Sanam Balani · Money Mojo

Your income isn't the problem. Your system is.

Hi, I'm Sanam Balani. After 8 years at Goldman Sachs, I don't just teach you how to invest. I teach the systems and behaviour that make building wealth feel peaceful, for brilliant professionals, schools and fintech teams.

Education and coaching only. No products sold, no money managed.
Sanam Balani, founder of Money Mojo
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Dinero Por Dentro y Por Fuera

Una sesión sobre "mentalidad y mecánica": cómo tus emociones y patrones influyen en tus decisiones de dinero, y las herramientas prácticas que te ayudan a gestionarlo con más calma y claridad en la vida real.

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The opening session of my school curriculum. How your money story forms, why it matters, and the first habits that set young adults up for life.

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Sound familiar?

Smart with everyone's money except your own.

Most of my clients earn well and still feel behind. Not because they're bad with money. Because nobody ever gave them a system.

"I earn six figures. Why does my money still feel chaotic?"

High income, no structure. You avoid opening your accounts because looking at them is stressful, so nothing changes.

"I've researched investing for two years. I still haven't started."

You apply your "don't screw up" work brain to your own money. Every choice feels high-stakes, so you make none. Meanwhile the years pass.

"I want to do something different with my life, but I don't know if I can afford it."

Without a runway calculation and a real buffer, every big life decision feels impossible to evaluate. So you stay put.

The method

One system. Four moves.

No acronyms, no jargon. We plan it, build it, automate it, and review it. Built for people with demanding jobs and zero interest in spreadsheets as a hobby.

01

Plan it

We define your first $100k target, your runway and your cash buffers. We choose account types that fit your compliance rules, then set contribution amounts and automation dates.

02

Build it

We design a simple 3 to 5 fund index portfolio with evidence-based weights, map your accounts and transfers, and decide how bonuses and RSUs fit within policy.

03

Automate it

We open or optimise accounts, switch on auto-debits and auto-investing, and redesign your cashflow to free real monthly investing capacity. Life shouldn't feel restrictive, and it won't.

04

Review it

A 15-minute monthly check on contributions, drift and buffers. A quarterly review to rebalance and update targets. The system adapts as your life does.

Real people, real results

What happens when the system goes live.

Outcomes describe behaviour and structure, never guaranteed investment returns.

Savings rate up from 6.5% to 39.6%

A UK finance professional went from anxious crypto trading to calm, automated long-term investing.

UK
Finance ProfessionalUnited Kingdom
"The most practical, helpful, and jargon-free" guide to start growing wealth

"As a Financial Planner, I'm always skeptical of free investing guides. Until I read Sanam's. If you're new to investing, save yourself hours of social media rabbit holes and start here."

MY
Michael Yuille, CFPCertified Financial Planner
€8,000 rescued from a 1.7% fee insurance product

A mother and business owner in Spain escaped a predatory life insurance policy and built a €500K+ education fund plan for her children.

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Business Owner & MotherSpain
"I've saved myself years of trial and error, lost compound interest, and financial confusion."

"I now have control over my money."

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JoeriDubai
Investing increased by 200%, with a $1M+ strategy

A business owner in the UAE grew revenue 5x while finally building an investment plan and a healthier money mindset.

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Business OwnerUAE
"Sanam reviewed my portfolio and saved me significant fees over my lifetime."

"I'm finally living my unique rich life."

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AiniExpat Director, Singapore
About

Eight years inside global finance. One clear conclusion.

The people managing the world's money are often flying blind with their own. Money Mojo exists to close that gap. With structure, not noise.

Sanam Balani
The story

Hi, I'm Sanam.

You've built a career. An income. But nobody ever showed you how to build wealth. I've spent my working life inside the machinery of global finance, and that gap is exactly why Money Mojo exists.

For 8 years at Goldman Sachs I oversaw the firm's banking partnerships across 16 markets, with more than $20 billion in assets under custody, and in London I helped protect client assets from firm insolvency. What that taught me wasn't a stock tip. It was that trust, due diligence and disciplined systems are what create long-term stability. And that even the people running those systems are often flying blind with their own money.

So that's what I teach. We give your money a purpose, design a simple structure you genuinely understand, and build the system that turns your income into wealth you control. I don't sell products and I don't manage money. My job is to hand you the keys, so you never need me twice.

2013

Microsoft

An early chapter in the UK, learning how great products remove friction, and how much execution beats theory.

