Melissa Browne

So it is about understanding the weaknesses when they present themselves.

Going, oh, hi.

Right.

What are we going to do with you?

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

So the last couple of chapters are about stresses and sabotage but also addictions and compulsions.

And it was really important for me to write those two chapters because what I know is that stress and sabotage, which is a different, different than addictions and compulsions, can undo all of the good work that you've done with your finances.

So it was really important for me to recognise that and to say, right, let's put a plan in place for this.

Let's look at when those inflection points happen and let's put a plan in place for it.

But I also wanted to acknowledge addictions and compulsions because I'm talking in the book about money stories and money environments and how we innately behave.

And I didn't want someone reading the book to put down an addictive behaviour as how they innately behaved or the money story they were given and to kind of think that that's what I was talking about when I absolutely am not.

So

Like you, Owen, I've got a family history of addictions and compulsions.

We've got everything in my family history from drug addiction and alcohol addiction as well as eating and working and, you know, you can almost name it and we have it.

It's fantastic.

So I know personally that those compulsions are something that I need to manage in my life.

Particularly someone, I know when we first started talking, I mentioned that I had childhood traumas.

And what I do suffer from, and I've been clinically diagnosed, so I don't say it glibly, is PTSD from it.

And I know how that affects my finances.