Money Remixed by Mark Wilkinson and Paul Grant is an exploration of what it takes to establish a wealthy ‘mindset’.

This, the authors believe, can help anyone who wants to improve their financial situation establish the attitudes and frame of mind needed to succeed.

The book details Mark and Paul’s varied life experiences and how they came to the successes in their work lives more generally.

Mark was for many years an internationally successful DJ, while Paul has been a successful businessman in a career spanning continents.

The authors detail 14 key steps needed to establish their ‘wealthy mindset’ which are the lynchpin of the book.

But beyond that it looks at how to approach early years, early career, life beyond a career and how it all fits together, to give readers a comprehensive framework for leading a wealthier life.

To get your hands on a copy of Money remixed straight away, it is available on Amazon.

The book is part of a wider series from Mark, his original book called Life Remixed looks at Paul’s personal experiences and how people can remix their lives.

The authors are planning more books very soon, including Personalities Remixed (Summer 2025) and Business Remixed (Winter 2025).

Money Remixed podcast

Mouthy Money editor Edmund Greaves had the chance to catch up with both Mark and Paul on the podcast.

They explore the mindset behind wealth, breaking down societal stigmas, and the link between health and financial success.

Sharing personal stories, they highlight the power of discipline and self-awareness, and call for a new, empowering narrative around money.

Find out how to listen on our podcast page.

How to win one of five copies of Money Remixed

To win one of five copies of Money Remixed, just enter your name, address and email on our competition form linked below.

Winners will be drawn at the end of May. Good luck!

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Mouthy Money competitions is constantly on the look out for new and interesting personal finance books for our readers to offer as competition prizes.

But we don’t just do book competitions! Keep an eye on the page for other exciting giveaways in future or subscribe to the newsletter to get updated right into your inbox each week.

See the details of current and past Mouthy Money competitions and how to win below.

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Past Mouthy Money competitions

Here are some of the past Mouthy Money competitions. Keep an eye on our page, or subscribe to our newsletter to find out when the latest competitions launch.

WIN one of five copies of How to Retire by Christine Benz

Mouthy Money readers can win one of five copies of How to Retire by Christine Benz, Harriman House, RRP £14.99.

How to Retire by Christine Benz is a book about retirement at its heart.

Retirement is a complicated thing to manage and prepare for. It really pays to think about it well ahead, and have a clear idea in your mind of what you want to achieve.

How to Retire by Christine Benz is the perfect companion to this process. But this is no identikit guide to how to prepare for retirement. Instead, Christine interviews 19 financial experts to gain insights in detail into the steps for preparing to retire.

WIN one of five copies of The Soul of Wealth by Daniel Crosby

Mouthy Money readers can win one of five copies of The Soul of Wealth, 50 Reflections on Money and Meaning by Daniel Crosby, Harriman House, RRP £14.99.

The Soul of Wealth by Daniel Crosby is a thoughtful look at the meaning behind ‘wealth’ and how a normal person can reflect on, and work towards achieving it

This is all done while decoupling the idea of wealth from the pure numerical hoarding of cash and asset.

WIN a copy of of No worries – how to live a stress-free financial life by Jared Dillian

Readers can win one of 10 copies of Jared Dillian’s No Worries – how to live a stress-free financial life by entering the latest Mouthy Money competition below.

Jared Dillian’s No Worries – how to live a stress-free financial life is an eye-opening look at the way we all think about money. From stockbrokers to hospitality workers – we all have one thing in common: we’re worried about our money

WIN a copy of You’re not broke, you’re pre-rich by Emilie Bellet

Mouthy Money readers can win one of three copies of Emilie Bellet’s fantastic financial self-help book, You’re not broke, you’re pre-rich.

You’re not broke, you’re pre-rich is an unpretentious, informative ride across the personal finance landscape.

It provides useful and easy to understand explanations of key themes, process and ideas for understanding money better.

WIN a copy of Loose Change – Tina Learns to Save by Sonia Rach 

Are you looking for a fun and educational book to spark your child’s interest in financial literacy? Look no further than Loose Change – Tina Learns to Save by Sonia Rach.  

We’re excited to offer a chance to win one of five copies of Sonia’s book.   

Loose Change – Tina Learns to Save is a children’s book that combines storytelling with valuable lessons about money management.  

For a chance to win, complete the form here.