2015 to 2023

Goldman Sachs, London & Singapore

Led Bank Relationships in Singapore, managing Goldman's largest partnership with over $20bn in assets under custody across 10 markets. In London, protected client assets from firm insolvency. Due diligence, trust and safety were the core of how I helped grow the franchise.

2021

Antler, Entrepreneur in Residence

Selected for the executive cohort of the global venture builder, pressure-testing startup ideas with social impact.

2024

Money Mojo founded

Since then: designed Japan's first financial coaching programme with Habitto, piloted the Canary Islands' first personal finance curriculum of its kind at Wingate School, and built the Wealth Clarity Accelerator to coach professionals globally.

2026

MiFID II qualification, Barcelona

Completed the MiFID II financial advisory qualification at the Instituto de Estudios Financieros, the standard required of investment advisers in Spain. Money Mojo remains education and coaching: no products sold, no money managed.

How I work

Three principles behind everything.

Systems over willpower

Motivation fades by Tuesday. Automation doesn't. Every plan I build is designed to keep running through your busiest month.

Behaviour before spreadsheets

Money problems are rarely maths problems. We work on the habits, fears and stories underneath first. Then we build the structure.

Education, never sales

I hold no products, take no commissions and manage no money. My only incentive is that your system works without me.

Services

Four ways to work together. One method underneath.

Whether it's you, your team, your students or your users, the goal is the same: replace financial overwhelm with a simple system people can actually run.

01 · For individuals

The Wealth Clarity Accelerator

For time-poor professionals who feel behind despite the income. The over-researchers, the cash-hoarders, the "I'll sort it next quarter" crowd.

Format10 sessions, 1:1
Duration4 to 6 months
OutcomeA global portfolio you manage
  • A financial life plan: your goals with real amounts and dates, not vague intentions.
  • A purpose-based account structure, with your emergency buffer built and automated.
  • A simple global index portfolio you actually understand, implemented and automated.
  • A leakage audit and cashflow redesign that frees investing capacity without your life feeling restricted.
  • Unlimited WhatsApp support between sessions, so you always stay on track.

Education and coaching only. No investment products are sold and no client money is managed.

02 · For companies

Financial Wellbeing Workshops

For HR and people teams who know money stress is quietly draining focus and retention, and want more than a webinar nobody remembers.

FormatLive · in-person or remote
Length90 min to half day
LanguagesEnglish & Spanish
Sanam delivering a financial wellbeing workshop
  • "Design Your Financial Life", my flagship workshop. Abstract finance becomes a personal system each attendee starts building in the room.
  • Behaviour-first content: leakage, automation, decision frameworks. No product pitches, no generic budgeting tips.
  • "Dinero Por Dentro y Por Fuera": the same behaviour-first session, delivered natively in Spanish for teams in Spain and Latin America.
  • Follow-up materials and templates, so the session becomes action rather than a nice memory.
03 · For schools

Money Ready: for University & Life

A structured, evidence-based programme preparing Year 12 and 13 students for the financial realities of university and beyond, aligned with the OECD and EU financial competence frameworks. First delivered at Wingate School, Tenerife (BSO Outstanding), across 60+ sixth-form students.

Format8 facilitated sessions
CohortYear 12 & 13 (ages 16 to 18)
FrameworksOECD PISA · EU · Marco de Competencias
60+sixth-form students across Y12 and Y13
88%would recommend the programme
0students left at baseline confidence
  • Sixth-formers are months away from student loans, first accounts, contracts, rent and a first payslip. Almost none have been taught to navigate them. Money Ready closes that gap inside your existing sixth-form provision.
  • Student outcomes you can evidence: pre and post measurement is built in, so impact is documented, not assumed.
  • A point of differentiation for families: a serious, structured financial-capability offer few schools can currently show parents.
  • Low lift for your team: fully facilitated and resourced, including a parent briefing, a staff CPD element and taster provision at no additional cost.
  • Eight sessions spanning earning and banking, budgeting, saving and inflation, debt and credit, digital scams and consumer protection, investing and insurance, and a personal money-ready plan. Year 13 content is distinctly applied and adult, not a repeat of foundations.

Download the Wingate case study (PDF) → · Watch: financial literacy at schools →

Planning your 2026/27 sixth-form provision? September is the natural point to build financial capability into the year. I work with a small number of schools each academic year.

