Penny for your Shots

What did your family teach you about money, even when they weren’t talking about it? Behavioral economist Etinosa Agbonlahor joins me to explore how early experiences follow us into our families, businesses, and everyday decisions. Eti runs Decision Alpha and wrote How to Talk to Your Parents About Money. We talk about separating personal worth from the price of your work, approaching family money...

You can love your work, care deeply about your clients, and still put off telling anyone about your offer. Karina Klaus , a sales confidence coach living in Portugal, joins me to talk about why selling can feel so uncomfortable and the beliefs we bring into those conversations. We talk about the corporate habits that follow us into our own businesses, why a full calendar doesn’t necessarily mean f...

What happens when you’ve done everything you thought you were supposed to do, and still don’t feel at home in your own life? Lori Montry knows that feeling. A Harvard Law graduate, former attorney, and now a somatic practitioner and author, she shares how a life built around achievement and other people’s expectations led her to ask what she actually wanted. We talk about those familiar “good girl...

After years of taking care of everyone else, what do you want for yourself? Jen Mentesana knows how easily that question can get buried beneath family responsibilities, work, and being the person who keeps everything going. Her path took her from corporate America to coaching, then into the restaurant business with her husband. Eventually, she realized she had lost touch with the work and interest...

What does it take to build a business when your family’s needs have to come first? For Kymbirley “Kym” Brake , it began in a hospital room. While caring for her daughter, she started helping other parents with taxes and insurance paperwork. That work grew into a business that allowed her to support them both while remaining available for her daughter’s care. Kym joins me to talk about financial in...

What happens when growth turns the business you wanted into a job you no longer recognize? Lisa Somers joins me for an honest conversation about building Marketplace Superheroes with her brother, navigating a million-dollar debt, and learning that there is almost always another solution, even when the numbers feel overwhelming. Lisa shares how she moved from psychology training into entrepreneursh...

What happens when you’ve spent decades understanding fitness and nutrition, and suddenly your own body stops responding the way it always has? Corry Matthews spent more than 25 years in fitness and nutrition, including competing as a professional bodybuilder. But in her 40s, the strategies she had always relied on stopped working the same way. We talk about perimenopause, hormones, food, strength...

A lot of us have quietly expected one person to be everything: best friend, travel partner, confidant, our whole social life. It rarely works, and it's not really fair to ask it of anyone. Rose Lambert has been married twice, twenty-four years the first time, twelve the second. Today she's single, and she says she has more friends than she's ever had in her life. Rose is a professio...

If something happened to you tomorrow, would the people who love you know where to start, or would they be left guessing? This week's guest is Lynn Lambrecht, a former aviation executive turned contingency planning advisor whose work started the day she volunteered on airplane crash sites in her 20s. She's since walked her own parents through illness and decline, written a book on gettin...

Ever notice how "leveling up" always seems to mean doing more? More hours, more offers, more on your plate? This week, Andrea Engstrom joins me to make the case for the opposite. Andrea's built a business generating six figures a month while working three days a week, and she got there by figuring out exactly what needed to go, not what needed to be added. In this episode: - The hot...

Have you ever done something meaningful and kept it to yourself because talking about it felt like bragging? Lynn Harris is the founder of Gold Comedy , the online school and community helping women and non-binary creators build comedy careers, side hustles, and creative confidence — but this conversation goes way beyond comedy. Lynn and I talk about the real difference between bragging and simply...

Ever caught yourself wondering if the "safe" job is actually the risky one? This week I'm sitting down with Melissa Broughton, owner of Busy Bee Advisors and creator of the One Hour Bookkeeper training system, to talk about what it really takes to leave corporate behind and build something that's actually yours. Ten years into her own business, Melissa's found a rhythm mos...

Have you ever looked at your own past (a job, a business, twenty years of running a household) and quietly decided that none of it counts toward what you want to do next? This week I'm sitting down with Sarah Noked, a 20-year Online Business Manager (OBM) and the founder of OBM School, who admits she believed exactly that when she started her own business, even though she'd already run a...

Have you been telling the same version of your story for so long it started to feel like a performance instead of the truth? This week I sit down with Elizabeth Brett, a former NBC reporter turned storytelling coach, to talk about what happens when we stop polishing our stories and start telling the true ones. Elizabeth spent almost a decade shaping thirty-minute interviews into ninety-second segm...

How many decisions do we make because we truly want something—and how many do we make because fear, an old belief, or some invisible “rule” tells us we should? This week, Penny sits down with SL Gillespie for a conversation that starts with golf and goes far beyond the course. They talk about confidence, self-talk, intuition, joy, and the beliefs women carry about success, money, achievement, and...

Women are often so busy taking care of everyone else that caring for themselves begins to feel selfish. Cass UK believes self-care isn’t selfish—it’s survival. After a traumatic childbirth experience nearly cost Cass and her baby their lives, she stopped waiting for the right time and committed fully to the business she had been building alongside her nursing career. In this conversation, Penny an...

Have you ever known exactly what you wanted (or needed) to do, but still couldn’t seem to get started? ADHD coach and EFT tapping practitioner Barb Hubbard explains why getting started isn’t always as simple as making a list, managing our time better, or trying harder. We talk about the overlap between ADHD symptoms, chronic stress, sleep deprivation, and perimenopause... And why so many capable w...

We spend so much time trying to make our businesses look polished, professional and perfectly put together that sometimes we edit out the very thing people would connect with most: ourselves. Deanna Dolecki is the president of Blue Duck Agency , where Ashley Ruggeri serves as account director. Together, they also host the Ducks Unplugged podcast—an unscripted mix of business, work, life and the wo...

What if the symptoms you’ve been blaming on stress, aging, or “just life” are actually connected to hormone shifts? This week, I’m joined by Sarah Norris, a nurse practitioner in urology and a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. Sarah also happens to be my urology provider, and I have been so excited to share this conversation because it touches on so many things women experience but often d...

If you've ever hesitated to post about a client win, an award, or even the impact you're making because you didn't want people to think you were bragging...this episode is for you. One of the things Priya Dua and I kept coming back to in this conversation is how uncomfortable so many women are talking about what they do. We work hard. We care deeply about serving others. But when it...

How do you stay open to people while still trusting your instincts? In this week's conversation, Tracey Elam and I explore one of the biggest challenges many of us face: balancing discernment with connection. We talk about the conditioning that shapes our beliefs, the ways fear can quietly influence our decisions, and why staying curious may be one of the most powerful tools we have for creat...

What if confidence isn't something you find... but something you build? In this week's conversation, Penny sits down with Jillian Johnson , founder of LEGS (Ladies Executive Golf Society) , to explore how connection, community, and a little bit of courage can transform the way women show up in their lives and businesses. While golf may have brought these women together, this conversation...

What if the ideas that keep nudging you aren't random at all? In this special solo episode, Penny shares an exciting preview of what's ahead on Penny for Your Shots and the experiences she's creating for women who are ready for more connection, confidence, courage, and joy. From upcoming conversations about building confidence through golf and advocating for women's health, to...

What if the thing you're supposed to do next doesn't make sense to anyone but you? Danielle Frank has built a fascinating career that took her from Hollywood publicity to the luxury wine and spirits industry, where she's spent more than two decades representing some of the world's most iconic brands. Along the way, she's made some bold decisions, including ending relations...

What do you do when a deeply personal heartbreak opens the door to your life’s next purpose? After watching her mother decline from Alzheimer’s and seeing her father struggle as the primary caregiver, Vicky McGrath realized how many families were navigating aging and dementia completely overwhelmed and unsupported. Instead of saying “someone should help,” she became the person who did. In this epi...