Why Dare to be Wealthy is the one book you can’t afford not to read

A note from Melissa Browne on her book Dare to be Wealthy.

This is not the only finance book you’ll ever need.

But if you’re a woman, it’s the one book you can’t afford not to read.

That’s because there are many amazing finance books that stick to the ‘how’. That will urge you to rail and battle and man up and get disciplined and stick to a seven-point plan.

Here, I’m going to do the reverse.

I’m going to help you realise why, when you’ve tried that approach in the past, it wasn’t something you could stick to. It never really worked for you. Or how it always just felt a little off or wrong. I’m going to explain why you’ve perhaps done okay up to now, but how you can do so much more. Or why you’re stuck in a loop or abdicating or opting out.

I’m going to invite you on a new financial journey. A new quest. That journey starts with a question: what if the world of finance was created for women, by women?

I believe it would be a radically different place to the one we’re currently trying to make work for us. It would be one where women were not ashamed to want to be wealthy. Instead of one where too many women don’t even consider being wealthy because it’s not something we’ve been told is okay for us to aim for— where even the word ‘wealthy’ makes many of us feel a little bit uncomfortable, unsure whether that’s what we should be aspiring to, and skeptical that it’s right for us anyway.

It would be a radically different world because people within it would understand that when women hold wealth, families, communities and society all benefit.

What I want to do within this book is dismantle the patriarchal financial world we operate in.

Brick by brick.

Myth by myth.

Lie by lie.

I want to help you realise that what you believe, how you’ve behaved financially up to now, might be because of a system that has been actively working against you.

Not because you’re bad at money. Or bad at investing. Or a spender. But because you’re a woman. And women holding wealth and holding power are uncomfortable ideas even within our modern society.

Then I want to rebuild your financial world, as a safe place. In a system you might still be hesitant to play within, but where you know you can finally do just that in a way that works for you.

All good stories are about change. There have been financial revolutions before. In the 1960s Australian women couldn’t get a chequebook without their husband’s permission, apply for a mortgage or apply for a loan on their own.

I believe it’s time for another revolution today.

An internal revolution that begins here.

I want you to understand that you’re not too young or too old. No matter what society would have you believe.

You just need to start.

This book is designed to be your financial talisman.

Your agent of change.

To help you realise that being wealthy and having choice isn’t just possible.

It’s inevitable.

Mel x

Dare to be Wealthy by Melissa Browne is available now.

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Dare to be Wealthy

by Melissa Browne

An unapologetic guide for women to build wealth on your terms. No jargon. No shame. No cookie-cutter plans. Just smart strategies, real stories, and a powerful mindset shift that will take you from 'I don't know' to 'I've got this'.

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