Prosperity Podcast with Nicole Bremner
The Prosperity Podcast is for ambitious individuals—entrepreneurs and professionals—who want to take control of their finances and create a life of freedom, security and meaning. It’s for those who believe that wealth is about more than just money, it’s about having the freedom to choose how you live, work and give.
Whether you’re just getting started or you’re looking to rebalance your approach, this podcast is your guide to building long term, sustainable wealth. We talk about investing wisely, creating multiple income streams and designing a portfolio that reflects your values and your goals.
Prosperity Podcast features honest conversations about money—how to grow it, how to keep it and how to enjoy it.
Nicole Bremner is an investor, certified financial coach, author and mum of three. Having had a successful career in investment banking, like many women who take a ‘career break’ to have children, she found herself at a crossroads, not entirely sure what path to take next.
Combining her financial knowledge with her passion for good architecture and design, Nicole was able to build on her experience and expertise to develop a new career, which fit around her children and spent the next decade building a multi million property portfolio in London.
Newly relaunched as Prosperity Podcast, Nicole interviews some of the interesting people she has met while navigating her (sometimes turbulent) voyage through professional and family life. From charity founders and travelling investors to authors and young entrepreneurs, these are the real tales of real people finding their way in business. Join Nicole as she listens to their stories and the lessons they have learned along the way.
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Prosperity Podcast with Nicole Bremner
Bricked It: The Road From Where You Are Chapter Two #182
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The honest other half of the story: a £120m portfolio, a partner I should never have trusted, the phone call that exposed it all — and the five mistakes that cost me everything before I built the SAFER system.
This is the chapter where I tell you what actually happened.
My story is a tragedy in two halves. The first — the meteoric rise — is my first book, Bricking It. By 2017 I had a share in a property portfolio of 110 properties across 10 projects, worth around £120 million. From the outside, life looked perfect: the home, the health retreats, the booked-solid speaking diary. Below the surface, my marriage was crumbling and I'd become someone I didn't recognise.
Then it unravelled. I'd handed control to a business partner I trusted completely. In September 2018 a fellow investor called me about some transactions that didn't add up, and standing in my perfect kitchen I began reconciling payments that revealed a systematic, long-running fraud. What followed was years of David-and-Goliath battles — debt collectors, bailiffs turning up during the school run, and the slow, public undoing of everything I'd built.
I won't pretend it was anything but a very dark place. But I'm still standing, and this chapter is me handing you the lessons so you never have to learn them the way I did.
In this episode:
- The two halves of my story, and why the title of my first book makes me cringe now
- What £120 million really meant — and the press misquote I want to correct
- Trusting the wrong partner, and the phone call that exposed a fraud
- The five mistakes that cost me everything: giving up control, over-investing in one asset, mistaking luck for skill, having no systems, and failing to bring stakeholders with me
- Why "being on the right side of the law" didn't protect me — and how the SAFER system was born from the wreckage
A note on the voice: what you're hearing is an AI-generated version of my voice reading my own words. It's me — just not in the room. I'd rather be upfront about that than pretend otherwise. Every word, every lesson, and every mistake is mine.
If this one lands close to home, I want to hear from you. Find me on Substack at nicolebremner.substack.com, where paid subscribers get early access, extended commentary, and the chance to ask me anything.
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Next week: Chapter 3 — Forewarned Is Forearmed.
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