Financial Autonomy for Women: The Personal Finance Podcast

If you're needing some mid year inspiration --this is the episode to listen to! I talk again with my teammate and friend Mary Polanco about progress on our 2026 goals and giving ourselves grace along the way. Mary shares that she's stayed consistent with wellbeing practices while working on her dissertation, gained clarity and momentum with her schedule, navigated the shift to summer with her kids...

Are you aging solo ? --or think you might be moving toward that path?    Some women actively choose to age solo while others might find themselves solo aging without having chosen it. Either way, in this episode, financial strategist and investment manager Lisa Clements tells us what we need to keep in mind if we're "solo aging" and what it means as more people—especially women—remain unmarried, d...

If you're new to investing --no matter how young/old you are--it might be hard to get past the overwhelm and the uknowns of the investing world so you can actually just get started on your investing journey.  In this episode, I talk about five principles every beginning investor should keep in mind:  (1) Just start , because more time in the market is the biggest beneficial factor in building long...

Time to make a PLAN for that extra CASH .  In this episode, I close out my three-part series on curbing overspending. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we talked about the neuroscience of spending and also three tools to help you curb your spending. Today, we're focusing on mindset: getting excited about what becomes possible when less money leaves you and you keep more of your income. Here's the good news a...

"Intentional" -- we throw this word around a lot, especially when it comes to money. I use it all the time on the podcast.    In this episode, we're taking some time to break down that word and understand what it really means to be "intentional" about money.   We're joined by Leah Hadley, founder of Intentional Wealth Partners and Intentional Divorce Solutions, the ideal guest to help us define wh...

Would you drive a car with no brakes?  Of course not.  Brakes helps us stay safe and get to our destination.  I n Part 2 of my series "How to Stop Spending So Much Damn Money" I give you three practical tools you can start using today to create intentional "friction" in today's "frictionless" spending systems.  The three tools include turning off autopay, the "24 Hour Rule" and the "Envelope Metho...

How do we get to those BIG WINS we're hoping for? With achievable goals--intention and action on the way to what we want.    It's kind of unsexy, isn't it? Just make the goals achievable? Take action, rinse and repeat. Yep, that's pretty much the recipe. Sounds simple, but it's not exactly easy. It's better when you talk to a friend about it!   Join me and my friend, entrepreneur, and leadership a...

Need to stop spending so much damn money?   I got you.   A lot of us are feeling that way, especially given the current economic situation.   This episode is Part I in a multi-part series focused on "How to Stop Spending So Much Damn Money." In this episode, we're talking about the neuroscience of spending.   I talk about how the brain's reward center (nucleus accumbens) releases dopamine in antic...

A new year is here, friends! And to kick off 2026, I'm joined--again--by my good friend Mary Polanco (Founder of Mary Polanco Designs and Live and Lead Well ) to talk about our New Year Visions (having already kicked resolutions to the curb in 2025) and what we're excited to create in 2026.   If you're over resolutions and the toxic positivity that comes in self development--give this a listen!  ...

Imagine your life with:  Reduced depression/depressive symptoms Less anxiety, less negative thought patterns Improved heart health Less stress Better sleep Would you take it? I know I would. These are the evidence-based benefits of gratitude practice.  But...what do all these have to do with money? Remember, a healthier physiology, less stress, and more rest help us regulate our nervous systems, w...

For First Gen wealth builders, the wealth building game is different. On this episode, I talk with Gloria Garcia Cisneros, CFP® , award winning Certified Financial Planner® and Wealth Manager at Lourd Murray about her experience as a first gen financial planner and wealth builder herself.  Gloria and I dig into the emotional and psychological aspects of money management, the importance of trust an...

Does gender really matter when you choose a financial advisor?    My take: It does.    And...the magic of Financial Autonomy means that you get to decide what matters for you when you choose a financial professional.   In this episode, I talk with Lex Michelson, MBA, founder of Lunea Wealth Management , about why gender matters for women when they're choosing a financial advisor.    We talk about:...

