Meet Our Coaches

Alanna Abramsky, Head Coach

Alanna’s journey started when she planned to travel comfortably and not backpack everywhere, she decided she would need $20,000 for her trip around South America and southeast Asia.

"You can’t just do it by not working hard at it, right?
-Alanna Abramsky

Want to know how she did it?

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Matt Dewey, Money Coach

From a young age Matt decided to make money with his brain and not his body. Trading time for money was not something that made sense to him, but growing up in rural Ontario with hard working fishing parents taught him a lot.

He has pursued all sorts of ways of building wealth and even owned multiple real estate properties before graduating university. Having worked in the financial advisory, insurance & real estate industries, Matt realized his true calling was sharing his passion for financial freedom with others.

By sharing his simple philosophy about goal setting, he helps clients see that there is a better way to use their money. Nothing makes Matt feel more fulfilled than to see clients experience success, whether they are reducing debt or looking to grow their wealth on their way to financial freedom.

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Judith Cane, Money Coach

“Every great journey begins with a solid plan. My goal is to help clients find out where they are, where they want to go and the best way to get there. Planning for peace of mind.”

Passionate about people, her warm and inviting personality puts clients at ease. Working with clients through their financial challenges creates many “aha” moments and results in easy-to-manage solutions. Judith has worked in the financial services industry for over 30 years, first as an insurance agent, then as a full service advisor and finally, since 2010, as a Financial Coach.

She has worked with thousands of clients to set achievable goals, create a clear picture of their financial situation, build a realistic spending & savings plan, implement a “Get Out of Debt and Stay There” strategy and finally help them begin to realize their financial goals. One day she was asked by a client to help them with their finances and found that everything in their business, from bank accounts to credit cards was co-mingled with their personal accounts. Yikes! So together they worked to create a plan that separated their business finances and personal finances and it worked like a charm. When CRA came calling for an audit a couple of years later, the records were in great shape. That’s when Judith expanded her business to include financial coaching for business owners. Judith is heard and seen regularly on CBC, CTV & Global TV and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Living and Chatelaine.

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Melanie Forget

Mélanie specializes in helping those with cash-flow and debt management issues. As a child from a single parent home living in Ottawa, Mélanie learned what it meant to live frugally. This served her well as she herself became a single parent following a divorce and had to develop strategies to get her family out of debt with very limited resources. She admits that it was sometimes challenging to raise children on a tight budget while living in an affluent suburb, but now she takes pleasure in witnessing her own children use sound financial judgement as they launch into their adult lives.

“I have always approached personal finances from a practical and optimistic perspective. I believe that there is always enough money to live the life we truly want if we take the time to bring some clarity into our financial situation”
Mélanie spent the first 12 years of her career working in national associations where she managed large scale budgets and developed strategic plans. In 2014, she decided to pursue a career which would utilize her talent, skills and passion as instruments of change in peoples’ lives and has been coaching ever since. She has been trained with Money Coaches Canada, Ramsay Solutions Master Financial Coach Training in Nashville, and H&R Block Tax Preparation Training.
Having gone through many life transitions and having had to navigate the financial realities that come with those changes, she has developed a compassionate yet pragmatic approach to finances and desires to empower others to find hope and peace.
Mélanie practices from the Ottawa region and is fully bilingual.