If you've ever felt financially behind, intimidated by real estate investing, or convinced that everyone else understands money better than you do, Liz Faircloth wants you to begin with the facts—not the fear.

Where do you actually stand financially? Where do you want to go? And what experience, skills, relationships, knowledge, or resources do you already bring to the table?

Women often skip those questions and jump directly to what they do not know.

Real estate investing for women can feel like entering a world built around unfamiliar language, large numbers, calculated risk, and men who confidently announce that they are "killing it" after buying five properties. Meanwhile, a woman with the same five properties may introduce herself by saying she is "just getting started."

Those words matter.

Liz is the co-founder of The Real Estate InvestHER, a global community created to help women build wealth, invest with greater confidence, and connect with other women making intentional financial decisions. Before building that community, she developed a multimillion-dollar residential and commercial real estate portfolio across multiple markets with her husband.

But real estate was not her original plan.

Liz grew up in a hardworking, middle-class Italian family and was completing a graduate degree in social work when her brother-in-law gave her a copy of Rich Dad Poor Dad. The idea that she did not have to spend her entire life working for money—that money could eventually work for her—changed the direction of her life.

She and her future husband began attending real estate seminars, studying deals, and building a shared vision. Their first purchase was a duplex outside Philadelphia, funded in part by a $30,000 family loan. Shortly after closing, both tenants moved out, leaving them with no rent and a renovation that required more money than expected.

They had two choices: give up or solve the problem.

That early property established a pattern that would define their investing career. When the numbers changed, the market crashed, tenants left, or the original plan stopped working, they returned to the larger purpose and looked for another route forward.

During the 2008 real estate crash, they owned a vacant 10,000-square-foot commercial building in Trenton, New Jersey. The business model depended on finding one large tenant, but that tenant was unlikely to appear in the collapsing market. Instead of remaining attached to the original plan, they divided the building into smaller offices and created a shared workspace before that model had become common.

The goal remained. The strategy changed.

Liz and Dr. Robin Buckley discuss why that distinction matters far beyond real estate. Fear often narrows attention to the immediate problem. Purpose redirects the brain toward solutions. When Liz faces an unexpected obstacle, she asks what she is ultimately trying to accomplish and what other path might move her closer to it.

The conversation also examines the financial beliefs women inherit. Liz grew up with the message that the harder you work, the luckier you become. That work ethic helped her succeed, but it also created a limitation: the assumption that more wealth must always require more personal labor.

Building wealth demanded a new calculation—one based not only on cost, but on value.

That lesson applies to investing, hiring, negotiating, travel, time, and the way women describe their own contributions. Liz shares examples of women who generated most of the capital for real estate deals but still accepted a fraction of the compensation earned by male partners. Gratitude, she argues, should not be used to make exploitation look virtuous.

Women can appreciate an opportunity and still negotiate what their work is worth.

Liz also speaks candidly about the moment when financial success stopped feeling sufficient. She had passive income, a growing business, and a new baby, but she was asking whether the life that appeared successful from the outside still felt meaningful. That question eventually led to InvestHER and a community where women could learn about wealth without being pushed toward one investment, product, market, or strategy.

You'll want more from Liz: InvestHER InvestHER Con (July 14-16 in Scottsdale, AZ)

If you've ever wondered why your sexual desire disappeared—or worried that its absence means something is wrong with you—Dr. Terri Vanderlinde wants to ask a few more questions before anyone starts handing out blame, shame, or another quick fix.

Are you in pain? Are you exhausted? Do you feel connected to your partner? Do you have any privacy, time, or energy left? And if you were transported to a perfect deserted island with no work, bills, children, notifications, or laundry, would you want sex then?

If the answer is yes, you may not have a sexual problem. You may have a lifestyle problem.

Women's sexual health and low desire are often discussed as though desire exists in isolation. But women do not leave their mental load, hormonal changes, physical discomfort, resentment, trauma, body image, or unfinished household tasks outside the bedroom. All of it comes in with them.

