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Live and Earn

115 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratings

Across the US, from our kitchens, our boardrooms (even our bedrooms) women launch nearly 2000 new businesses every. single. day.

They’re family women. Single women. Moms. Or not. They’re college graduates. High-school dropouts. Debtors. Bootstrappers. Multimillionaires. They’re women from every culture, community, and background. Now more than ever, they’re women of color, too.

These aren’t the kinds of success stories you hear every day. But they should be.

Helen Ngo, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER, multiple-business-owner, money-and-empowerment coach for women entrepreneurs, knows the real questions—and doesn’t hesitate to ask. Hear the unfiltered answers, real-life experiences, lessons learned, and yes, actual costs of what’s lost and what’s earned by women who’ve fired their old life to start something new.

Tune in each Wednesday to hear their bold stories.

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Ep 52: Helen Ngo: How I Live and Earn

October 06, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 29 MB

“There’s no such thing as being bad with money. You just have bad habits.”  -- Helen Ngo  When I turned 18 and went off to college, I thought I was going to be a dentist. Despite growing up in a family of female entrepreneurs, and later realizing a career in medicine wasn’t for me, I never dreamed of starting my own company.  The “aha” moment didn’t come until a few years after college, early in my career in the finance industry. When I asked my boss for a raise, he told me I’d be better...

Ep 51: Why People Stay in Jobs They Hate with Taylor Epley

September 29, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 38.9 MB

“Corporate does a really good job of making you feel like what you’re doing isn’t important.” -- Taylor Epley For years, Taylor Epley helped friends, family, and pretty much anyone who asked with résumés and cover letters, until a peer challenged her to find her first client, charge for those same services she’d previously done for free, and get serious about starting her own business: The Career Curator.  Now, as a career coach, Taylor specializes in helping people figure out where they...

Ep 50: How to Set Goals to Achieve Success with Johanna White

September 22, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 45.3 MB

“You don’t always have to wait for the whole dream. You can break it down into parts that can happen now.” -- Johanna White  Whether you track your goals with a spreadsheet, write your intentions in a journal, or keep your dreams close to the chest, charting out a path to your future achievements shouldn’t be that complicated. And it certainly shouldn’t be scary, but for so many of us, it can be.  If you don’t set goals or speak your dreams into existence, then you’ll never fall short of...

Ep 49: Your Backup Plan Might Be Better with Jamie Shank

September 15, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 27.3 MB

“Today might not be the best day, but there's something really, really great on the other end of this, and it just hasn't revealed itself yet. But it's totally there —  it's there for my taking and when I get to it, I'll get to it.” -- Jamie Shank  If anyone could survive the pandemic job market, you’d think it would be a public health expert.  And you’d be right — but you might be surprised by the survival guide Jamie Shank created for her own career. Jamie uprooted her life in Kansas t...

Ep 48: You Can’t Be CEO with An Employee Mindset with Joy Ugi

September 08, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 34.7 MB

“Once you grow your business, it is a high like no other.” -- Joy Ugi Joy Ugi always had big dreams for herself. After so many years in marketing, she’d worked her way up the corporate ladder. Someday, she’d be CMO. Starting her own business never even crossed her mind, hesitating to start her own business as a single woman.  Finally, as so many of us have, Joy reached a point where she simply couldn’t abide the corporate world or the culture that came with it any longer. Because that wa...

Ep 47: Systematize Your Way to Success with Jordan Gill

September 01, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 39.5 MB

“It's always better to have data backing up what your intuition is saying, and not just making decisions on intuition.” -- Jordan Gill   What’s your zone of genius and how do you use it to your advantage? Operations consultant Jordan Gill has a system to help entrepreneurs figure that out. In fact, she has a system for everything, really. As founder of Systems Saved Me, Jordan identified her own zone of genius early on in her career. In just five years, she’s turned her company into a ...

