Juggling Mind and Money
Welcome to the Juggling Mind and Money Podcast with Steve Rowe and Jessica Schlupp-Taylor.
Steve Rowe is the founder of Lucent Financial Planning and an award-winning independent financial planner. He helps you to use your money and have a great life.
Jess Schlupp-Taylor is a psychologist supporting people through change, challenges and forks in the road of life.
Together they will help you unblock the sludge in your mind, stopping you from achieving financial and psychological happiness.
Episodes
42 episodes
Ep.42 Money that makes sense for families with special educational needs | Rhiannon Goff
In this episode, Steve is joined by Rhiannon Goff, founder of SENDA (Special Educational Needs and Disability Advisors) and a financial adviser with 26 years of experience, the last 10 of which she has spent working exclusively with families wh...
Ep.41 What Couples Get Wrong About Money | Sonya Lutter
In this episode, Steve is joined by Sonya Lutter, a researcher and money psychologist based at Texas Tech and the founder of the Institute for Systemic Financial Professionals. Sonya has spent years studying what actually happens inside couples...
Ep.40 - Why we crave certainty and Why money can’t give it to us.
In this episode, Steve and Jess talk about why our brains chase certainty, why money can't really deliver it, and how to build a financial and psychological life that bends with whatever comes.Certainty is one of those things almost ever...
Ep.39 - 21 Years in Business, One Big Wobble, and a Trip to Ibiza: Dan Sanders on Running a Small Business
Steve sits down with Dan Sanders, optician and founder of Perspective Opticians, for a candid look at what it really takes to run an independent business for 21 years.Dan opened his first practice in February 2005, aged 26, after decidin...
Ep.38 How to Stay Sane in a 24-Hour Negative News Cycle
The news is loud, the headlines are heavy, and our phones make sure we never miss a thing. Steve and Jess sit down to talk about what all of that does to your head and your money, and what you can actually do about it.Steve opens with a ...
Ep.37 The Father of Life Planning on Money, Meaning and Freedom - George Kinder
In this episode, Steve sits down with George Kinder, known to most as the father of life planning.George has spent the last thirty years teaching advisers a very simple idea: that a financial plan is only useful if it delivers the client...
Ep.36 How Your Financial Personality Shapes Every Money Decision | Greg Davies - Oxford Risk
Steve sits down with Greg Davies, Head of Behavioural Finance at Oxford Risk, for one of the most practically useful conversations the show has had. Greg has spent 25 years studying how people actually make financial decisions, and ...
Ep.35 The Psychology of Money: Why Your Past Is Running Your Financial Future - with Money Psychotherapist Vicky Reynal
You might be sabotaging your finances and have no idea why.Steve sits down with Vicky Reynal, money psychotherapist and Sunday Times columnist, to explore the emotional forces underneath our financial habits: the childhood money lessons ...
Ep.34 Ian Archbold – a client discussing retirement trepidation, and why everyone needs an adviser.
In this episode, Steve is joined by Ian Archbold – chartered management accountant, global reward director at Haleon, and (as it turns out) a quietly devoted listener of the show.Despite knowing his way around a pension spreadsheet bette...
Ep.33 The Invisible Biases Shaping Your Financial Future – with behavioural scientist, Richard Shotton
We like to believe we make rational financial decisions.In reality, our choices are shaped by shortcuts, emotions, and invisible mental biases we rarely notice.In this episode, behavioural scientist Richard Shotton joins us to exp...
Ep.32 Executive Burnout: Stretched, Stressed… or on the Brink?
In this episode of Juggling Mind and Money, Steve and Jess explore Executive Burnout — how it develops, why high performers are particularly vulnerable, and the often-overlooked connection between pressure, identity and financia...
Ep.31 How Investment Professionals Think About Risk, Returns, and Staying the Course
In this episode of Juggling Mind and Money, Steve sits down with Laurentius van den Worm, Head of Investment Strategy at Timeline Portfolios, for a candid conversation about how sensible portfolios are built, why markets test people’s patience,...
Ep 30 Sam Hart - Inheritance tax at home and abroad
In this episode, Steve is joined by Sam Hart, a tax specialist at Rosegate Tax with nearly 30 years in the game, to cut through the noise around inheritance tax and long-term planning.They explore:Why tax planning works best ...
Ep.29 New years resolutions - Why they fail, and how to make yours stick
New Year’s Day 2026. The motivation is high, the To-Do list is long, and reality is quietly waiting round the corner.In this episode Steve and Jess explore why New Year’s resolutions so often start strong and fade fas...
Ep.28 Michael Kothakota of WolfBridge Wealth on the Value of Advice
In Episode 28, Steve is joined by Michael Kothakota, co-founder of Wolf Bridge Wealth, for a grounded conversation on the real value of financial advice beyond returns.Mike shares how he and his wife launched the firm in the aftermath of...
Ep.27 The Budget Explained: Tax Changes, Delays and Hidden Consequences
In this episode of Juggling Mind and Money, Steve is joined by Chartered Financial Planner Luke James for a clear and grounded conversation about the recently released Budget. With Jess away, Luke steps in to help unpack the announceme...
Ep.26 Gambling VS Investing
In this episode Steve and Jess unpack a question many of us think about but rarely admit out loud: When is it smart risk-taking… and when is it simply gambling?The conversation begins with confessions, before diving into the psy...
Ep.25 - Neil Bage on being Human
In this episode, Steve is joined by Neil Bage, Co-Founder of Shaping Wealth, for a powerful conversation about understanding people as the core of great financial planning.Steve and Neil explore the psychology behi...
Ep.24 The Psychology of Time: Why We Procrastinate on Life and Money
In this thought-provoking episode of Juggling Mind and Money, Steve and Jess unpack one of the most overlooked forces shaping our financial lives — time.Why do we put off things we know are important — fro...
Ep.23 - Protection Paralysis: Why We Dodge Life Insurance
In this episode, Steve and Jess take on one of life’s most avoided topics — protection.From life insurance to income and health cover, they explore why people delay or dodge these crucial safeguards, even when they know better.<...
Ep.22 - Four Financial Safety Nets You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Most people would rather insure their phone than spend money on financial protection for themselves. And who can blame them? Those products feel dull, complicated, and like money down the drain… until the worst happens.In this episode of...
Ep.21 - How to Stop HMRC Inheriting Your Wealth
Why does inheritance tax (IHT) spark so much anger yet so little action? In this episode of Juggling Mind and Money, Steve and Jess dig into the mix of rage, fear, and procrastination that stops families from tackling one o...
Ep.20 - Redundancy, Identity, and Life After the Job Title
Losing a job is more than losing a paycheck — it can feel like losing a piece of who you are. In this episode, Steve and Jess untangle the messy mix of emotions, identity shifts, and financial worries that come with redundancy. ...
Ep.19 - Midyear Market Check: What Matters, What Doesn’t with Luke James
Six months down, decades to go. In this episode, Steve and Luke explore why mid-year investment reviews rarely change the big picture – and why no one (yes, no one) can predict the markets. From Trump’s “game show” tarif...
Ep.18 - The Rollercoaster of Risk: How to Stay Sane While Investing
Ever feel like investing is just one big gamble? In this episode, Steve and Jess untangle why our “caveman brains” freak out over market dips and what we can do to stay calm. From diversification and long-term thinking to quirky tri...