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Aug 2019
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Overcoming excuses and building good fin...

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What is stopping you from saving and taking control of your financial future? Finance journalist David ‘Kochie’ Koch squashes the most common excuses he hears from people who are too afraid to start saving and gives his easy steps towards creating good financial habits. He also does some fact checking on the most common financial ‘advice’ that we’ve all heard from parents and friends over the years.

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