Ep 46: What It Takes to Be an Overnight Success with Porsha Thomas

August 25, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MB

“I think overnight success takes like 10 years for everybody. And we don’t get to see the 10 years; we only see the lead-up … because we just found out about them.”   -- Porsha Thomas In her words, brand strategist Porsha Thomas has been dancing in and out of the corporate world for years. She knew from a young age that she wanted to create and lead but didn’t know how to make that her full-time job — so she went to work for other people and began freelancing on the side. Porsha has sinc...

Ep 45: How Money Amplifies Who You Really Are with Liz O’Brien

August 18, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

“Money gives you the opportunity to be who you really are … so it boils down to: Who am I choosing to be? And whether I'm rich, whether I'm poor … whoever I am is my choice every day. And does the money let me be more of that? Who I wish to be and how I want to operate in the world? Or does it get in the way?” -- Liz O’Brien Everyone loves a rags-to-riches story.  Whether we’re watching ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Pretty Woman’ on the big screen or singing along when the radio throws it back to ‘Je...

Ep 44: Why You Don’t Need to Stick With Just One Career Your Whole Life with Dr. Juliet McGrattan

August 11, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 34.4 MB

“Life is to be lived, and if you're … spending all your days doing something that you aren't enjoying and is making you not very well, then you should do something about it.”  -- Dr. Juliet McGrattan   After 22 years practicing medicine, Dr. Juliet McGrattan hung up her white coat to pursue two of her passions full-time. Striking out on her own, Juliet faced a steep learning curve. When she became a running coach, she had to go out and find her own clients — unlike having patients come...

Ep 43: How to Make Serious Money as a Freelancer with Lola Méndez

August 04, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MB

“We're not bothering anybody by asking for more money. We're not bothering anybody by asking, ‘where's my late payment?’ We need to be assertive and direct.” -- Lola Méndez Six years ago, Uruguayan-American journalist Lola Méndez packed up her New York apartment to travel around the world full-time. From Hong Kong and Chiang Mai to Mexico and Morocco, Lola has written about sustainability, social justice, identity and more for publications including CNN, ELLE, and Architectural Digest.  ...

Ep 42: What It Takes to Build Multi-Million Dollar Businesses with AJ Vaden

July 28, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 41.4 MB

“We’ll go as fast as we can, but as slow as we have to.” -- AJ Vaden Personal life and work don’t always mix — but that was the first rule AJ and Rory Vaden broke when they set out to create their own recipe for success. Since meeting by chance as business partners in a startup, AJ and Rory have gotten married, started a family, and founded a series of multimillion-dollar companies.  Their latest venture is Brand Builders Group, a personal brand strategy firm for influencers, thought lea...

Ep 41: Millennial Entrepreneurship and Motherhood with Alessandra Pollina

July 21, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MB

“The sky's the limit when you have your own company.” Alessandra Pollina   Three months into her first job out of college, Alessandra Pollina had an epiphany: She didn’t need to spend her 20s paying her dues in a traditional 9-5. Living in Boston on just $20,000 a year, Alessandra didn’t have much to lose — but had everything to gain — when she walked away from her desk job to make a name for herself in PR. At just 23 years old, Alessandra launched her own company, Pollina PR and Marke...

Ep 40: How to Ditch Wellness Trends and Create a No-BS Lifestyle with Certified Health Coach Linsey Levy

July 14, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 41.3 MB

“The sweet spot is … just finding goals that are actually meaningful to you, or just finding joy in things that you do and not looking for these magical quick fixes, because there’ll always be a new magical, quick fix.” – Linsey Levy   Linsey Levy is a Certified Health Coach with a no-nonsense approach. Linsey believes in the power of small changes to create healthy habits that last a lifetime. Her science-backed philosophy is a stark contrast with the fad diets magazines and celebrities h...

