Because your farm’s future is a family matter.
Lifesolver was built for the farming families who want to get succession right. For the family, and the farm.
Meet Matt Meehan
Founder and Director, Lifesolver.
There aren’t many people who understand a farming family from both sides of the table. Matt is one of them.
He started out as a jackaroo in outback Queensland, living and working alongside farming families and learning what they actually carry: the long days, the long horizons, and decisions that span generations. Then he trained as a Chartered Accountant and Certified Financial Adviser, studied Agricultural Business Management at Marcus Oldham, and spent thirty years inside the finance industry working with farming families across Australia.
That combination, the farming background and the financial expertise, is what Lifesolver is built on. It’s why farming families say Matt understands them in a way most advisers don’t. He’s not a financial planner who learned about farms. He’s someone who grew up close to the land and chose to spend his career making finance work for the families on it.
Lifesolver was built to be the firm Matt wished farming families could call. The firm that runs the succession conversation, brings the financial, tax and structural thinking together in one place, and stays with the family long after the plan is signed.
Matt is based in Armidale, NSW. He’s a husband and father of three. He spends much of his time on the road, meeting farming families on the farms where they live and work. When not working he swims with the HighCows & the Sunday K, plays golf, loves to cook and does a bit of DJing as DJMatMan.
The best succession outcomes happen when families communicate openly and plan early.
What we stand for
Four things that shape every conversation we have.
These aren’t slogans. They’re how we run the firm, and how we work with every family who comes through our door.
How we work
People first. Numbers second.
Most firms start with the structures, the assets and the tax. We start with the family. The structures matter, but they only matter if the people on the other side of the table understand them and agree on them.
That’s the shape of every engagement we run, whether it’s a full Farm Transition Blueprint or a one-off financial planning conversation:
- We listen before we advise. The first conversation is about your situation, not our services.
- We use plain language. No jargon. No procurement-speak. If we can’t explain it simply, we haven’t thought about it hard enough.
- We work as one team. Financial planning, tax, accounting and structures are all considered together, and delivered through the Advisory Partner Group, not scattered across firms who’ve never met.
- We stay involved. The relationship doesn’t end when the plan is signed.
It’s the way we’d want our own families treated. So it’s the way we treat yours.
Part of the Advisory Partner Group
Lifesolver sits within the Advisory Partner Group. That gives us reach across regional Australia and a full team of accounting and tax specialists behind every engagement. Every farming family still works with Matt. The Group is what lets him work with you properly: with the capacity, the expertise, and the speed of a much bigger firm.
Where we work
On the ground across regional Australia.
We work with farming families across the country. Our offices sit in the regional centres our clients live near:
Distance isn’t a barrier. We’re used to meeting families on their land, around their kitchen table, and wherever the conversation needs to happen.