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Ladies Get Paid
by Claire Wasserman
Expand your worth, inside and out. Ladies Get Paid features real coaching sessions, honest conversations and first-hand stories of women all transforming their relationship with work, worth, and money.Hosted by Claire Wasserman - coach, author, and speaker trained in financial psychology and nervous system regulation - every episode has a companion post on Substack where 43,000 readers get key insights and next steps. Subscribe free at ladiesgetpaid.substack.com or upgrade for $100 off a private session with Claire.
Episodes
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Budgets Don’t Work (and Other Money Rules Nobody Taught You)
Certified financial planner AJ Ayers explains stock options and RSUs, how to negotiate equity in a job offer, the 90-day window after a layoff, why she skips budgets and saves first, and how to think about credit card debt, renting vs. buying, and getting started with investing. AJ’s book…
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“They Thought I Was the Intern” | Jamia Wilson on Worth and Power
Jamia Wilson has been asked if she’s the intern in rooms where she was running the place. She was the youngest director in the history of the Feminist Press and the first woman of color to lead it. She’s now a VP and executive editor at Random House. Gloria Steinem was her mentor, and then she...
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What It Takes to Risk It All
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...
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This Money Expert Has Doubts
Erin Lowry wrote four books about money. Her business bank account is the lowest it's ever been. She built a career as Broke Millennial — Penguin, CBS Sunday Morning, the person a generation of us learned to open a Roth IRA from. She isn't broke the way she was at 23 on $23,000 a year in New…
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Sued for Hosting Women's Events
Rita Boccuzzi was sued for gender discrimination for hosting money events for women, by the same two men who sued me. Instead of settling, she fought for three and a half years. We talk about the lawsuit, the 38 lawyers she called, turning her camera on in her deposition, and how it finally…
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Why You Can’t Break Bad Habits (And What Actually Works)
Habit change expert Connie Kwan explains why willpower isn't the problem; the story you're telling yourself is. She shares her STORY method, the two numbers that predict whether a habit change will stick, and how a client quit a ten-year french fry habit in two weeks. Then she coaches me live on…
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She Climbed Out of $1.5 Million of Debt
Cathy's husband was fired without warning in 2018. She'd left her six-figure job two years before to stay home with their kids. What was left: a $1.32 million mortgage, over $100,000 in credit card debt across eleven maxed cards, another $100,000 borrowed from friends, and no income. Eight years...
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When Do I Quit My Job for My Side Hustle? | Inside a Coaching Session
Five years at a tech startup. Four rounds of layoffs. Seven managers. And a side business as a death doula that she loves but isn't sure can pay her. Natasha came in asking when to make the leap. A few minutes in, she mentioned her health insurance and called her attachment to it silly — and the...
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The 4 Fears Keeping You Underpaid
You know what you should charge. You still quoted less. You know you should negotiate. You still froze. This isn't a confidence problem. It's a fear problem — and in this episode I'm naming all four fears that have been quietly keeping women underpaid, often for years. I'll walk you through what...
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Demand What Your Work Deserves
Two-time NYT bestselling author Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs (The Three Mothers, Erased) uncovered the women history deliberately wrote out — then had to fight to keep her own work from disappearing. We talk about the mothers behind MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, the "trophy wife" comments she...
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How to Live With No Regrets
Jodi Wellman knows exactly how many Mondays she has left to live, and she checks the number every week. Morbid? A little. Effective? Completely. The average life holds about 4,000 Mondays — and most of us spend them saying "later." Jodi is a speaker, founder of Four Thousand Mondays, and author…
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What Starting Over Actually Looks Like
She spent twelve years as a police officer. She made detective - the goal she'd worked toward her entire career - and walked away from it almost immediately after. What followed wasn't a clean pivot. It was a smoothie shop, five months of unemployment, and two jobs she found through relationships...
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Fired for Being Pregnant. She Got Even.