Ep 39: Thriving Personally and Professionally After Divorce with Attorney Renée Bauer

July 07, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 29.4 MB

“Winning a divorce is not about what you financially gain from it. It's about how each of you become financially independent and thrive mentally, and being a healthier human being.” -- Renee Bauer  Divorce attorney, Renée Bauer, isn’t ashamed to admit she’s been divorced twice, but that hasn’t always been the case.  Renée’s second marriage came to an end while she was counseling clients through the very same thing — yet, she felt too embarrassed to tell anyone how well she could relate t...

Ep 38: Surviving a Brain Tumor and Thriving as a Business Owner with Johanna White

June 30, 2021 08:00 - 51 minutes - 41.4 MB

“What you believe matters, but what you do about what you believe matters even more.” Johanna White For most of her life, Johanna White was be paralyzed by fear. Fear of being late. Fear of change. Fear of uncertainty.  Then, when she was 25, Johanna faced a battle most anyone would fear: a brain tumor, and along with it, actual paralysis. She couldn’t move the left side of her body. She couldn’t talk. She couldn’t swallow. The anxiety Johanna had always struggled to suppress only made her...

Ep 37: Live from the Heart with Andrea Parker

June 23, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 35.6 MB

“You can say you want more freedom. You can say you want more… adventure. You could want a loving relationship. But it’s not what you say you want — it’s what you actually believe.” Andrea Parker From her first day at the police academy, Andrea Parker knew a career in law enforcement wasn’t the right fit for her. Despite that, she went on to achieve great success, graduating at the top of her class, rising quickly to the rank of detective, making a salary over six figures. Still, even with...

Ep 36: How My Immigrant Mentality Contributed To My Success As An Entrepreneur with Juanita Velez

June 16, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 44.8 MB

“Being an immigrant made me resourceful, made me a motivated individual. It changed my career track and the way that I view life, and the way that I’m going to teach my daughter to persevere.” -- Juanita Velez Moving from Medellín, Colombia to Atlanta, Georgia at the age of six — and on the first day of the ‘96 Olympics, to boot — Juanita Velez grew up bridging communities. As an adult, she’s made a career of it. Driven by her innate empathy for others, Juanita earned a degree in psycholog...

Ep 35: Walking Away from Wall Street with Ashley Williams

June 09, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 36.8 MB

“We want money because of what it gives us. It's not the dollar bill or the number in our bank account… it's the freedom.” --Ashley Williams  Ashley Williams had it all: the high-power finance career at Barclays, New York City apartment, black car service, and a promotion waiting for her in either London or Hong Kong. Then, she landed a $4 billion IPO — and felt no excitement. That’s when Ashley realized the dream job she had hustled for was no longer her dream.  Following some soul sear...

Ep 34: What Self-Care Really Means with Lauren Collins

June 02, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 33.4 MB

“A misconception ... is that self-care is always a feel-good thing. It’s also doing the hard things sometimes.” Dr. Lauren Collins  Lauren Collins is a perinatal chiropractor, mama, devoted wife, doula, and holistic health advocate. On this episode of Live & Earn, Lauren redefines self-care and debunks misconceptions about chiropractic medicine. She also explains how she stopped asking for permission and learned to put herself first, both as a mother and a business owner. What we tackle ...

Ep 33: You Can’t Do It Alone with Anne Gill

May 26, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB

“When someone tells you that it's not possible, or it's not going to work, that should motivate you even more to go out there and prove that it can be done.” Anne Gill is the founder of Haist Designs, her own brand of luxury handbags designed in Nashville and made in Italy. Haist is inspired by  Anne’s family — her husband, former professional ice hockey defenseman Hal Gill, and their three children Isabel, Sophie, and Talon — as much as her lifestyle as a globetrotting NHL wife and busy m...

