Ladies Get Paid

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 jobs, the calls to card companies that ...

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, how to sort your fears into the one...

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 question for each one that starts to shift it.

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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 because "I am going to get on that list," ...

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 mortality math that snaps her out of autopilot, ...

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 waited too long to start over, this...

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, the blank-page "deserve" exe...

"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 needed, the 60 informational interviews that led ...

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 you want. Learn more at https://the-practice-founder.netlify...

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 this episode: the counterintuitive first...

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 women and spending, why personal fin...

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 lawyer unlocks something a rational list never...

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're selling should be free.

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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 sandwich action, and why accountabi...

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 when she came back from maternity l...

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't, and the three numbers everyone ...

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 framework (Internal Family Systems), I w...

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 talk about the real cost of...