Katherine Autin has been pivoting since before pivoting was cool. Jewelry business at 26 with a baby on her hip? Done. Moves for her husband’s federal job, starting over in new states, new systems, new everything? Also done. Then came the big one: a Parkinson’s diagnosis that reshaped 21 years of marriage into a long, tender, relentless caregiving journey… while Katherine continued building businesses, running support groups, and giving herself permission to keep creating.

And then grief arrived with its boots on. Katherine’s husband, David, passed in July 2025, after a sudden cancer diagnosis on top of Parkinson’s. But here’s the part that will catch you by the collar: Katherine is grieving and dreaming at the same time. She’s a newly selected United Nations delegate for the Commission on the Status of Women, headed to New York in March, and she’s doing it with mascara, backbone, and a truth we all need: your life is still yours to create.

This episode is equal parts soulful and spicy. It’s about resilience without the toxic positivity, joy without apology, and the radical act of saying yes again after loss. Also: hugging matters. Period.

Katherine Autin

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What happens when life burns down all at once — your health, your marriage, your money, your sense of direction — and you still have to stand up and build something that works? In this deeply human, quietly powerful conversation, Sandy Parker Martinez sits down with Wendy Taylor, an “order out of chaos” expert whose life was turned upside down in August 2023. Widowhood. Serious illness. No local community. Two months of living expenses. And a business that had to work — now. Together, they unpack what actually carries you through liminal space: grace (especially for yourself), simple but sturdy structure, and a clear-eyed relationship with money, purpose, and support. Wendy shares the four buckets that helped her rebuild her health, wealth, joy, and purpose — and why women must stop apologizing for wanting wealth alongside meaning. This episode is a lighthouse for anyone rebuilding from the rubble — and proof that yes, it is possible to do your purpose and make serious money.

What happens when life burns down all at once — your health, your marriage, your money, your sense of direction — and you still have to stand up and build something that works?

In this deeply human, quietly powerful conversation, Sandy Parker Martinez sits down with Wendy Taylor, an “order out of chaos” expert whose life was turned upside down in August 2023. Widowhood. Serious illness. No local community. Two months of living expenses. And a business that had to work — now.

Together, they unpack what actually carries you through liminal space: grace (especially for yourself), simple but sturdy structure, and a clear-eyed relationship with money, purpose, and support. Wendy shares the four buckets that helped her rebuild her health, wealth, joy, and purpose — and why women must stop apologizing for wanting wealth alongside meaning.

This episode is a lighthouse for anyone rebuilding from the rubble — and proof that yes, it is possible to do your purpose and make serious money.

This episode is a love letter to every woman who’s ever looked at her bank account and thought, “Wait… was there a class I skipped?” Sandy sits down with money coach Katie Armstrong and they go straight to the tender truth: most of us feel behind with money because no one actually taught us how to have a relationship with it. Not just a budget. Not just “manifest it.” A real, grown-up, lipstick-on relationship.

Katie drops a game-changing reframe: your money is like a child (yes, really). It needs boundaries. Structure. A plan. And it weirdly feels safer when you give it one. Sandy brings it home with her own story about fear, shame, taxes, and finally choosing responsibility over hiding in the cave like a financially-stressed woodland creature.

Also: fun money, marriage money rules, money chameleon tendencies, and why every woman needs a posse (and an expert) because you cannot be your best self by yourself. Period.

Katy partners with women who are ready to say goodbye to credit card debt and create a more empowering relationship with money. Through her signature programs and coaching approach, Katy helps women develop confidence around their finances without feeling restricted or overwhelmed.

Katy’s approach combines practical strategy with mindset work, because she believes true financial freedom requires both. Whether through her 30-day Done with Debt bootcamp, personalized coaching, or her comprehensive Moneywise Mastermind program, she meets women where they are and helps them create sustainable change.

She’s deeply committed to keeping her programs accessible because she believes every woman deserves to feel confident and in control of her money. Katy’s clients often start seeing results in their first month, finding hundreds of dollars in their current spending plan and finally feeling hopeful about their financial future.

With nearly two decades of experience teaching and coaching combined with her own debt-free entrepreneurial journey and simplified life, Katy provides a unique service for her clients to help them slow down, map out their own joyful debt payoff journey, and create a life that has WAY less stress around money.

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How Strategy, Accountability, and Saying Yes Can Change Everything

This episode is a love letter to women who are doing big, brave things without a roadmap—and wondering why they’re exhausted. Sandy sits down with business strategist and laser-focused coach Donna Price to talk about what actually helps women move forward: clarity, support, and someone in your corner who knows how to break things down into doable steps.

