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   S14 · E7 · 17 Aug 2026 · 34 min

   How should couples manage money and invest? A financial adviser explains

   Joint accounts or separate? Split bills 50/50? Invest together or keep it separate? Ask five couples how they manage money and you'll probably get five different answers. After buying her first home with her partner, Jess put the question to the Get Started Investing community and quickly realised there were plenty of different approaches. So she sat down with financial adviser Glen Hare to hear what he sees working best for the couples he advises, and how they navigate everything from bank accounts and budgeting to shared goals, different money personalities (saver v spender) and building a…

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   S15 · E6 · 12 Aug 2026 · 22 min

   How owning 27 ETFs at once taught Gav that less is more

   Gav loves spending money. Watches, skincare, Apple products, travel - give him money and he’ll find something to spend it on. So when he discovered investing, he did what came naturally….he started collecting ETFs. At one point, he owned 27 of them. So how did he go from trying almost every investing app and collecting ETFs “like Pokémon cards” to believing that less is more? Gav joins Jess to unpack the mistakes he made as a new investor, how he’s simplified his approach and the system that lets him invest consistently (while still leaving plenty of room to spend.) Plus, they get into Gav’s…

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   S14 · E6 · 10 Aug 2026 · 18 min

   Should I sell my Aussie ETF and just invest in Global Shares?

   Australia or the world - where should you be investing? Jess has both Australian and global ETFs in her portfolio, but lately she’s been seeing more investors question whether Australian shares are worth holding at all…..especially when global markets have been performing so well. And she’s not the only one wondering. Community member Anand recently shifted his portfolio primarily into a global ETF and wants to know: what are the strongest reasons to still invest in Australia? Is going all-global a reasonable strategy? Does holding Australian shares actually make you more diversified? And…

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   S15 · E5 · 5 Aug 2026 · 32 min

   How Ally is balancing investing, buying her first home and having a baby

   What would make you finally take control of your money? For 29-year-old marketer Ally, it was watching her mum navigate life after divorce. Seeing someone she loved suddenly have to learn how to manage money from scratch made Ally realise she never wanted to be in that position herself. So she taught herself. Through podcasts, books and hours of research, Ally built the confidence to start investing, buy her first home and prepare financially for her first baby - all without a background in finance. In this episode, Ally joins Jess to share how she overcame analysis paralysis, built an…

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   S14 · E5 · 3 Aug 2026 · 34 min

   I have a mortgage now…should I stop investing?

   Once you buy a house, where should your next dollar go? Should you build your offset account? Pay down your mortgage faster? Or keep investing? In this episode, financial adviser Sam Hunt from Shadforth joins Jess to unpack one of the biggest financial questions homeowners face. Using Jess's own situation as a real-life case study, they explore the decisions she's now facing after buying her first property. Jess and her partner recently purchased the home together, using equity from the sale of his previous property, and now share a 50/50 mortgage. It's Jess's first time owning a home, and…

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   S14 · E4 · 27 Jul 2026 · 30 min

   What’s the the best way to invest in AI? A financial adviser teaches me.

   Everyone says they want to invest in AI... but what should you actually buy? Do you buy Nvidia? An AI ETF? The Nasdaq? Or are you already getting AI exposure through the investments you own? After hearing about AI infrastructure and wondering whether she'd missed the semiconductor boom, Jess found herself asking the same question many beginner investors face: where do you even start? This week, Jess is joined by Owen Raszkiewicz, Financial Adviser at Rask and host of The Australian Finance Podcast, to unpack the different ways investors can get exposure to AI, helping you understand what…

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   S15 · E3 · 22 Jul 2026 · 22 min

   How this 24 year old turned a four year plan into $162,000

   At 18 years old, in the middle of the pandemic, today’s guest gave herself 4 years to complete the following: Save 150K Graduate with two bachelors degrees Buy an investment property Build a share portfolio Secure a remote job Spoiler - she actually did it and has the portfolio to prove it. Today Jess learns how she got there and where she hopes investing will take her next. This is 'How I Got Started' a series on Get Started Investing. Every Thursday Jess sits down with a community member to hear the highs and lows of their journey to investing. These are real stories that we hope will give…

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   S14 · E3 · 20 Jul 2026 · 31 min

   Should I replace my ETFs with the geared version?

   To gear, or not to gear- that is the question... Geared ETFs have had a bit of a moment in the past few years. Plenty of popular ETFs such as NDQ, A200 and DHHF now have “geared” versions. But what does that mean? How do geared ETFs work? And if their long term performance is expected to be better- should you be buying them instead? Today Cam Gleeson, Senior Investment Strategist at Betashares, joins Jess to answer community member John’s question; how he should invest in the geared version of ETFs he already owns? Plus Jess walks though her portfolio and get’s Cam’s take on switching to…

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   S15 · E2 · 15 Jul 2026 · 19 min

   “I don’t want to retire, ever”: why this 30-year-old actor invests

   PJ has five jobs, so his pay is almost never the same two weeks running. Working in a creative field, pay can be scattered and unpredictable. So how does he invest consistently? Jess learns how PJ, an actor juggling four other jobs, built a percentage-based system that invests a slice of every paycheque no matter when it lands. Plus the lithium stock punt that led him to ETFs and how he uses investing to fuel the pursuit of a dream career. This is 'How I Got Started' a series on Get Started Investing. Every Thursday Jess sits down with a community member to hear the highs and lows of their…

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    S14 · E2 · 13 Jul 2026 · 25 min

    The next big IPO is coming, should I Invest in it?

    Jess' been seeing the headlines about Anthropic and OpenAI entering the stock market later this year and keeps thinking, “should I buy that?” Looking back on the recent Space X IPO she feels intense FOMO. It made a historic $75 billion in it’s first day on the market. Yes, billion with a B. But how can you decide if something is a good investment, when it’s new to the market? What actually is an “IPO”? And why do companies decide to go public? Bryce joins Jess to explain all this and to answer an important question- is investing at IPO a good investment or just FOMO? Chapters: 00:00:00 What…