What if financial freedom isn’t really about becoming wealthy?

What if it’s about having enough financial autonomy to choose what happens next?

In this episode of The Adele Anthony Show, Adele explores a conversation every woman - particularly in midlife - needs to have: the relationship between money, autonomy and choice.

Because there is an enormous difference between making a decision because you want to and making it because financially, you have no other option.

You can live in a beautiful home, have a good household income, travel and appear financially secure while still having very little control over your own financial future.

And life can change.

Relationships end. Careers change. Businesses struggle. People become ill. Children need help. Retirement approaches. And sometimes nothing dramatic happens at all - you simply reach a point where you realise you want your next chapter to look different.

The question is:

If money wasn’t making the decision for you, what would you choose?

At 62, after building multiple six- and seven-figure businesses and navigating more than one reinvention herself, Adele believes one of the most valuable things a woman can build is the ability to create and control her own income.

And for women over 40, 50 and 60, that doesn’t necessarily mean starting again.

It may mean recognising the economic value of something you already possess:

Your knowledge. Your experience. Your skills. Your judgement.

In this episode, Adele discusses:

• The difference between financial independence and financial autonomy

• Why a good household income doesn’t necessarily mean you have financial autonomy

• Why women need to understand the financial structures surrounding their lives

• The question every woman should ask herself about money and choice

• Why decades of professional and life experience can become an income-producing asset

• How consulting, advisory work, digital products, templates, books, workshops and other models can turn existing knowledge into income

• Why you don’t need to replace your entire salary to begin changing your financial position

• Why building even one independent income stream can change the way you see yourself

• Why the best time to create choices is before life forces you to need them

This isn't about telling women they shouldn't rely on anyone.

It's about something very different.

It's about making sure you aren't entirely dependent on someone else's money for the choices available in your own life.

Because ultimately, the digital product isn't the destination.

The business isn't the destination.

Even the money isn't the destination.

Choice is the destination.

And perhaps that's the kind of financial freedom we should have been talking about all along.

🎙️ The Adele Anthony Show

Adele M Anthony is a lawyer, business strategist, author and entrepreneur who talks about money, business, midlife reinvention and helping women recognise the value of what they already know so they can create greater financial autonomy - and more choices about what comes next.

One question to take away from this episode:

If money wasn't making the decision for me, what would I choose?