Ep 32: Do You Need to Talk About Money Before Marriage? with Kristine Fletcher

May 19, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 49.6 MB

"As a woman, you never want to ever find yourself in a place where you can't support yourself." -- Kristine Fletcher A wedding is one day.  A marriage is a lifetime...supposedly.  But it doesn’t always work out that way. The U.S. divorce rate is 50% and money is one of the top 3 reasons people break up. So why don’t we talk more about money BEFORE we get married?   Kristine Fletcher, an Atlanta divorce attorney, explains what really happens when couples fail to have honest and tran...

Ep 31: How to Start a Business as a Gay Couple with Miko Dougherty and Brooke Condrey

May 12, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MB

"I knew the corporate world was never right for me." -- Brooke Condrey Meet Miko Dougherty and Brooke Condrey, founders of an Atlanta based design firm.  They share their bold story of leaving comfortable salaries for a more risky role as entrepreneurs in pursuit of creative independence. Hear how they overcame societal obstacles and their own self-criticisms to build their business and life together as a gay couple. What we tackle in this episode: How to “split” the money as business...

Ep 30: How I Left My 9-5 to Become a Travel Blogger with Laura Chung

May 05, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 33.8 MB

“I traded in money to have fulfillment in myself.”  Laura Chung Isn’t it fascinating how some people make career decisions, especially when it comes to pursuing a lifestyle that is so radically different than the one they’re currently living? Laura Chung was living what seemed to be the high life in NYC, working her high paying private equity job.  From the outside, she had the wealth, the family, the friends, and all the things you may traditionally tie with success.  On the inside,...

Ep 29: Leaving Corporate Life for a Better Future with Lorrie Thomas Ross

April 28, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 42.3 MB

“I was actually more uncomfortable being comfortable. Sure, the pay is good. The coworkers are nice, but I can’t do this anymore.” - Lorrie Thomas Ross Wild Web Woman and CEO of Web Marketing Therapy®, Lorrie Thomas Ross, talks about leadership as an entrepreneur and growing a team. What does “leaving the confines of corporate hell” look like? For many of us who have made the leap into full-time entrepreneurship, leadership skills is the last thing on our minds in mastering - especially ...

Ep 28: What Happened When I Followed My Passion with Darin Wright

April 21, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

“If you’re doing something and it’s not really what you should be doing, you just don’t excel at it. You can be good at it, you could even be great at it. But if it’s killing you inside, I just don’t understand the point of it.”  -- Darin Wright Color expert and Elea Blake Cosmetics owner Darin Wright shares what it can really look like to follow your passion. Few of us realize just how much color affects our surroundings: from the color on the walls of our homes to the colors we put o...

Ep 27: Owning Your Worth Starts with You with Ashley Paré

April 14, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 46.3 MB

“I find the more clear we are, with what we want in our life, what we want in our business, and why, we start stepping into our confidence more easily.” - Ashley Paré Own Your Worth™ founder and CEO Ashley Paré talks about the difference between worth and value, and how the way we define them can shape our career path. The thought of negotiating a 5-figure pay raise is enough to make most people’s palms sweat. But it’s what Ashley helps her clients do every day. Women especially tend to ...

Ep 26: Letting Go of Expectations with Kati Tatnall

April 07, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 52.8 MB

“I want to make sure that my external dialogue isn’t just to please somebody else.” -- Kati Tatnall We can easily get caught up in meeting others’ expectations that we tend to forget our own.  And if you let it happen often enough and long enough, you end up forgetting about your goals. Your dreams. And what you make of yourself.  We are trying so hard to serve others that we don’t take care ourselves – emotionally and physically. I invited my college roommate, Kati Tatnall, to addre...

Ep 25: Prioritizing My Career, Family, and Self with ReShea Balams

March 31, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 36.7 MB

“Something is going to go lacking. You can’t have it all.” — ReShea Balams Does work life balance really exist?  Helen sits down with ReShea Balams to answer this question. She runs her own law practice all while taking care of her two young children as a widow.  Where does taking care of herself come into play? Often, we feel so much pressure to grow our businesses as an entrepreneur, be the best parents to our children, be financially successful, and be the best at whatever else so...

