Dangerous Wealth: What Every Successful Woman Needs to Know to Avoid Being Ripped Off! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780646529844)

Fraud Prevention Expert was not the direction Trish Jenkins expected her career to take her. Prison was certainly not on her "Goal Chart!" Yet, treasure is found in dark places. Trish shares those treasures as a speaker and author. What could have destroyed and silenced her is now the thing that empowers her passion to see people not only make wise financial decisions, but to live life on purpose and to make a difference. "I'd love to say I was an entrepreneur from a young age, like the gurus who tell of selling ice-creams door to door at age 6 and making their first million by age 14! Not me. I did work in the family business as a kid but I wasn't a star. I just had a go." Today Trish is an investor, businesswoman and author who speaks to groups about fraud prevention, her journey to financial independence, the financial attacks that led to complete ruin and virtual homelessness, prosecution, the journey back to financial control, mental and emotional health. "My inner Warrior Princess is not a physical superhero like Zena. She is the inner woman of strength and resiliance inside each one of us. She weilds the double-edged sword of finances with skill." Although trained as a high school teacher, she entered the business world of sales, marketing and photography; often conducting training in those fields. Consistent with her quirky nature, Trish started her creative "About Pets Photography" business, in spite of being allergic to cats! However, it was after the birth of their first child in 1998 that her interest in investments was sparked. While battling then undiagnosed post-natal depression she picked up Jan Somers' real estate book "Story by Story". The foggy mind began to clear... For the next 7 years Trish and her husband Justin worked toward financial freedom. This businesswoman and entrepreneur had built a multi-million dollar portfolio only to lose it all to fraud. Worse, she breached the Corporations Act. The result was 8 months in prison. Trish is passionate about taking the worst things in life and turning them on their head; like when she created an impromptu concert among a group of women prisoners because the acoustics were so good in the building! "To meet a badly broken woman, to weep with her, to make her smile when she hears for the first time that she is worth something...nothing beats that." Trish is a wife and mother of 3 little girls, Chelsea 12 and identical twins Felicity and Olivia. She lives with her family in Brisbane, Australia.