Dr. Vanderlinde spent more than 30 years as an OB-GYN and later pursued additional training as a certified sexual counselor because medical school and residency had not prepared her to answer one of the concerns she heard most often from patients: "I have no desire."

She had been trained in disease, reproduction, surgery, and physical symptoms. She had not been adequately trained in the clitoris, pleasure, intimacy, sexual communication, or the complexity of women's desire.

So she went back and learned.

In this direct, candid conversation, Dr. Vanderlinde and Dr. Robin Buckley explore why pleasure belongs in women's healthcare and why so many women still feel embarrassed to talk about it. Women are often more comfortable reporting pain, bleeding, or a lump than saying they are not enjoying sex—or that they do not know what they enjoy at all.

That silence has consequences.

Women cannot clearly communicate what feels good if they have never explored their own bodies. They cannot advocate for different touch if they interpret feedback as criticism. And couples cannot build a satisfying sexual relationship if every kiss is assumed to be a contract for intercourse.

Dr. Vanderlinde makes an important distinction between intimacy and sex. Intimacy can include communication, affection, kissing, massage, playfulness, emotional connection, and touch without a required outcome. When every form of closeness is treated as the beginning of intercourse, women may begin avoiding all touch because they do not want to start something they feel obligated to finish.

The solution is not to pressure women into more sex. It is to expand the couple's definition of connection.

That may mean making out without going further. Giving each other massages and asking what pressure feels best. Trying something new with curiosity instead of performance anxiety. Introducing vibrators or other sexual wellness tools. Or simply creating a conversation in which "I like that" and "I don't like that" are treated as useful information rather than a judgment of someone's competence as a lover.

The conversation also addresses one of the least romantic but most accurate realities of desire: exhaustion matters.

When one partner is carrying the children, the house, the planning, the appointments, and the invisible labor, doing the dishes can become a form of foreplay—not because sex is a transaction, but because shared responsibility creates time, energy, and emotional space for intimacy.

Dr. Vanderlinde also reflects on the years when she and her husband were both working demanding medical careers and raising children. They consciously accepted that sex would be less frequent during that season. What mattered was recognizing what was happening, staying connected as a team, and refusing to turn the temporary reality into evidence that the relationship had failed.

The episode widens into a larger conversation about women's health advocacy, reproductive education, and cultural change. Through her work in Ghana, Dr. Vanderlinde has seen how information, trust, consistency, and respect can help communities shift long-held beliefs. Her lesson applies everywhere: meaningful change rarely happens by shaming people. It happens by giving women knowledge and allowing them to make informed decisions about their own bodies.

• Low sexual desire in women and why stress, pain, fatigue, trauma, and relationship strain may matter more than libido alone
• The difference between intimacy and sex and why physical connection should not always require intercourse
• Women's body literacy and the importance of understanding the clitoris, pleasure, pain, and changing physical responses
• Communicating sexual needs without turning preferences into criticism or failure
• Perimenopause and sexual changes, including why familiar forms of touch may stop feeling good over time
• Mental load and desire and how shared household responsibility can create more emotional and physical space for sex
• Using vibrators and sexual wellness tools as part of healthy exploration rather than evidence that something is wrong
• Advocating for women's healthcare through education, informed choice, and honest conversations across generations and cultures

This conversation is for the woman who has been told her low desire is entirely her problem. It is for the woman whose body has changed, whose life is overloaded, whose partner does not understand what she needs, or who was never taught that pleasure is a legitimate part of health.

So if you've ever felt disconnected from your own body, struggled to explain what you need from a partner, or wondered why women's pleasure is still treated as optional healthcare… this episode's for you.

Learn more about Dr. Terri's powerful work for women's health care and education in Ghana: Amenyo Foundation

If you've been waiting for uncertain news, bracing for the worst, or mentally living through disasters that have not happened, Scarlet Keys has a question for you:

What if it all goes right?

