If you want to improve the quality of your life, you've got to surround yourself with people who are committed to helping you get there. There isn't anyone I know who doesn't emulate what that looks like to support your community more than Shane Young.

I don't teach budgets. Not in the outdated over analytical sense anyway.

Most women don't succeed financially by simply implementing a budget.

Awakening. This is how I would describe mid life for so many women. One day you wake up and realize...your job is not what you want to spend the second half of your life doing.

It's easy to think about putting your own oxygen mask on first when you're on an airplane.

Money recovery takes time. There are moving pieces and parts and if you never learned anything about money, it's hard to win.

Think of Monopoly - as kids we played for sometimes days at a time, stopping and restarting, selling and buying properties.

Alexis (Lexy) didn't grow up knowing anything about money. Like most women, she was on her own to figure out how to navigate student loans, college, becoming a mother at the age of 20 and divorce.

Early in her career, Jackie blindly received promotions, taking whatever was given to her and not negotiating for what she knew she wanted. Even back then, She knew it didn’t need to be so hard.

Sonia and I have had some really deep and meaningful conversations about money. She and I are also on a mission to impact the lives of others', specifically, women and their financial lives. We connected over 5 years ago in a coffee shop.

Down to nothing. No savings. No security blanket. Single, and working hard, Sandi Herrera had met a crossroads in 2018.

We have a choice in life. We can let our circumstances control us. Or, we can choose to make meaning out of our lives and circumstances.