Cash & Sass™

Your voice might be your most underutilized business asset, and if you've been skipping the stage because you don't think you're a "speaker," this episode is going to shift that.

Dr. Danny Brassell, known as "Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.," has spoken to over 3,500 audiences worldwide and helped entrepreneurs turn storytelling into a lead-generating machine. In this episode, Lisa Marie and Dr. Danny get into the real reason hustle stops working, why facts inform but stories transform, and how the right story (told with intention) is the difference between an audience that claps and an audience that converts.

What You'll Learn

• Why 95% of speakers can't answer the two most important questions before they get on stage
• The Five C's framework for building a presentation that moves hearts and moves the needle
• How sharing your failures builds more authority than sharing your successes
• Why one clear call to action converts, and multiple CTAs kill your results
• The exact contract strategy Danny used to build hundreds of testimonials and speaking reels from free gigs
• How women entrepreneurs can use speaking to scale income and step into their authority
• The story-building exercise that helps you uncover hundreds of usable stories in under an hour
• Why your most relatable story might be the most ordinary one in your life

Guest Information

Dr. Danny Brassell is a highly-sought after speaker, trainer, and coach known as "Jim Carrey with a Ph.D." He has spoken to over 3,500 audiences worldwide and authored 20 books, including Leadership Begins with Motivation and Misfits and Crackpots. The co-founder of The WellCrafted Story Workshop™, Danny helps entrepreneurs, individuals, and organizations leverage speaking on stages as a major client lead source that converts.

Connect with Dr. Danny Brassell

• Website: WellCraftedStoryWorkshop.com
• Free Story Blueprint: freeSTORYguide.com
• YouTube: youtube.com/DannyBrassell
• Instagram: @realDannyBrassell
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dannybrassell
• Facebook: facebook.com/DannyBrassell
• Twitter/X: @DannyBrassell

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Marianne Hickman has spoken on over 2,400 stages worldwide. She went from a single mother on food stamps to building a multiple six-figure income, and she did it by refusing to stay hidden. In this conversation, Marianne and Lisa Marie dig into why your voice is one of the most underutilized assets in your business, what it actually takes to turn visibility into revenue, and the very specific steps that separate someone who is visible but struggling from someone who is visible and profitable.

What You'll Learn:

• Why the human voice is becoming more valuable, not less, in an age of AI
• The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when trying to get visible (and why they quit too soon)
• How staying hidden directly impacts your income and your impact
• Why confidence comes after the reps, not before them
• How to connect your personal story to an offer without trauma dumping
• The client journey framework that converts your message into actual revenue
• A practical tip for finding speaking stages right now using a simple Google search
• Marianne's free podcast database with over 1,000 shows you can apply to today

About Marianne Hickman: 

Marianne Hickman is an international public speaker and personal speaking mentor who specializes in helping business owners and coaches monetize their message through stages. She has been featured on over 2,400 worldwide stages and focuses on developing your story, message, and revenue. Her life's motto is to "Make good people crazy wealthy." Marianne was a single mother who brought her family from food stamps to a multiple six-figure income. She is married to her best friend, Richard Hickman, and together they are raising six children.

Connect with Marianne Hickman:

• Website: MarianneHickman.com 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marianne__hickman
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marianne__hickman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianne-hickman-millionaire-speaker-coach-662b294/
• YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Marianne_Hickman
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marianne.eld/

Free Offer from Marianne: Podcast Database — over 1,000 podcast shows (with application links) where you can start applying and share your message today. Visit MarianneHickman.com to access.

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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There's a profit leak that will never show up on your P&L. It doesn't have a line item. It doesn't send you a notification. But it is costing you, consistently, quietly, and in some cases, significantly. In this episode, Lisa Marie breaks down the real financial cost of invisibility and makes the case that waiting until you feel ready is one of the most expensive decisions you can make as a business owner.

What You'll Learn:

• Why every time you don't post, pitch, or show up is a financial decision with a real consequence
• The four masks fear wears that keep brilliant, capable women from being fully visible
• How to calculate the conservative dollar cost of your own invisibility
• Why confidence is not a prerequisite for visibility. It's the result of it
• Three practical moves to turn your visibility into a revenue strategy
• How Lisa Marie's own decision to stop waiting opened a revenue stream that changed things for her

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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Sometimes the more money you make, the louder the problem gets.

Lisa Marie sits down with her dear friend Natalie Bullen, Revenue and Wealth Coach and CEO of Unapologetic Wealth, for one of the most honest conversations about money, identity, and what actually happens when entrepreneurs start to scale. This is the episode that tells you what the income screenshots don't.

Natalie breaks down where entrepreneurs mishandle money most, and it's not the obvious stuff. From overspending on coaching before you have a team, to running a business that relies on chaos instead of cash flow, to not having a repeatable sales system that makes forecasting possible, the patterns are more common than anyone wants to admit.

