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, why fear (not busyness) is what's really delaying your dreams, the "pregrets" exercise, the stapler story every corporate woman will recognize, what she found cleaning out her late mother's apartment, and how to find your passion by sampling the buffet.

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 one's for you.

📖 Read the companion piece: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/she-left-the-only-career-shed-ever

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" exercise that changed everything at 47, and her case against the Let Them theory.

Key insights and action steps from this episode are in my companion Substack post:

Kelly's book: nicegirlswin.com

"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 to her dream role, the difference between mentors and sponsors, the salary negotiation approach that earned her a 25% increase in one year, and the simple financial independence math behind the $4 million.

And then the part nobody talks about: what happens when you finally get the title you worked your whole career for — and it doesn't feel like anything at all.

For key takeaways: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/sole-earner-family-of-5-net-worth

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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.app/

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 move that made everything possible, the mistake I made in front of 40,000 people, and the question I asked myself every day that changed how I work.For more insights - and action steps! - check out the companion post: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/learning-to-work-without-anxiety

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 finance is personal, the cost of undervaluing your work, and what it takes to stop playing small.

For key insights and action steps, check out the companion post: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-women-and-money

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 will, how to let your body cast its vote, and why there's no clean exit and why accepting that is liberating.

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.

Find Jessamyn at jessamynstanley.com and The Underbelly at theunderbelly.com

Get the key insights and action steps on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/ladiesgetpaid/p/she-couldnt-afford-a-yoga-class-then?r=1b87me&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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 accountability with strangers didn't work for me and what I did instead.

Get my process, step-by-step: https://open.substack.com/pub/ladiesgetpaid/p/my-top-anti-procrastination-tips?r=1b87me&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true