Count her in
Leading Ladies of Real Estate champion financial empowerment for International Women ’ s Day
During the month of March , the Leading Ladies of Real Estate held six Financial Wellbeing events across five capital cities . In support of the International Women ’ s Day 2024 theme “ Count her in : invest in women ”, Leading Ladies invited Ladies Finance Club founder , Molly Benjamin , to keynote the events in Sydney , Melbourne and Brisbane .
In Adelaide , Kate White was joined by Megh Castledine from Loan Market , Cheryl McMahon from Colonial First State , and Chloe Kosmina from Moore Australia ( pictured above ). The panel discussed the difference between how some generations manage their finances , as well as the importance of women being aware of where they ’ re investing their superannuation .
Molly ( pictured above ) created Ladies Finance Club as a way to inspire women to take charge of their finances , and have freedom and full control over their lives . Ladies Finance Club has now had over 50,000 women attend its events .
Molly admits that , despite working for a bank , she was never very good with controlling her spending or saving money . She wanted to create an engaging and practical way to teach women to save their money and become in control of their financial freedom .
“ Men earn $ 1,000,000 more than women , on average , in their lifetime . $ 2,000,000 more if women choose to have children ,” Molly said .
“ I want to help make women rich so they have full control and freedom over their lives . Great things happen when women have money ; they help their communities , the environment , their family and themselves .”
Molly was then joined on a panel hosted by Kate White of Loan Market by experts in superannuation from Colonial First State , a mortgage broker from Loan Market . The panel had a different expert from Colonial and Loan Market depending on their capital cities , and covered topics such as rentvesting , the rising cost of living and how it affects women , interest rates , investing in shares and buying a house .
They also emphasised the obstacles for women getting into homeownership - and that women choosing to have a baby have to factor in time off to take control of their finances .
In Perth , Tracy Gott , a female entrepreneur and owner of Gott Health , gave the keynote , and the panel comprised Bree Ridge-Singh from Ray White Western Australia , Sue Vuong from Loan Market and Robert Albrecht from Colonial First State . Bree said the first Financial Wellbeing event in Perth was a huge success .
“ We had a great turn out and everyone is so responsive to the initiative ,” she said .
“ It ’ s wonderful to have such positive feedback for our first Financial Wellbeing event and it just goes to show how engaged women are when it comes to discussing finance .”
Ray White Canberra and Loan Market Canberra also ran a Financial Wellbeing event for their clients and community . The event welcomed over 50 women and raised $ 2,000 for the Women ' s Legal Council ACT .
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The panel stressed that it ’ s never too late to get in control of your finances or to start saving to buy a house .
“ Don ’ t get anxious , get active ”, Molly said .
“ Everyone starts from scratch at some point .”
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