Most of us picked up whatever we know about money from watching our parents, winging it in our 20s, and hoping for the best. We were taught just enough to get by — but not nearly enough to get ahead.

The real conversation — investing, building wealth, understanding what your money can actually do for you — that one largely got skipped.

And for women especially, it got replaced with a story that money is complicated, that men handle it better, and that asking too many questions isn't particularly polite. The data says otherwise.

Women are better investors, better savers, and earn stronger returns — and yet most of us are still sitting on the sidelines of our own financial lives.

I sat down with wealth manager Christine Wiskochil of Baird to bust the myths, face the mistakes, and finally have the conversation most of us have been avoiding — whether you're 25 and just starting out or 55 and ready to take control.

Adulting is expensive, and we have questions. She has answers.

Show notes: https://drloristevic.com/women-are-better-investors-money-psychology-financial-conversations/

Someone tells you that you look beautiful today. What do you do?

If you're like most women, you immediately tell them about the sale rack, the dry shampoo, and the bad lighting.

Studies show that only 22% of compliments between women are actually accepted — and women accept compliments from men nearly twice as often.

And research finds that women who do accept compliments are actually rated more negatively by others for doing so. So we're not imagining the pressure to shrink — it's real, it's cultural, and it runs deep.

In this episode, I'm getting into why deflecting a compliment is never really about the compliment. It's about what we believe we deserve, what we've been taught about taking up space, and why the woman who can't receive a kind word is often the same woman who struggles to ask for a raise, claim her seat at the table, or let herself be truly seen.

Humility is not the same thing as shrinking. And thank you is not the same thing as arrogance. It's time we learned the difference.

SHOWNOTES: https://drloristevic.com/why-women-cant-accept-a-compliment/

The advice on prostate cancer screening has swung back and forth for years. Test, don't test, wait, ask your doctor. And all that contradiction leaves a lot of men doing the one thing they shouldn't. Nothing.

Even former President Biden, with all the medical scrutiny in the world, was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, in part because the guidelines say men over 70 don't need routine screening. I watched the same thing nearly happen with my husband, Jay.

His numbers had been normal three years earlier, so his doctor hesitated. Jay pushed for the test anyway, and by the time we found it, the cancer had already spread. He'd had no symptoms at all. That push saved his life.

So I sat down with Tyler Weisent, the oncology nurse practitioner who was one of our lifelines through Jay's treatment, to ask the questions every man and every family deserves to have answered.

When to test, how to know if a cancer is dangerous, and how to advocate for yourself when the guidelines fall short.

If you've been putting it off because no one has given you a straight answer, this is the conversation to listen to.

This is the final episode in a three-part series for Men's Health Month, following "There Is No Small Talk in a Cancer Waiting Room" and "Prostate Cancer: One Man's Honest Story."

Show Notes; https://drloristevic.com/prostate-cancer-explained-what-every-man-needs-to-know/