{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Money & Us ","title":"What Grief Taught A CEO About Wealth with Stewart McCulloch","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4368,"description":"There's a photograph Stewart McCulloch still remembers clearly. A red cheeked man in an expensive suit, a false smile, eyes that gave everything away. The world called him a success. He knew he wasn't.\nIn this episode of the Money and Us podcast, Anna talks to Stewart, CEO of Christians Against Poverty, about the years that took him from a childhood of real poverty in Coventry to a million pound bonus as a City CEO, and the grief that eventually pulled the whole thing apart. Stewart talks with real honesty about losing his first wife suddenly, and the lonely, disorientating months that followed when the map he'd built his entire life around no longer made any sense. He describes what he calls a death and a rebirth, the strange comfort of a presence he couldn't explain, and the moment he arranged his own baptism as an adult because something in him needed to mark the end of who he used to be.\nThat grief eventually led Stewart somewhere he never expected, from an insurance boardroom to microfinance work with mothers in Ghana, and now to leading one of the UK's most trusted debt charities. He speaks candidly about the scale of financial hardship in this country today, how little it has to do with how much someone earns, and why so many people suffer through it completely alone.\nThis episode is for anyone who has ever questioned what they're really working towards, and for anyone who has learned, the hard way, that wealth and meaning are not always the same thing.\nKey Moments:\nThe childhood shame of growing up without enough\nClimbing to CEO and the million pound bonus that changed nothing\nThe moment outside the Gherkin he couldn't ignore\nLosing his first wife and the years of grief that followed\nHis own adult baptism and what it symbolised\nThe move into charity work and helping mothers in Ghana\nThe reality of debt and financial stress across the UK today\nChapters:\n00:00 Introduction\n01:35 What Christians Against Poverty Actually Does\n03:36 Fact or Fiction: Half of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_nYJHjZFMY2QGyhf7OgkCQTJFIlsuMOUmkJsA96CLEk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZGJm/ZDcyZjc5YjlmY2Y1/YjJkZjIyMDJlOTg5/YWFmMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}