In this transformative episode, host Paul Lawrence Vann sits down with the extraordinary Karen Lee Cohen, a pioneering storyteller whose career has shaped television, media, and the power of narrative for over four decades.

Karen shares insights from her collaborative book, Let’s Be Peace, which gathers 20 unique pathways to inner healing, expanded awareness, and peace-driven action in the world. With her signature grace and visionary perspective, she invites listeners to understand peace not as a distant ideal—but as a personal, daily practice available to everyone.

• Why peace begins with healing ourselves
• The role storytelling plays in elevating humanity
• Karen’s creative mission behind Let’s Be Peace
• How her Emmy®-winning career informs her spiritual and creative work
• Why each person has a unique path to inner peace
• Actionable practices to cultivate groundedness, presence, and compassion
• Why uplifting others is the fastest way to elevate your own life
• How to bring peace-driven leadership into workplaces, relationships, and communities

Discover more about Karens' Let's Be and Let's Be Peace movement at: www.LetsBePeace.com

In this episode of the Wealth Academy Podcast, host Paul Lawrence Vann reveals how he transformed his leadership skills into consistent income opportunities. You’ll discover:

• How to identify and monetize your transferable leadership skills.
• The mindset required to shift from “employee” to “income-generating leader.”
• Real examples of how leadership opens doors to consulting, speaking, coaching, and business ventures.
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Whether you lead teams, manage projects, or run a business, this episode will teach you how to leverage your influence for impact—and income.

In this episode, Paul Lawrence Vann shares how developing simple, repeatable systems became the key to achieving lasting financial freedom. From automating his finances to tracking progress through weekly reviews, Paul reveals how structure, not complexity, can help anyone create peace of mind and build wealth.

Key Takeaways:

• Why financial freedom starts with daily systems, not big leaps
• How automation reduces decision fatigue and stress
• The importance of consistent tracking and reflection
• How to reset when your system fails and get back on track
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Resources Mentioned:

• Financial Freedom Starter System (available at paulvannspeaks.com)
• Budgeting and tracking tools such as Mint, YNAB, or Rocket Money

Audience:

For mid-career professionals, entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to stop guessing and start systemizing their money to achieve true financial independence.

In this episode, host Paul Lawrence Vann shares the pivotal moment that changed his relationship with money forever. Learn how to shift from consumer habits to wealth-building actions, uncover practical steps to begin creating assets, and hear insights that will inspire you to transform your financial destiny.

Key Takeaways:

• Identify your personal turning point
• Replace consumerism with creator habits
• Build a sustainable wealth mindset
• Embrace delayed gratification for long-term freedom

In this transformative episode of Wealth Academy Podcast, host Paul Lawrence Vann explores how your relationship with money reveals your deeper beliefs, fears, and confidence levels. Learn how to shift from scarcity to abundance by:

• Understanding your money story
• Reprogramming limiting beliefs
• Creating empowering financial habits
• Leading yourself toward financial freedom
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Key Takeaway:

When you transform your money mindset, you transform your destiny.

In this episode of Wealth Academy Podcast, host Paul Lawrence Vann explores how emotional intelligence shapes the way leaders connect, communicate, and create trust.

You’ll learn how emotional awareness can elevate your leadership, enhance your relationships, and transform the way you listen and respond.

Key Takeaways:

• Why emotional intelligence is the foundation of effective leadership
• How active listening builds influence and trust
• The power of empathy in decision-making
• Strategies to strengthen emotional resilience and team harmony

Listen now and discover how leading with emotional intelligence can help you achieve greater clarity, connection, and confidence in every area of your life.

In this powerful solo episode, Paul Lawrence Vann reveals a leadership truth that defines greatness: motivation may ignite your journey, but consistency builds your legacy. Through personal insights, real-world lessons, and practical guidance, Paul shows how daily discipline and unwavering self-leadership can transform fleeting ambition into generational impact.

Listeners will discover how to break the cycle of starting and stopping, how to create habits that drive long-term results, and how to develop the resilience required to finish strong.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why motivation fades and how to replace it with purpose-driven consistency.
• How to lead yourself when the excitement disappears.
• The secret to turning small, repeated actions into lasting influence.
• How consistency compounds into wealth, leadership, and legacy.

Know that:

Listen now and discover how showing up daily changes everything.

In this solo episode of the Wealth Academy Podcast, host Paul Lawrence Vann takes listeners on a transformational journey through the beliefs about money that once limited his financial growth and the mindset shifts that changed everything.

Paul reveals how early money messages from childhood shape the way we think, spend, and save as adults. He opens up about the internal obstacles that once held him back, and how embracing self-leadership became the key to rewriting his financial story.

Listeners will discover:

• How your early environment and experiences form your money beliefs
• Why awareness is the first step toward financial transformation
• How self-leadership empowers you to create new financial habits
• The three money beliefs that keep most people stuck in scarcity
• How to adopt an abundance mindset and attract greater opportunities
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This episode isn’t just about dollars, it’s about developing a relationship with money that reflects confidence, purpose, and self-worth.

If you’re ready to let go of limiting beliefs and step into financial freedom, this episode will inspire you to lead yourself first — and watch your wealth follow.