Women & Money: The Shit We Don't Talk About! | Purse Strings

"We will never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth." - Gloria Steinem. On this podcast, we're going to call out those ways that women are consistently left behind financially. But most importantly, how women can help themselves. Join hosts Barbara Provost & Maggie Nielsen as they help you navigate the ins and outs of financial independence so that you can be financially fearless. They'll connect you with helpful resources and compelling stories from women all across the country. Whether it's buying a house, preparing for retirement, dealing with divorce, there won't be a single question off the table. Maggie is a partner and Barbara is the founder of Purse Strings, a two-part model that's all about providing women the tools and resources they need to help them learn and understand what they need to know to make good financial decisions. And they help connect women with attorneys, financial planners, realtors, and many other financial professional

Women & Money: The Shit We Don't Talk About! | Purse Strings is a business podcast hosted by Barbara Provost & Maggie Nielsen, with 153 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Barbara Provost & Maggie Nielsen hosts Women & Money: The Shit We Don't Talk About! | Purse Strings, a business show with 153 episodes published.

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  Episode #154

  Can You Afford to Move Abroad? with Cepee Tabibian

  Aug 21, 202628 min

  Send us Fan Mail Moving abroad after 30 is not the reckless, blow-up-your-whole-life fantasy everyone assumes it is. Done right, it might be one of the smartest money moves you ever make. In this episode, we have Cepee Tabibian . At the age of 35, Cepee upended her entire life by selling her belongings and moving to Europe and since then, has never looked back. Now, she teaches other women how to do it too, through her community-based business, She Hit Refresh : a global community of over 100,000 women age 30+ who want to move abroad. She has even turned her overseas expertise into the digital book “I’m Outta Here! An American’s Ultimate Visa Guide to Living in Europe” which was featured in Forbes (spoiler alert: it’s easier than you think). She’s the proud daughter of Colombian and Iranian immigrants and grew up in Houston, Texas before becoming an immigrant herself in Spain. We get into the real financials of moving abroad: the savings cushion you need before you go, the taxes nobody warns you about, the hidden costs, and the surprising expenses that actually disappear. Cepee also gets honest about safety as a woman living abroad alone, how to pick your country, why a scouting trip matters, and what financial freedom looks like once you finally build the life you want. How much money do I need saved before I move abroad? Minimum six to twelve months of your actual cost of living there, not what you spend in the US. Use Numbeo or Expatistan to get real numbers for the city you are considering before you set a savings goal. What do women forget to plan for financially? Taxes. The US taxes citizens on worldwide income no matter where they live. Get an expat tax professional before you go, not after. Health insurance is also required for most visas and runs roughly $80 to $500 a month depending on the country. What costs actually go away? Your car and everything that comes with it. Renters insurance is largely not a thing in Europe. And your overall cost of living often drops significantly, which is exactly why knowing your real numbers changes everything. How do you pick where to move? Take a scouting trip, not a vacation. Walk neighborhoods, meet a real estate agent, go to local meetups. Then filter through three things: is there a viable visa for you, does the culture match how you live, and does this place support your long-term goals. What is the first step in moving abroad if it feels overwhelming? Know your number. Research the real cost of living where you want to go and find the gap between that and your current income. That one number makes the whole thing feel like a plan. Then find community. Talking to women who have already done it changes everything. Cepee's closing line says it all: "you're never too old and it's never too late to hit refresh or to change your life." The dream is real. The logistics are where most people get stuck. We’re breaking down the actual financial moves you need to make before you relocate, so you land ready instead of scrambling. Join us for the next Money Talks “Your Move Abroad Financial Checklist: What to Do Before You Go”. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with Cepee: Website Instagram @shehitrefresh Cost of living research tools: Numbeo and Expatistan I'm Outta Here! An American's Ultimate Visa Guide to Living in Europe Want to take this conversation one step further? Join us for our next Money Talks, a free 30 minute live session where we’ll dig into a question we hear all the time from women business owners: Budgeting for Businesses to Offer Benefits. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with us! Website Facebook Page Facebook group Instagram TikTo k LinkedIn YouTube Reddit Resources Have questions? Click this to check out our expert Q&A for tips from industry experts, tailored to help women address their most common financial concerns. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive financial tips delivered weekly here ! ...