Leaning into how you want to feel when you achieve your goals is the key to cultivating joy, knowing your worth, and enjoying the surprises along the way. In this episode, I sit down with Mary Polanco, wellness and leadership expert and crafting entrepreneur to talk about our 2025 Vision and goals. At the beginning of the year, Mary and I committed to meeting quarterly to check in on our progress,...

Let's move from surviving to THRIVING and staying out of the Financial "Emergency Room."   In this episode, I talk about the parallel between physical and financial health, and why we need to take proactive steps to maintain financial wellbeing. Preventative care applies to finances too!   Preventative care (= the steps we need to take to stay out of the Financial "Emergency Room") includes unders...

Women face financial headwinds whether we like it or not: the persistent gender wage gap and a longer life expectancy than men mean we don't make enough cash flow to build all the wealth we're going to need to support ourselves to the end of our lives.    One strategy to consider... PASSIVE INCOME (my new passion!). This episode helps you unlock some passive income strategies to build your financi...

MONEY SHAME (yikes!) ...it's a charged topic, and it's much more common than you probably think.  It's that regret, that embarrassment, that "ick" you get around your past financial decisions that -- truth be told -- inevitably get in the way of your current and future financial decisions.  We have all experienced it, and it's time to normalize it and move past it.  On this episode, I have the gre...

Working on your 2025 goals and can't believe we're already halfway through the year?  Same! Mary Polanco--leadership and wellness expert, thought leader, author, entrepreneur and US Air Force veteran--joins me on the show for our mid-year 2025 Vision Check In episode.  Mary and I originally talked over New Years about ditching resolutions and the how and why of engaging a "VISION" for 2025 instead...

This 10 min episode tells you everything that you need to know about the investment advisory firm I launched this year: New Paradigm Wealth Advisory, LLC .  Why start my own firm?  Because I was sick and tired of being sick and tired of women clients coming to me and telling me that they felt judged, shamed, and overlooked when they met with male financial advisors.  Plain and simple: my firm is a...

Begin harnessing the power of your brain's natural capcities to make your goals a reality.  In this episode, I talk with Tanya Tarr, MS, NBC-HWC , behavioral scientist and executive health coach. She's studied human behavior for over 20 years and her insights will help you understand the "cheat codes" to help your brain help you achieve your goals.  In this episode we talk about:  How our brain is...

How's your 2025 VISION going?  Whether or not you listened to my New Years 2024/25 episode with leadership and wellness expert and author Mary Polanco or not, this episode is full of strategies to help you continue pursuing your goals in 2025. After Mary and I talked at the end of 2024, we committed to talking again quarterly to check in our visions.  In this episode, Mary and I recap our original...

DIVORCE/UNCOUPLING: A difficult journey and sometimes a necessary one. If you are considering separation, divorce, or uncoupling from your parnter, this is the episode for you! (Even if you're not...every woman should listen to this episode). I had the good fortune to talk with Nikki Tucker, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) and founder of The FIIRM Approach , on what every woman in a re...

CONSUMPTION: We need to do it to survive...so, how do we make sure it's mindful to support our wellbeing?  Jaelyn Vickery, LSW and I talk about this question and many others as we explore what "Disordered Consumption" is, how it works, and how it can affect our finances and other aspects of our lives.  Jaelyn and I talk about:  What "Disordered Consumption" means as Jaelyn continues to explore it...

As a human, your nervous system is connected to all aspects of your life--and money is no different.  In this episode, I have the privilege of talking with Diana Yañez, CFP®, RLP® about how our nervous system wellbeing and our financial wellbeing are intimately connected. Diana is a money coach at All the Colors, a wealth manager at Strategy Squad and the host of the podcast Highly Sensitive Money...

Why on earth would I need to give myself permission to make BIG money?  On the surface, it seems counterintuitive. Obviously.  But...there are many social norms and expectations that may be keeping you from giving yourself this permission, especially as someone that has received the gendered conditioning that comes with being assigned the female sex at birth.  In this episode, I talk with Taylor G...

Forget about making resolutions for the new year, and create your VISION for the new year instead. Mary Polanco , leadership and resilience expert, author, and United States Air Force veteran, joins me on this episode to talk about harnessing something far more powerful, impactful and creative than resolutions to create the life we want--our VISION .  Resolutions perpetuate the idea that we, as in...