Melissa Browne

Melissa Browne's Biography

Melissa Browne (Mel) is an ex-accountant, ex-financial advisor & global best-selling author who has helped thousands of people increase their wealth, reduce their financial overwhelm and understand why they behave the way they do with their finances.

But she also has the life experience. At the age of 33 Mel made a huge financial (and emotional) mistake when she donated her entire divorce proceed & every cent in her personal and business bank account to charity as the result of a throw line by her ex-husband. Fast forward to her forties and she became financially independent and had the choice to work or not.

Her aim is to help you move from where you are now, to a place you don’t even believe possible. To become financially empowered and financially well – with your finances and your business (if you have one). To have courageous conversations – whether that’s about finances, money or one of the money other things we’re avoiding in life.

Mel is also the author of four books, the illustrated business book More Money for Shoes, the coffee table book of financial fairy tales, Fabulous but Broke, global best-seller Unf*ck Your Finances and her latest book Budgets Don’t Work (but this does) which dives further into understanding your Money Story, Money Environment and Money Type. And has been featured, written or spoken for everyone from morning TV shows to Triple J to Vogue to CEO Magazine and more.

To enquire about Mel contact Helene Greenham directly: helene@platinumspeakers.com.au

Speaking Topics Include

Are you really practising self-care if you’re not including your finances?

What your team will learn:

• How to create a financial self care routine
• What do you believe? Identifying your money story
• How to clean up your money environment
• Eliminating the trap of bad debt
• Understanding the power of compounding returns
• Marathons & Sprints

Leaving money out of your self-care routine is like trying to meditate in a room full of mosquitos. If the noise of the mosquitos droning doesn’t push you out of your deep state, the itchiness of the bites soon will.

Mel will teach you how to bring awareness to your finances through busting myths and giving you practical ways to remove your financial overwhelm and move you forward.

Learn with ex-financial advisor, ex-accountant, global best-selling author & now financially independent in her own right (after coming back from less than nothing in her 30s), Melissa Browne

Budgets don’t Work (but this does)

Learn how to create financial habits that are right for you

What your team will learn:

• Identifying financial mistakes you’re unconsciously making
• Finance is personal: why the one size fits all approach doesn’t work
• Financial myths & beliefs busted
• Nurture: Understanding your money story
• Nature: Understanding your money type
• Habits: The money habits that are right for you
• Marathons & Sprints

When it comes to other areas of your life, such as food and exercise, you've no doubt embraced a multi-faceted, often highly personalised approach and you recognise that's important. Why should it be any different when it comes to your finances?

Once you realise that the one-size-fits-all approach to finances you've been trying to adopt doesn't work for most people, it can be liberating. Finally there's a rational explanation for why you've struggled with money-why you're perpetually sabotaging, why you're constantly at loggerheads with your partner or why you just can't seem to be consistent.

In this practical workshop, Mel will explain the research behind why budgets don’t work and suggest an alternative, bespoke approach that you can adopt to ensure your finances work for you.

You’ll walk away with practical tips as well as a-ha moments that will, she hopes, start to transform your finances.

Financial Myths Busted: 3 Truths about Creating Personal Wealth

A practical workshop designed to challenge your thinking about money and give you some new tools and options you potentially haven’t considered before.

What your team will learn:

• Why we believe myths and untruths about money and two of the most unhelpful ones
• Why the one size fits all financial model is broken
• Why being safe isn’t always safe
• How small amounts invested often can lead to a big impact
• How paying all your debts before you start investing isn’t always smart

• ‘How much do I need in assets or super’ when I retire is the wrong question and what you

should be asking instead.

Hands up if you took a money class at school? Is it any wonder therefore that so many of us believe myths and misconceptions when it comes to money. In this super practical workshop or keynote, Mel looks at three surprising truths about creating personal wealth and provides hope and empowerment that there might be a better way.

Financial goal setting & how to have your best year yet (even if life doesn’t go quite according to plan)

Learn how to set & implement financial goals you’re excited to work towards

What your team will learn:

• Why you can’t stick to your financial new year resolutions
• The neuroscience behind goal setting
• Activating your brain
• Marathon goals
• Your best year yet
• Sprint goals

Chances are, this year you wanted to be doing more with your finances. The problem is, with rising interest rates and cost of living you’ve lost momentum, there never seems to be enough time and if you’re honest, you’re just not that interested.

In this financial goals session, Mel will share the tools & techniques she uses with herself and her clients (and now community) to create actionable, financial goals you’re excited to work towards.

Learn with ex-financial advisor, ex-accountant, global best-selling author & now financially independent in her own right (after coming back from less than nothing in her 30s), Melissa Browne

Financially Stressed to Financially Resilient to Financially Well

Are you financially flailing? How to recover financially when live happens.

What your team will learn:

• Why we’re so financially stressed
• Stressors & Sabotaging
• What does financial resilience look like
• The Financial resilience toolkit
• Moving from financial resilience to the ultimate goal: financial wellness
• How to have financial choice

Life happening could be a big event like a separation, divorce, unexpected illness, loss, trauma or other OR it could simply be the shock of cost of living and interest rate rises happening. I share my own big event and provide hope and practical ways to move from flailing to functioning to flourishing.

Mel will teach you how to move from being financially stressed to financial resilience and ultimately financial wellness and give you practical tools you can start using today.

Learn with ex-financial advisor, ex-accountant, global best-selling author & now financially independent in her own right (after coming back from less than nothing in her 30s), Melissa Browne.

Understanding your Numbers (Double your Business)

Yes, you’re great at what you do, but are you great at business.

What your team will learn:

• The 10 numbers you need to know before you even think about sales
• The pricing of psychology
• The Double your Business Roadmap
• Why sales are vanity, profit is sanity and cash is your reality
• The power of small changes
• How to double your business in 12 months without doubling your prices

Most business owners don’t start a business to get good at BAS or to geek out on numbers.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve been in business for a week or 20 years. Or if you’re product based or serviced based. Or B2B or B2C. If you’re ready to grow a business and grow it profitably, Mel has real, practical advice that will demystify the numbers side of your business, so it finally makes sense.

AND help you understand the activity you should be concentrating on to get the results you want.

But more than that, she’ll show you how small, strategic changes using her Double My Business Roadmap of less than 5% doing the right activity can increase your profitability to double your business in just 12 months.