Ladies Get Paid

When you're facing a hard decision, the problem usually isn't that you don't have enough information — it's that you have too many parts of yourself all trying to drive at the same time. In this episode I share a six-step framework for making hard decisions with clarity and self-compassion, even when every option has a real cost. Including why arguing both sides like a passionate l...

Jessamyn Stanley — yoga teacher, author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke , and founder of The Underbelly — has one of the most honest money origin stories you'll hear. We go deep on growing up with financial scarcity, building a wellness business as a fat, Black, queer woman in an industry that wasn't built for her, and the tension between wanting to make money and believing the thing you'r...

I used to be the queen of procrastination — everything got done, but always at the last minute with late nights and anxiety. What changed wasn't willpower. It was understanding why I was procrastinating and building a system that worked with my brain instead of against it. In this episode I share my top tips, from figuring out the fear underneath your avoidance, to the 20-minute method, the sa...

What does it actually take to ask for what you want — and get it? Sam Saperstein spent 13 years at JPMorgan Chase, rising to Managing Director and founding the bank's Women on the Move initiative, where she helped millions of women build wealth and advance their careers. In this episode, she shares the real mechanics of self-advocacy: how she pitched Jamie Dimon and got a yes, what happened wh...

Do you know the difference between scarcity mode and scarcity mindset? One is a real circumstance. The other is an old story that hasn't caught up to where you actually are. In this episode I share the behind-the-scenes of negotiating my own book deal — including how I calculated my bottom line, why I factored in energetic output not just hours, how my body told me what my spreadsheet couldn&#...

Former Comedy Central VP and bestselling author Tara Schuster gets radically honest about money shame, identity, and what it really means to bet on yourself. This one is for anyone who has ever looked like they had it together while privately wondering if they ever will. 📩 Key insights, best quotes & action steps at ladiesgetpaid.substack.com

Have you ever been in the middle of a really good transition — a new chapter, something you've been working toward — and felt inexplicably sad or anxious? That's not something being wrong with you. That's grief. In this video I share what happened when all the things I'd been working toward for five years started arriving at once — and why I ended up in tears. Using the IFS framewo...

Teri Ijeoma went from making $60,000 a year as an assistant principal — crying in a bathroom every morning — to making a million dollars in a single day trading stocks. It took nine years of grinding, a million-dollar loss on Tesla, 42 employees scaled back to two, and a health scare that forced her to stop before she figured out what sustainable success actually looks like. In this episode we tal...

The real reason you can't focus probably isn't what you think. If you've been pulling in too many directions at once — too many ideas, too many tabs open, too many versions of your life you're holding onto just in case — you've probably called it shiny object syndrome. But in this video I break down what's actually going on, the three types of distractions and how to tell t...

Brooke Taylor surveyed over 5,000 women about their career problems — and found that perfectionism, overworking, imposter syndrome, and burnout all share one hidden root: the success wound. It's the deeply ingrained belief that your worth is contingent on what you achieve, produce, and do. In this conversation, Brooke traces the wound back to its origins, walks through the five ways it shows u...

What does it actually mean to bet on yourself? In this episode I share what I've learned about showing up fully for what you want, why trying to control outcomes can backfire, and the difference between directing the universe and dancing with it — including what happened when life humbled me completely and what it taught me about success, surrender, and starting over. If you're in the midd...

Liza Wyles built a successful career in entertainment — then got laid off, retrained as an intimacy coordinator, and watched her husband be diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. In this first-person episode, she gets honest about undercharging, guilt, scarcity, and what it finally took to stop building other people's empires. Part of an occasional series amplifying real women's stories. 📩...

Ever finish something and immediately spiral into everything that went wrong? In this episode I share a recent spiral of my own and the exact process I used to move from self-criticism to clarity — including a nervous system reset you can use in the moment, how to work with your inner critic instead of against it, and the reframe that changed how I think about success entirely. If perfectionism or...

Most people have no idea what their 401(k) is actually invested in. Amanda Holden spent years working in finance, and she's here to tell you: if you're invested in an S&P 500 index fund, you own pieces of weapons manufacturers, oil companies, and AI surveillance tech. This isn't a conspiracy theory. It's how the retirement system works. Amanda tripled her salary at 24 working a...

Many women who come to me for coaching say they don't know what they want. But in my experience, that's almost never true. They DO know. They just don't trust it. In this episode I break down why desire is so complicated for women specifically, how to tell if a desire is actually yours, and three practices you can start using today to hear yourself more clearly. Because the more you do...

Sonja Rasula, founder of Unique Markets and creator of the popup market concept, shares her unconventional journey with money—from making $300,000 in cash to negotiating two years of free rent during COVID.In this episode of Ladies Get Paid, we talk about:✅ How Sonja bought her first house using credit card cash advances (and paid it back in one year)✅ The $28,000/month rent negotiation that sav...

What does it actually take to bet on yourself — in a job search, a career change, or building something of your own from scratch? In this episode, I'm joined by Emily Durham, aka Emily the Recruiter, a recruiter-turned-content creator with over 1.6 million followers and the author of Clock In. We get into everything: what's really tanking your job search right now, how to negotiate even in...

She grew up in a household where money was never discussed — just survived. She became a mom at 19, went through a divorce at 24 with $20,000 in debt, no car, and two kids. Then she built one of the most important financial communities for Black women in the world — and had a $170,000 month. But this episode isn't really about the money. It's about what nobody tells you: that you can be do...

You did the free work. You got the testimonials. So why isn't anyone paying you? This is part two of a real, unedited coaching session with Ellie — a CRM and digital marketing specialist who has done free lead magnet audits for twenty people, gotten genuine feedback, and still hasn't closed a single paid client. She's been pivoting between niches, trying offers that aren't landing,...

If you've ever frozen when an interviewer asks "why do you want to leave your business?" — this one's for you. This is a real, unedited coaching session with Ellie, a CRM and digital marketing specialist who started her own consulting business but hasn't gotten the traction she hoped for. Now she's applying for full-time jobs — and every interview goes sideways the moment...

In Part 1 of this coaching session, we did the inner work required to maintain confidence during a job search. In Part 2, we build a pipeline to getting paid now. Chloe — a Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience — had already built the bones of a consultancy after her first layoff. A business plan, an LLC, real work. And then after her second layoff, she quietly put it all do...

A real, unscripted coaching session with a client I'm calling Chloe — a Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience who was laid off twice in one year and slowly stopped believing she was still an expert at anything. In Part 1, we don't start with strategy. We start with what's actually in the way: a nervous system in chronic threat mode, an unprocessed wound, and the...

What do you actually want? If that question makes you go blank — this episode is for you. In this real, unscripted coaching session, I work with a woman who has spent her entire career in service to others and yet can't answer the most basic question: what do I want? What we uncover together is that she doesn't need more clarity. She needs permission. We cover how to identify your superpow...

When the rug keeps getting pulled out — your job, your relationship, your health — it's not a strategy problem. It's a trust problem. In this real coaching session, I work with Rachael, a client who came to me after being made redundant, going through a divorce, managing a chronic illness, and raising two kids alone. She'd spent over two decades being the most capable person in the roo...

Rachael came to me after being made redundant, going through a divorce, managing a chronic illness, and raising two kids alone. When she filled out her intake form, she described herself as someone who felt lucky to have been employed. That sentence stopped me. Because Rachael isn't someone who got lucky. She's someone who spent over two decades being the most capable person in the room, r...