Your Money Story
by Dawn Thomas
Dive into the empowering narratives of 'Your Money Story,' where I, Dawn Thomas, your financial adviser, mother of three, and Ph.D. student, guide you through stories of resilience, feminism, and rewriting your money story. Join me and extraordinary guests in Season 4 as we explore triumphs, break barriers, and inspire change. Subscribe for raw conversations, and together, let's reclaim our power and rewrite our stories. This is 'Your Money Story.'
Episodes
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Feminism in Financial Advice - Trish Gregory
Feminism in Financial Advice In today's episode, we're joined by Trish Gregory, an advocate for including the feminist lens in financial advice. Trish discusses the significance of supporting women within the financial advice profession and beyond. Insights into the challenges women face in the...
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It's Not About the Money - Jenny Rolfe-Wallace
Episode Title: It is Not About the Money with Jenny Rolfe-Wallace Introduction: Joining us today is Jenny Rolfe-Wallace, owner of Sprout Education Group, and a passionate advocate for uplifting women in the financial services profession. Jenny is self-described as a feminist, financial education...
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DEI Action, Not DEI Talk - Tim Henry
DEI Action, Not DEI Talk Introduction: Welcome back to "Your Money Story," where we dive deep into crucial financial discussions. Season kick-off with our regular guest, and ally Tim Henry, sharing his views on the WGEA gender pay gap report, especially how it pertains to the financial planning...
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Fix the System, Not Women - Lacey Filipich
Welcome to Season 4 of "Your Money Story!" We kick off our new season with a powerhouse guest, Lacey Filipich, a regular season starter and a change-maker. As we launch just before International Women's Day, Episode 1 dives deep into a crucial topic - the myth of Imposter Phenomena and why fixing...
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Season 4 Trailer
Hello, beautiful souls! I'm Dawn Thomas, your host of 'Your Money Story,' the podcast where we dive deep into the tales of incredible individuals who have paved their own way, faced challenges head-on, and are making waves in the world. Welcome to Season 4 As we embark on this new season, we're...
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Financially Empowered - Grace Mugabe
Grace has had a a good start in money journey with parents who have kept money conversations active in her world since she was young. When she went to university, already with strong budgeting skills, she realised that other people did not have that level of financial literacy. Her business...
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Advocating All Women - Jessica Brady
Jessica Brady aims to help people get better financial habits and experience through Green House, her money program for the community She is a key advocate for lifting the financial outcomes of all women in the community as well as for the financial planning profession. Jess talks about the role...
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Authenticity, Integrity & Delivery - Kelly King
Kelly King is authentic, has integrity and delivers on her commitments. She talks openly and honestly about domestic violence she has faced in the past and why this makes her passionate to empower and educate other women, to be financially independent. She is a champion of women in the community...
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Advocate and Leader - Daniel Jackson
Daniel is a fierce advocate and leader of the financial planning profession. In this episode he discusses his journey before advice and how that helped him with the changes in the profession in the last 5 years, why he feels it is important to lift peers in the industry and why he invests so much...
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Thought Leadership - Glen Hare
Glen is a leader in his profession for taking a different pathway and truly being a champion of diversity & inclusion. Diversity not just in his staff but diversity in the financial planning service offered and including more Australians in the money empowerment journey. Not only is Fox & Hare B...
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Creating Impact - Ben Neilson
Ben describes himself as an adviser and researcher. Ben is close to finishing his PhD with research focusing on improving how we can provide financial advice, whether it is from technology, analysing the Statement of Advice or the impact of gender and education on misconduct. Ben's energy is...
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Pinnacles and Parenthood - Cara Graham
Cara Graham shares how it is to have reached all the traditional pinnacles of success in financial advice, and yet still walk away to a different path, once she wanted to define her unique pathway to success: having the family life she wants while still delivering exceptional client outcomes.…
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Women's Progress in 2023 - Lacey Filipich
Lacey discusses the progress of women in the last 12 months in her third International Women's day episode on Your Money Story. We discuss Brittany Higgins, Jacinda Arden, Election Results, Penny Wong, the Voice to Parliament, the over turning of Roe versus Wade and other significant topics.…
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Advancing Women's Economic Progress Together - Tim Henry
Tim joins us for his third IWD episode. He shares what drives him to advocate for closing the economic gender gap, his advice for others who would like to be allies and the resources he draws on, to help with conversations around this topic. General Advice Warning – This Podcast contains general...
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The Money Sandwich - Marc Bineham
This Episode we discuss intergenerational financial considerations with ‘The Money Sandwich Author, Marc Bineham. We discuss how the Sandwich Generation, who are people in their 50s to 70s, have increased challenges due to looking after aging parents or assisting their children. Marc shares how...
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Money Mindset - Amie Baker
For this special Mother’s Day episode, I speak to Amie Baker who is the NSW chair of Association of Financial Advisers Inspire group. Amie is the director of Rekab advice, a certified money Mindset Coach and podcast host of Censibility. In this episode we look at how our childhood experiences,...
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Women and Shares - Wadzi Nenzou
This week I speak to Wadzi Nenzou who is the Founder and CEO of Herconomics. Wadzi’s mission is to remove the barriers Australian women place on themselves, when it comes to investing in the share market. She believes that having knowledge and the confidence to invest in shares can help women…
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Money and Divorce - Karyn Lander
This episode Karyn Lander shares her perspective about relationship and business break ups. She is a leader in her industry and known as a passionate forensic accountant, who is truly in her clients’ corner. She stresses the importance of knowing your financial structure, including any entities...
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Knowledge, not just Trust
This episode, Thaw Thaw Htin, Principal at Bennett + Co and leader in the commercial law space, shares her views on what causes difficult commercial disputes. Often, there has been long standing trust between commercial or business partners, and that trusts breakdown over time due to various...