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  Episode #153

  How to Spot Financial Abuse (And How to Get Out) with Joleen Fuller and Heather Wiese

  Aug 14, 202644 min

  Send us Fan Mail When we think about abuse, we picture bruises and broken doors. But there is a form of abuse that leaves no marks, traps 99% of survivors, and follows women long after they have left. Almost no one is talking about it, and it might be the biggest reason so many women feel like they can't get out. In this episode we sit down with Joleen Fuller and Heather Wiese. Joleen has called Portland home for more than 20 years. A Lewis & Clark College graduate, she has built her career around supporting survivors of domestic violence and trauma serving as an advocate, volunteer, and program coordinator to help individuals find safety, stability, and empowerment. Joleen currently serves as Director of Programs at FinAbility , where she champions survivors and fights for those too often pushed to the margins. Heather has been in the role of Family Services Advocate for the Shelter Stability Program at Raphael House since September 2020. She currently provides one-one-one advocacy, facilitates multiple support groups, and provides educational workshops for DV survivors and training workshops for fellow advocates. With over 22 years of experience working with families experiencing homelessness, Heather has worked in a wide range of roles including case management, program management, development, volunteer management, crisis intervention, and housing. Her primary passion in her work is economic empowerment and how to navigate complicated emotions surrounding personal finances while building skills and confidence towards financial health. Why do 99 percent of domestic violence survivors experience financial abuse? Because financial control is one of the most effective tools of power and control. It is not a side effect of abuse. It is a strategy. Keeping her broke, in debt, and financially dependent is exactly how an abuser makes sure she cannot leave. What are the three forms of financial abuse? Financial exploitation is identity theft, coerced debt, and accounts opened in her name without permission. Financial control is withholding her ID, monitoring every transaction, and keeping her on an impossible allowance. Financial sabotage is destroying her credit, her rental history, her job, and manipulating child support and legal systems after she leaves. Does the financial abuse stop when she leaves? Often it gets worse. Retaliation is immediate. Accounts get drained, money moves offshore, property gets destroyed. Child support evasion by switching jobs every few months is financial abuse that continues for years. Safety planning is not one and done. It is ongoing. Why are survivors more afraid to look at their credit report than they were to leave their abuser? Because the credit report is concrete evidence of everything that was done to them. It is an on-paper reminder every time they try to move forward. And for many survivors, the credit report is also a safety risk because soft pulls from housing or credit applications show their new location to anyone who knows how to look. What can a survivor do right now if she does not know where to start? One call. The National Domestic Violence Hotline. You do not need a plan. You just need to ask what resources exist near you. That call leads to the next one. The My Plan app is there for anyone who is not ready to pick up the phone. What do you need people who are not survivors to understand right now? The safety net survivors rely on is being cut. Support your local domestic violence shelter. Volunteer, donate, show up. And say it out loud: I believe survivors. In this moment those three words matter more than most people realize. Wherever you are on your journey, you are not alone, and there is help. Join us for next week’s Money Talks, “Financial Recovery After Abuse: The Step-by-Step Path to Stability” . Leaving is just the beginning. For many survivors, the financial damage lasts years after the relationship ends. This session is about what comes next. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with Joleen & Heather: finability.org and raphaelhouse.com Instagram: @finabilityus and @raphaelhousepdx Want to take this conversation one step further? Join us for our next Money Talks, a free 30 minute live session where we’ll dig into a question we hear all the time from women business owners: Budgeting for Businesses to Offer Benefits. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with us! Website Facebook Page Facebook group Instagram TikTo k LinkedIn YouTube Reddit Resources Have questions? Click this to check out our expert Q&A for tips from industry experts, tailored to help women address their most common financial concerns. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive financial tips delivered weekly here ! ...

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  Episode #152

  Net Worth Is Not Self Worth with Elizabeth Husserl

  Aug 7, 202639 min

  Send us Fan Mail You can look successful on paper and still feel like it is never enough. In this episode, we have Elizabeth Husserl , a sought-out speaker, entrepreneur, registered investment advisor, mother and cofounder of Peak360 , a boutique wealth planning firm. She expertly guides people to a deeper understanding of their relationship to money and wealth. But more than anything, she is a thought leader at the intersection of psychology and money. Her debut book, The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money, is a paradigm- shifting exploration that invites readers to redefine success, loosen the emotional grip of traditional financial beliefs, and build a more joyful, self-aligned relationship with wealth. Why do so many women feel financially insecure even when the numbers look good on paper? Because we measure wealth mentally but experience it physically. We hit the metrics and the goalpost moves. The missing piece is learning to actually feel wealthy in your body, not just know it in your head. What is the wealth mandala and how do you use it? It is a circle with twelve human needs like health, connection, freedom, and purpose. You rate each one from one to ten and color it in. Then you look at your whole life like a flower and see where your time and resources actually need to go. What is the difference between money, wealth, and power? Money is a tool. Wealth is a state of wellbeing where your human needs are being met. Power is the agency to design your own life. None of them are the same thing and only one of them lives in your bank account. What is satiation and why does it matter more than gratitude? Gratitude is a heart experience. Satiation is a body experience. It is that feeling when a meal truly hits the spot. Elizabeth says we need to bring that same felt sense of enough into our financial lives, not just think it, feel it. How do you define enough when the world keeps telling you it is never enough? Start by feeling what enough actually feels like before you take it to a spreadsheet. Then do the math in five-year segments. And compound your moments of meaning the same way you compound interest. Join us for next week’s Money Talks, “Your Complete Financial Protection Plan: Estate, Insurance & Investments Simplified” Most women have one of the three dialed in. Fewer have all of them. We’re laying out exactly what you need to protect what you’ve built, grow it intentionally, and make sure it goes where you want it to go. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with Elizabeth: Website Peak360 Wealth Management Instagram LinkedIn Book: The Power of Enough ChatGPT tool “Conversations with Money” Want to take this conversation one step further? Join us for our next Money Talks, a free 30 minute live session where we’ll dig into a question we hear all the time from women business owners: Budgeting for Businesses to Offer Benefits. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with us! Website Facebook Page Facebook group Instagram TikTo k LinkedIn YouTube Reddit Resources Have questions? Click this to check out our expert Q&A for tips from industry experts, tailored to help women address their most common financial concerns. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive financial tips delivered weekly here ! ...

