Financial Fluency: How Women Thrive Outside of the 9 to 5

On this episode of Financial Fluency, I am happy to have Elsewine Rietveld with me. Elsewine is a Presence teacher and trainer, and kinesiologist from the Netherlands. She teaches entrepreneurs and professionals how to feel confident and make big impacts with their messages in all their conversations, presentations and on video. She teaches a unique set of practical tools that helps them own their inner power and speak in a way which is authentic and charismatic.

Our conversation today covers her childhood experience on debate teams, how she discovered the Presence method, and the difference it has made for her as an entrepreneur and in her relationships. She also shares her tips for making impactful videos, being a better networker and how to get to the bottom of your blocks through the basics of kinesiology. 

To connect with Elsewine or learn more about her programs, find her at www.elsewine.com.

This week on Financial Fluency, we are taking a little break from talking about finances and I am happy to welcome the fantastic Linda Brogan. Linda is an award winning playwright, director and dramaturg. I met Linda in Selena Soo’s Impacting Millions Facebook group and we really connected over each other’s writing. She has been super encouraging of my writing and projects and I was really interested in hers. 

Her professional bio is very impressive: In 1999 Brogan took part in the North West Playwrights' course, and won the 2001 Alfred Fagon Award for her play The Well. This was followed by an attachment at the National Theatre Studio in 2002. Brogan's first play What's In The Cat was produced by Contact Theatre, Manchester and transferred to the Royal Court in 2005. Brogan's other plays include Basil and Beattie presented at Royal Exchange/Liverpool Everyman, and The Very Thought of You, commissioned by Wolsey and Tricycle Theatre. Her last play Speechless did a critically acclaimed four star UK tour. 

Her focus is in being born a slave to her colour, gender and class. The political, emotional and day to day ramifications of this topic are what we discuss in this episode, as well as her upcoming project with the restoration of the Reno Club in Manchester.

Connect with Linda: http://theagency.co.uk/the-clients/linda-brogan/

More info about the Reno Club: http://www.mancky.co.uk/?p=4075 

More info on Speechless: http://www.sharedexperience.org.uk/speechless.html

Cat Lam is here as living proof that it doesn’t take anyone especially talented, brainy, or extra-special to go into business for themselves as an independent IT contractor or freelancer. There is way that you can use your current expertise, make a bunch more money, and have a whole lot more control over your own time and career.

This year marks her 12th year as an independent IT contractor / freelancer. She now call the shots. The day she became self-employed, and got that first contract, she instantly more than doubled her income, and was 100% accountable for her own career. Now, she assists others in finding their own way in that transition.

We speak about her career evolution, how she helps those starting out in IT consulting, especially women going through the negotiation process, and the value of developing multiple income streams, no matter your industry.

Cat can be reached at itsolopreneurs.com and at her very active Twitter.

This week on Financial Fluency I have the truly inspiring Joan Sotkin with me! Joan has been working people on their finances for over 20 years, she is the author of Build Your Money Muscles and the host of the Prosperity Show podcast. She has a story that you will not want miss, and has learned trust like no one I have ever met. 

She shares with us the connection between our financial choices and our emotions. Years of working to release her own repressed emotions helped deepen her understanding of how we act out family-of-origin issues through our businesses and finances. 

She loves working with forward-thinking individuals who are willing to implement new ways of being with themselves and their commercial ventures. As she continues to learn and grow, her passion is sharing with others and helping them find both peace of mind and prosperity.

She has two main programs running right now: Financial Freedom Formula, a holistic blueprint for success and Simple Meditation for Busy Entrepreneurs. Both of which can be found on her website at prosperityplace.com/programs. 

Book mentions: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Build Your Money Muscles by Joan Sotkin

Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

On today’s episode of Financial Fluency, I’m so excited to have Tepsii (one name, like Madonna!). She has a true corporate to self-employment success story.

Tepsii is a creative copywriter and coach who crafts simply-amazing-tailor-made copy for entrepreneurs ready to make serious moola online and create the freedom lifestyle they’ve always dreamt of.

She was inspired to be a copywriter by listening to Kimra Luna’s copywriter in the first round of Be True Brand You. She started out as a life coach, but copy was obviously her thing. She made $25K in her first two months and decided that she could probably quit her day job.

Less than four months later, her husband quit his job, they sold their house, and they packed up their entire family, including three daughters, and moved back to her home country of South Africa, all on her copywriting income.

Let her story inspire you and check out how you can sharpen your copywriting skills.

Find Tepsii at writetoprofit.com and check out her Sold Out and Booked Solid program at booked.tepsii.com. 

Welcome to today’s episode of Financial Fluency! I am so excited to have the amazing Nicole Wipp with me today. Nicole is a master of juggling multiple businesses. She owns the Family and Aging Law Center in Michigan, focusing on elder law and asset protection. She’s the host of the Smart Planning 101 podcast, the founder of Wipp Enterprises, focusing on business and personal development and does corporate consulting on the side! 

In this episode, Nicole will share with us about the importance of preparing for the future, either for care for your ailing parents, or care for you children, should you be found with a disability or should they have a disability, like autism. 

Nicole shares in depth about her illness, early in 2015, where she ended up in the hospital with a rare lung disease. It required her to be hospitalized for 30 days, receive over 50 medications, 4 surgeries, and her husband, 4 year old, and multiple businesses were left to make it on their own while she figured out exactly what was going on. Luckily her business was set up in such a way that it was able to function and go on without her for a full 90 days while she was in recovery.

Her program Innate impact created out of this experience, to help entrepreneurs be prepared for temporary disability so their businesses can be self sustaining.

Find out more about Nicole Wipp and her Innate Impact program here.

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This week I am thrilled to have Leimomi Keliikuli with me on the Financial Fluency Podcast. Leimomi spent 10 years as a modern monk before she left that life to marry her husband and start her own business as a psychic business mindset mentor. 

I know that so many entrepreneurs incorporate spiritual practice into their daily lives and are eager to hear more how coming into alignment can help grow their businesses. Leimomi is here to share so many amazing tips with us on how to hustle while staying in soul alignment. 

Her specialty is helping entrepreneurs discover their divine gift, come into alignment with that, and find resonance with their energetic signature! If you’ve been looking for a legit spiritual business mentor, Leimomi is a great person to talk to get started.

She feels money is definitely the key factor that keeps women from really stepping into their purpose and potential. She is in it to change the self employment industry about finance, business and spirituality.  

Find out more about Leimomi Keliikuli and her amazing work here and here.

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