WIN a copy of The Everything Token by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

Kaczynski and Kominer’s book take an unapologetically positive spin on NFTs. When it comes to any sort of investing, Mouthy Money thinks its readers should view everything through a critical lens – but if you want to understand how the tech works, this book should do the job.

Read our review here.

The competition is now CLOSED and winners have received their copies. You can buy a copy of the book here.

WIN a copy of Freedom: Earn It, Keep It, Grow It by Robert Gardner

Achieve financial freedom with three money habits – earn it, keep it, and grow it. Use this book as your toolkit to make your money work for you. Whether you’re managing debt, saving for a rainy day, or investing in your future, this proven approach to financial planning makes complex money concepts easy to understand.

For the full interview with the author, click here.

The competition is now CLOSED and winners have received their copies. You can buy a copy of the book here.

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The Soul of Wealth by Daniel Crosby is a thoughtful look at the meaning behind ‘wealth’ and how a normal person can reflect on, and work towards achieving it

This is all done while decoupling the idea of wealth from the pure numerical hoarding of cash and asset.

In his book, Crosby argues that the “shallow pursuit of wealth can strip wealth of its essence.”

However, by engaging in “thoughtful introspection, experimenting with new ways of being and pursuing soulful living, money can serve as the transformative tool it us meant to be,” he believes.

What’s in the book?

The Soul of Wealth is a collection of 50 short essays on what it means to be wealthy and some of the philosophical grounding in our culture that this comes with. It includes sections such as:

• You might be solving the wrong problem
• The Joneses aren’t that happy
• Being rich requires being weird

The essays contain historical and philosophical musings around wealth, including behavioural insights and some practical applications of the ideas.

Crosby writes that the book is designed to help the reader contemplate and implement these ideas.

Who is the author?

Dr Daniel Crosby is an American psychologist and behavioural finance expert with popular previous tomes on money including The Laws of Wealth and The Behavioural Investor.

He considers The Soul of Wealth a companion to these books, thinking more deeply about what it means to be wealthy and how that relates to the accumulation of money.

Aside from writing, Crosby helps organisations understand the intersection of mind and markets. His first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioural Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller.

His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into 12 languages.

His third book, The Behavioural Investor, was Axiom’s best investment book of 2019 and is a comprehensive look at the neurology, physiology and psychology of sound financial decision-making.

When he’s not decoding market psychology, Daniel is a husband and father of three, a fanatical follower of the St. Louis Cardinals, an explorer of the American South, and an amateur hot sauce chef.

How can I win a free copy?

To win one of FIVE copies of The Soul of Wealth, follow the link below and enter your name, email and home address.

Mouthy Money will draw the winners at the end of November 2024 who will be contacted and sent their free copies.

This competition now is closed

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Readers can win one of 10 copies of Jared Dillian’s No Worries – how to live a stress-free financial life by entering the latest Mouthy Money competition below.

Jared Dillian’s No Worries – how to live a stress-free financial life is an eye-opening look at the way we all think about money. From stockbrokers to hospitality workers – we all have one thing in common: we’re worried about our money.

Dillian isolates the real causes of financial worry – debt and risk – and takes a systematic approach to how to manage these worries.

From developing the right attitude, to balancing your relationship with money and managing stress around money, Dillian offers expert insights into how to have a healthier relationship with our finances.

In his book Jared reveals:

•  how the right kind of abundance mindset works wonders
• how to purge the urge to splurge (without making life a drag)
•  the most effective ways to use credit cards that no one tells you about
•  the smart ways to buy big-ticket items, from houses to cars
•  what’s gone wrong with student loans and how to use them sensibly
•  how to ace investing with the set-and-forget ‘awesome portfolio’

For readers it is however worth keeping in mind that some of the examples and other information in the book may be USA-specific. However, the broader spirit of the book just as well for UK-based readers.

About the author

Jared Dillian is a writer and entrepreneur who has written several books about money, including an excoriating 2011 account of Lehman Brothers during the Great Financial Crisis.

He is based in South Carolina having previously lived for many years in New York, the financial centre of North America.

Dillian has a range of other resources available including newsletter and personal financial courses to help people overcome their money problems.

How to win a copy

Mouthy Money readers can win one of 10 copies of Jared Dillian’s No Worries – how to live a stress-free financial life by clicking the sign up link below and adding their details.

We’ll draw the winners at the beginning of July and get in touch via email to let you know you’ve won.

This competition is now closed.

