Why can’t Gen Y budget? And how is comparison culture fuelling bad credit? Canvas8 spoke with Melissa Browne, author of Unf*ck Your Finances, to discuss Australian Gen X and Y’s spending trends, their unhealthy relationship with money and how they can take control of their finances.
Melissa Browne is an accountant, financial advisor, an entrepreneur, CEO and author. She has published three books: ‘More Money for Shoes’, ‘Fabulous but Broke’, and her latest, ‘Unf*ck your Finances’. Browne also writes a fortnightly column for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age. In 2016, she was listed as one of the Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence.