Working Women's Wealth

Asking for what you're worth is almost as difficult as facing your fears. It's much easier to give something away for free than it is to ask for what you're worth. In this episode, we understand why we struggle with this, and go through 4 ways to overcome it. We also look at how women and men negotiate differently.

Jacqui Letran is a Mindset Mentor, award winning author, and host of the Stop the Bully Within podcast. She shares her journey from a 16 year old teenage mum to the owner of her own business helping adults and teenagers. We discuss her self-publishing journey, and the work she does to help people change their mindsets.

It's too late when you're 60 to find out the assumptions you made at 40 about your money were incorrect - and worse yet, to need to start work again after you've been retired for a few years. As humans, we unconsciously live much our lives based on many assumptions. As a wealth adviser, I deal daily with people who are making huge financial decisions they're not even conscious they're making. These are some of the most common assumptions I see.

Jenny Ratcliffe-Wright was South Africa's youngest Wine Master when she qualified. Following her qualification in Cordon Bleu, she pursued a successful career in food and wine product development before she turned her attention full time to all things wine. In this light hearted episode, she takes us behind the scenes in the wine industry and shares with us how they're taking Warwick Wine internationally. She's an Author of Spit or Swallow, a fun take on wine, as well as an international judge of judge and the Marketing Director of Warwick Wine.

Not everybody that has their own business believes they are a born entrepreneur. In fact many people struggle to come up with what they would do to earn their second income. I definitely was one of those who thought I was a corporate woman through and through... I never wanted to start my own business. And then things changed - I changed. I take you through my journey, my dead ends, and how I discovered my passion and problem that I wanted to solve.

Sunel Veldtman chats to us about starting up her wealth management business and how women are different to men in terms of money management. She also shares her wisdom on wealth creation and management.

From the huge dream she had, to the fears she overcame, she shares the challenges of leaving a corporate and starting over again. She also reflects on the one very big thing she'd do differently if she started again.

She tackles how women handle money differently to men, and why 70% of women leave their husband's financial adviser when they die or get divorced. She also shares practical wisdom for managing money.

It takes time to build a second income - and starting now ensures that we're not part of the 94% of people who can't retire or who are having to drastically reduce their living expenses or get their children to pay for them in their retirement years.

Lisa Linfield shares her long term goals for her second income stream and how she plans to 'glide' into retirement... and why 'forced retirement' from corporates is such a challenge to so many 60 year olds.

Courage and humility are the traits of a great leader, and Andrea Quaye personifies this as she gives us an unbelievable insight into her journey to the top, and what makes a global leader. As the first female marketing director of listed beer giant, SAB, she talks through this transition and her latest journey to the global stage leading AB Inbev's African Marketing team.

Lisa Linfield addresses the real story behind passive income and the secret you need to know in order to reach the elusive financial freedom sooner. Choose the flexibility of your hours, physical work place etc. She takes an in depth look at the four major types of passive income... and takes you through the secret of passive income success and how you achieve financial freedom earlier

This episode I chat to Julia Pappas - a psychologist, parenting coach, and the host of the podcast Minimum Viable Parenting. As working parents, there's always guilt that we're getting it wrong. How much time is OK on screens, and why there's a direct correlation between social media usage and depression. We discuss boundaries, attachment and examining the expectations we have of ourselves as parents. And also Parent Burnout... what it is and how we get through it