Shannon is a recent addition to the My Wealth Solutions team whose focus is on improving all communications with our current and future clients and helping out in any way she can. With a background creating content about everything from mouth-watering eats to personal finance, Shannon provides My Wealth Solutions with a fresh, creative perspective.
Shannon Coward
Communications Assistant
Getting to know
Shannon Coward
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Experience
Shannon graduated from the University of Queensland with two bachelor degrees in Journalism and Ancient History. She has a diverse background in content creation across a range of different mediums and plied her wordsmith ways for a number of prominent online media outlets before joining the My Wealth Solutions team. Shannon is passionate about using the power of communication to ensure that our clients are happy and well-informed at every stage of their financial journey.
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Role
Shannon is the go-to content queen in the office and is responsible for authoring everything from website copy to our printed communications material. Shannon’s aim is to make sure that you feel included and satisfied by all of My Wealth Solutions’ communications, no matter where you are on your journey with us. She also has the ability to sniff out an errant comma from a kilometre away, which she considers to be her secret superpower.
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Outside of Work
An avid reader, Shannon can usually be found curled up under a tree in a local park with her next greatest read or trawling through bookstores across Brisbane. Otherwise you can find her practicing her terrible Japanese, hitting the streets in search of dogs to pat, binging on M&M’s at the cinema or eating her way through Brisbane’s cafes in search of the one french toast to rule them all.
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What’s your favourite thing about being part of the MWS team?
The company culture is amazing at MWS; everyone is dedicated to achieving the best results for our clients while still making time to have a laugh around the water cooler. I also love being able to see our clients achieve the goals they set out to achieve and helping them in any way I can, big or small.
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What do you wish people knew about financial planning?
As someone with a limited knowledge of financial planning before working with MWS, I wish people knew that financial planning is way more accessible than you may think and you don’t have to be wealthy to get started. Don’t spend another minute stressing about your money, let us help!
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What's your favourite book, movie and food?
Book: If I had to choose, Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin.
Movie: Pride & Prejudice (the version starring Keira Knightley, of course).
Food: Japanese melon bread, or anything involving Italian and tomatoes.
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If you could give one piece of advice to the Shannon from 10 years ago, what would it be?
Don’t worry so much about what could happen and focus instead on what you can make happen if you say yes. And try not to be so serious.
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What's your weirdest office habit?
I have a small mountain of snacks in the corner of my desk that I somehow manage to keep growing, despite promising myself I’m not going to buy any more junk food every Monday.
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What's the one thing about you that people would be surprised to learn?
I lost 30kg in one year just by walking and eating smaller portions.
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If you could have dinner with anyone past or present, who would it be and why?
The Roman Emperor Augustus, because he was partly responsible for founding a lot of the systems and societal ideas which are still in use today. I really want to understand how his brain worked.
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