In This Episode We Talk About

What does it look like to rebuild your relationship with money, raise a financially savvy kid on your own, and still show up fully in every area of your life? Rhiana Whitmire is doing all three. In this episode, we get real about money habits, single motherhood, the power of community, and what it means to rise after loss. Rhiana is writing a series of financial literacy books for kids ages 3 to 16, leading alongside me at WIFS, and raising her daughter with the kind of intentionality that only comes from doing the hard work on yourself first. This one is going to hit.

Key Takeaways

✨ You cannot out-earn bad money habits

✨ Narrating your financial decisions out loud is one of the easiest ways to teach kids about money

✨ The village is not optional. It is the strategy.

✨ Fear is real. Put it on the shelf and go anyway.

✨ Being a single mom means you hold all the balls

Who This Episode Is For

This episode is for the mom who is navigating money stress, doing it mostly alone, and wondering how to raise kids who are smarter about finances than she was (basically all of us). It is also for every woman who has let fear make the decision for her one too many times.

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Kristen Cantrell has built something most people would consider impossible: 42,000 moms in a national real estate community, Hello Culture chapters in 38 cities (and Canada), 400 agents in her real brokerage group, and two podcasts. And she did all of it as a mom of two boys, without a roadmap, in an industry she landed in because she refused to go back to a job that didn't see her as a whole person. In this episode, Kristen gets real about building big while staying present, the health crisis she quietly survived for years before finally finding her root cause, the season her marriage is in right now, and why community isn't optional for women who want to go far. This conversation hits.

Key Takeaways

✨ You don't have to build alone. Finding your counterpart changes everything.

✨ Burnout and health problems are not your personality. Find your root cause.

✨ Community isn't networking. It's having five people to call when life gets hard.

Who This Episode Is For

This episode is for the mom who is building something real and still figuring out how to stay in her body, her marriage, and her purpose at the same time. If you have ever felt like your health symptoms were dismissed, your relationships were running on empty, or your calendar was full but your cup was not, Kristen speaks directly to you.

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Sue Kuraja built her career in financial services sales and distribution the hard way, from mining high-net-worth clients at a bank to going 1099 as a wholesaler for MassMutual, all while raising four kids without a village in a city she moved to on faith. In this episode, Sue gets real about the job offer she turned down because they asked her to promise she would not have kids, how her husband became a stay-at-home dad for five years, and what it actually looks like to burn the candle at both ends without burning yourself out. She also shares the leadership lessons she pulled from three years on the national executive board of WIFS and what she told herself in those rooms when the work was hard and unglamorous.

Key Takeaways

✨ Turned down a promotion because they wanted her to choose between the job and motherhood.

✨ Nobody fights harder than a working mom.

✨ Do the right thing. Not the easy one.

Who This Episode Is For

This episode is for the mom who is trying to hold her career together while nobody claps for the invisible work she does every single day. If you have ever been told what you can and cannot be, or if you are in a season where you are running on empty but you are not ready to stop, this one is going to land.

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