Ep 24: Think Outside Your Box to Find Your Next Career with Nicole Amos

March 24, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes - 56.2 MB

“I like to get people to think about what is possible for themselves.” - Nicole Amos Career Coach, Nicole Amos, started The Career Oasis when her friends and colleagues told her she should start charging for the amazing career advice and strategy she was already providing.  A born networker, Nicole started climbing the corporate ladder by finding creative ways to “be in the room” with the people making decisions. When co-workers began to take notice, they came to her asking for advice on...

Ep 23: Find Personal Growth by Sidetracking with Andrea Strauss

March 17, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 38.4 MB

“It wasn’t part of my dream. It was part of other people’s dreams. So I was really unhappy with myself.” --Andrea Strauss Have you ever been worried that you’d be judged if you pursue another career or job that’s outside of your college major or original career path? How would you perceive someone who’s a photographer, doula, restaurant owner, William Sonoma employee, and celebrity chef? Well, that’s Andrea Strauss. She’s filled all those shoes, sometimes simultaneously. On the surface, ...

Ep 22: Wanting More vs. Deserving More with Mary Grace Allerdice

March 10, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 37.7 MB

“You have to start big if you’re going to go big.” - Mary Grace Allerdice Mary Grace Allerdice, Founder of Be Well Studio,  explains how she got sick and tired of telling herself she couldn't afford a $2 coffee or even groceries at times! Budgeting and prioritizing is of course important, especially when you're starting up a new business. But sometimes habits die hard - and we come to realize that "affording" things we want or need isn't always as simple as being in the black or red.  Ov...

Ep 21: The Downside of Saying ‘Yes’ Too Often

March 03, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes - 25.6 MB

We are so good with our ‘yes’ scripts. We don’t work hard enough on our ‘no’ scripts because saying ‘no’ to someone feels like we are rejecting them.”   – Helen Ngo Have you become a “Yes Woman” without even realizing it? You’re saying ‘yes’ to clients who you know are going to bulldoze right through your boundaries. ‘Yes’ to projects that aren’t in alignment with your business goals. ‘Yes’ to PR opportunities that will require hours of your time without much return for your bottomline. ...

Ep 20: Knowing When Its Time to Move On with Mary Grace Allerdice

February 24, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes - 53 MB

Success in this day and age includes failure. The people who will succeed are the ones who are fragile enough to hop around and figure out what works until it works. --Mary Grace Allerdice If you ask any business owner, the first two years are the most grueling.  It will break you down to your core. Almost every day feels like a battlefield of self-doubt and uncertainty. Had a bad day? Well, guess what? Those bills still have to be paid. Where’s the next dollar going to come from? Yo...

Ep 19: Why I Gave Up My Mercedes Benz Lifestyle with Stefanie Jewett

February 17, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes - 54.6 MB

“What’s more important to you now? Driving a Benz now to look a certain way or pursue the thing you love most at all costs?” -- Stefanie Jewett Starting your own business is difficult by design; that’s why it’s not meant for everyone.  But this notion that starting your own business is difficult doesn’t deter our guest this week, Stefanie Jewett, Founder of Activvely, a social app that helps individuals find workout partners. She went from collecting a comfortable salary at CNN, driving ...

Ep 18: Juggling It All To Have It All with Ashley Williams

February 10, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 34.5 MB

“I loved investment banking, and I loved New York. But I knew I didn’t want to do it for the rest of my life.” Serial entrepreneur, Ashley Williams, shares her experience leaving a 6-figure job (right out of college!) to tackle marriage, motherhood, and the uncertainties of being an entrepreneur. Juggling all the things that life as a wife, mother, and business owner brings is enough to make most people’s heads spin. And while she’ll tell you she’s far from having mastered it, Ashley doe...