Not because everything always does. Not because fear is irrational. And certainly not because hope can protect us from grief, illness, rejection, or loss.

But because imagining the worst does not actually make us safer. It often just allows a possible future to take over the life we are living right now.

Learning how to practice hope during difficult times became deeply personal for Scarlet, an award-winning songwriter, professor at Berklee College of Music, TED speaker, and author of What If It All Goes Right?: Practicing Hope in the Hardest Times.

Scarlet has built a life around creativity, but she does not define creativity as something reserved for musicians, writers, artists, or people who own suspicious amounts of yarn. Creativity, in her view, is how we approach a problem, find humor in an unbearable moment, imagine another possibility, or ask, "How do I want to move through this?"

That question became essential when Scarlet was diagnosed with three forms of breast cancer and suddenly faced a double mastectomy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and a stream of major medical decisions. Fear and dread were present. They were legitimate. But she did not want them to become the only emotions she was permitted to experience for the next several years.

So she became intentional about how she entered each day.

Some days she cried. Some days she wore black leather to treatment so she could feel like a badass. She asked friends to send funny videos, played songs on the way home, brought flowers to the nurses, invited laughter into the chemotherapy room, and looked for ways to combine the frightening with the beautiful.

This was not denial. It was emotional range.

Scarlet and Dr. Robin Buckley discuss why creativity can be a powerful response to anxiety. When the brain is trapped in worst-case thinking, making something—or simply looking at the situation differently—can interrupt the cycle and create movement. Creativity asks questions. What might help today? Who could I invite in? Can I make this lighter? Can I take one manageable step rather than swallowing the entire future at once?

That small-step approach has shaped Scarlet's life. When she moved across the country to attend Berklee, she did not tell herself she had to commit forever. She gave it one semester. Years later, when she moved from Nashville to teach at Berklee and immediately wanted to retreat to the life she knew, a close friend offered the same advice: give it one semester.

Twenty-four years later, that frightening decision had become one of the most meaningful chapters of her life.

The conversation also examines how thoughts and language shape hope. Scarlet reminds listeners that not every thought is true. The mind generates fears because it is trying to protect us, but protection and accuracy are not the same thing.

She encourages women to separate themselves from the thought, question it, and decide whether it deserves authority. Is rejection certain? Is failure guaranteed? Is the feared outcome more real than the best possible one? Or is the brain rehearsing tragedy because uncertainty feels unbearable?

One of Scarlet's most powerful realizations came while waiting for a doctor to tell her whether a new concern was a cancer recurrence. It was Friday, and she would not receive the answer until Monday. Looking at the autumn leaves outside a café, she made a decision: whatever Monday brought, it could not have that day.

That is the heart of practicing hope. It does not promise the future. It refuses to abandon the present.

• Practicing hope during uncertainty without pretending that fear, grief, or illness are not real
• Using creativity to manage anxiety by making, questioning, reframing, laughing, and approaching problems differently
• Moving through cancer treatment intentionally while allowing joy and dread to exist at the same time
• Breaking frightening decisions into smaller commitments instead of demanding certainty before taking the first step
• Questioning negative thoughts and recognizing that the brain's warnings are not automatically facts
• Stopping worst-case rehearsal when imagining tragedy creates no real protection or preparation
• Building resilience through community, physical well-being, spiritual connection, and the knowledge that you matter
• Using rejection, pain, and bad choices as wisdom rather than allowing difficult experiences to be wasted

This conversation is for the woman whose brain is trying to protect her by predicting every possible disaster. It is for the woman waiting for an answer, facing a diagnosis, starting over, grieving a loss, or wondering whether hope is naïve when life has already shown her how much can go wrong.

So if you've ever felt consumed by uncertainty, struggled to keep fear from taking over the present, or wondered how to practice hope without lying to yourself… this episode's for you.

You'll want more from Scarlet so here's how to find her:

Book: What If It All Goes Right? TED Talk: Why do you like your favorite songs? Website: scarletkeys.com Instagram: @scarletkeysmusic

If you've ever looked around and wondered whether everyone else received a life schedule you somehow missed, this conversation is for you.

