Kitty Thomas
ambassador, debt angel solutions
Kitty Thomas is the Founder of Debt Angel Solutions, Australia's leading Debt Negotiation, Debt Management, and Debt Reduction agency. With over 20 years’ experience and 6 years in business, Kitty and the team at Debt Angel Solutions have helped hundreds of people, from all walks of life, save over $6 million dollars in interest and principle in only 6 short years, transform their debt situation and get on the path to financial freedom.
With over 25 years of personal development and leadership experience, Kitty has worked alongside some of the top influencers in business and finance including Sir Richard Branson.
Kitty is committed to transforming the conversation around debt, specifically removing alienation, shame, isolation, guilt and showing people that talking about debt is not only OK, it is the first vital step to taking back control and regaining a positive financial outlook.
Kitty knows what it is like to live with an unserviceable amount of debt. In her early twenties, a fresh-faced, passionate social entrepreneur, Kitty took a gamble with a business venture and despite enormous success found herself with $150K worth of unsecured debt.
Her response was a typical one, burying her head in the sand and hoping it would go away. It was five years later, before she decided enough was enough and it was what came next that not only transformed her own life, but the life of those around her.
Rejecting the solution she was ‘sold’ to consolidate the debt with a part 9 debt agreement, discovering it was an act of bankruptcy that would affect her long term.
Utilising her skills in communication, she focused on cultivating strong relationships with creditors, and in the process, gained a deep understanding of the options available to individuals in debt, pathways that were largely unknown to the public.
While carrying out her own financial recovery, Kitty acquired extensive knowledge around the legislation, processes and requirements of creditors when dealing with individuals in debt distress, and what approach was needed to ensure a mutually beneficial outcome for client and creditor alike.
After successfully achieving her own financial recovery and hearing story after story of people struggling to get out of the spiral of debt, Kitty realised how desperately a new approach to debt relief was needed. She began to use this knowledge to help others in similar circumstances, initially friends and family, but it didn’t take long for demand for her unique and incredibly effective approach to take those little-known solutions to the people, and so Debt Angels was born.
Kitty is now living her life’s purpose - helping others revolutionise the options available to those living in debt distress, empowering them to take back control of their lives by getting their debt into a manageable position, saving then time and money without selling out to acts of bankruptcy.