04 · For fintechs

Advisor Training & Coaching Design

For fintechs whose technology is strong but whose users still don't act. I help you build coaching behaviour into your people and your product, so confidence, engagement and retention follow.

FormatTraining + programme design
Proven atHabitto, Japan
FocusRetention · engagement · ROI
  • Designed Japan's first financial coaching programme and trained Habitto's advisors to deliver it, contributing to a 334% rise in monthly engagement and 318% growth in user interactions.
  • Client-facing teams learn to coach behaviour rather than explain and sell products: moving users from anxiety to first action, which is where retention is won or lost.
  • Coaching frameworks designed into product journeys, so even users who never meet a human get behaviour-first guidance.
  • High-touch and confidential by default: built around your compliance, tone and market.
Case studies

Proof, not promises.

Real engagements across individuals, fintechs and schools. Outcomes describe behaviour and structure, never guaranteed investment returns.

Fintech · Japan 🇯🇵

Record client engagement and ROI with Habitto, digital bank in Japan

Designed Japan's first ever financial coaching programme and trained Habitto's advisors to deliver it.

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Individual · UK 🇬🇧

Boosted savings rate from 6.5% to 39.6%

A finance professional and crypto trader became a peaceful long-term investor.

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Individual · Spain 🇪🇸

Rescued €8,000 from predatory life insurance

A mother and business owner escaped a 1.7% fee policy and built a €500K+ children's education fund plan.

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Individual · UAE 🇦🇪

Business owner 5x revenue and built a $1M+ investment strategy

Increased investing by 200% with an optimised financial plan, while transforming her money mindset.

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Individual · Denmark 🇩🇰

From overwhelmed VC principal to confident wealth builder

Shivani implemented the Spending Reservoir System, leading to a DKK 500K+ investment projection.

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Individual · UK 🇬🇧

From research paralysis to investment action

Catherine, an NHS doctor, went from endless research loops to confident public market investing.

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Individual · Singapore 🇸🇬

From expat financial guilt to confident wealth growth

Aini, an expat director, transformed her finances without giving up the life she loves.

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Individual · Spain 🇪🇸

Worked backwards to build a $100k portfolio plan in 8 years

From overthinking to a clear financial life plan and a growing portfolio.

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Individual · UK 🇪🇺

From money fear to an excited Saturday "Money Day"

A project lead overcame financial shame and turned it into a powerful Wealth OS.

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Individual · UK 🇬🇧

From money overwhelm to automated wealth clarity

From financially "fine for now" to long-term wealth clarity, fully automated.

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Schools · Spain 🇪🇸

Money Ready at Wingate School

88% of students would recommend it, and top-level money confidence grew tenfold. The first programme of its kind piloted in the Canary Islands.

Read about the programme →
Resources

Start before we ever speak.

Everything here follows the same principle: simple systems beat clever theories.

Blueprint

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Video · En español

Dinero Por Dentro y Por Fuera

"Mentalidad y mecánica": cómo tus emociones influyen en tus decisiones de dinero, y las herramientas prácticas para gestionarlo con calma y claridad.

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For students

Money Ready for University and Life: Money & Me

Session 1 of my school curriculum, free. How your money story forms and the first habits that set young adults up for life.

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Free tool

Quit Without Panic: AI Planner

Thinking about leaving your job? Map your runway, buffer and timeline before you hand anything in. Built by me, free to use.

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Free download

Compliance Flowchart: Investing in Index ETFs

Work in finance? The exact step-by-step process to invest in index ETFs within your firm's personal trading policy, from pre-clearance to reporting.

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Tracking · Partner link

Lunch Money

The spending tracker I use myself: Europe-friendly, multi-currency, ad-free, and done in minutes a month. My partner link gets you two months free. Disclosure: I may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.

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1:1 Coaching · Flagship

The Wealth Clarity Accelerator

We plan, build, automate and review your full system together, then hand you the keys. 10 sessions over 4 to 6 months, with unlimited WhatsApp support between sessions.

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Masterclass

LinkedIn Masterclass for Financial Coaches

The masterclass I delivered for the Financial Coach Academy: how to build trust and win clients on LinkedIn as a financial coach, without the cringe.

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For teams

Design Your Financial Life

My flagship workshop, run privately for your team. Live and interactive, in English or Spanish.

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Blog & newsletter

Less noise. More signal.

Short, specific essays on money behaviour, simple systems and the real cost of doing nothing. All of it lives in my newsletter.

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Clients, companies, teachers and students, in their own words.

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