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Are you looking for a fun and potentially profitable hobby? If your options for side hustles are limited, maybe entering competitions, or comping, is a good option.

It is something you can do from home and all you need is a smartphone or computer. Here’s a beginner’s guide to start comping.

There are many serious compers who win big prizes on a regular basis. In fact, an old colleague of mine, Martin Saiz, was winning a holiday almost every year at the height of his comping efforts.

His last big win was 10 nights in the Philippines, which he gave to his daughter for her honeymoon. He has also had trips to Moscow, Italy, Switzerland, France, Ireland and in the UK. One particularly exciting win was a €9000 weekend on a giant yacht in Ibiza, where his name was picked out live on Facebook.

Di Coke, also known as Super Lucky Di, says that she has won an average of £12,000 a year in prizes since she took up comping in 1997.

Put in regular effort

If you want to be successful as a comper you need to put in regular effort, rather than just entering the occasional competition you come across. Set yourself a specific amount of time to enter competitions.

Martin spends around 60-90 minutes each evening after work, but you could allot your morning bus or train ride to start comping, use your lunch break, or get up half an hour early and to enter whilst you drink your morning coffee. 

If you systematically enter as many competitions as you can as often as possible, you are much more likely to win regular prizes than someone who just goes in for the odd comp.

Before you begin, Di suggests that you set up a special email address, as entering competitions definitely means more spam. Don’t forget to check your inbox daily in case you have won, including your junk mail box. 

How to find competitions

Fortunately, these days it is easy to find competitions. There are reputable comping sites that have hundreds of opportunities every day, as well as competition forums where members share competitions and draws they have come across.

Here are some of the best places:

• Loquax 
• Super Lucky Di
• MSE competitions forum 
• Latest Deals UK competitions
• HotdealsUK competitions

Social media platforms can be a good source of competitions, especially Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Search for the hashtags #win #competition #competitiontime, etc.  Radio shows and their websites also feature regular competitions, such as Heart, as do magazines like Marie Claire and Prima.

Super Lucky Di has a great list of places to find competitions here.

Beware of scams and read the Ts&Cs

Super Lucky Di says that it is best to stick to competitions run by brands that you trust. She says to beware of competitions or draws that require you to hand over too much personal information. Some unscrupulous sites will sell this on and you are likely to be bombarded with spam emails and phone calls. 

The Money Saving Expert forum has a thread where scam competitions are posted. They warn against competitions that say you are a winner but demand money for admin fees, etc.

If you win a genuine competition you will never be asked to pay to get your prize.

Make the best use of your time

It is easy to get swept up when you start comping, meaning that you enter everything in sight. However, to make best use of your time, it makes sense to only enter competitions with prizes you actually want to win. It is pointless taking the time and effort to win something you will have no use for.

Having said that, Martin tells me he used to enter everything, and once won a breast pump! (His kids were grown up at this point…)

Read the rules and follow the instructions, including the terms and conditions, and any time limits on the prize. It would be disappointing to win tickets to an event for a day you aren’t available.

Martin also suggests using autofill whenever you can, as it is a real time saver.

Find low entry competitions

Martin recommends entering competitions with tie-breakers, such as completing a sentence, writing a rhyme or a slogan, as you are statistically more likely to win.

People assume they won’t come up with anything funny or clever enough so don’t bother and entry numbers are lower. He advises that you keep tie-breakers short and to the point, as the judges will need to read through many entries and you want yours to stand out. 

The odds of winning any competition where extra effort is required are better than easy entry comps and draws. Many people can’t be bothered.

Increasingly, competitions run on social media channels request that you submit a photo along with your entry, and the odds can be better on those.

Competitions that are run locally, in newspapers, shopping centres, on local radio and in newsletters can give you good odds of winning, since there will be fewer entries than for national comps.

However, sometimes the same competition is run across all of the newspapers and radio stations within a group, so your chances won’t be as high.

Consider purchase-necessary comps

Di Coke recommends that you consider purchase-necessary competitions as well as free-to-enter ones. She says, “Over 25 years I’ve won thousands of pounds of prizes in purchase comps, including a car and several holidays – the biggest being my 2021 win of £15,000 plus £10,000 of shares in Brewdog! 

“In 2022 my biggest purchase necessary wins included an LG tech bundle worth over £2,500, a £500 Easyjet voucher with Walkers – £1,000 from a Lu biscuits standard rate text entry prize draw at the Co-op, and a £100 voucher with Glade Candles at Wilko.”

