Welcome back to the Boss Babe Podcast. You guys know I love talking about money and building a business that creates true freedom in your life.

And today I am really excited because I got to sit down with my friend Mel Abraham to talk about how to create true wealth and build a money machine that works for you.

We dive into so many topics like how to control your time, the importance of cash flow, why every dollar needs a job description,

how to invest the five different types of income and so much more.

I feel really passionate about women getting access to this type of information so they can get money working harder for them, not the other way around.

So without further ado, let's get into the episode. Mel, welcome to the Bossway podcast.

I'm so excited that you're here.

Oh my God, it's so good to be here and get a chance to share this time with you.

Oh my goodness. So I have, I'm holding your book. I have been through it and I've like,

Doggy had so many pages that we get to talk about. I was just saying to you on the

podcast, I talk about money a lot I love

talking about money and making money I think we should be doing that especially women

we should be more unapologetic about it I don't talk about what to do when you've made money and so I'm so excited to get into the sensible stuff so the title of your book is building your money machine

I mean this to me sounds like an absolute dream. So just to kind of take it back a little bit, I want to understand what your philosophy on money and wealth and that is a vehicle for living a good life.

Like what is your philosophy on that?

Where did that come from?

So we'll go back a little ways because actually a lot of how I started to look differently at money came at the hands of a six year old.

Believe it or not. You know, I mean, here I was, so I was, I'm a CPA, so I'm a financial guy, you know, and I'm an entrepreneur and I'm building businesses, that type of thing, but I became a single full-time dad.

My son came to live with me at five and a half years old. I think that I'm doing things right. All I know is I'm I'm working hard to build the money and to get all the earnings and get and generate the income. And then he drew a picture of me and he comes home one day and says,

daddy, daddy, I drew a picture of you at school today.

And I'm thinking, oh cool, this is going to be us playing ball, this and that.

And I look at this picture.

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