She told her boss she was pregnant on a Monday. She was fired by Friday. Kelly Ehlers sued the $300 million company — and while the case dragged on for six years, she built a 5x Inc. 5000 agency, launched a media company out of spite, and wrote Nice Girls Win. We talk about what she said to the…
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Sole Earner, Family of 5. Net Worth of $4 Million...Here's How She Did it.
"D" the sole income earner for a family of five. Her husband has been a stay-at-home dad for nine years. Her net worth is $4 million — and she's never made over $200,000 a year or worked a sixty-hour week. In this episode, a woman from the Ladies Get Paid community tells her story in her own…
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A Meditation For Those Who Hate Meditating
Most meditations ask you to sit still and clear your mind. This one won't. It's made for a ten minute walk outside, meant to transform the negative thoughts that won't stop, the behaviors you can't seem to break, and the noise that's drowning out what you actually want. It's part of The Practice…
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How to Get Big Things Done Without Anxiety or Burnout
For my whole professional life, I've worked in a constant state of urgency — and assumed anxiety was just the price of caring about my work. Then I ran an accidental experiment: a two-week production sprint so big that even AI was skeptical. I finished two days early. I wasn't exhausted. And I...
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The Truth About Women and Money
What does your relationship with money say about you? Lindsay Stanberry spent a decade watching women talk about money. She created Money Diaries at Refinery29, wrote the bestselling book, and went on to become an executive editor at CNBC and Fortune. Now she runs The Purse, a media platform...
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How to Make a Hard Decision (6-Step Framework)
When you're facing a hard decision, the problem usually isn't that you don't have enough information — it's that you have too many parts of yourself all trying to drive at the same time. In this episode I share a six-step framework for making hard decisions with clarity and self-compassion, even...
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She Couldn't Afford a Yoga Class. Then She Built a Wellness Empire.
Jessamyn Stanley — yoga teacher, author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke, and founder of The Underbelly — has one of the most honest money origin stories you'll hear. We go deep on growing up with financial scarcity, building a wellness business as a fat, Black, queer woman in an industry that wasn't...
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My Top Anti-Procrastination Tips: How I Finally Built a System That Works With My Brain
I used to be the queen of procrastination — everything got done, but always at the last minute with late nights and anxiety. What changed wasn't willpower. It was understanding why I was procrastinating and building a system that worked with my brain instead of against it. In this episode I share...
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How to Negotiate Your Worth at Work
What does it actually take to ask for what you want — and get it? Sam Saperstein spent 13 years at JPMorgan Chase, rising to Managing Director and founding the bank's Women on the Move initiative, where she helped millions of women build wealth and advance their careers. In this episode, she…
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Scarcity Mode vs. Scarcity Mindset: How to Know When to Walk Away
Do you know the difference between scarcity mode and scarcity mindset? One is a real circumstance. The other is an old story that hasn't caught up to where you actually are. In this episode I share the behind-the-scenes of negotiating my own book deal — including how I calculated my bottom line,...
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How to Build From Rock Bottom
Former Comedy Central VP and bestselling author Tara Schuster gets radically honest about money shame, identity, and what it really means to bet on yourself. This one is for anyone who has ever looked like they had it together while privately wondering if they ever will. 📩 Key insights, best...
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When Good Change Feels Like Grief: A Ritual for Major Life Transitions
Have you ever been in the middle of a really good transition — a new chapter, something you've been working toward — and felt inexplicably sad or anxious? That's not something being wrong with you. That's grief. In this video I share what happened when all the things I'd been working toward for...
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From $60K Teacher Salary to $1 Million in a Day
Teri Ijeoma went from making $60,000 a year as an assistant principal — crying in a bathroom every morning — to making a million dollars in a single day trading stocks. It took nine years of grinding, a million-dollar loss on Tesla, 42 employees scaled back to two, and a health scare that forced...
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The Real Reason You Can't Focus
The real reason you can't focus probably isn't what you think. If you've been pulling in too many directions at once — too many ideas, too many tabs open, too many versions of your life you're holding onto just in case — you've probably called it shiny object syndrome. But in this video I break...