Graduate. Build a career. Find the right person. Get married. Have children. Buy the house. Keep moving.

Women are handed these milestones so early and so consistently that it can be difficult to recognize them as expectations rather than instructions. And when life does not unfold in the approved order, many women do not simply feel disappointed. They feel as though they have failed.

Feeling behind in life as a woman is rarely just about age. It is about comparison, fertility, relationships, work, family expectations, and the quiet fear that everyone else is moving forward while you are standing still.

Carrie Penna has built her life by asking a different question: Do I actually love the life I am living?

Carrie leads Seacoast Soul Models, an organization creating supportive, phone-free spaces where middle-school girls can talk honestly, develop practical skills, and feel heard. Her work is informed by her own experiences with grief, friendship, relationships, career changes, and the decision to freeze her eggs at age 37.

After losing her father at 11, Carrie had to navigate formative years without one of the relationships she believed would have helped her understand healthy partnerships. She speaks openly about learning through trial and error, sometimes choosing relationships that did not reflect what she deserved, and discovering that romantic love could not be the only place she looked for safety, validation, and belonging.

Instead, she built what she describes as an extraordinary structure of women around her.

Those friendships became more than a social circle. They became mirrors—people who could remind her of her value when she temporarily forgot it herself. Carrie and Dr. Robin Buckley discuss why women need this kind of personal board of directors: trusted people who provide encouragement, perspective, honest feedback, and a safe place to test their voices.

Carrie's work with girls has also shown her how early women begin receiving messages about being agreeable, quiet, likable, and easy to manage. Girls who speak confidently may still be labeled bossy or know-it-alls. Many report that they do not feel heard by teachers, adults, or the systems around them.

Her response is not to tell girls to suddenly become fearless. She teaches them to start small.

Say that you do not like something. Say that you do not want to attend. Practice expressing an opinion with someone safe. Write down the one thing you want another person to understand before a difficult conversation. Ask for a "take two" when the first attempt does not go well.

A voice, Carrie argues, is a muscle. It becomes stronger through repetition.

That same combination of education and self-trust shaped her decision to freeze her eggs. Carrie initially felt embarrassed, worrying that the choice might be interpreted as evidence that she had failed to find a partner. Then she reframed it: Why should protecting a future option be treated as a consolation prize?

Her willingness to talk openly revealed another problem. Many women do not receive clear, timely information about fertility testing, egg freezing, cost, access, or the realities of reproductive healthcare until their choices have already narrowed. Carrie's story is not an advertisement for one reproductive decision. It is an argument for women having the information, support, and autonomy to make their own.

The same principle applies to work and relationships. You may not know exactly what comes next, but that does not mean you must remain somewhere that you already know is wrong.

• Feeling behind in life when marriage, motherhood, career, or housing milestones do not happen on schedule
• Being single in your 30s and 40s without treating partnership as proof that your life has officially begun
• Building a personal board of directors who can reflect your worth, challenge your thinking, and support your decisions
• Helping girls develop their voices through safe, low-risk practice instead of expecting instant confidence
• Listening to physical and emotional signals when a person, workplace, or relationship feels draining or misaligned
• Freezing eggs at 37 and challenging the shame attached to women protecting their reproductive options
• Addressing financial and educational barriers within women's fertility and reproductive healthcare
• Leaving jobs or relationships that do not fit even when you cannot yet identify the perfect next step

This conversation is for the woman who feels pressure to hurry into marriage, parenthood, a relationship, or a career decision because time appears to be running out. It is for the woman who wants more information before making a permanent choice—and who needs permission to value alignment more than appearances.

So if you've ever felt late to your own life, struggled with pressure around relationships or fertility, or wondered whether you can leave what is wrong before knowing exactly what comes next… this episode's for you.

