Melissa Browne

Absolutely.

And I would never have said, and I know not everyone has been through trauma, but I would never have said that the trauma that I suffered in my teenage years would have

affected me financially as an adult.

But what I absolutely know through the research that I've done is that it does.

And many of us are caught in these stories.

For me particularly, it was a victim mentality around where I just didn't believe that I was enough, which is why I hustled for my worthiness, which is why I kept trying to prove

these things.

And it was exhausting.

Whereas now I can still choose to do all those things if I want to, but I know it's a conscious choice rather than being driven by this thing that I haven't actually faced.

And what I know for where I've talked to so many people about their money stories and about what they believe.

And often it's not a surprise when they look at it,

when they acknowledge what their money story is and how they act now, they've just never been taught to recognise it or they don't realise that they can actually choose to rewrite it.

It's the politically correct way.

Yeah, so on a few finances, let's use a politically correct use of it, was very much, so I created that book initially for a business chicks expo.

And what it was supposed to do is kind of wake people up a little bit to say, hey, there is a different approach that you can take to your finances.

There is a different way of thinking about finances.

And this book, it's kind of the next book

once you've read that to say all right so if you loved what i touched on in there this goes so much deeper um and it's a book that i could have written a number of years ago but as someone said to me recently you had the ip but you hadn't done the work where you might have gone there and put yourself in as much as you did so you didn't have that work to understand um

your own story.

So you wouldn't have been able to put that in.