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Oct 9, 2026 54 min

What It Takes to Risk It All

from Ladies Get Paid Hosted by Claire Wasserman

At 14, Ella Rivkin immigrated from Moscow to New York with about $100 and became her family’s money manager. In 2009 she walked out of her accounting partnership with $12,000 in the bank, two small kids, and an underwater mortgage, and built her own firm. Years later, Tony Robbins told her she still wasn’t financially free. Claire Wasserman and Ella talk about betting on yourself, leaving a job without a safety net, the self-doubt that keeps women in situations they’ve outgrown, and why a high income isn’t the same as freedom. Read the key insights and action steps at ladiesgetpaid.substack.com/p/what-it-takes-to-risk-it-all Connect with Ella at ellarivkin.com/

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