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The Finance Girlies: Money Conversations for Gen Z and Millennial Women
Welcome to the Finance Girlies, a money podcast for the girlies who’ve never felt seen by traditional finance advice.
This isn’t your typical personal finance show — it’s two Millennial friends talking about money the way it actually shows up in our lives.
We’re your hosts, Emily Batdorf and Cassidy Horton. Between the two of us, we’ve spent more than a decade researching and writing for big publications in the personal finance space.
Now, every Wednesday, we’re sharing our financial knowledge, experience, and hard-won confidence with you. (And when it’s helpful, we bring in trusted experts to help us unpack the more complex topics.)
During each episode of The Finance Girlies, we’ll cover topics like:
- Why you don’t have to feel “ready” before you start investing
- How to be a more conscious consumer when you’re constantly being #influenced
- How your career as a freelancer, entrepreneur, or employee affects your financial reality
- How to handle money conflicts in relationships — and strategies to avoid them altogether
- How your money beliefs directly impact your financial habits and choices
Together, we’ll explore how you relate to money: through conversations with your partner, the paycheck you earn, and how you spend your days. Instead of throwing prescriptive advice at you, we’ll give you helpful reframes, mindset tools, and why-did-nobody-teach-me-this tidbits to help you build financial confidence every day.
If you’ve ever felt like personal financial advice was too dry, impractical, condescending — or just too bro-y — we invite you to pop in an earbud and let out a deep exhale.
The Finance Girlies: Money Conversations for Gen Z and Millennial Women
Claire Wasserman on trusting yourself, asking for more, and letting go of shame / 59
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What if knowing your worth intellectually isn’t enough — and the real work has to happen in your body, your nervous system, and your everyday actions? In this episode, we’re joined by Claire Wasserman, founder of Ladies Get Paid, career coach, and writer who offers tactical advice and deep emotional insight in a way that feels grounding, honest, and actually doable.
This conversation felt like part therapy session, part masterclass in self-trust. Claire shares why so many of us still tie our value to our paycheck (even when we know better), how to identify the core money beliefs driving our anxiety, and why asking for more money builds self-advocacy far beyond your bank account.
We also talk candidly about shame — from food stamps to inner critics — and why transparency can be a powerful tool for healing, resilience, and reinvention.
Confidence doesn’t start with earning more, and this episode explains why.
✨ Episode Highlights ✨
- [02:00] Why self-worth vs. net worth can’t be solved intellectually
- [03:00] The “downward arrow” exercise to uncover core money beliefs
- [06:00] The “joy antidote”: taking action to counter anxiety and self-doubt
- [08:00] Patterns Claire sees in how women hold themselves back with money
- [15:00] Why asking for more money builds self-advocacy (not just income)
- [22:00] How to frame raises and rate increases around business value
- [28:00] Shame, food stamps, and why transparency matters
- [38:00] Resilience, reinvention, and expanding your window of tolerance
- [40:00] Expanding your worth “inside and out” through practice
- [45:00] Rewiring the inner critic: “I’ll earn more when…”
✨ Resources ✨
- Coachmeclaire.com (site for coaching + updates)
- Thepracticecards.com (daily 10-min practice tool)
- Work in Progress (Claire’s Substack)
- Instagram: @clairegetspaid and @ladiesgetpaid
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