The year is coming to an end. Many of us are looking forward to a summer break with the work close-down period fast approaching.
While enjoying the holiday cheer and the warmer climate, you can also use this time to build your financial knowledge and come back in the New Year ready to achieve your money goals.
With your financial progress in mind, we’ve put together a list of our top podcast episodes, webinars, blog posts, and articles from 2025 – so you can make the most of our expert knowledge over the holidays.
Our favourite podcast episodes:
Where’s My Money?
How to Prep Your Finances for Christmas and the New Year
Season 5, Episode 10
enable.me financial coaches Katie Wesney and Shelley Palman join the podcast to recap on host Reagan White’s progress in 2025 and offer some tips on how to not only survive the holiday period ahead, but do so in a way that sets your finances up for success in 2026.
Where’s My Money?
What a Two-Week Budget Test Revealed About Kiwis’ Spending
Season 4, Episode 10
Listen in as enable.me financial coaches and advisers Katie Wesney and Shelley Palman engage in a live coaching session with three everyday Kiwis: Grace, Caitlin, and Sam. Follow along as they dive into their spending and saving behaviours; discovering the ways they can improve their money habits to meet their financial goals.
Where’s My Money?
The Kiwi Dream – Is It Still Attainable?
Season 3, Episode 8
For many New Zealanders, homeownership is feeling further and further out of reach. enable.me financial coaches Katie Wesney and Kirsty Healey examine the current state of the housing market for first home buyers – providing some ideas of alternative pathways to homeownership, and building wealth.
Making Cents with Frances Cook
“We were gifted $100K, how do we not blow it?” Mailbag episode
with Katie Wesney
When you’re used to spending your full income each week, it can be hard to know what to do if you have a sudden injection of cash. Such was the case with this episode’s listener, who received a $100,000 gift. enable.me’s Katie Wesney joins the episode to dig deeper into the listener’s letter and provide some strategies on how to best use their additional money.
Making Cents with Frances Cook
Buying vs building: Which property strategy builds more wealth over time?
with Kirsty Healey
It’s a common question in the property investment space – whether to buy an existing property or build a property off the plans. enable.me Financial Coach Kirsty Healey shares her professional insights and investing experiences on this episode of Making Cents – covering the key elements to weigh up when looking for a property investment, and how it can be different from a family home.
Our most-watched webinars:
From Mortgage Payoff to Investing: Unlock the Power of Leverage with Katie Wesney and Shelley Palman
enable.me financial coaches Katie Wesney and Shelley Palman talk about leverage – what it is, and how you can use it. They illustrate this through sharing one common mortgage situation they see often with their clients, laying out three different strategies to tackle it. Each strategy results in vastly different financial futures. See the results for yourself.
Wealth Creation: Overcoming Fear & Getting Started with Katie Wesney
Wealth is for everyone. We’re not just talking about the wealth that focuses on lavish holidays and designer brands, we’re talking about the wealth that brings opportunity, creates options, and builds the financial future you deserve. enable.me Head Strategic Coach Katie Wesney talks through some strategies to overcome risk-averse tendencies and start building your wealth – so that ‘future you’ can reap the benefits.
Retirement Mastery: Build Wealth to Bridge the Gap with Karen Beckham
Preparing for retirement doesn’t begin when you hit your 60s and you’re only a few years away from superannuation payments. Building your wealth to have stability in your later years is the longest financial play you’ll ever make. Listen to enable.me Financial Coach Karen Beckham as she lays out a path to financial freedom – so you can enjoy the retirement that makes you happiest.
Our blog post reads:
Overcoming the ‘singles tax’
Being single can sometimes cost you more. You might be single by choice, by chance or patiently waiting to meet your person. No matter the reason, here’s a blog post that covers some of the ways you can keep yourself financially fit, whether you’re sharing your finances with a partner, or not.
From Floating to Flying: How Challen Turned Her Finances Around
Here’s a common financial myth: it’s too late for me to start. This is often far from the truth. We say the best time to start your financial plan was yesterday; the second-best time is today. So, when Challen came to us at 44, determined to build her financial future, we knew she had plenty of opportunity to get ahead. Have a read of how Challen started from a point of feeling like she was floating – not going backwards, but not getting ahead either – and how she got to the point where she is now thriving.
More Than a Dress: Helping Women Gain Financial Freedom
Over the course of 2025, enable.me has worked with Dress for Success Auckland on a number of initiatives that support women in vulnerable situations to gain economic independence. This included volunteering and clothing drives, along with our Financial Adviser Emily Owens speaking at the FSC25 conference and enable.me Financial Coach Rebecca Starkey running a financial resilience workshop for a group of their clients. Read more about the way we supported the charity’s mission over the year.
enable.me Head Strategic Coach Katie Wesney’s Stuff Articles:
Want to learn how compound growth works? Look at Taylor Swift’s career
“The most powerful force in finance isn’t genius or perfect timing. It’s patience plus consistency.”
Katie examines how Taylor Swift’s career can teach us about compound growth. One of the most important elements to compound growth is time – just like Taylor Swift’s career has grown exponentially over time. From a 16-year-old with a guitar and a Love Story to a 35-year-old worth more than 2 billion dollars living The Life of a Showgirl.
The financial red flags that are costing you more than money
One of the most important economic partnerships you can enter is a long-term romantic relationship. Katie covers some of the potential red flags that may reveal if you and your partner are financially incompatible or worse – that there may be elements of controlling behaviour when it comes to finances. She shares what to look for and some reality checks about what to do next.
The Great Wealth Transfer is coming – and we’re pretending it’s not
Over the next 20 years, Kiwis will inherit more than a trillion dollars of intergenerational wealth. Katie explores the largest wealth transfer in New Zealand’s history – and how we can make sure to begin the conversation within our families, so that we are prepared for when it happens.
Your success is built on everyday habits – not dreams
Summer Reading:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
Though it’s not solely focused on finances, Atomic Habits has wisdom that will help you build your money habits for success. We often share James Clear’s frameworks when we talk about building strong systems that push you to stay on track to succeed when you might otherwise slack off. Reading this book will support you to build the life you want to be living.
Hot Tip: Stack your habits. Pair a new habit with something you already do. If you journal once a week, add checking up on your financial progress to your journal time. If you use a spreadsheet to track your exercise, add a sheet to track your money goals. Work with the systems you naturally gravitate towards and see the benefits grow.
Knowing isn’t doing
You’ve watched the webinars, listened to countless podcast episodes, taken in every TikTok and LinkedIn post promoting financial wisdom. You may have even read Atomic Habits and started to build the systems that serve you best. You’ve taken the time to build your knowledge and invest in your own growth.
Now, turn that time investment into action.
It’s hard to do it on your own – and it can take a lot longer to see that momentum build. Gain accountability and clarity with an expert adviser in your corner. Book a consultation with an enable.me financial coach in the New Year to get strategic with your financial plan. Costs apply.
