Money may not be the dream...
... but it can help to fund it.
Don't leave it to chance.
Julie O'Connor
A long time before Wealthify, I was a landscape designer. Not an accountant. Not a broker. Not someone who grew up talking about money.
From there, my career took a very different turn. I spent 12 years working in government and major transport infrastructure, eventually moving into senior roles across business operations and project improvement.
It might sound a long way from wealth creation, but much of the work was about something I've always been drawn to — taking something complicated, understanding how the pieces fit together, and finding a clearer, more practical way forward.
Alongside all of that, I was building my own wealth.
Over more than 20 years, I've invested in property and shares, built a multi-million dollar portfolio and completed property projects ranging from renovations and subdivisions to new builds.
Today, I'm also qualified across the three areas that underpin Wealthify — property strategy, finance mechanics and the follow-through that determines whether a plan actually gets implemented.
But so much of what I now understand about building wealth wasn't obvious to me at the beginning. I didn't know what I didn't know. And as the pieces gradually started to fit together, I kept thinking — why aren't we taught this?
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
— Warren Buffett
Why Wealthify exists
That's really where Wealthify began.
I wanted to make wealth creation easier to understand and bring the important pieces together in a way that people could actually use.
Wealthify takes the complexity out of wealth creation, helping you understand what matters, create a plan and equipping you to follow through long enough for it to work.