How to stay calm when your money is falling apart

Each week the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking the Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's a bonus episode on how to stay calm, and access independent financial advice. Hosted by Frances Cook.<br /><br />Keep calm and carry on is all very well until you hit the sort of crisis we’re in right now. <br /><br />It’s a perfectly normal response to panic when you see your retirement savings losing thousands of dollars, or when you realise you could lose your job. <br /><br />Full disclosure I’ve also watched my KiwiSaver plunge over the last few weeks. On paper I’ve lost thousands, and I didn’t have all that much to begin with. <br /><br />But you can protect yourself from the panic with a few strategies, then make better decisions with a clear head.<br /><br />For the latest podcast, I talked to Tom Hartmann from Sorted. <br /><br />We discussed why knowledge is power, what to make of your KiwiSaver jumping around, and good places to get calm, independent advice. <br /><br />If you have a question about this podcast, or question you'd like answered in the next one, come and talk to me about it. I'm on Facebook here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/</a> Instagram here <a href="https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/francescooknz/</a> and Twitter here <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesCook" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/FrancesCook</a>