And learn more about and to support Carrie's amazing organization, Seacoast Soul Models, go to: https://www.soulmodels.org/

If you've reached the point where the life, career, or identity you worked hard to build no longer feels like the place you are meant to stay, Susan Dabbar would probably tell you to pay attention.

Not panic. Not burn everything down before lunch. But pay attention.

Career reinvention for women over 50 is often presented as a dramatic leap into an entirely new life. Susan's experience suggests something more useful: reinvention is usually a series of pivots, some subtle and some closer to a full 180-degree turn, made by a woman who is willing to keep asking, "Does this still fit?"

Susan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Provoked, a digital magazine created for bold, curious women over 50. Before launching the publication in her 60s, she had already moved through 13 careers, lived in five countries and six states, created seven businesses, and successfully exited six of them.

Her career began in one of the least conventional places imaginable for a young woman in the late 1970s: a military-style maritime college where roughly 12 women entered alongside approximately 400 men. Susan studied naval architecture, graduated into another male-dominated environment, and began designing submarines and aircraft carriers during the Cold War.

Then, while standing in the basin of a dry dock beneath the massive bow of an aircraft carrier, she had a very clear thought: "What the hell are you doing here?"

That question became the beginning of her first major pivot.

In this conversation, Susan and Dr. Robin Buckley explore how women recognize when it is time to change direction—and how they develop the confidence to act before they have every answer. Susan explains that taking up space is not merely a metaphor. It can mean walking into a room as though you belong there, making eye contact, offering a strong handshake, understanding who holds power, and preparing thoroughly enough that you can respond strategically rather than react anxiously.

Preparation, in Susan's world, is not about perfection. It is how confidence gets built before the meeting begins.

She also challenges the traditional networking advice that tells women success is primarily about who they know. Susan's version is sharper: it is also about who knows you. Your experience matters, but so does your ability to communicate a recognizable point of view, tell your own story, and allow people to understand what makes your perspective different.

That lesson became essential when she created Provoked without a background in publishing or an established network in media. Instead of treating that as disqualifying, Susan studied what was missing, listened to what women over 50 were discussing, identified recurring themes, wrote the first 20 articles herself, and began building authority one reader at a time.

Her story dismantles the assumption that women must be perfectly qualified before they begin. Susan is not suggesting that competence is irrelevant. She is saying that women are often more capable of learning as they go than they have been taught to believe.

The conversation also explores the complicated relationship between confidence and support. Susan speaks honestly about discovering that the people closest to you may not always show up for your work in the ways you expect. Reinvention requires more than encouragement. It requires identifying the people who will actually stand beside you, give honest feedback, and remind you who you are during the inevitable 2:00 a.m. existential crisis.

• Changing careers later in life without treating your earlier experience as wasted time
• Taking up space as a woman in boardrooms, technical fields, and other male-dominated environments
• Using preparation strategically by researching the people, hierarchy, personalities, and power in the room
• Building confidence through practice, trusted feedback, and a personal board of directors
• Recognizing when a career no longer fits, even when it looks successful from the outside
• Starting a business after 60 without direct experience in the industry you are entering
• Turning an unconventional career history into authority instead of apologizing for a nonlinear résumé
• Creating visibility and personal influence by owning your story and letting people know what you stand for

This conversation is for the woman who has accumulated decades of experience but is not convinced that her most interesting work is behind her. She may be considering a career change, building a business, entering a room where she is still the only woman, or wondering whether she is allowed to create something before she feels completely ready.

So if you've ever questioned whether your career still fits, struggled to make yourself visible in rooms that underestimate you, or wondered whether it is too late to build something entirely new… this episode's for you.

To subscribe to PROVOKED and read more from the amazing Susan Dabbar --> https://provokedmagazine.com/

Wondering why That's What She Said even exists? Host, Dr. Robin Buckley, pulls back the curtain on the mission and the unapologetic truth behind the podcast. We're not just chatting; we're sharing why GenX+ women are here to drop wisdom, insights, and sometimes uncomfortable truths for the next generation of women ready to own their power. This is the heart, the drive, and the "why" that keeps us talking because when women speak, the world changes.

