DENISE WINSTON
CEO & FOUNDER
Denise Winston, is a 25- year former banker, author, Guinness World Record® Financial Literacy Program creator and presenter as well as a frequent media guest.
Denise founded MSH in 2009 after spending 25-years in the banking industry watching the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and how the banks made their money.
Observing the lack of financial education and the extreme impact it had on people’s lives, their employer’s profitability, the communities they live in and our nation’s economic growth, Winston was compelled to do something about it. Thus, at the peak of the financial crisis, she founded Money Starts Here, LLC.
Over the past 30 years, Denise has developed materials that cover a wide range of financial topics, all to help people avoid costly mistakes and achieve financial wellness. Winston has inspired and empowered millions of people across the nation to take control of their financial lives.
In 2016, due to market demands, she expanded her financial education company to include online courses that help organizations, employers, and their employees deal with the effects of financial stress and the Affordable Care Act mandate.
Through her experience, she’s able to bring quality financial education that produces real results to both the public and private sectors.
Denise Winston has inspired and empowered millions of people across the nation to take control of their financial lives.
Winston is a financial expert on the new cable program Money Made Easy and a frequent contributor to numerous financial websites, including FoxBusiness.com, BankRate.com, CreditCards.com, and American Express OPEN.
She has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and has regularly appeared on ABC’s Good Morning Kern County and Bright House Network’s Stretching Your Dollar. Her tips have been featured in major publications, including Reader’s Digest, Better Homes and Gardens, Money Magazine, Consumers Digest, Family Circle and many more.
A uniquely qualified financial expert, Winston uses easy-to-understand language to cover the basics—simple, relevant, practical solutions for dealing with money in day-to-day life—without get-rich-quick schemes.
In the past few years, Winston has reached more than 100 million people via 150 media outlets, 10,000 college and high school students with lectures and discussions, thousands of corporate employees with seminars, hundreds of women at conferences, and countless American parents, teens, and adults with her DVD and workbook series.
As part of her mission to make a difference, Winston has been involved with the anti-bullying campaign The Great American NO BULL Challenge, Junior Achievement, teen mentoring programs, Angel Flight West, and Great Pyrenees Rescue and therapeutic pet programs, and has served on educational advisory committees and volunteered in classrooms.