Ep 17: High-End Sales for a High-End Life with Merel Kriegsman

February 03, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MB

“You must fall in love with the constant challenges of running a business.” --Merel Kriegsman Merel Kriegsman is the founder and CEO of Merel Kriegsman Media. She provides high-end mentorship to women business owners, plus runs a conversion copywriting agency. While Merel is now on the verge of her first 7-figure year (in less than 5 years in business!), her story starts with: being in debt and underpaid, and scrubbing toilets to make ends meet… while 8 months pregnant. Helen and Mer...

Ep 16: Can Social Media Affect Your Self Worth? with Amber Dee

January 27, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 38.2 MB

"Don’t tie your self-worth in with how many ‘followers’ and ‘likes’ you have."  --Amber Dee Do you ever get slightly jealous when you look at someone’s social media page and see that they have more followers than you? It’s natural to feel this way. Actually, there’s a term for it in psychology and they call it the Social Comparison Theory . It states that “we determine our own social and personal worth based on how we stack up against others we perceive as somehow faring better or wors...

Ep 15: Overcoming Financial Shame & Guilt with J

January 20, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 40.8 MB

“When you are able to overcome financial guilt, you will be able to accept yourself and celebrate yourself.” -- J. Have you ever felt guilty about spending money on yourself?  As if, you don’t deserve to buy that “one thing?" What we tell ourselves we deserve financially is shaped by our upbringing and childhood. What we grew up with, has so much influence on who we become, all the way down to how we spend money and what we tell ourselves we deserve. Growing up in poverty, J shares h...

Ep 14: Removing Toxic People from My Life

January 13, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes - 22.8 MB

“Removing more responsibilities off my plate also meant I had to do the hard job of removing people who no longer serve me in a positive way.”  -- Helen Ngo Who you surround yourself  with either raise or lower your standards. You don’t become great on your own. The people around you who make you even better than who you think you are... they’re the ones who genuinely have you in their best intentions, always wanting to uplift your spirits and see you succeed. But also being the toughest...

Ep 13: What Would Happen If You Pursued a Career Outside Your Degree? with Awilda Rivera

January 06, 2021 09:00 - 47 minutes - 47.1 MB

“I realized I needed to define success for myself, not for someone else.” Awilda Rivera You ever thought to yourself: what would happen if I did something else? Something that you weren’t trained to do in school or use your degree. Perhaps we set those ideas and dreams to the back burner because we’re afraid of being judged by others. Perhaps we will even judge ourselves for being financially irresponsible. In this episode, you’ll meet Awilda Rivera. She went into $100k+ of student l...

Ep 12: Letting Go to Find Success with Judith Winfrey

December 30, 2020 09:00 - 51 minutes - 49.6 MB

“Women need to believe in themselves and trust themselves. We have internalized so much misogyny. We have internalized so much doubt that’s projected on us that becomes self-doubt.”   – Judith Winfrey 8-figure serial entrepreneur and founder of PeachDish, Judith Winfrey, shares the valuable lessons she’s learned from starting five businesses in under 15 years. Most of us don’t think beyond our own personal health and nutrition when it comes to the type of food we buy and where we buy it....

Ep 11: Doing Something Greater Than Myself with Jazmin Addy

December 23, 2020 09:00 - 57 minutes - 49 MB

“I can’t leave this earth without doing something bigger than myself.” -- Jazmin Addy Founder and CEO of Proximity Partners, Jazmin Addy, started her business as a means to creating a better life for her children and leaving something greater for them than just the basics. With a long-term view of building generational wealth at the forefront of her mind, Jazmin made more money in her first year of business than she earned at her corporate job, a rare feat any seasoned entrepreneur wou...

Ep 10: Design Your Career to Live the Life You Want with Kim Bennett

December 16, 2020 09:00 - 25 minutes - 28.7 MB

“I’m just going to figure it out and live the life I want.”  --Kim Bennett How do you choose the kind of life you want and then design how you’re going to live it?  Where do we even begin to answer that? Kim Bennett and I address both simultaneously in this episode. Our answer: examining our personal failures. In life, we have to fail in order to know what we want, what we’re good at, and what we need to design our own lives -- and do it with intention.  What we tackle in this ...

