Smart Consumer Episodes Available now
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Coronavirus: Advice for parents coping with the kids being at home now the schools are closing their doors.
Mike Young presents The Smart Consumer Podcast.
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Getting your finances under control in your twenties.
The Smart Consumer Podcast's Mike Young on the financial pressures on twenty-somethings.
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How beauty influencers encourage us to buy and wear more Makeup
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Lydia Thomas and Louisa Adams
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Eating in or dining out....what do you want for breakfast?
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Pete Wilson. Cereals or fry-ups - what wins at breakfast?
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Why don't people see working as a waiter as a career - and why as diners do we dismiss them?
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Pete Wilson. Why is it so hard to keep restaurant staff?
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Overdrafts - the new charges and how to avoid them
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Louisa Adams and Iona Bain from the Young Money Blog.
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What should we eat to stay healthy?
The Smart Consumer podcast with Winifred Robinson
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Should you spend more than 拢1,000 on an electric bike?
The Smart Consumer Podcast with Jon Douglas.
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Mindful drinking for the sober curious - could you give up alcohol?
Smart Consumer with Laura Willoughby of Club Soda and Professor David Nutt
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Failed diets and body shaming - can you combine wellbeing and weight loss?
The Smart Consumer podcast with Frankie Haynes, Shahroo Izadi and Man V Fat.