Di recommends that you take a photo of your receipt alongside the product in case you lose it. You may need it to validate your win.

Text competitions with an entry fee often have a low number of entries, so if you really want the prize it is worth entering.

Stay motivated

Obviously the biggest way to keep motivated with your comping hobby is to win regularly! If you keep a list of the prizes you have received you can see if your efforts have been worthwhile.

It’s also fun to join comping groups and forums for hints and tips, to make friends and to see what others have won. Di Coke’s Facebook group is Lucky Learners.

Are you start comping this year? Or have you already had some good wins?

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A while ago I wrote an article outlining four ways to earn money fast. I focused on the quick wins to bring in some extra cash when you need it. 

In this post I am going to look at potential side hustles that you may never have even heard of, let alone considered.

Some of them could even become your main source of income. Here are some unusual side hustles to earn extra money.

Work as an extra

Fancy rubbing shoulders with some TV and movie stars by working as an extra? You don’t need any acting experience and you could earn £80-£120 a day.

However, although some people do make a living as an extra, the work can be sporadic. You need to be flexible and prepared to work long days with periods of standing around doing nothing.

Although you will see them from a distance, in reality you are unlikely to get the opportunity to actually hobnob with the stars.

This post from Slinky Productions explains the ins and outs of this way to earn extra money.

Sell your services on Fiverr

Fiverr is the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance services, giving a platform for people to buy and sell skills. From graphic design to writing, SEO improvement to video creation, if you have some creative skill and talent you may be able to pick up what Fiverr describes as ‘gigs’.

Although the company is called Fiverr, in actual fact you can charge up to $995 for your services. You can find more information about how to get started on Fiverr in this post on my blog, Shoestring Cottage.

Collect and sell scrap metal

John posted on my Facebook group about his occasional side hustle selling scrap metal. He said, “Every couple of years or so, I take a trip to the scrap yard … I had a pile of brass from taps and sink holes, copper pipe and stripped wire and a few bags of electrical cables and flexes from old toasters etc…It’s a slow burn obviously, but I received £266 this time.”

If you like to see commodities like metal reused and recycled rather than dumped, you could even look out for suitable items in skips. It is good etiquette to always ask the landowner’s permission before taking anything, however.

Become a YouTuber

It took me several years to pluck up the courage to start my YouTube channel, but it took off in a modest way fairly quickly and is now monetised. 

If you have something to say, a story to tell or skills to share, it is easy to make a YouTube channel. You don’t need any fancy equipment; I film on my iPhone or my laptop and use a free version of iMovie to edit. 

You can learn pretty much anything on YouTube, including how to acquire the knowledge you need to become a YouTuber!

It is fun, although you will need to put in a bit of effort in order to gain an audience. Posting videos regularly is important. You need to build up to 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours over a 12 month period before you can apply for monetisation via the YouTube Partner Programme.

Enter competitions

There are competition fanatics – aka ‘compers’ – who earn serious cash and prizes doing what, to most of us, would be an occasional hobby. 

In fact, my old work colleague Martin spends around an hour a day most days entering all the competitions he can find. He hasn’t had to pay for a holiday for years, and wins prizes pretty much every week.

He recommends signing up for Loquax, Super Lucky Me and the competitions thread on the Money Saving Expert forum, as well as looking out for those in newspapers and magazines. 

Martin says that it is worth creating an email account specifically for competition entries, as entering them tends to generate a lot of spam. However, don’t forget to check daily to see if you have won.

Martin always enters competitions with a tie breaker, as he says people assume someone will come up with something cleverer and wittier than they can. This reduces the number of entrants so there is more chance of you winning.

Get featured in the press

Getting featured in the press is definitely going to be an occasional side hustle rather than a reliable regular source of income.

However, if you have a good story to tell, journalists are always looking out for human interest articles, and will usually pay. (If they don’t initially offer to pay you, always ask; they usually have a budget but aim to hold onto if they can!).

One way to get featured in the media is to join Facebook groups such as Feature Me. This particular site is run by several freelance journalists who put out regular requests for participants for certain stories they are researching and writing. 

You can also sell your story to The Story People, who provide features for magazines such as Take a Break and That’s Life.

As you can see, once you start to look out of the box there are many unusual side hustles and activities that can earn extra money to help your finances as we head towards Christmas. Which have you tried?

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