When you're in the middle of (or just coming out of) a trying situation (you know, like a PANDEMIC), hearing about "financial planning" and "getting ready for retirement" might just feel like salt in your wounds. But if money was discussed more openly and confidently, many of us might have had different financial reactions and experiences during the pandemic.

The good news is it's never too late to start working on your financial planning and planning for retirement. On this episode, Judy A. Hulsey, a private wealth advisor with Ronald Blue Trust, shares her advice for planning for the future, no matter where you are in life.

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Women in the workforce are constantly working toward something. Working to get a pay raise, working to be project lead, working to get a seat at the boardroom table. The secret ingredient to being successful at all of that? Confidence.

Catherine Gates, the Executive Director for Women in the Marketplace, joins the podcast to discuss how she has developed her confidence over the span of her career and discusses her new book, The Confidence Cornerstone: A Woman's Guide to Fearless Leadership.

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What is the first feeling you experience when someone compliments you? How do you first feel when someone corrects you or offers constructive criticism? How we process what others think of us is heavily influenced by what we think of ourselves, which is why understanding "self-perception" is so closely tied to growing as an individual.

Jessie Niespolo, a Senior Strategy Lead on Google's Automotive Retail Team and co-founder of 4word: Detroit, talks about how she's built up confidence in herself over her career, and shares her advice for sharing your worth with others in a way that doesn't come across negatively.

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In this episode, Patricia Asp, 4word Board Member and founder of ASPire, shares why she's so passionate about helping companies embrace more inclusive values, and how she hopes ASPire will help hardwire company culture for sustainability.

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On this episode, Alva P. Adams-Mason, Group Manager of Multicultural Business Alliance and Strategy and Multicultural Dealer Relations for Toyota Motor North America and 4word Advisory Board member, discusses how she found ways to advance her faith while advancing her career. She also talks about why mentors were vital for her to find a way to balance her life inside the walls of corporate America as well as outside those walls as a parent.

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In this episode, we talk about getting to a place where we're OK with not being OK. Are you cringing? Is your heart beating a little faster? Did your ears just perk up, even though everything in you is wanting to just skip this episode and keep pushing through your day? Then this episode is for you.

Dr. Shannan Crawford, licensed clinical psychologist and leadership consultant, joins the podcast to talk about why we are so reluctant to admit when our mental health is suffering, and how she herself has learned when it's time to pause and let God open His waiting arms to us for rest and renewed strength.

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Sandi Mitchell, CEO of Apex Catalyst Group, takes us into the topic of "commanding your inner committee" and why mastering this is a crucial step in achieving effective inner strength.

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If you had to give your daily rest practices a performance review, how would you do? In a work culture driven by results, it's entirely possible that "rest" has all but fallen off your radar. Kyla Cragg, manager in AppleCare Engineering with Apple and a Project Manager for Inclusion & Equality, joins the podcast to chat about when she realized rest isn't something you need permission to do and shares how she's learned to rest without guilt.

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Shae Bynes, co-founder of Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur and author of Grace Over Grind: How Grace Will Take Your Business Where Grinding Can't, knows all about balance and when it's out of whack. She joins the podcast to share three tips she'd give any woman in the workforce who is struggling to bring order to her life.

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This episode's guest, Diane Darling, has ridden the wave of change becoming crisis many times in her life, and her desire is to see her story and experience comfort and embolden those who are living out life-altering experiences.

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