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Communication and Knowledge - Sarah Jones
This episode I speak Sarah Jones, Principal of Illuminate Law. Sarah is passionate about family law and helping people through one of the vulnerable points in their life: divorce. She feels disputes often are about a breakdown in communication. She has seen growing up that creativity can make...
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Flourish and Inspire - Cara Graham
This episode I speak to Cara Graham. Cara is the WA State Chair of Association of Financial Advisers Inspire Community. Cara entered financial services when she was 17 and like many others, who started around her time, she just fell into the financial planning profession. Cara represents a…
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The Ethical Way - Nathan Fradley
This episode, we discuss various areas of being Ethical. We have Nathan Fradley, founder of Ethos Australia, a financial adviser, XY Ethics Committee founding member and podcast host of Good for the Bee. Nathan cares about the climate and the community and he is willing to let various aspects of...
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Advocating Women's Safety and Economic Security - Tim Henry
For part 2 of this special International Women’s Day Episode we have Tim Henry Tim is an advocate for improving the outcomes of women’s safety and economic security. He shares with us his advocacy journey in the last 12 months and where he sees how financial advisers can think differently about...
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Assessing Women's Progress - Lacey Filipich
For Part 1 of this special International Women’s Day Episode, I speak to Lacey Filipich. Lacey is a warrior women, who is not afraid to speak up for the rest of us. You will find her on various platforms, tackling the hard discussions on financial empowerment, women’s progress in Australia and…
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Season 2 is coming soon!
Season 2 of Your Money Story is coming this International Women's Day. As usual we have a great collection of guests. Guests will share how they have kept true to being themselves within their respective industries, we have dispute resolution specialists who have the overlapping theme that trust...
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The Xennial Entrepreneur - Iman Davamoni
We have Iman Davamoni, the founder and CEO of beauty services platform Purely Polished. A business launched while Iman was on maternity leave with her first child and further expanded Purely Polished when she had her second child in the midsts of the start of the Covid-19 crisis. Purely Polish,...
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Wonder Women -Natasha Janssens
This episode is for the Wonder Women out there. My guest is industry leader Natasha Janssens, who is the author of the Wonder Women’s Guide to Money and the founder of Women in Cents. Women wear many hats in their day to day lives and they often risk is overlooking their own needs. In honour of...
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Growing into Your Uniqueness
This episode, we hear about one organisation who is helping women get a new start to their lives. At Dress for Success, Women are not only dressed to help them with job interviews, but they are also mentored and guided around the recruitment process. The women that are helped, come from various...
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The Asian Australian Woman
This episode we have Jean Sum who discusses her experience as an Asian Australian woman. Jean has an acute understanding of the money conflict that occurs within certain Asian communities. She feels this is from the history of 'lack' and the journey forward is creating abundance in a meaningful...
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Financial Abuse and Your Toolkit
Your Tool Kit is designed to help women out of domestic abusive situations. We speak to Elisa Fear, who explains this life saving resource and explains what financial abusive is as well as how we can help women in our community who are going through it "Research has shown that lack of financial...
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The Xennial Leader -Christa Filius
Christa Filius is a leader within the Oil and Gas industry, currently responsible for 380 staff and is the only woman who holds one of the 60 comparable roles globally within her company. She moved from the Netherlands to the Philippines, to pursue her current leadership role. She shares with us...
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Finding a Place to Flourish
Nathan Davamoni is proudly from the LGBTQ+ Community. He found a place to flourish both at work and within his community. He is a project officer at NBN and is a growing voice within the corporate space on the importance of diversity and inclusion. This journey took him from Townsville to...
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The Gen Y Entrepreneur
Gen Y Entrepreneur Jade Mckay embraced the opportunity to own her own business just 6 months after starting as a salaried adviser and while she was going through immense changes in her personal life. She has built an armoury of skills from working since 16. Her story is one of determination,...
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The Gen Y Woman - Chloe Leow
Chloe Leow, Founder of the Etch Collective, talks about her money story, her FU Fund and gives us insight into the Gen Y woman. Chloe is values driven and has used money as a way to equalise power positions between employer and employee. By having an emergency fund that gave her the option of...
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Advocates and Allies - Tim Henry
We can’t discuss International Woman’s Day without talking about the role men play in helping lift women in their community. Today I speak to Tim Henry who is the owner of Aspire planning and the host of the popular podcast the Grass is Greener. I outed Tim as a male advocate in our community.…
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True Activism on International Women's Day - Lacey Filipich
It is easy to be swept up by corporatised versions of International Women's Day. Lacey, without mincing any words, tells us who has to rise to the challenge (and it is not women) to fix the gender inequity that is prevalent through every part of society. She embodies how setting yourself up...
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The Gen Z Woman - Azaria Bell
In this episode, we discuss Azaria Bell's own journey, who the Gen Z woman is and what tips she can take with her now, to make a change to her money story.Azaria has been a rising star, long before she entered advice. As a financial planning student she started her YouTube to fill the gap on...
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Landing this International Women's Day (8th March 2021): Your Money Story
Your Money Story Podcast is about celebrating your journey, including you in the money conversation, empowering you to take control of your finances and equalising your position wherever you are. Let's change how the story ends. We will be launching during the week of International Women's Day...
About this show
Dive into the empowering narratives of 'Your Money Story,' where I, Dawn Thomas, your financial adviser, mother of three, and Ph.D. student, guide you through stories of resilience, feminism, and rewriting your money story. Join me and extraordinary guests in Season 4 as we explore triumphs, break barriers, and inspire change. Subscribe for raw conversations, and together, let's reclaim our power and rewrite our stories. This is 'Your Money Story.'
Hosted by
Dawn Thomas