If you've reached the point where taking care of your health feels like one more full-time job you are somehow failing to perform beautifully, this conversation offers a different approach. Preventive health for women does not have to begin with elaborate meal preparation, an hour at the gym, or another app tracking every bite, step, hormone, and mildly judgmental glass of wine.

Sometimes it begins with a bag of salad, a can of tuna, frozen vegetables, and the decision to stop waiting until something is wrong.

Dr. Mary Ann Martin is a double board-certified physician in internal medicine and endocrinology, the founder of Dr. Hormone Hacker, and the author of The Type Zero Diabetic. Her work became deeply personal when she faced her own prediabetes and had to reconsider the habits she had carried into adulthood, motherhood, and perimenopause.

That experience changed the way she approached women's metabolic health. Instead of waiting for high blood sugar, high cholesterol, weight gain, or hormonal changes to become bigger problems, she began helping women understand what they could influence earlier—and why the traditional healthcare system often does not provide enough time to have those conversations.

Dr. Martin and Dr. Robin Buckley explore why women frequently postpone their own care during the decades when they are carrying the most responsibility. Careers, children, relationships, aging parents, household management, and everyone else's needs tend to consume the schedule. Self-care gets whatever energy remains, which is usually very little and occasionally accompanied by cold coffee.

But this conversation is not about building the perfect routine. It is about creating habits strong enough to survive real life.

Dr. Martin explains why every woman needs a fast, realistic meal she can prepare on her most chaotic day and a simple way to move her body without requiring an hour at the gym. Missing one day is rarely the issue. The behavioral problem begins when several missed days create a domino effect: energy drops, motivation disappears, and restarting feels significantly harder.

The conversation also takes a direct look at the return of the ultra-thin body ideal and the influence of GLP-1 medications. Dr. Martin challenges women to stop treating the number on a traditional scale as the full definition of progress. Weight loss can include muscle loss, which makes body composition, strength training, adequate nutrition, and muscle preservation essential parts of the conversation—especially for women approaching or moving through perimenopause and menopause.

Her message is not anti-medication. It is anti-oversimplification.

The episode also moves beyond physical health into self-trust. Dr. Martin shares how she once planned a career in broadcast journalism and was offered a position at CNN—only to recognize that the opportunity she had worked toward did not feel right for her at that moment. Her decision to change direction eventually led her to medicine, endocrinology, and a career that combined her ability to ask questions with her desire to help people make meaningful changes.

Her story raises a question many women eventually confront: Are you making a decision because it fits you, or because you need to prove something to the people who doubted you?

• Building preventive health habits before high blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, or weight changes become larger medical concerns
• Creating five-minute meals and short movement routines that remain possible during the busiest seasons of life
• Understanding women's metabolic health during motherhood, perimenopause, menopause, and healthy aging
• Recognizing the difference between weight loss and fat loss, especially when GLP-1 medications are involved
• Protecting muscle mass through body-composition awareness, resistance training, movement, and adequate nutrition
• Questioning the ultra-thin ideal and replacing appearance-based goals with strength, energy, and long-term function
• Listening to intuition when the opportunity you thought you wanted no longer feels right
• Keeping your own passions alive while carrying the roles of partner, parent, professional, caregiver, and household CEO

This conversation is for the woman who knows she should be paying more attention to her health but cannot tolerate one more impossible wellness routine. It is also for the woman who has been using the scale as a verdict, giving everyone else her best energy, or quietly wondering whether the path she chose still fits.

So if you've ever postponed your health because life was too busy, struggled to separate weight loss from actual wellness, or wondered whether trusting yourself could change your next decade… this episode's for you.

You can learn more about Dr. Mary Ann Martin (aka Dr. Hormone Hacker) at https://www.drhormonehacker.com/ and purchase her book, The Type Zero Diabetic.