And underneath all of it? Identity. The identity you've been assigned, the one you've unconsciously built, and the one you actually need if wealth is going to stay.

What You'll Learn

• Why money is everywhere, and what's actually keeping you from accessing it
• The specific mismanagement patterns Natalie sees most often as entrepreneurs scale
• Why paying yourself little to nothing while overspending on coaching is more common than you think
• How to run a business that doesn't run out of money, and why that starts as a decision
• Why your subconscious is listening to everything you say about money and what to do about it
• The casual covenants with lack that feel cute but mean something very different
• Why overnight success is not as attractive as it sounds, and what gradual identity change actually looks like
• The rubbernecking principle: why focusing on what you don't want is driving you straight toward it
• How to architect the life you want instead of running from what you don't

Guest Information

Natalie Bullen is a Revenue and Wealth Coach, and owner of Unapologetic Wealth. As a powerhouse coach and consultant, she positions her clients for wealth by accelerating their revenue with high ticket sales.

Connect with Natalie

• Website: unapologeticwealth.com
• Facebook: facebook.com/Ladylyricist06

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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You've raised your prices. You've closed the launch. The revenue is actually coming in. So why does it feel like it keeps leaving just as fast?

This episode is about the pattern nobody warns you about. What happens after the breakthrough. Because the moment money starts moving is exactly when the real test begins.

Lisa Marie talks about the three ways wealth sabotage actually shows up: spending it down almost immediately, shrinking back right when momentum builds, and creating chaos out of nowhere. None of it is weakness. And all of it is a nervous system trying to protect you from something it doesn't recognize as safe.

This conversation is about building the internal infrastructure to hold something new, so the money doesn't just come in, it stays.

What You'll Learn

• The three hidden patterns that show up the moment money starts moving
• Why your nervous system treats abundance like a threat (and what to do about it)
• The four pillars of internal wealth infrastructure: mindset, systems, community, and identity
• Why wealth is not a destination you arrive at when the numbers are right, it's a decision about who you are
• The one declaration that makes people uncomfortable and exactly why it's the work
• How to close the gap between your outer strategy and your inner world

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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What does it actually mean to be wealthy?

Not just financially successful, but truly wealthy. In alignment. Living a life that matches your values, not just your bank balance.

That's the question at the center of this conversation. Lisa Marie sits down with Therese Nicklas, CFP™, Certified Money Coach (CMC)®, and Certified Success Principles™ Coach, and they talk all about what it really takes to build wealth that lasts. From Therese's grandmother stretching pennies in Sicily to a client who almost dropped $10,000 on a conference she didn't need, this episode is full of honest, practical wisdom that will make you stop and think before your next investment decision.

If you've ever bought a program out of fear, said yes to something you didn't have the time or energy for, or wondered whether your basket is already full, this one is for you.

What You'll Learn

• What "True Wealth" actually means, and why it has nothing to do with how much money you have
• The story of Therese's grandmother and her 95-year-old uncle that reframes everything about money and mindset
• The real reason entrepreneurs keep buying shiny objects (hint: it's not excitement, it's fear)
• How to do the soul-searching work before any investment decision, and why that conversation could save you tens of thousands of dollars
• The "basket" framework: why your knowledge base may already be full before you spend another dollar
• The $10,000 Alaska conference story, and the question that changed things
• Why time and energy are part of your ROI, and what happens when you ignore that
• How to build a money muscle through radical honesty with yourself

Guest Information

Therese Nicklas is a Certified Financial Planner™, Certified Money Coach (CMC)®, and Certified Success Principles™ Coach. She empowers executive and entrepreneurial women with smart strategies to build a new big, bold life, with certainty, clarity, and confidence.

Through her True Wealth coaching program, clients learn to say no to burnout, feeling empty, and working nonstop. They learn to say yes to designing a fulfilling life they love, one built with joy, purpose, and balance.

Connect with Therese

Website: wealthcoachforwomen.com/ 

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/theresernicklascfp

Facebook: facebook.com/theresernicklascfp

Free Resource: Financial Freedom Toolkit - https://wealthcoachforwomen.com/pod 

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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You've seen the screenshots. The "we hit $100k months" posts. The perfect brand photos and the confident pricing. But what you haven't seen is the debt behind the launch, the unpaid contractors, the secondary income source quietly bankrolling the whole thing.

Rachel Allen has been in the back end of some of the most well-known businesses online, and she is not here to protect the myth. In this episode, Lisa and Rachel pull back the curtain on the money narratives that keep entrepreneurs stuck, ashamed, and undercharging. And they get real about the work it takes to build actual trust with money.

