I can’t speak more highly of Melisa’s book in helping young adults meet all the new challenges they face for the first time with confidence. This is the guide book they need to help them every step of the way with a path forward. Melisa has written it very cleverly. She connects with her target audience through relatability, authenticity and without judgment. The other key part of the book that stands out is how she has tapped into so many experts across so many important areas of life’s progression. And those resources are all in the one book. I remember when I was growing up, it was almost a prerequisite a Melways was a gift for most people turning 18 to throw in the back of the newly purchased car to accompany the fresh driver’s license. It could be argued this book should be the new prerequisite gift from parents to their children as they become young adults. Instead of navigating the roads, this book will help you navigate all the big moments in life with all the expert advice in the one book. 

When the first of my children was born, my mother said to me,  “It’s such a shame children don’t come with a handbook or manual. It would make raising them so much easier.” Several decades on, Melisa Sloan has penned an operating manual, not for babies but for the likes of my now-adult- children as they navigate some more of life’s milestones or Big Moments. Melisa applies her pragmatic lawyerly mind to the big issues and transactions that can stop us in our tracks as adults of any age. I intend to gift this book to each of my 3 children as the guide I wish I’d had. It would have made adulting so much easier!