As an independent financial spokesperson, Jasmine Birtles has helped promote the financial services of companies including Air Miles, Carphone Warehouse, Cornhill Insurance, the Foreign Office, Gumtree, Lloyds TSB, Love Food Hate Waste, Olay, the Post Office, Railcard, and the Royal Bank of Scotland, as well as for a number of price comparison sites. She also co-presented an in-house business programme for HSBC.
She works alongside a number of charities, including Community Money Advice – for whom she is patron, helping the most poor and vulnerable community members from those who prey on the financially desperate. She is also an ambassador for the annual National Empathy Week, which aims to help school children become more empathetic.
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Jasmine Birtles – EntrepreneurÂ
In 2007, Jasmine set up MoneyMagpie.com, a lifestyle-based website providing information on personal finance, environmental and ethical living, how to run a small business, and how to make extra money. It is the leading UK website for safe and legitimate money-making opportunities.
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Jasmine Birtles – Corporate Work
Jasmine has also been involved in PR campaigns for Ask Jeeves, Boots, British Gas, IKEA, Kelkoo, Ofgem, Nectar Savvy Shopper, Npower, Santander, and Scottish Friendly. She has also worked on pension scheme corporate films for ITV and Tesco, as well as fronting a campaign on pension reform for the Department of Work and Pensions.
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Jasmine Birtles – Speaking and Hosting
As a keynote and after-dinner speaker, facilitator, host, and corporate presenter, Jasmine has spoken at and hosted conferences for a wide variety of companies, including Abbey National, Aegon, Barclays Stockbrokers, Blackrock, BT, EDF Energy, Ernst and Young, Everywoman, IBM, the Money Advice Service, Moneyfacts, NBC, O2, the Portuguese Government, pfed (now Young Enterprise), and Sainsburys.
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Jasmine Birtles – Speaking Topics
- Personal Finance Management
- Setting Up and Running a Small Business
- Investing
- Women in Business
- Insider Secrets
- How Companies Can Help Vulnerable Customers
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Jasmin Birtles – Keynote Talks
Jasmine’s keynote speeches can be tailored to suit individual audiences and the client’s aims:
FinTech
Robo-advisors, peer-to-peer, cryptocurrencies, and more, Jasmine talks about the pros and cons of different forms of FinTech from the point of view of the consumer. She covers areas such as banking apps, blockchain-based technologies, robot-investing, AI, and VR, as well as blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
She particularly focusses on what cryptocurrencies are, how they work, how to invest in them, and what their future looks like. She also talks about what the blockchain is, what its uses are, and how it can transform the way we do business.
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Insider Secrets
Jasmine set up MoneyMagpie in 2007, and has since had over 150,000 readers and users. She tells you everything you need to know about being a successful entrepreneur, including the 10 mistakes new entrepreneurs tend to make.
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How To Be Rich Without Really Trying
This talks can last anywhere between one and three hours, and covers everything from clever day-to-day spending, how to save money when you don’t have any, how to invest, and how to understand your pensions.
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The Financial Apocalypse and Your Money
Jasmine runs The Tin Hat Money Podcast which specialises in facing the financial future which, currently, looks worrying. She looks at a variety of financial worries, including:
- Just how much are our countries in debt?
- Which currency will crash first?
- Will Bitcoin save us or will we be forced into Central Bank Digital Currencies?
- What does this mean for governments, businesses, and individuals?
- How do we stave off an almighty, worldwide crash?
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The  Economic Landscape and How Consumers Are Managing…or Not Managing
Jasmine is regularly asked by individuals, associations, companies, charities, and governments to give an overview on how the economy is faring and how the consumer is feeling. She gives an informative talk, including videos and case studies, that paint a clear and colour picture of the economy and how individuals are coping on a day-to-day basis.
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Jasmine Birtles – Business Finance
Jasmine has recently spoken at the launch of the Financial Capability Campaign for the Money Advice Service, at the Business South annual conference, and for the Gibraltar Business Association on cryptocurrencies.
Jasmine Birtles Workshops
As well as providing keynote talks, Jasmine uses her experience to teach others on the secrets of a successful career, through a number of workshops.
- How To Be Rich Without Really Trying
- How To Be Your Own Brand
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Jasmine Birtles – Writing
As a financial journalist, Jasmine regularly writes for The Daily Express, Closer, Readers Digest, The Independent, and The Independent on Sunday. She also writes on an infrequent basis for newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Mirror, The Observer, Spectator Business, AOL Money, Best, Marie Claire, Prima, and Glamour.
She is also a corporate author, writing for Sainsburys Bank, Tesco Bank, SunLife, Funding Circle, and Visit England, and is on the expert panel for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, and a columnist for Family Traveller. Â
Jasmine has also written almost 40 financial and comedy books, including:
– The Money Magpie (2009)
– A Woman’s Little Instruction Book (1995)
– A Girl’s Best Friend is Her Money (2002)
– The Little Book of Excuses (2001)
– A Little Book of More Abuse (2002)
– A Parent’s Little Instruction Book (1996)
– Beat the Banks (2010)
– A Bit on the Side: 500 Ways to Boost Your Income (2005)
– Money Book: Control Your Money, control Your Life (2006)
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Jasmine Birtles – Media
Jasmine is a familiar face on television and voice on the radio, providing a range of financial advice. On TV, she has presented programmes such as BBC1’s Homes Under the Hammer (2004-05), Grampian TV’s Spend, Spend, Spend, and UKTV Style’s First Time Buyers, and Doctor Dosh.
She has also worked with BBC Learning to provide financial advice for BBC RAW Money, and can be seen providing financial advice on Good Morning Britain (2018-20), The Insider (2007), This Morning (2008-19), and The Wright Stuff (2007-19).
She has appeared on the radio as a financial advisor on Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Radio 2, as well as for BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 4, and BBC local radio.
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Jasmine’s mixture of humour, honesty and specialist knowledge makes her a highly sought-after and popular speaker, and one that will leave a lasting impression on your audience, no matter its size or industry.
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To check fees and availability for financial expert Jasmine Birtles, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289