In this episode:

• What's really going on behind the scenes of "successful" online businesses
• The most damaging myths about money in entrepreneurship (and who benefits from them)
• Rachel's biggest money mistake early on, and what it cost her to wait
• Why shame is the most expensive thing in your business
• The wage gap in entrepreneurship: women price 30% lower than men for the same work
• How a childhood money belief nearly stopped Rachel from charging what she was worth
• Quintupling prices during a dry spell, and what happened next
• Why money doesn't change who you are, it just amplifies it

Connect with Rachel Allen:

• Website: boltfromthebluecopywriting.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rachelallenwrites
• Instagram: @boltfromthebluecopywriting
• Email: [email protected]

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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What if the fastest path out of a scarcity mindset wasn't discipline or willpower, but it was generosity? That's exactly what Matt Morizio discovered, and the science behind it will shift something in the way you think about money.

Matt is the founder of Reconstructing Wealth, a fee-only wealth management firm helping purpose-driven people align their money with their mission. After five years in the minor leagues with the Kansas City Royals, he transitioned into financial advising and has spent nearly a decade rebuilding his own relationship with money, while helping his clients do the same. In this conversation, Matt and Lisa Marie talk about surrender, emotional detachment, valley seasons, and why real financial freedom has nothing to do with your account balance.

What You'll Learn:

• How Matt's scarcity mindset, inherited across generations, showed up even as a financial advisor, and what finally broke it
• The "blessing account" strategy and how a simple act of structured generosity rewired his financial psychology
• The neuroscience behind why you cannot simultaneously feel fear and love about the same thing, and how to use that to your advantage
• What it actually looks like to emotionally detach from money and make decisions from strategy, not emotion
• Why Matt redefines financial freedom as emotional detachment — not a number in an account
• The "freshman phenomenon" analogy that explains why most people stay financially stuck their whole lives
• What both Matt and Lisa Marie learned about identity and resilience during their deepest financial valley seasons
• How to reconstruct your money story with more freedom and less fear

Guest Information:

Matt Morizio is the founder of Reconstructing Wealth, a fee-only wealth management firm that helps purpose-driven providers align their money with their mission. After five years in the minor leagues with the Kansas City Royals, Matt transitioned from pro baseball to financial advising, bringing the same discipline and drive to helping clients build wealth with purpose. His approach combines practical financial strategies with mindset shifts to help clients move from financial confusion to clarity. As a husband, father of seven, and someone who has always gone against the grain, Matt is passionate about helping others break free from fear-based money habits and step into a life of intentional abundance.

Connect with Matt:

• Website: www.reconstructingwealth.com
• Instagram: @mattmorizio
• Free Course — Transforming Your Relationship with Money (3-part video series): https://theideallife.com/register/reconstructing-wealth/

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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There's a version of being "careful" with money that looks like wisdom from the outside but is actually fear running the show. And that version, the grip version, is costing women entrepreneurs more than they realize.

In this episode, Lisa Marie draws a clear and necessary line between responsible stewardship and scarcity-driven control. Because they are not the same thing, and mistaking one for the other is one of the most expensive financial patterns a business owner can have.

What You'll Learn:

• Why controlling your money and strangling it are not the same thing, and how to tell the difference
• What fear-based financial behavior actually looks like in practice 
• The financial cost of refusing to invest in support, tools, or systems, and why it caps your growth
• Why scarcity is a mindset, not a bank balance, and how it follows you even when your income grows
• A simple question to ask before every financial decision: Is this a strategy no or a fear no?
• Three practical steps for loosening the grip without losing your financial discipline
• The decision framework Lisa uses herself to make sure strategy leads, and not anxiety

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Rich Kozak has spent 49 years defining and languaging brands, first for global corporations, and then for the heart-centered entrepreneurs he felt called to serve. In this conversation, he and Lisa Marie talk about why most brands fall flat, what it actually means for your revenue when they do, and how getting crystal clear on the perception you create is what turns your purpose into consistent profit.

In this episode:

• Why Rich walked away from a high-earning corporate career at 50, and what happened next
• The two most common pieces of brand clarity that are missing, and how both connect directly to cash flow
• Why your brand is the perception in the mind of the people you most want to impact, not what you think it is
• The biggest branding mistake keeping entrepreneurs broke or invisible: inconsistency
• What "money is a magnifier" actually means and why it matters for impact-driven entrepreneurs
• How letting go of control and leading with faith has shaped Rich's business and his clients'
• The concept of an umbrella brand and why it can change everything for experts who know there's more
• Real client stories: how clarity created brands that felt like the most comfortable suit they'd ever worn

Rich Kozak is a strategic mentor for individual brands with 49 years of experience defining and languaging brands. Certified as a Global Branding Consultant, Rich worked with partners worldwide before shifting his focus to heart-centered entrepreneurs, professionals, experts, and authors, helping them evolve their top-level umbrella brands with the clarity that aligns everything they say and do.

Connect with Rich Kozak:

• Website: richbrands.org
• Facebook: facebook.com/richbrandsrk
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richkozakrichbrands
• Free Brand Clarity Session: calendly.com/richbrands — Book a free 30-minute conversation

Resources

• The Seven Money Pitfalls email series
• Money Movz™ Voxer Coaching 
• Transcendent Wealth Co

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Transcendent Wealth Co. LLC
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