Melody Wilder
Melody Wilder, CRPC®, CFEI®, is a bestselling author, speaker, Retirement Counselor, Certified Financial Education Instructor®, and nationally recognized insurance expert. Author of “Screw the Hustle. Own the System. How to Build Wealth Without Burnout!” Melody helps business owners organize their financial lives, uncover opportunities, reduce unnecessary risk, and build wealth with greater clarity. Known as “The Tax Whisperer,” she’s not a CPA or RIA—but she makes sure your money doesn’t go MIA.
Notable achievements.
- Bestselling author of Screw the Hustle. Own the System. How to Build Wealth Without Burnout! featuring her signature ACTION Framework™
- Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor® (CRPC®) & Certified Financial Education Instructor® (CFEI®) with 14+ years in financial services and education
- Nationally recognized financial & insurance expert, cited and featured by Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, ABC, FOX, NBC, and CBS
- Known for blending relatable storytelling, humor, and practical financial strategy to make complex topics understandable
What Melody speaks on.
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Melody's keynotes.
What's Next? Finding Purpose Beyond the Career That Defined You
A keynote for professionals, entrepreneurs, and leaders entering a season where the career or business that once defined them no longer feels like the whole story. Melody helps audiences rediscover their natural strengths, identify what matters now, and turn the question "What's next?" into a purposeful next chapter.
The Courage to Be Seen: How the Fear of Public Speaking Changed My Life!
Melody once believed being afraid to speak meant she wasn't meant for the stage. Instead, facing that fear changed the trajectory of her life. Blending humor, vulnerability, and storytelling, she explores the hidden cost of allowing fear to make our decisions, and she challenges audiences to use their voice before they feel completely ready.
Screw the Hustle. Own the System.™ - The Framework for Cash Flow, Control & Freedom
Based on Melody's bestselling book, this keynote challenges the belief that earning more or working harder automatically creates wealth. Using her ACTION Framework™, Melody shows business owners how to move from financial chaos and disconnected strategies toward greater clarity, control, and ownership - because your money should work as hard as you do.
The Legacy Continuation Strategy: Turning Today's Resources Into Tomorrow's Impact
Legacy is about more than the money you leave behind. Melody explores strategies organizations, business owners, and families can use to make resources work across generations, protect what they've built, and create an impact that continues long after they're gone. The central question: What if your legacy could keep working even when you can't?
Melody's Story.
Melody Wilder, CRPC®, CFEI®, is a bestselling author, financial strategist, speaker, and founder of Gold Leaf Financial who makes money conversations both understandable, and unexpectedly entertaining.
Her mission is personal. After losing her father at 17 and watching her family face financial uncertainty with just $600, Melody learned early that what you don't know about money can change everything.
Today, with more than 14 years in financial services, she helps business owners replace financial confusion with clarity, strategy, and ownership. Her expertise has been featured in Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, ABC, FOX, NBC, and CBS.
"Stop hoping your financial future works out - start taking ACTION to create it."
Melody is the bestselling author of Screw the Hustle. Own the System. How to Build Wealth Without Burnout! and creator of the ACTION Framework™. Known as "The Tax Whisperer," she combines financial education, powerful storytelling, and humor to challenge audiences to stop hoping their financial future works out, and start taking ACTION to create it.
Speaker reel.
What people are saying.
"Melody is hilarious and has an incredible presence on stage. Finance is usually serious, but when you make it fun, entertaining, and educational too, that's a rare niche that is much needed."
Forbes Riley
In print and on air.
Screw the Hustle. Own the System. How to Build Wealth Without Burnout!
Melody's bestselling first book, home to her signature ACTION Framework™, has opened doors across financial media and the speaking circuit.
Read Here →Collaborative Book with the LA Tribune
Melody is currently working with the LA Tribune on a new collaborative book, expected to publish in Spring 2027.
NBC Fresno - Speak & Grow Rich Certification
Melanie Warner of Defining Moments awarded Melody the Speak & Grow Rich Speaker Certification and created her debut opportunity on NBC Fresno.
Voices of Influence - Criss Madrigal
Melody spoke on her book, Screw the Hustle. Own the System. How to Build Wealth Without Burnout! on Criss Madrigal's Voices of Influence stage, also syndicated on Roku, Apple, and other platforms.
Screw The Hustle: How To Build Real Wealth Without Burning Out
Host Stacey Lauren sits down with Melody to talk bankruptcy, divorce, cancer, and an IRS audit all in one story, and how she rebuilt as "the tax whisperer" with guaranteed income strategies and creative income streams, like turning an oversized lot into an RV Airbnb.
Watch Here →SHE CEO Podcast - Julie Ducharme
Melody appears on Julie Ducharme's SHE CEO podcast, with more media appearances to come.