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🔥 Welcome Fire Starters! Financial Education Matters

A huge thank you to everyone who has joined the Money Tipps® journey.

For the third month in a row, our free FIRE Up Your Finances investing event has been oversubscribed and reached capacity.

📈 FIRE Up Your Finances
Investing to Become Financially Independent & Retire Early

This is not about getting rich quick.

It is about building the knowledge, confidence and habits to make better financial decisions, so you can take control of your financial future.

During this free live session, we will explore:

✅ How investing works
✅ How to build a long-term financial plan
✅ The principles behind Financial Independence
✅ How small decisions today can create a stronger future

The reality is that millions of people work hard, earn an income and want to build wealth, but financial education is something many of us were never taught.

That is why Money Tipps® exists.

Our mission is simple:

Make money, investing and financial independence simple, understandable and achievable for everyone.

🔥 The response has been incredible:

📌 500+ people registered
📌 3 months in a row oversubscribed
📌 A growing community of Fire Starters learning together

A quick reminder for everyone who has signed up:

⚠️ We have a maximum capacity of 100 live Zoom places.

Please arrive a few minutes early to secure your place. Once we reach 100 attendees, we will unfortunately have reached capacity.

And if you are new to the community, welcome!

📚 My new book Football Finance: Manage Your Money in 90 Minutes is out now.

Using the language of football, it helps make investing and money easier to understand:

⚽ Your money needs a strategy.
⚽ Your finances need a formation.
⚽ Your future needs a game plan.

Because financial freedom does not start with having all the answers.

It starts with learning.

Welcome to the Money Tipps® Community.

🔥 Let's FIRE up our finances together.

⚽📈 What if learning about money was as simple as understanding football?

Football is the world's game.

Billions of people follow football around the world, and during the recent FIFA World Cup, billions more tune in to watch the biggest sporting event on the planet.

Yet when it comes to money and investing, many people feel confused, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start.

That’s why I wrote my new book:

Football Finance: Manage Your Money in 90 Minutes ⚽📚

The idea is simple:

Use the language of football to make investing easier to understand.

Your money needs a strategy.

Your finances need a formation.

Your investments need a game plan.

Just like a football team needs balance across defence, midfield and attack, your finances need the right balance between protecting today and building tomorrow.

The biggest lesson?

You don't need to be a financial expert.

You need:
✅ A simple plan
✅ The right strategy
✅ The confidence to take action

Tomorrow night, I’ll be sharing practical investing lessons designed to help you understand money better, make smarter decisions, and take control of your financial future.

Thank you for the incredible response — 505 people have already registered.

This is the third month in a row our event has been oversubscribed, with 400+ registrations each month.

Our Zoom capacity is limited to 100 live places, so if you have registered, please join a few minutes early. Places are first come, first served.

Because financial freedom doesn't start with complexity.

It starts with understanding.

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⚽️ Most people study football tactics…

Formations.
Transfers.
Statistics.
Winning strategies.

But very few study their own financial game plan.

What if managing money worked like managing a football team?

Defence. Midfield. Attack.

Your wealth needs a strategy.

📖 Football Finance: Manage Your Money in 90 Minutes
by Neil Doig

Read more 👇

https://moneytipps.org/blog/football-finance-manage-your-money-in-90-minutes-the-personal-finance-book-that-turns-money-into-a-game-plan

Football Finance: Manage Your Money in 90 Minutes | Personal Finance by Neil Doig Millennial Money — Money Tipps ( Tax, Investing, Property, Pensions, Savings). A Money coaching and EdTech company Football Finance: Manage Your Money in 90 Minutes by Neil Doig is an innovative personal finance book that uses football strategy to explain investing, ISAs, pensions, property, money management and financial independence. Featuring the Football Formation Asset Allocation® framework, it makes finan...

⚽ The World Cup is here.

Millions of people will spend hours analysing football tactics this summer.

How many will spend just 90 minutes improving their money?

That's why I wrote Football Finance.

It's not about becoming a financial expert.

It's about understanding the basics well enough to make better decisions for the rest of your life.

Inside you'll discover:
✅ A simple system to organise your money.
✅ How to start investing with confidence.
✅ Ways to avoid common mistakes that can cost thousands over a lifetime.
✅ A practical roadmap towards Financial Independence.

Whether you're watching the football at home, relaxing in the garden, or heading off on holiday, this is the perfect summer read.

🏆 World Cup Special
📱 Kindle edition: Just £1.99 (limited-time offer before it returns to full price)
📖 First Edition Paperback: £14.99

One match lasts 90 minutes.

So does the book.

But the lessons could benefit you for decades.

Get your copy here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838300252

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FIRE WEBINAR OVERSUBSCRIBED AGAIN: 450+ Sign Up for Financial Freedom Session!

Tonight’s June FIRE Investing webinar is now fully booked, and we’ve reached our maximum Zoom capacity.

For the second month in a row, over 450 people have signed up.
That tells us something important.
People are not just looking for “more money.”
They are looking for more control, more clarity, and more peace of mind.
And that is what Money Tipps® exists to support.
Not just financial education, but real-life understanding that helps people make better decisions with money, time, and life direction.
Because financial independence is not only about numbers on a screen.

It’s about:
-Peace of mind when you think about the future
-More time for the things that actually matter
-The freedom to choose how your day is spent
-Stepping away from the constant 9–5 countdown
-Creating space to follow your ideas, passions, and purpose, not just your paycheque.

To protect the quality of the experience, we are unable to release any further places for tonight’s session.

