Ladies Get Paid

How do you start over when life falls apart, again and again? Rachel Kennedy moved seven times in ten years, went through two miscarriages, changed careers, and was widowed at 35. Now an image consultant and author, she shares how she rebuilt her life after loss and the question that helps her choose desire over fear: do you want the curtains up? We talk about the strengths you can lean on after a...

After being laid off from Peloton, Meris Stone moved to Mexico City, met her husband, and built a consulting and coaching business while still job searching. Claire Wasserman and Meris talk about getting hired through referrals and transferable skills, finding your first freelance client in your existing network, making LinkedIn self-promotion feel less cringe, using AI to save 10 hours a week, an...

Certified financial planner AJ Ayers explains stock options and RSUs, how to negotiate equity in a job offer, the 90-day window after a layoff, why she skips budgets and saves first, and how to think about credit card debt, renting vs. buying, and getting started with investing. AJ’s book, Creative Money: New Financial Rules for Artists, Innovators, and Misfits, is out November 10. Pre-order at aj...

Jamia Wilson has been asked if she’s the intern in rooms where she was running the place. She was the youngest director in the history of the Feminist Press and the first woman of color to lead it. She’s now a VP and executive editor at Random House. Gloria Steinem was her mentor, and then she became Gloria’s editor. In this episode we talk about where feminism stands right now, what she learned a...

At 14, Ella Rivkin immigrated from Moscow to New York with about $100 and became her family’s money manager. In 2009 she walked out of her accounting partnership with $12,000 in the bank, two small kids, and an underwater mortgage, and built her own firm. Years later, Tony Robbins told her she still wasn’t financially free. Claire Wasserman and Ella talk about betting on yourself, leaving a job wi...

Erin Lowry wrote four books about money. Her business bank account is the lowest it's ever been. She built a career as Broke Millennial — Penguin, CBS Sunday Morning, the person a generation of us learned to open a Roth IRA from. She isn't broke the way she was at 23 on $23,000 a year in New York. She's broke the way self-employed people are broke: the money arrives in waves, and somet...

Rita Boccuzzi was sued for gender discrimination for hosting money events for women, by the same two men who sued me. Instead of settling, she fought for three and a half years. We talk about the lawsuit, the 38 lawyers she called, turning her camera on in her deposition, and how it finally ended. Rita also shares how cancer drained her savings, why medical debt and caregiving costs wipe out so ma...

Habit change expert Connie Kwan explains why willpower isn't the problem; the story you're telling yourself is. She shares her STORY method, the two numbers that predict whether a habit change will stick, and how a client quit a ten-year french fry habit in two weeks. Then she coaches me live on my doom scrolling, and we end up somewhere I didn't expect: why I can't lie down for te...

Cathy's husband was fired without warning in 2018. She'd left her six-figure job two years before to stay home with their kids. What was left: a $1.32 million mortgage, over $100,000 in credit card debt across eleven maxed cards, another $100,000 borrowed from friends, and no income. Eight years on, every card is at zero and her credit score is 815. She walks me through exactly how — the j...

Five years at a tech startup. Four rounds of layoffs. Seven managers. And a side business as a death doula that she loves but isn't sure can pay her. Natasha came in asking when to make the leap. A few minutes in, she mentioned her health insurance and called her attachment to it silly — and the conversation turned into something else entirely. We get into why binary thinking keeps you stuck,...

You know what you should charge. You still quoted less. You know you should negotiate. You still froze. This isn't a confidence problem. It's a fear problem — and in this episode I'm naming all four fears that have been quietly keeping women underpaid, often for years. I'll walk you through what each one looks like, why it makes complete sense that you have it, and give you a quest...

Two-time NYT bestselling author Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs (The Three Mothers, Erased) uncovered the women history deliberately wrote out — then had to fight to keep her own work from disappearing. We talk about the mothers behind MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, the "trophy wife" comments she got on the campaign trail, the meeting where she told her publisher to print enough books bec...

Jodi Wellman knows exactly how many Mondays she has left to live, and she checks the number every week. Morbid? A little. Effective? Completely. The average life holds about 4,000 Mondays — and most of us spend them saying "later." Jodi is a speaker, founder of Four Thousand Mondays, and author of You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets. In this episode: the mortalit...

She spent twelve years as a police officer. She made detective - the goal she'd worked toward her entire career - and walked away from it almost immediately after. What followed wasn't a clean pivot. It was a smoothie shop, five months of unemployment, and two jobs she found through relationships rather than resumes. If you're in the middle of a career change, feeling stuck, or wondering if you've...

She told her boss she was pregnant on a Monday. She was fired by Friday. Kelly Ehlers sued the $300 million company — and while the case dragged on for six years, she built a 5x Inc. 5000 agency, launched a media company out of spite, and wrote Nice Girls Win. We talk about what she said to the men hiding in the conference room the day she was fired, where niceness ends and self-abandonment begins...

"D" the sole income earner for a family of five. Her husband has been a stay-at-home dad for nine years. Her net worth is $4 million — and she's never made over $200,000 a year or worked a sixty-hour week. In this episode, a woman from the Ladies Get Paid community tells her story in her own words: seventeen years at one company, the job rubric that showed her what she actually neede...

Most meditations ask you to sit still and clear your mind. This one won't. It's made for a ten minute walk outside, meant to transform the negative thoughts that won't stop, the behaviors you can't seem to break, and the noise that's drowning out what you actually want. It's part of The Practice, a new app I hope to build that helps you reconnect with who you are and what y...

For my whole professional life, I've worked in a constant state of urgency — and assumed anxiety was just the price of caring about my work. Then I ran an accidental experiment: a two-week production sprint so big that even AI was skeptical. I finished two days early. I wasn't exhausted. And I finally learned what my anxiety was actually doing all along (spoiler: not what I thought).In thi...

What does your relationship with money say about you? Lindsay Stanberry spent a decade watching women talk about money. She created Money Diaries at Refinery29, wrote the bestselling book, and went on to become an executive editor at CNBC and Fortune. Now she runs The Purse, a media platform helping women build financial confidence. In this episode, we talk about what Money Diaries revealed about...

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