Megan Boxall

About

In late 2023, while on a run, I was listening to a BBC radio show where the host suggested that the UK needed a Martin Lewis for investment. “I’m here”, I shouted at my phone. I am a financial journalist with a passionate desire to help British people do more with their money. Professionally, that has been my quest for most of my career. But my professional goals have been disrupted in the last few years by increasingly pervasive bouts of depression, culminating in a suicide attempt in 2024 and a spell in critical psychiatric care. It was in January 2025, again while on a run, that I first saw glimpses of the way forward. I would aim to run around the island of Great Britain, getting the miles in my legs which help to ease the pain in my brain and simultaneously raising awareness of the wonderful entrepreneurial spirit which litters Britain’s coastline.