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  Episode #151

  What Widowhood Taught Me About Money, Loss, and Starting Over

  Jul 31, 202649 min

  Send us Fan Mail Grief and money can't be separated. It's like a lava lamp, you cannot separate it out. Meet Kathi Balasek, the Founder of Grief-Ready Communication for Financial Professionals, Firms, and Leaders. She helps advisors and organizations build the communication skills needed to support clients through loss, transition, and life-altering moments to strengthening trust, retention, and long-term relationships in the process. In this episode, we sit down with Kathi for one of the most powerful conversations we have ever had on this show. We talk about the financial rules nobody tells widows, like the fact that remarrying before 60 means losing your late spouse's Social Security forever. We talk about why widows are rushed into decisions that don't need to be made that first year. And we talk about what to say and what to stop saying to the grieving people in your life. This one is for every woman who wants to be more financially prepared, more empathetically equipped, and more honest about the conversations we are all too afraid to start. Do not wait until you need this information to find it. Join us for our next Money Talks session, "The Financial Checklist Every Woman Needs Before Losing a Partner " Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with Kathi: Website Instagram LinkedIn Modern Widows Club Wings of Widows Widow 411 Want to take this conversation one step further? Join us for our next Money Talks, a free 30 minute live session where we’ll dig into a question we hear all the time from women business owners: Budgeting for Businesses to Offer Benefits. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with us! Website Facebook Page Facebook group Instagram TikTo k LinkedIn YouTube Reddit Resources Have questions? Click this to check out our expert Q&A for tips from industry experts, tailored to help women address their most common financial concerns. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive financial tips delivered weekly here ! ...

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  Episode #150

  How to Turn Your Passion into a Six Figure Side Hustle with Ashley Neidert

  Jul 24, 202644 min

  Send us Fan Mail Most women start a side hustle to make a little extra money. Ashley Neidert started posting videos and built a six-figure business. She is here to tell you exactly how she did it and what nobody else is going to tell you before you start. Meet Ashley Neidert , full-time cat content creator, pediatric doctor of physical therapy, and the world's only pet content creator coach. Through her brand Petfluencer Secrets , she helps aspiring and growing pet creators turn their pages into real income through brand deals, YouTube, and scalable online revenue streams. Known for its honest, no fluff approach, Petfluencer Secrets focuses on strategy, storytelling, and sustainable growth, giving creators the tools and confidence to build a profitable pet brand without relying on viral moments. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on what it actually looks like to make real money as a pet content creator. This is not the highlight reel. This is the 4:00 AM Starbucks run, the algorithm shifts, the taxes nobody warned you about, and the real income timelines you need to hear before you start. You will walk away with a clear-eyed, no-fluff picture of the pet influencer world, plus practical steps to start building your own channel the right way. Want to start a side hustle? Join us for next week’s Money Talks “The Tax and Money Moves You Need to Make Now” Let’s talk about the financial side of actually running it. From estimated taxes to business structure to keeping your books right, we’re covering what every woman building a side income needs to know. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with Ashley: Website Instagram Youtube Want to take this conversation one step further? Join us for our next Money Talks, a free 30 minute live session where we’ll dig into a question we hear all the time from women business owners: Budgeting for Businesses to Offer Benefits. Click here to register for FREE and bring your questions! Follow & connect with us! Website Facebook Page Facebook group Instagram TikTo k LinkedIn YouTube Reddit Resources Have questions? Click this to check out our expert Q&A for tips from industry experts, tailored to help women address their most common financial concerns. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive financial tips delivered weekly here ! ...

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