Uncensored Money Podcast
Women are so good at talking about SO many things. Over brunch we can cover everything from sex to politics to religion to Housewives of Beverley Hills to white jeans in winter. But there’s one subject that we are completely avoiding. That subject is money.
The problem is, we can’t afford to avoid it. That’s because as women, we’re kind of sucking at it. There is a wage gap that exists not simply in the corporate world but in the world of small and medium business owners where women should be on par with men. There is a gap between men and women that we’ve tossed in the too hard basket for the moment in our superannuation funds. And there’s a widening gap between those who own property and those who do not.
And let’s not even talk about the role money and power holds in our society.
That’s why ladies I believe finance is a feminist issue. It’s time we started to uncensor money.
Here you'll find chats about money where we throw off the notion that money is crass or uncomfortable. It's all about becoming comfortable bringing money into our everyday conversations and through it, figuring out what our own money story is and whether we might want to change it.
Enjoy!
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Season 4
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything - Watching Your Investments & Financial Control
In this Ask Mel Anything episode, Mel answers two questions. The first relates to mild anxiety experienced when watching share investments fluctuate and the second relates to reclaiming control over finances.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything - Pay Off the Mortgage or Invest in Super?
In this Ask Mel Anything episode, Mel discusses an email she recently received asking her why she talks about saving money and freezing meals when she can afford not to.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything - Just Because You Can (Doesn't Mean You Should)
In this Ask Mel Anything episode, Mel discusses an email she recently received asking her why she talks about saving money and freezing meals when she can afford not to.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything - The Importance of Trusting Your Gut
In this Ask Mel Anything episode, Mel shares a mistake she recently made in her business and why it’s so important to develop a data-based gut, and trust it.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Don’t Have Enough Time, Money or Knowledge to Deal with Your Finances?
When it comes to sorting out your finances, there are 3 big reasons given about why people don’t engage with their finances; time, money, and knowledge. So in this episode, Mel and Lawsie discuss these and share practical tips you can do to start addressing them so they don’t hold you back from having financial choice.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Bringing Compassion to our Finances (and Our Food) with Letitia Colautti
In this episode, Mel chats with Letitia Colautti, a psychotherapist in her own private practice. Mel talks to Letitia about the synergy between money and food and dives into the stories we carry, being ok with being enough, having boundaries with hard edges as well as practical tools you can use in life. It’s a compassion-led approach to a topic both Mel and Letitia are deeply passionate about.
Uncensored Money Season Four: What to Think About at Different Stages of Life
It’s time to bust the notion that there are certain things you ‘should’ be doing based on your age when it comes to finances. Instead in this episode Mel and Lawsie share a set of questions for you to consider based on your stage in life (rather than your age).
Uncensored Money Season Four: The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Ask for a Salary Increase
Mel has been an employer for over twenty years. So in this solo episode, she shares her insights and tips about the right way, and the wrong way, to ask for a pay rise. And if you’re in business, these tips are equally relevant to how you set your prices, and increase them, in your business.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything - Rebuilding Later in Life & Investing for Kid’s Education
In this 'Ask Mel Anything' episode, Mel answers two questions at very different ends of the spectrum. And regardless of where you fall on that spectrum, there’ll be nuggets of gold in there for you.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Find More Cash in Less than 15 Minutes
Many of us know how to tighten our belts but we don’t know how to find more cash. So in this episode Mel & Lawsie share 12 different ways to find less cash and each tip will take you less than 15 minutes to implement.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Your Half-Way Pep Talk
Whether you're on track with the goals you set at the start of the year, you've lost momentum or you didn't set any goals and have been winging it so far this year, in this episode Mel and Lawsie discuss what has happened so far and what is still to come and then help you set some intentions for the second half of the year.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Misaligned Goals in Relationships
In this episode, Mel and Lawsie discuss relationships and what happens if your goals, risk profile or stage of life are different or misaligned.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything – How to Be Successful in Business
In this 'Ask Mel Anything' episode, Mel answers two questions on business. Whether you have a side hustle, a hobby, a kitchen table business, a global empire or a business idea – there’ll be nuggets of gold in there for you.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Money and Relationships - with Annabelle Daniel OAM
Annabelle Daniel OAM is the chair of the Domestic Violence New South Wales Board and the CEO of the Women’s Community Shelters. In this interview, Mel asks Annabelle about her money story as well as diving into power and relationships, financial abuse, coercive control and much more.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything – How to Get Ahead & Financial Education
In this episode of ‘Ask Mel Anything’ Mel answers questions about how to get ahead financially while on maternity leave and on financial education memberships. If you feel like you’re pressing pause or looking for some financial options this episode is for you.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Money and Power - with Kemi Nekvapil
In this interview, Mel asks Kemi about her money story as well as diving into comparison, hustling for your worth, money & power, perfectionism, boundaries, living a life without apology, comparative suffering and so much more.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything – Owning vs Renting and Where To Start?