From building a business after loss, to raising kids in your 40s, to why perfectionism is quietly stealing your momentum, this conversation weaves together strategy and soul. You’ll hear why a 15-minute “laser coaching” call can be more powerful than a 6-month plan, how circles of support change lives, and why saying yes—before you feel ready—might be the most strategic move of all.

This is not about hustling harder.

It’s about not doing life alone.

his episode is a soulful, sparkly conversation about what it really means to use your voice — not just on stages or TEDx talks, but in your own life. Sandy sits down with clinical psychologist and fearless speaking mentor Dr. Doreen Downing to explore the deep roots of public speaking anxiety, the power of presence, and why confidence is overrated (yes, we said it).

Together, they unpack how early experiences can teach us to stay quiet, how many high-achieving women hide fear behind competence, and why finding your voice is less about performance and more about being. This is about courage before confidence, connection over perfection, and choosing revelation instead of decline — especially in the second half of life.

If you’ve ever felt like your voice got smaller the more “successful” you became… this episode is your invitation back home.

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Life didn’t tap Carla Taylor on the shoulder — it knocked her flat. What started as a “normal” headache turned into a grapefruit-sized brain tumor that had been quietly growing for nearly a decade. One insistence on a CT scan saved her life. One surgery changed everything.

In this episode, Carla shares the raw, unfiltered truth of what happens after survival — when your body lives, but your identity shatters. When you can’t work, can’t help, can’t give, can’t even regulate your emotions… and you’re forced to confront the terrifying question: Who am I if I can do nothing for anyone else?

This is not a tragedy story. It’s a holy, hard-earned conversation about healing, faith, fear, forgiveness, and why the quiet work of healing your own heart may be the most powerful contribution you ever make.

What happens when Christmas week collides with tech glitches, family expectations, strong opinions, and your inner Type-A fixer? You invite the Queen of Non-Overwhelm onto the podcast and tell the truth.

In this episode of Pink Lady Posse, Sandy sits down with Kathy York to talk about overwhelm, boundaries, and the radical power of the word no. From iron-pill exhaustion in Kathy’s 20s to non-anxious presence in her 70s, this conversation is equal parts wisdom, humor, and holy exhale.

If the holidays make your blood pressure spike and your perfectionism come out swinging, this episode is your permission slip to fly the plane calmly, embrace imperfection, and create a Beautiful Holiday Experience — even when things get messy (because they will).

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This week, I sat down with the warm, wise, and wonderfully no-nonsense Melinda Chapman, a money and life strategist whose voice feels like a soft blanket and a firm nudge at the same time. Together, we dove straight into the messy truth so many women over 50 are living: pouring money into their dreams… while quietly going broke behind the scenes. Yep. We went there.

Melinda brings decades of lived clarity—corporate finance, motherhood, homeschooling, homesteading, and now guiding women back to their center—to talk about why so many of us are overspending on shiny tools, undercharging for our magic, and waiting for confidence to magically appear before making the big ask. Spoiler: confidence is not the appetizer. It’s the entrée that comes after action.

This conversation is juicy, tender, and a little audacious. It is for every woman who has woken up thinking, “Wait… am I the only one not making $10k months?” (You’re not.) And it’s for every woman ready to make bold choices, prune what isn’t serving her, and come alive again in her second half of life.

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What do you do when life hands you two medical plot twists, a heart transplant, a breast cancer diagnosis, grief, anxiety, and a world that keeps calling you “strong”? In this conversation, I sit down with my dear friend and guide, Kristina Langston, to talk about what it really looks like to walk through it all with support, humor, and a stubborn commitment to joy.

Kristina shares the story of her husband Juan’s heart transplant and her own breast cancer journey—from the shock of hearing “it’s the C-word” to chemo chairs lined up so she could walk to the bathroom, to the anxiety that didn’t show up until after the treatments were done. She talks about the power of language, how labels (like “widow” or “in remission”) land in the body, and why she refuses to keep speaking words that don’t match the future she’s creating.

We explore healing as a deeply human, spiritual, and very practical process: asking for help, letting people love you, listening instead of fixing, and finding your posse of truth-tellers. We also dive into Kristina’s retreat, Holy Dirt & Sacred Fire, and how reconnecting with the earth, each other, and our own voice might be the bravest way to face the second half of life. This is an episode for every woman who’s ever thought, “All the good is behind me”… and is ready to believe there’s more.