Melissa Browne

Mel is an award-winning ex-accountant, ex-financial advisor and now financial educator who is licensed to give general advice. She founded her own successful accounting and financial planning firm before selling to an ASX-listed company just before COVID. Over the past 13 years, Mel has also written five books on business and money, including the global bestseller Unf*ck Your Finances and her latest, Dare to Be Wealthy. Mel grew up in Western Sydney in a violent, often inconsistent household and came back from less than nothing in her early thirties, after giving all her money to charity (a move she instantly regretted). Despite these starts, setbacks, and mistakes, she is now a multi-millionaire, gaining financial independence from the strategies she put in place for herself. Mel genuinely believes that understanding how to build wealth shouldn’t be abdicated or for the select few who can afford it – but is something everyone can achieve.