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Why High-Achieving Women Still Feel Empty
Brooke Taylor surveyed over 5,000 women about their career problems — and found that perfectionism, overworking, imposter syndrome, and burnout all share one hidden root: the success wound. It's the deeply ingrained belief that your worth is contingent on what you achieve, produce, and do. In…
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Betting on Yourself, the Universe, and Learning to Let Go
What does it actually mean to bet on yourself? In this episode I share what I've learned about showing up fully for what you want, why trying to control outcomes can backfire, and the difference between directing the universe and dancing with it — including what happened when life humbled me...
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She Left Corporate and Then Her Husband Got Cancer
Liza Wyles built a successful career in entertainment — then got laid off, retrained as an intimacy coordinator, and watched her husband be diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. In this first-person episode, she gets honest about undercharging, guilt, scarcity, and what it finally took to stop...
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How to Get Out of a Perfectionist Spiral
Ever finish something and immediately spiral into everything that went wrong? In this episode I share a recent spiral of my own and the exact process I used to move from self-criticism to clarity — including a nervous system reset you can use in the moment, how to work with your inner critic...
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Your 401(k) Is Funding War. Here's What You Can Do About It | Former Finance Insider
Most people have no idea what their 401(k) is actually invested in. Amanda Holden spent years working in finance, and she's here to tell you: if you're invested in an S&P 500 index fund, you own pieces of weapons manufacturers, oil companies, and AI surveillance tech. This isn't a conspiracy...
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The Real Reason Women Struggle to Know What They Want
Many women who come to me for coaching say they don't know what they want. But in my experience, that's almost never true. They DO know. They just don't trust it. In this episode I break down why desire is so complicated for women specifically, how to tell if a desire is actually yours, and three...
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How She Negotiated $672K in Free Rent
Sonja Rasula, founder of Unique Markets and creator of the popup market concept, shares her unconventional journey with money—from making $300,000 in cash to negotiating two years of free rent during COVID.In this episode of Ladies Get Paid, we talk about:✅ How Sonja bought her first house using...
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How to Bet on Yourself: Career Advice on Job Searching, Burnout & Functional Delusion
What does it actually take to bet on yourself — in a job search, a career change, or building something of your own from scratch?In this episode, I'm joined by Emily Durham, aka Emily the Recruiter, a recruiter-turned-content creator with over 1.6 million followers and the author of Clock In. We...
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Why You're Still Broke Even When You're Doing Everything Right
She grew up in a household where money was never discussed — just survived. She became a mom at 19, went through a divorce at 24 with $20,000 in debt, no car, and two kids. Then she built one of the most important financial communities for Black women in the world — and had a $170,000 month. But...
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Why Your Business Isn't Converting: Stop Spinning and Start Building
You did the free work. You got the testimonials. So why isn't anyone paying you? This is part two of a real, unedited coaching session with Ellie — a CRM and digital marketing specialist who has done free lead magnet audits for twenty people, gotten genuine feedback, and still hasn't closed a...
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Interview Prep: Stop Apologizing for Your Career Path (How to Turn Your Side Hustle Into Your Biggest Asset)
If you've ever frozen when an interviewer asks "why do you want to leave your business?" — this one's for you. This is a real, unedited coaching session with Ellie, a CRM and digital marketing specialist who started her own consulting business but hasn't gotten the traction she hoped for. Now…
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Stop Waiting to Be Picked to Get Paid | Building a Business During a Job Search
In Part 1 of this coaching session, we did the inner work required to maintain confidence during a job search. In Part 2, we build a pipeline to getting paid now. Chloe — a Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience — had already built the bones of a consultancy after her first...
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"I'm Job Searching... I Feel Lost and Afraid" | Rebuilding Confidence After a Layoff
A real, unscripted coaching session with a client I'm calling Chloe — a Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience who was laid off twice in one year and slowly stopped believing she was still an expert at anything. In Part 1, we don't start with strategy. We start with what's...
