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Stop Saving, Start Investing. Take Control of Your Future & Build Real Wealth
Managing your finances is essential to levelling up in life. But unfortunately, most of us weren’t taught much about it in school.
Thankfully, the internet has brought us every bit of information within a few clicks. But with so much content out there, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start.
It's time to fix that.
Listen to me talk to the King of simplifying finance into easily consumable chunks.
Ryan King’s a 25-year-old who’s changing the world of personal finance through his brand - Making Money Simple.
Investing, saving, budgeting, and a lot more: hear his story on growing and monetizing his socials with nearly 70,000 followers, even in this very competitive day and age.
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• Ryan's website: https://makingmoneysimple.co.uk
• Ryan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingmoneysimple/
• Ryan's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCKEiWPGIObU8W6mXiKnQIsg
Thanks to these podcasts for soundbites:
• Talk Twenties - https://youtu.be/gCp7ScdPESg
• Jason Butler - https://youtu.be/xaAwtTL_xBE
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Tej graduated from King's’ College London with a BSc Biochemistry in 2014, he then pursued a career in Medical Education and Marketing. Soon after his second job… he was fired! A moment of relief and freedom was what he felt, not sure what his mother felt when he told her he was jobless at 23…
He then went in search of a more ethical path, a business he could set up where the reward was equal to the work put in. “If they are making pounds, why am I making pennies?” - was his thought process, not happy with slow progression and bureaucracy (& having to wear smart shoes everyday). This lead him to opening a Recruitment business (not sure where the ethics went) which doubled in profit every year, for 4 years. He hated it. Golden handcuffs they call it.
Fortunately, he used the cash he’d built up from that business, to educate himself in Property Investing. Soon, he’d stopped the business and transitioned into Property Investment full time. He then had a slow start -
Purchasing 15 properties in his first 9 months, using over £650,000 of Investor Finance, he built a £1,200,000 property portfolio and created £30,000 of profit from flips. This gave him ‘financial freedom’, but it was the most stressful period of his life. Growing quickly is very painful. He recently made £95,000 from two flips.
Let’s not forget that his Podcast grew to be the most-reviewed UK Property Podcast, peaking at 4,000 unique downloads per episode.
His Podcast (Tej Talks) now sits at 800,000 downloads in over 120 countries and has 500 reviews, rated 5/5.
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