social purpose business - missmoneyready - which enables children and young people to learn about money through the unique financial education platform Helen had designed and had built. Helen is a lady on a mission and she really does understand how to have a good relationship with money.