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Otegha Uwagba is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling career guide Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women (2017), and the short essay Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods (2020) which was selected as one of the Guardian’s Books of The Year.
Martha interviewed Otegha about her memoir We Need To Talk About Money, which was published July 2021.
Otegha has a podcast called In Good Company and a weekly newsletter called The Roundup.
Dr Grace Lordan is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative (TII), Director of the MSc in Behavioural Science and an Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Her research is focused on understanding why some individuals succeed in life and others don't. She is an expert on the effects of bias, discrimination and technology changes.
We talked about her new book “Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want” (published March 2021), which is a guide to choosing and succeeding at a career you will find fulfilling and a good match with your skills and preferences.
Do you hide your spending or debts from your partner? Maybe you have a secret savings account? What about if your partners was keeping money secrets from you, how would you react? Money secrets can be a serious breach of trust, so what happens when they come to light? How can we respond in a healthy way to learning our partner’s money secrets?
This week’s guest is the kind, wise (and hilarious) Patrick Hill from Thinking Beyond Now. He coaches people to live fully in and through the harder times of life like divorce, bereavement, health crises and redundancy.
With so many households having lost at least one person’s income during the pandemic, advice on coping emotionally with the experience of job-loss is much needed. What’s more, since unhealthy coping mechanisms are often expensive both short and long term, this advice can help with your financial situation too.