Financial freedom: It’s something we all want, but not always sure how to get there. One thing is for sure, financial freedom happens through investing. For some it’s investing in the stock market. For others, it’s investing in real estate.

And this week on Financial Self-Care, my guest Amelia McGee from the WIIRE Community is talking to us about gaining financial freedom through real estate investing. After waiting for three years, she finally took the plunge into real estate investing. Spoiler: Her first deal earned $60,000 in revenue, and after that, Amelia was hooked. Listen in and learn how real estate investing can help you, too!

Amelia McGee is a full-time real estate investor based in Des Moines, Iowa. She's been investing in real estate since 2019/2020 and owns a portfolio of 30+ doors which are a combination of long term rentals, midterm rentals, and short term rentals. She's also the co-founder of Women Invest in Real Estate (WIIRE®) and is passionate about helping other women build wealth through real estate investing. She co-authored the BiggerPockets book 'The Self-Managing Landlord' and in her free time, enjoys playing pickleball, golfing, being outdoors, reading, and traveling.

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In this life update episode of Financial Self-Care, Lindsey gets personal about big transitions — both financial and emotional. From an international move to Costa Rica, to the tough decision between renting or selling their home, and even a conversation about family planning and a vasectomy reversal — nothing is off the table.

You’ll hear how Lindsey and her family are navigating major life changes through the lens of financial self-care, intentional decision-making, and emotional awareness.

This episode is a candid look at how money, relationships, and mental health intertwine during big seasons of change.

In this episode, Lindsey shares:

Whether you’re considering a big move, rethinking your home ownership strategy, or simply trying to make financially and emotionally aligned choices, this episode will help you reflect on what financial self-care looks like during major life transitions.

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In this episode of Financial Self-Care, Lindsey sits down with Kayla Estenson Williams, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, to unpack the real costs of infertility — not just the financial side, but the emotional and energetic toll it takes on women and couples navigating fertility treatments like IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) and IVF (In Vitro Fertilization).

Kayla shares her personal experience of going through 4 rounds of IUI and one round of (successful!) IVF and discuss what it’s really like to go through these treatments — the money, time, and mental health challenges that often come with them — and how to approach this journey with compassion, boundaries, and financial mindfulness.

If you’ve ever wondered how to balance your emotional well-being and your bank account during fertility treatments, this episode offers validation, insight, and tangible tools for practicing financial self-care through it all.

What you'll learn:

The cost of IUI and IVF — and why the total price tag often surprises people

The hidden emotional and time costs of infertility treatments

How infertility can impact relationships, finances, and mental health

Why financial transparency and emotional support are both essential in the fertility process

How to practice financial self-care when facing medical uncertainty

Ways to cope with grief, hope, and burnout during a fertility journey

Kayla Estenson Williams is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who runs her private practice, Minnesota Attachment Collective. She specializes in healing attachment wounds through the tender seasons of growing your family- including fertility challenges, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood. In addition to supporting clients navigating infertility, she herself has gone through infertility- and has been fortunate enough to be able to grow her family through IVF. 

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As your resident financial therapist, I will be the first to tell you that getting out of debt and personal finance, in general, is messy. It's not linear. It's not always pretty. And unfortunately, most people are not comfortable talking about it... until today.

Megs Crawford, CEO of Organizing an ADHD Brain, is here on Financial Self-Care to share her story of being in the messy middle while she and her partner work to get out of debt. 9 months ago, Megs was in $60,000 of high-interest consumer debt. Today, she's decreased that number to $11,000!

Megs shares her story was vulnerability and poise, while admitting that this journey has felt long and uncomfortable, yet incredibly fulfilling and prideful. 

Megs Crawford is a professional organizer and ADHD coach, podcast host, and fellow ADHD brain learning her way through the “messy middle.” Through her podcast, Organizing an ADHD Brain, coaching, membership, and resources, she helps people with ADHD shift out of self-doubt and into small, doable steps that actually stick. Megs believes organizing isn’t about perfection, it’s about building trust with yourself, one decision at a time.

