Rita Boccuzzi was sued for gender discrimination for hosting money events for women, by the same two men who sued me. Instead of settling, she fought for three and a half years. We talk about the lawsuit, the 38 lawyers she called, turning her camera on in her deposition, and how it finally ended.

Rita also shares how cancer drained her savings, why medical debt and caregiving costs wipe out so many families, and what helped her get through years she couldn't control. Find Rita at achievefinancialaspirations.com, and learn more about my work at ladiesgetpaid.com.

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Habit change expert Connie Kwan explains why willpower isn't the problem; the story you're telling yourself is. She shares her STORY method, the two numbers that predict whether a habit change will stick, and how a client quit a ten-year french fry habit in two weeks. Then she coaches me live on my doom scrolling, and we end up somewhere I didn't expect: why I can't lie down for ten minutes without almost having a panic attack.

Connie is the author of Story Habits, out in November. Find her at conniekwan.com.

Read the companion post for key insights and action steps: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/change-your-bad-habits-for-good

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 went nowhere, the decision about their house, and the parts that still haven't resolved. Including the bank account that got frozen last October.

Full write-up on ladiesgetpaid.substack.com. If you have a money story to share, email [email protected].

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 ones that need a spreadsheet and the ones that need a conversation with yourself, what it costs to be the person everyone relies on, and why leaving a job you've outgrown can feel like a death you have to grieve.

Free companion post with all the key takeaways and action steps: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/when-should-i-quit-my-job?Want to be coached for free on the podcast? Email [email protected] to keep things private? Book a free fit call: https://calendly.com/claire-wasserman/coaching-fit-call🚨 Subscribe so you don't miss the next episode.

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.

🗓️ On September 10th, join my free live training on how to earn with ease. Replay available for all who register: https://ladiesgetpaid.kit.com/earnwithease

📖 Read the companion post: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/the-4-fears-keeping-you-underpaid

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," why nobody is self-made, and the writing routine that holds five projects and three kids together.

Full takeaways + action steps on Substack: https://ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/demand-what-your-work-deserves?r=1b87me&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Find Anna on Instagram @annamalaikatubbs

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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