This is episode 52. One full year of this show, and I'm marking it by getting specific about a sentence I've said probably a thousand times.

When women control capital, the world changes.

I still believe it. But I've started to think a lot of you hear that and translate it into something I never said: when I finally have enough money, then the world changes.

So you keep earning. The number goes up. And you wait for something to arrive and tell you you're cleared to start. Nothing is coming. There's no letter.

This episode is about the difference between those two sentences, and it starts with someone you've met before.

Susan, from episode 46, bought an auto mechanic shop she had no business buying. She'd never worked on a car in her life. What she had was money she could get her hands on, nobody she had to ask, and something she wanted that money to do. That's the entire list. No fund behind her. No family office. No MBA in acquisitions.

Those three things have a name. Access, authority, intention. That's what control actually is, and today I'm taking all three apart.

In this episode:

• Why control and accumulation are two different things
• Access, authority, intention, and why most of you have more access than you think
• Why the number keeps moving and the feeling never arrives
• Which of your questions have findable answers, and which one never will
• Why men are usually allowed to turn a loss into experience, and women are more likely to turn it into evidence against themselves
• Input, agreement, and permission, and why only one of them is a problem
• Why the person with veto power is sometimes someone who has been gone for years
• The one sentence that changes how you behave when an opportunity lands in front of you

Your assignment: Finish this sentence. If I could fund one thing, I'd fund ______. Send it to me on Instagram. I read every one, and year two of this show is getting built out of what comes back.

Mentioned: Episode 46, the full conversation with Susan: Your Business Is Worth More Without You – Expand Your Empire