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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, Bill Mann joins the show to explain the nuts and bolts of SPACs as we take Euphonium Industries public.

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: Do you have stocks that need to be cleaned out of your portfolio? What about trimming the gains of your high-fliers? Does any stock in your portfolio spark joy in a way that would make Marie Kondo proud? Analysts Jason Moser and Ron Gross reveal why Disney, Editas, Etsy, Five Below, GameStop, Stitch Fix, TripAdvisor, and Wayfair are part of our springtime special before sharing actual cleaning tips. Plus, best-selling author and personal finance expert Jean Chatzky shares takeaways from her latest book, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve.

Financial scams are on the rise. The coronavirus lockdowns have seen a fresh burst of investment cons with fraudsters impersonating legitimate companies to steal tens of thousands of pounds. Unwitting savers are being lured into fake savings and investments, such as fixed term bonds or share schemes, and transferring large sums to fall victim to clone fraud. What’s behind this burst of crime and how can people protect themselves? On this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert discuss the rising tide of fraud, how to stay safe and what more can be done to combat it. Also, on the show, the pair look into the cases of the mortgage prisoners, trapped paying high rates ever since the financial crisis while others have seen their monthly payments slashed. The Deliveroo float is also on the agenda – why did the shares slump as it hit the stock market? And finally, campervans are in hot demand, making this a good time for VW to be launching its new mini Caddy California: with sleeping space for two and an optional tent that turns into a home on wheels for all the family. Would you want one?

Steve Caplin looks at Volkswagen's bizarre April Fool's joke, how Uber users can now request electric, how wine tastes after a trip in space, the world's first lab-grown caviar being made in Devon, the robot self-portrait selling for $688,000, an antenna powered by 5G signals, an app mapping the world's radio stations, a gadget for sharpening disposable razor blades and what can be discerned by eye tracking.

James Cameron-Wilson on the encouraging signs of an appetite for cinema in the USA where people have been flocking to big-screen viewings of Tenet. He reviews The Mauritanian, a true story directed by Kevin Macdonald which did not pick up any Oscar nominations, Minari, an American-set film in the Korean language which got 6 nods and Sky's documentary Tina on Tina Turner.

Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the question of vaccine passports and asks whether we should be prepared to show documentary proof of a jab to be allowed to go to the pub. He wonders if Alex Salmond setting up the Alba party will boost Scottish nationalism or divide it. He discusses the recent Race and Ethnic Disparities Report. And he ponders the naivety of David Cameron, caught up in the type of lobbying effort he once decried.

Tim Price, director of Price Value Partners, looks at why benchmarking to stock market indices is a bad idea and why investors should think more about the preservation of capital than chasing the latest market fads. Tim discusses the surge of interest in cryptocurrencies, why gold is less rampant and why value investors, of which he is one, need considerable patience. Citing the ignominious debut of Deliveroo amongst other things, Tim senses the market may be on the point of a big change of sentiment.

This month, the WealthiHer Network is proud to partner with the UN Girl Up Foundation, to talk about how women and girls have been most impacted by Covid-19 and what can be done to redress the balance. Joining Tamara Gillan is Hallie Hudson, Director of Development, Girl Up and Bethel Kyeza, Co-president Girl Up London to discuss how girls around the world are overcoming inequality and how Girl Up are helping them to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Fidel Beauhill, The Modern Man Coach and author of “Divorce: The Modern Man's Guide”, joins Adam Cox to discuss how his experience of divorce made him want to help other men in the same situation. He shares why he thinks men need to re-evaluate their preconceptions about masculinity, and how they can use that to improve their relationships with the women in their lives.

Adam works with a podcast host and aspiring business owner. Adam elicits that there is a conflict between the motivation to set up the business (financial freedom) and what he wants it to do for him - (give security). Adam creates a hypnosis session that is designed to create a feeling of security from within. This session also went out live on Clubhouse and was one of the first hypnosis sessions ever to happen on Clubhouse.