Ep 9: Don't Let Your Finances Get in the Way with Molly Freeman

December 09, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes - 40.3 MB

“When your finances get in the way of you being able to offer your gifts to the world, you’re not really serving anyone.” - Molly Freeman Why is it hard for many of us to talk about how much money we make? Are we afraid to try to put a number on how much we're "worth"? Maybe we're fearful others may judge us. Or maybe we're unsure of what we deserve? My guest, Molly Freeman, and I discuss why suffering financially hinders your creativity and how it can limit what gifts you are able to ...

Ep 8: From Full Time Mom to Full Time Business Owner with Deepshikha Sairam

December 02, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 45.4 MB

“What keeps me going is that my fear of failure is less than my desire to succeed.” --Deepshikha Sairam Socialique Groupe founder and Instagram lead-gen expert, Deepshikha Sairam, shares how she got started in her business and the valuable lessons she’s learned about investing wisely. There is so much focus on growing your social media following, but few focus on what happens after you gain new followers. You might have over 10,000 followers, but does that number even matter if no one ...

Ep 7: Defining Wealth and How to Claim It with Mystery Millennial

November 25, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 45.2 MB

“There’s that cringing feeling of not wanting to open your bank account on a Monday.” — Mystery Millennial In this final installment with Mystery Millennial, we find out what's new in her financial journey and how she’s navigating towards financial confidence and freedom.  Particularly, we challenge the notion of whether making more money makes us greedy.  What we tackle in this episode: What it means to be fluid vs rigid with money Defining wealth, its value, and how to claim it ...

Ep 6: How My Life Changed After Paying Off All My Debt with Mystery Millennial

November 18, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 42.9 MB

We catch up with Mystery Millennial. In Episode 5, she talked about her love-hate relationship with money. In just 3 months since that episode was recorded, she paid off more than $15,000 of debt!  Feeling financially liberated, Mystery shares how her life completely turned around after paying off that much debt. Did she finally treat herself to that $75 yoga mat for meeting such a major milestone?  Have a listen to find out. What we tackle in this episode: Why we tend to want to ...

Ep 5: My Love-Hate Relationship with Money with Mystery Millennial

November 11, 2020 09:00 - 53 minutes - 51.5 MB

“Money. You love it when you have it. You hate it when you don’t.”  - Mystery Millennial Do you love or hate money? Love and hate are strong emotions. But money, on its own, isn't good or bad. At face value, there's nothing too exciting to love or hate about a piece of paper or the number of zeros printed on your bank statement.  Yet, money has the power to control our emotions, decisions, and life… ...if we let it.   This episode kicks off a special 3-part series. A no-frills, s...

Ep 4: You Can’t Write Off Your Gucci With Ronica Brown

November 04, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MB

“Don’t take tax advice from your friend. Just because your friend wrote off something doesn’t mean you can too.” – Ronica Brown, CPA Have there been times when you paid for something and wondered: “Can I run this through my business?!” Groceries as “office supplies”? Nails and makeup as “uniform”? Vacations as “business travel”? Worse yet, your CPA – whom you thought knew what he/she was doing! – told you that you can write off your Gucci handbag as a “uniform?” Certainly, it may apply...

Ep 3: Why Are You Working So Hard for the Money? With Sydia Bell

November 02, 2020 09:02 - 1 hour - 81.6 MB

“I’m not willing to go broke and not enjoy my life. If we are more clear on what brings us joy and work really hard for that, you’re then making a very clear intention for why you’re working so hard for that money.” — Sydia Bell, owner of The Everyday Creative Have you stepped back and asked yourself why you’re working so hard? Why is it that you’re wanting to make more money? Is it really for that house, car, or vacation? Or have you been working hard to buy things that only fulfill a t...

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