If you missed out, don’t worry.
Our next Investing to Become Financially Independent & Retire Early (FIRE) webinar takes place on:
Tuesday, 28 July | 7:30 PM–9:00 PM (BST)

We run this live session on the last Tuesday of every month, giving people a consistent space to build:
-Clarity around investing decisions
-Confidence in managing money
-Practical steps toward financial independence
-Long-term habits that build real wealth over time

Not complicated. Not overwhelming. Just a structured system that helps you move forward, one month at a time.
We look forward to welcoming you then.

THE CONSUMER TREADMILL VS THE WEALTH ENGINE

This image sums up what I've learned about money in the last 20 years.

On the left:
⏰ Trading time for money.
💸 Watching inflation, taxes and bills eat away at your earnings.
😓 Working harder every year but never quite feeling secure.
On the right:
📈 Assets generating income.
💰 Investments compounding over decades.
🛌 Money working while you sleep.

For most people, a salary alone will never create financial freedom.
That isn't criticism.
It's reality.
And it's becoming even more important in a world where AI, automation and technology are changing jobs faster than ever before.
If your income depends entirely on your employer, your position will always feel vulnerable.
The answer isn't working 60-hour weeks.
The answer is building assets.
Assets that can earn income whether you're at work, on holiday, or asleep.

You don't need to be rich to start.
Most people are already investing through their pension.
Many employers contribute money on top of your own contributions.
ISAs offer powerful tax advantages.
And every month you invest, you're buying a little more freedom for your future self.
The hardest milestone is often the first £100,000 invested.
Before then, progress can feel painfully slow.
After that, compound growth starts to become visible.

Your money earns money.
Then the money earned by your money starts earning money too.
That's when the Wealth Engine starts turning.

I wrote the book Football Finance: Manage Your Money in 90 Minutes for the teacher, the nurse, the engineer, the office worker, the parent and anyone who works hard but feels they were never taught the rules of money.
No jargon.
No complicated spreadsheets.

Just practical lessons to help you:
✅ Understand investing
✅ Make better financial decisions
✅ Avoid common money mistakes
✅ Build wealth steadily over time
✅ Move closer to financial independence
✅ Give yourself more choices in life

Because financial independence isn't really about retiring early.
It's about having options.
It's about reducing stress.
It's about knowing that if your job changes, your finances don't collapse with it.

Which side of the image do you feel most represents your current situation?
A) Consumer Treadmill
B) Wealth Engine
C) Somewhere in the middle
Comment A, B or C below.

And if you're already investing, what was the biggest lesson you wish you'd learned 10 years earlier?

500+ people registered.
100+ joined us live on Zoom before we reached capacity.
380 people tuned in through TikTok Live.

Thank you to everyone who joined FIRE Up Your Finances last night.

The response shows something powerful:

People want to learn.
People want to improve.
People want greater confidence with money, investing, and their future.

Financial literacy is becoming one of the most important life skills of this generation.

Many people work incredibly hard, yet are never properly taught about:
• Investing
• Compounding
• Inflation
• Wealth building
• Managing risk
• Financial independence
• How fees quietly reduce long-term returns

That is why education matters so much.

Reading, learning, improving your knowledge, asking better questions, and developing better financial habits can completely change the direction of someone’s life over time.

Last night’s session focused on:
• Practical investing strategies
• Long-term thinking
• Avoiding common financial mistakes
• Building systems around money
• Developing financial confidence
• Creating a clearer roadmap towards financial independence

No jargon.
No unnecessary complexity.
Just practical education designed to help people make better financial decisions.

The most encouraging part of the evening was seeing people actively wanting to become better, learning new ideas, challenging old thinking, and investing in their own knowledge.

Financial education should not be limited to experts or professionals.

The more people understand money, the stronger families, communities, and futures become.

We’ll now be running these sessions on the last Tuesday of every month so more people can join from anywhere.

If you missed it live, here’s the recorded version:
https://youtu.be/eg9rBRc54Q4?si=wBnQB21eQ7ftrLu4

The Inner Game & Outer Game of Investing | LIVE Money Meetup Recording🔥 What if building a better financial future didn’t require more stress, more complexity, or trying to figure everything out alone?In this live Money Meetup, w...

This is not just a book about football.
This is a book about life.

Life is a game.

And most people feel stuck in it for one simple reason:

👉 No one ever taught them the rules.

So they end up:
-playing without a strategy
-playing without a plan
-playing without a system

But here’s the truth: The more you learn, the more you earn!

The more you learn, the more control you gain over your life and your money.

You are not stuck because you are lazy.

You are stuck because you were never shown how the game actually works.

This book is about changing that.

It gives you a simple system for money, investing, and long-term thinking, built from years of real experience working as a regulated FCA financial adviser with real clients and real money.

This is the same type of thinking that wealth managers charge thousands of pounds to explain.

But it has been simplified into something anyone can understand and actually use.

⚽️ Think of it like football.

You don’t win by guessing.
You win by having:
-a formation
-a strategy
-a team
-and a system that works over time

Money is exactly the same.
You are building your own team of assets and your own financial system for life.
💡 Once set up, this system only takes about 90 minutes a year to:
-review
-adjust
-and rebalance based on your goals

Not constantly thinking about money.
Not reacting emotionally.
Not guessing.

Just a simple structure that works in the background of your life.

📈 The goal is simple:
To help you move from:
👉 saving money
to
👉 building long-term financial independence

⚽️ Because life is a game.

And if you don’t choose your strategy…

Someone else will choose it for you.

📚 Football Finance is available now (link in comments).

Start learning the system.
Start building your plan.
Start playing life with a strategy.

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