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What Do You Actually Want? A Real Coaching Session on Permission, Purpose & Finding Your Center
What do you actually want? If that question makes you go blank — this episode is for you. In this real, unscripted coaching session, I work with a woman who has spent her entire career in service to others and yet can't answer the most basic question: what do I want? What we uncover together is...
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Feeling Stuck, Burned Out, or Overlooked? How to Rebuild Self-Trust from the Inside Out
When the rug keeps getting pulled out — your job, your relationship, your health — it's not a strategy problem. It's a trust problem. In this real coaching session, I work with Rachael, a client who came to me after being made redundant, going through a divorce, managing a chronic illness, and...
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She Felt Lucky to Have a Job. That Was the Problem. | Real Coaching Session on Self-Trust, Burnout & Starting Over
Rachael came to me after being made redundant, going through a divorce, managing a chronic illness, and raising two kids alone. When she filled out her intake form, she described herself as someone who felt lucky to have been employed. That sentence stopped me. Because Rachael isn't someone who…
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Why You Struggle to Follow Through on Good Advice
You've gotten the advice. You understood it. You agreed with it. And then you didn't do anything. This isn't a motivation problem. It's a resistance problem — and resistance is never random. It's always pointing at something. In this episode, I'm sharing something I've been sitting with. I…
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How to Stop Burning Out Without Burning It All Down | Live Career Coaching
Feeling burnt out, undervalued, and too exhausted to do anything about it? This one's for you. In this live coaching session, I work with Éire, a creative in advertising who's six months into a new job and already running on empty. She's navigating office politics she never got a playbook for,...
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Qualified But Can't Prove It: A Live Resume & Interview Makeover for Career Pivoters
My client Anna spent four years inside the UN ecosystem managing a U.S. Ambassador's portfolio across 180 countries. Now she's pivoting to the nonprofit sector — and she's struggling to make the case for herself in a way that feels both true and compelling. Sound familiar? In this live coaching...
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How to Job Search When Nothing Excites You
Coaching session with Rae, a product manager laid off 6+ months ago who can't get excited about applying to jobs. We cover how to figure out what you want when nothing sounds appealing, career paths you might not have considered, using AI to explore your options, and how to stop feeling like a…
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How to Choose a Career Path When You Have Too Many Options
You've done the informational interviews. You've had the coffee chats. You've made the lists. And somehow, you're more confused than when you started. This episode is for anyone drowning in career options and unable to choose. I'm coaching Amelia, a legal ops professional who'd been exploring a...
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Stuck in Your Career? How to Finally Make the Pivot
Do you keep exploring a career change... only to take the safe job every time? In this coaching session, I work with "Amelia"—a senior legal operations professional with 12+ years of experience who wants to pivot into helping creative entrepreneurs. The problem? Every time she gets close to…
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"I Know I'm Qualified—So Why Don't I Feel It?" | Coaching Session on Interview Anxiety & Self-Doubt
Erin has been job searching for over a year. She's made it to final rounds, gotten painfully close, and walked away with rejection after rejection. The hardest part? She knows she's qualified. On paper, she has everything they're looking for. But the moment she gets on an interview call…
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You're Not Stuck—You're Incubating | Reframing Procrastination, Discipline & Self-Witnessing
Ever feel like you should be further along? Like you've been "stuck" for months or years and can't figure out why? This coaching session might change how you see that. Tracy is a corporate executive who spent 5 years in what she called "procrastination." I call it incubation. In this episode, we...
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Expand your worth, inside and out. Ladies Get Paid features real coaching sessions, honest conversations and first-hand stories of women all transforming their relationship with work, worth, and money.Hosted by Claire Wasserman - coach, author, and speaker trained in financial psychology and nervous system regulation - every episode has a companion post on Substack where 43,000 readers get key insights and next steps. Subscribe free at ladiesgetpaid.substack.com or upgrade for $100 off a private session with Claire.
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