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Saving, spending, planning — you've got money questions and we've got answers. Every week host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp challenge the conventional wisdom on life's biggest financial issues to reveal what you really need to know to make smart money moves. In this week's show, the founder of Budgetsaresexy.com tells the tale of how he became a successful financial blogger (and millionaire), and also discusses his latest project, AllStarMoney.com. And Alison provides the ABCs of NFTs.

Adam Cox is joined by Simon Marsh from 108 Harley Street to discuss the effect the pandemic has had on the NHS and their ability to carry out breast screening. They look at the way private clinics relieve some of the pressure the NHS faces, and how the NHS and private clinics may continue to work together in a post-COVID Britain.

Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio, direct from Washington DC, for news, views and analysis of the US stocks that matter. In this week's show: FedEx rises on a strong holiday quarter; Nike stumbles on earnings; Williams-Sonoma surges on strong stay-at-home sales; Laser technology company Coherent rises on competing buyout offers; Five Below ramps up expansion plans; Lennar raises the roof; Disney prepares to reopen Disneyland; And Hershey’s introduces a peanut butter cup without chocolate. Motley Fool analysts Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss those stories and share two stocks on their radar: Teradyne and Titan International. Plus, Motley Fool retirement expert Robert Brokamp talks with Ed Slott, author of The New Retirement Savings Time Bomb: How to Take Financial Control, Avoid Unnecessary Taxes, and Combat the Latest Threats to Your Retirement Savings.

What’s the point in an Isa? This is a regular grumble as savings rates are now so low that earning 1 per cent would be a big deal. But wouldn’t you rather have all of a small amount instead of a small amount minus tax? And if you are investing, an Isa makes a lot of sense – embracing your gains and dividends in a nice tax-free wrapper. On this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost, Lee Boyce and Simon Lambert talk Isas: from the classics, cash and stocks and shares, to the upstarts the lifetime and junior strands. The team discuss why an Isa is worth having, even a cash one when the personal savings allowance exists and rates are rubbish. And Simon gives his quick guide to investing easily in an Isa, with a whistle-stop tour through the ‘why, how and what’ that could help you grow your wealth long-term. The team also discuss whether a lifetime Isa is worth having and whether a junior Isa or a slice of your own is the best place to save for children. And finally, if you’d like to both turn a profit and make your money do some good, what about ethical investing? Is the ESG label (environmental, social and governance) just a marketing ruse and how ethical are these funds? We run through the spectrum of investments that try to be ethical and give some ideas on what might fit the bill.

Political commentator Mike Indian asks what is behind the EU attitude towards the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine while the UK's vaccination programme passes the 25 million mark. He assesses the policing mistakes regarding the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common and looks at Westminster's response to the issue of women's safety. And he looks at the much-delayed Integrated Review on foreign and defence policy, puzzling over its language relating to China and to Europe.

James Cameron-Wilson reviews the documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry, available to stream on Apple TV+ and Judas & The Black Messiah, about Black Panther Fred Hampton, which has received six Oscar nominations for next month's awards. He takes a look at the nomination list finding, for once, a remarkable difference to those films nominated by the British academy BAFTA.

Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, is a little nervous of the idea that Google Nest can use radar to track your sleeping patterns. He is impressed by Microsoft's AR meeting technology and Teamflow's virtual office. For those dreading Zoom meetings, Zoomescaper has the answer. He also highlights Wombo, which amusingly animates still photographs, technology to detect deep fakes, electric charging pads for spongy wooden flooring, a portable wind turbine and a 2000-year-old computer.

One year on from the market lows of March 2020, Russ Mould, Inestment Director of A J Bell, looks at what has done best - and what has done worst - in the 12 months since. In retrospect, he points out, what seemed to be the safest areas when everything was bleakest turned out to be the most dangerous. Explaining why first Asian and then Emerging Markets have done well, he says that, within the UK, the sectors that have performed best have been oil and financials.

Adam creates a hypnosis session to help those with autoimmune disorders. This session is designed to help create more harmony in the body and to help the immune system find the appropriate level of vigilance.

Following the positive feedback that Adam received for his children's hypnosis session inspired by George's Marvellous Medicine Adam creates a children's hypnosis session based on The BFG by Roald Dahl. This sleep hypnosis session takes children on an adventure of being taken by a friendly giant to a cave where dreams are stored. They then choose a positive dream that helps them become more resilient and confident and optimistic and to have a fantastic night's sleep. Great for children and adults that want a great night's sleep.