Prepare for tomorrow,
make the most of today.
Financial advice to help you manage and grow your wealth.
Advice that makes a difference.
A financial plan is about more than just money. It’s about freely living your life without worrying about your finances. It’s confidence and excitement about your future.
It’s leaving a legacy for the next generation.
At FreshStart Retirement we help you navigate your financial life.
Stress less. Take Control. Plan Ahead.
How we can help
How We Help
Services
Process
At FreshStart Retirement, our goal is to help you reach your potential, whether you are building your wealth, preparing for retirement or enjoying life after work.

BUILD WEALTH AND PURSUE YOUR GOALS
It’s time to pay down debt, protect your wealth and grow your assets.

PREPARE FOR RETIREMENT AND BEYOND
You want to be confident that you will have enough money to enjoy life after work.

CENTRELINK aSSISTANCE
We can help identify your entitlements and be your correspondence nominee.

MAKE THE MOST OF RETIREMENT
You would like to leave a legacy for your kids and ensure you don’t run out of money.
We develop tailored step-by-step financial strategies and help you make informed decisions about your money.
Superannuation
Superannuation is a way to save for your retirement. You build up super while you are working to make sure you can have a comfortable retirement.
Retirement Planning
We can help you work out how much money you have now, how much you might have in the future and where it is coming from.
Centrelink
Centrelink can be a daunting prospect if you don’t know where to begin to determine your payment or concession card options. We can help identify your entitlements and be your correspondence nominee.
Estate Planning
We’d all like to leave a legacy and provide for those closest and dearest to us once we’re gone. Estate Planning ensures your assets are distributed to the right people at the right time.
Step 1
Discovery Call
Let's have a quick chat to see how we can work together to help you achieve your goals.
Step 1
Step 2
Gather Data
We gather data about all aspects of your financial situation so we take a comprehensive look at your life and finances.
Step 2
Step 3
Financial Plan
We create a personalised financial plan that will serve as a roadmap towards your goals.
Step 3
Step 4
Implementation
We set your financial plan in action by implementing all your personalised strategies.
Step 4
Step 5
Support
There is no 'set and forget it' here. We stay in touch and review your plan based on major life changes or market factors.
Step 5
We make the complex simple.
Your local financial partners
About
Our Team
At FreshStart Retirement we work with you to understand your unique set of circumstances. We believe it is so important to get sound financial advice.
Are you approaching or in retirement? Your retirement savings are building, but you are wondering what is the best way forward?
Let’s face it, your retirement savings represent years of hard work and sacrifice! We want you to be comfortable about your choices and the options available to you. Many clients tell us they don’t know where to start and can’t keep up with all the changes, particularly around superannuation and Centrelink. It can be frightening and daunting. We understand, as this is what our clients have told us. Our clients value our ability to reduce their stress when it comes to money.
At FreshStart Retirement we’re with you. We understand. We will help resolve your questions and address your concerns, so that you feel more in control and reassured about your financial future.
Let us nurture you through this next exciting phase of your life, contact us now and together let’s get the conversation started.
Shireen Diez
Financial Planner
Shireen has been working in the financial services industry and providing holistic financial advice to clients in Launceston and Devonport since 2008.
Shireen holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, and a Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Planning). Shireen has completed the Ethics and Professionalism in Financial Advice and is a professional member of the Financial Advice Association of Australia (FAAA).
Shireen is enthusiastic about discussing her client’s retirement plans and how life has evolved when in retirement. Shireen knows retirement is a very exciting phase of life and deserves time, care and understanding. Approachable and dedicated, Shireen will work together with clients to optimise their situation to help achieve their retirement lifestyle dream.
Outside of work Shireen enjoys gardening, reading and spending time with loved ones.
Kind words from our clients
In my past seven or so years I’ve relied on Shireen Diez for my financial advice and security , now she is at FreshStart Retirement I’m totally happy to have her advise me ! She is a fantastic adviser and person ! Look to her for your future planning !
- John Bowe OAM
We have been happy customers for several years with Shireen firstly at Camerons and now FreshStart Retirement providing us with professional advice and a friendly and when needed “dumb things down” explanation. Shireen has helped us to set up our retirement needs and get our affairs in order. Shireen has arranged regular one on one meetings with us to explain or make changes to our portfolio depending on market conditions. Shireen has been a trusted, professional financial adviser to us personally and always made herself available at any time. We can’t speak highly enough of FreshStart Retirement and have full faith and trust in the advice provided by Shireen. Overall excellent friendly service, fully recommend anyone seeking financial advice.
- Michelle and Stuart Ryan
Shireen has been our advisor for a while now; we find her very professional and knowledgeable and kind. She is always very helpful and understands her client’s needs. We would not hesitate to recommend Shireen and FreshStart Retirement to anyone
- Bob and Dianne Fitzgerald
I am delighted to provide this testimonial for Shireen Diez at Fresh Start Retirement in Launceston, Tasmania. I have known Shireen for many years as she has been with Lifespan Financial Planning for over five now. Don’t let the name of Shireen’s business surprise you, while she is certainly an expert in all thing’s retirement planning related (both pre and post-retirement), Shireen can do so much more and does not just focus on a particular type of client or limit the type of advice she delivers. Few offer a true one-stop financial solution which includes all aspects of financial planning tailored to the individual needs of each client like Shireen does, as a single adviser practice professional. And those that do, don’t do it like this.
Shireen is a superstar in working with other professionals having worked within accounting practices and benefiting from these accountants referring their highly valued clients to her, because she keeps them informed and engaged as she works closely with their clients - which is something they greatly appreciate.
Shireen is a financial planner with true commitment to helping her client in the way she engages with guidance. Her empathy, her passion, and her emotional intelligence to connect with people and the confidence she has to deliver direction is a credit to all advisers.
Shireen has impressed us as her AFSL (or licensee) as she has demonstrated incredible knowledge of the many products she works with, the strategies she uses and her wonderful focus on getting the best outcomes for her clients together with the diverse structures (for tax purposes) in the always complex advice process. Doing so with appreciation for the strict compliance framework we must work within and all the things to be done to help our clients is not easy, but Shireen makes it look like it is. Well done Shireen Diez and thanks for being part of our little community here at Lifespan Financial Planning. If you would like to know more about this testimonial, please call me on 0438 776 666.
- Michael Gershkov
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