Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators.

To find out their daily habits, their rules to live by

and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I am joined by Melanie Usabe.

Melanie is an entrepreneur, author and director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Google.

In this episode today, we're going to be discussing entrepreneurship, financial wellness,

and whether the advice to take risks is always good advice. Welcome to the podcast, Melanie. Thank you so much for having me.

I've been a big follower of your work. So it's been an honor to be here.

Well, ditto. I'm really, really pleased we've been able to put the time in today. I think,

you know, regular listeners

of this show will know that my expertise is wellness, the wellbeing industry. That includes

mental, physical health, emerging wellness technology, physical fitness, but everything else that's,

you know, I suppose, holistically incorporated in our well-being. Now, I really wanted to talk to you, of course, about financial

wellness and how this can impact all of our, everything, stress, interpersonal relationships,

sleep, everything. And of course, you've written a whole book about this topic, so who better

to ask. So if anyone listening who maybe hasn't heard of this term before, could you tell us,

could we dive straight into that? Could you tell us what financial wellness is?

So thank you so much for even just, it is such a big term right now. You're seeing so many books

out there in regards to looking at our wellness, not just our health. And financial wellness critically is looking at the

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