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Website: OrganizingAnADHDBrain.com

Podcast: Organizing an ADHD Brain

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Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff you have? That’s true for 54% of Americans, according to a recent study. That’s why on today’s episode of Financial Self-Care, financial therapist, Lindsey, is talking with Millennial Minimalists, Lauren & Kelly about how to clear the clutter.

Millennial Minimalists is a podcast about living simply. They’re two Canadians on a mission to live more with less. Together, they help listeners simplify their lives and live with greater intention.

To date, they’ve reached over 2 million listens, providing strategies to help you manage excess in all areas of life whether physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, digital, relational, and calendar clutter. They also explore topics such as reclaiming focus and attention, cultivating contentment, adopting mindful and sustainable habits, living with intention, and more.

Lauren is a natural minimalist who instinctively found success in managing physical excess, while Kelly is a minimalist adopter. Together, they share one-on-one conversations about their personal journeys and lessons, along with interviews featuring minimalist thought leaders and bestselling authors in the personal development space. Today, they’re proud to be celebrating nearly seven years of podcasting!

Connect with Millennial Minimalists:

mastersimplicity.com

IG:  @millennialmimalists

FB millennialminimalists

Resources:

Episode 34: No New Things with Ashlee Piper

Book: The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

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Financial Therapy 

Intentional Spending Planner on Etsy

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FREE Investing for Beginners Guide

Have you ever wondered how to start a business on your own? Maybe you want to start an online business or a consulting company because once you do, you'll be happy. 

The truth is, that's not how it works. Starting a business doesn't just grant you the secret to living a happy life. It takes a lot more than that. And that why we're taking with Same Vander Wielen.

Sam Vander Wielen is a leading legal educator who’s helped over 150,000 online business owners set up their businesses legally. In Sam’s debut book 'When I Start My Business, I’ll Be Happy: A Practical, No-BS Guide to Successful Online Entrepreneurship' Sam presents her evergreen marketing strategies that led to her 7-figure success, as well as guidance on balancing building your business with life’s curve balls.

Sam lives on Long Island in New York with her husband Ryan,

Connect with Sam:

Watch Sam's free workshop '5 Steps to Legally Protect & Grow Your Online Business' here: https://www.samvanderwielen.com/legal-workshop/

Sam's LIVE workshop: https://samvanderwielen.samcart.com/referral/oct-live-promo/UcRR2ikHHwao627Y

Sam's Instagram: https://instagram.com/samvanderwielen 

Sam's website: https://samvanderwielen.com

Listen to Sam’s Podcast On Your Terms®: https://www.samvanderwielen.com/podcast

Order Sam’s book When I Start My Business, I’ll Be Happy:

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Join Financial Self-Care's GET OUT OF DEBT course WAITLIST: https://financial-therapy.myflodesk.com/course

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financialtherapistlindsey/

Website: https://financialselfcareblog.com/financial-therapy/

We're doing something new over here at Financial Self-Care – an ongoing series of Money Stories from women who have accomplished various milestones on their own Financial Self-Care journeys.

By highlighting and celebrating these incredible women, we're creating a safe space for you to learn, connect, grow, encourage, and inspire.

You'll get actionable personal finance tips to help you change your money mindset, reduce financial stress, transform your relationship with money, better your spending habits, and so much more!

Listen in as financial therapist, Lindsey, interviews our first awesome Money Story guest, The Retired Millennial, Anita Kinoshita, CFLP.

Former software engineer turned educator and the creator behind The Retired Millennial. She creates financial literacy content and her work inspires her audience to spend mindfully, invest calmly, and live peacefully.

Connect with Anita:

https://www.youtube.com/@AnitaKinoshita

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Financial Therapy 

Intentional Spending Planner on Etsy

Lindsey website

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FREE Investing for Beginners Guide

Relationships evolve over time. Sometimes they evolve into long-lasting marriages and sometimes they evolve into divorce. Today on Financial Self-Care, Financial Therapist, Lindsey, is talking about the evolution of relationships (from a financial lens).

From financial compatibility and what is a prenup; prenups vs postnups and how to prepare for divorce, Lindsey and divorce expert, Nikki Tucker, are serving you the tea!

Nikki Tucker is a Speaker, Personal Financial Strategist, and Founder of The FIIRM Approach, a business dedicated to helping female breadwinners and working women reduce uncertainty and overwhelm in their financial lives while preparing for uncoupling or divorce.