In this episode of ‘Ask Mel Anything’ Mel answers questions about whether it’s smarter to rent or own your own home and how to ensure your family is the best overall financial position possible now and in the future?
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything – Student Loans & Funding Big Purchases
In the ‘Ask Mel Anything’ series, Mel answers your questions in the hope you realise you are not alone and that it helps to increase your financial literacy and confidence. In this episode of ‘Ask Mel Anything’ Mel answers questions about paying off student loans and how to fun big purchases.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Are You Being Too Boring and Safe?
In this episode, Mel and Lawsie discuss why many people are being too boring and safe, why that’s dangerous and how to step out of your comfort zone and create a remarkable life.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything – Young People & Money
In the ‘Ask Mel Anything’ series, Mel answers your questions in the hope you realise you are not alone and that it helps to increase your financial literacy and confidence. In this episode of ‘Ask Mel Anything’ Mel answers questions about tips to put young women on the path to financial stability and how to invest for your children.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Are You Following the Care Instructions?
Recent surgery left Mel with a long list of post-op aftercare instructions. So in this episode, Mel and Lawsie reflect on the fact that your assets come with aftercare instructions too and discuss steps you can take to make sure that your finances achieve your long term goals.
Uncensored Money: Ask Mel Anything – Buying Your First Property & Putting Extra $$ into Super or Savings
Welcome to the ‘Ask Mel Anything edition’ of Uncensored Money.
In the ‘Ask Mel Anything’ series, Mel answers your questions in the hope you realise you are not alone and that it helps to increase your financial literacy and confidence. In the first episode of ‘Ask Mel Anything’ Mel answers questions; about buying your first property and whether you should put extra money into savings or superannuation.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Money, Chocolate & Credit
With Easter only a few days away, in this solo episode Mel talks about her love of chocolate and how she has mindfully created a system and rules around her chocolate consumption and how you can do the same with your finances. Plus she shares 3 parallels between the way we act with our finances and other aspects of our lives, like chocolate, exercise, relationships or even work.
Uncensored Money Season Four: How Much Does That Prada Bag (Or Overseas Holiday) Really Cost?
In this solo episode, Mel shares 4 hidden traps you should be aware of before you book your holiday or splurge on a new pricey purchase.
Uncensored Money Season Four: It’s Time to Play a Grown Up Game of Business
In this solo episode, Mel shares 5 strategies that will help you grow up as a business owner (regardless of how long you’ve been running a business or the size of the business you’ve built)
Uncensored Money Season Four: I Didn't Plan for That!
In this episode, Mel and Lawsie discuss times in their life when things didn’t go to plan and share practical steps you can take when life happens.
Uncensored Money Season Four: This IWD, I want you to believe you’re enough
In this solo episode for International Women’s Day, Mel shares why it’s important for women to take back power when it comes to money and how to stop scarcity and comparison from derailing your finances and your life
Uncensored Money Season Four: Consciously Uncoupling
In this episode, Mel and Lawsie they share tips on how to consciously uncouple without compromising your financial security or your future.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Relationships and Money
In this episode, Mel and Lawsie talk about friendships and the impact that everything from meals out to destination weddings can have on your finances. Plus they share tactics and ways you can raise and discuss the issue with your friends.
Uncensored Money Season Four: MAFS, Love and Money
After watching a recent episode of Married At First Sight, Mel and Lawsie reflect on the importance of being able to discuss money and finances in your relationships and share some practice ways you can ease into and start having money conversations in your relationship.
Uncensored Money Season Four: 5 Ways Your Finances Are In Trouble
In this solo episode, Mel shares five ways your finances might be in trouble as well as what you can do to leave those bad financial habits behind.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Predictions for 2023
It’s the start of a new year. So in this solo episode, Mel shares her 5 predictions for 2023 and what that might mean for your finances.
Uncensored Money Season Four: Do Money Better in 2023
As our attention turns to New Year’s resolutions, in this solo episode Mel shares three actions you can take today to start to do money better in 2023