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How Do You Afford This?
How Do You Afford This? answers the question everyone is already wondering: how do people actually afford their lives?
Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, CFP®, founder of the Fiscal Femme and award-winning author is on a mission to find out and bring you along for the ride.
Each episode takes the inspirational, and makes it tangible. Whether that’s international travel, buying a dream home, raising a family, a fabulous wardrobe, or building a million dollar business, Ashley and her guests will break down the numbers - what it costs, how they make it work, and the financial strategies behind the lifestyle.
It’s part voyeuristic, part practical, and completely judgment-free. Come for the tea. Leave with a financial blueprint to start building your dream life.
How Do You Afford This?
Latest Episodes
#17: It Took Almost 10 Years Before She Earned Six Figures
Priya Malani spent 2013 feeding two people on forty dollars a week so she could keep building a company nobody had asked for yet. Fourteen years in, Stash Wealth has worked with thousands of what she calls HENRYs, high earners not rich yet, and...
#16: She's Building a $100M Brand From Lisbon With 3 Kids
Alex Schinasi’s father sketched the first Hulken on a hotel notepad in Paris because he was tired of breaking his shoulders carrying shopping bags. Six years later, Vogue named it the "it" bag of summer, and everyone wants to get their hands on...
#15: Her $70K a Year Childcare Bill Went Viral
Paige Connell is raising four kids outside Boston and has become a refreshingly transparent voice on what childcare actually costs after posting her own bill on a whim. She's the creator behind She's A Paige Turner, host of the Just Us Girls Po...
#14: What the Mother of AI Is Teaching Her Kids About Money
Brittany Valdes has been at Microsoft for thirteen years, and in that time she has also built a nonprofit, an AI-powered renovation company with her husband, and an AI academy for women. She is a fourth-generation entrepreneur raising three boy...
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#13: She Built a Seven-Figure Business. Now She's Rebuilding From $150K in Debt
Claire Wasserman is the founder of Ladies Get Paid, an author, and a career coach with a master's certificate in financial psychology. She bootstrapped her business to seven figures, built a community of over 100,000 women, and got a $300,000 a...
