START WELL® Podcast Investing Simpler,Smarter and Sooner with Glen James How do you start investing without feeling overwhelmed, intimidated, or convinced you need to be an expert first? In this episode of START WELL®, we sit down with financial educator and award-winning author Glen James to unpack the ideas behind his book The Quick-Start Guide to Investing: Learn How to Invest Simpler, Smarter and Sooner, winner of ABBA Book of the Year and Personal Finance & Investing Book of the Year. This conversation is designed for young people beginning their financial journey and for parents wanting to bring meaningful money conversations back home. Rather than chasing trends or quick wins, Glen shares why successful investing starts with understanding your values, building strong foundations, and developing habits that last decades, not days. Together, we explore how investing can become simpler, calmer, and more intentional. Episode Overview Investing often feels complicated because we start in the wrong place. Instead of focusing on products or predictions, Glen explains why understanding your why, your behaviour, and your long-term goals matters most. We discuss the realities of learning through experience, navigating online financial information, avoiding common behavioural traps, and helping young people build confidence in a world full of investing noise. This episode highlights how investing is less about perfection and more about patience, discipline, and clarity. In This Episode We Discuss Money as a tool and the difference between being rich vs being wealthy • Building strong financial foundations before investing • Why your career may be your first and most important investment • Helping young people navigate investing advice online • Behavioural traps like hype, and FOMO, • The importance of risk, time horizons, and goal setting • Learning through early investing experiences, even mistakes • Why long-term strategy matters more than short-term market movements Book Featured: The Quick-Start Guide to Investing: Learn How to Invest Simpler, Smarter and Soonerby Glen James & Nick Bradley Winner of ABBA Book of the Year and Personal Finance & Investing Book ofthe Year. About Our Guest Glen James is an award-winning financial influencer, authorand podcast host known for making money conversations practical, relatable, and accessible. He is the creator of the Money Money Money podcast and author of Sort Your Money Out. Through financial content, Glen helps Australians build confidence with money and develop sustainable long-term financial habits. Listen & Connect 🎧 Listen to more episodes of START WELL®wherever you get your podcasts. START WELL® is a podcast designed to help parents and young people start important conversations about money, values, and future choices, empowering the next generation to build financial confidence early. General Advice Warning – This Podcast contains general advice. The information, including tax information and any advice provided in this Podcast, does not take into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. Because of that, you should before acting on the advice, consider the appropriateness of the advice, having regard to those things. If the advice relates to a particular financial product, you should obtain the relevant Product Disclosure Statement for any product mentioned and consider its contents before making any decision. You should consider talking to a financial adviser before making a financial decision. Dawn Thomas is a Senior Financial Adviser and is an authorised representative of TWD Licensee Services Pty Ltd ABN 88 605 064 480 Australian Financial Services Licence No.475964 (TWD Licensee Services).