When a woman’s financial life is threatened, the stress can become overwhelming. Nikki’s goal is to help women become Flexible, Intentional, Informed, Resourceful, and Masterful (FIIRM), enabling them to cultivate financial freedom, regardless of relationship status.

Through dynamic action-based workshops and on-demand digital resources, Nikki makes financial education practical and accessible to all women, showing them how to take control of their money and protect their future.

When not working, Nikki enjoys spending time with her college-aged son, traveling, trying new restaurants, and watching Hallmark movies.

Connect with Nikki: 

Website: https://thefiirmapproach.com/

Nikki’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefiirmapproach/

Nikki’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefiirmapproach

Listener Gift: DIVORCE SUPPORT PACK

At the FIIRM Approach, we help working women prepare their finances for divorce. With this goal in mind, we created the Divorce Support Pack. This complimentary gift contains both pre-divorce tools to help women prepare for their divorce journey, and post-divorce resources to help them get started on their new life.

https://fiirmapproach.lpages.co/divorce-support-pack/

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Financial Therapy 

Intentional Spending Planner on Etsy

Lindsey website

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FREE Investing for Beginners Guide

Relationships evolve over time. Sometimes they evolve into long-lasting marriages and sometimes they evolve into divorce. Today on Financial Self-Care, Financial Therapist, Lindsey, is talking about the evolution of relationships (from a financial lens).

From financial compatibility and what is a prenup; prenups vs postnups and how to prepare for divorce, Lindsey and divorce expert, Nikki Tucker, are serving you the tea!

Nikki Tucker is a Speaker, Personal Financial Strategist, and Founder of The FIIRM Approach, a business dedicated to helping female breadwinners and working women reduce uncertainty and overwhelm in their financial lives while preparing for uncoupling or divorce.

When a woman’s financial life is threatened, the stress can become overwhelming. Nikki’s goal is to help women become Flexible, Intentional, Informed, Resourceful, and Masterful (FIIRM), enabling them to cultivate financial freedom, regardless of relationship status.

Through dynamic action-based workshops and on-demand digital resources, Nikki makes financial education practical and accessible to all women, showing them how to take control of their money and protect their future.

When not working, Nikki enjoys spending time with her college-aged son, traveling, trying new restaurants, and watching Hallmark movies.

Connect with Nikki: 

Website: https://thefiirmapproach.com/

Nikki’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefiirmapproach/

Nikki’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefiirmapproach

Listener Gift: DIVORCE SUPPORT PACK

At the FIIRM Approach, we help working women prepare their finances for divorce. With this goal in mind, we created the Divorce Support Pack. This complimentary gift contains both pre-divorce tools to help women prepare for their divorce journey, and post-divorce resources to help them get started on their new life.

https://fiirmapproach.lpages.co/divorce-support-pack/

Connect with Lindsey:

Financial Therapy 

Intentional Spending Planner on Etsy

Lindsey website

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FREE Investing for Beginners Guide

What came first: financial stress or hormone disruption? In today's episode of Financial Self-Care with Financial Therapist, Lindsey, we're getting into the nitty gritty of how to naturally balance women's hormones in order to create less stress and more fulfillment in your life.

There are surprising links between money stress and hormone health, and I'm here to talk all about it with Dr. Heather Rhodes.

Dr. Heather Rhodes is a former pharmacist turned holistic hormone expert who helps women make more of their most important hormone (hint: it's not what you think), so that your life is filled with balance, capacity, nervous system regulation and find real healing—without relying on prescriptions.

With a background in clinical pharmacy and a deep understanding of how the body actually works, she now combines science and soul to help women manage hormone, fertility, and metabolism struggles through holistic, faith-led strategies.

Today, she’s on a mission to make hormone healing doable, encouraging, and rooted in truth.

You can learn more about Dr. Heather Rhodes here: Book a free consult call!

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Financial Therapy 

Intentional Spending Planner on Etsy

Episode 20: Can Money Buy You Happiness?

Episode 28: Why You Spend So Much Money: The Mere Exposure Effect

Lindsey website

Linsey’s IG

FREE Investing for Beginners Guide