Melissa Browne

So your money strengths are strengths that you just think everyone has and they actually don't.

So it's about amplifying those strengths.

and realising how to harness them, as well as minimising the weaknesses in your behaviour.

So, for example, I'm a discerner, and I absolutely have the ability, when I'm stressed, to overthink, to have paralysis by analysis,

Particularly if there's an emotional tie to a decision, I will struggle with that.

I just want everything nice and neat and black and white.

But my strengths are I will always have a plan A, B, C, D, E, which in business or with my finances is absolutely that ability to run those strategies and to have backup plans.

It's fantastic.

But another weakness can be I don't want to do what everyone else is doing.

which can be a strength, but it also can be I won't do it just because.

I'm highly judgmental.

But the strength and the weakness, I think, of these types are when you do it with your partner, whether that's in business or peer groups or family or in relationships, because you might think your partner's doing money wrong,

And particularly if Rod, who I just talked about, I believe he's in relationship with a creator and he'll tell me, he goes, oh, he's just making, he's doing it wrong.

And he's not, he's just not doing it how Rod would do it.

And same with my hubby and I, he's a worker.

He perpetually frustrates me with his inability to do anything but personal exertion, but

I'm actually now comfortable with that.

I just don't let him manage our finances and make investing decisions because he would feel safer if it was all just cash in the bank or mortgage paid off and that was it.

So, but together we can sit down and with the strengths of our different money types, harness that really beautifully so that our personal finances, we both feel safe, but we are both building something we feel comfortable with.

And neither of us will feel 100% happy because it's a compromise, but it's something that we're both happy with.