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💸 The Six-Figure Lie (and What It’s Costing You) with Becky Mollenkamp
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- Money Healing Club Podcast
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- Apr 17, 2026
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EPISODE SUMMARYHave you ever told yourself "if I just hit that number, everything will feel okay" and then hit it, only to find the goalpost moved again? In this episode of the Money Healing Club podcast, Rachel welcomes Becky Mollenkamp — feminist business coach, speaker, and author of Liberate Your Business — to unpack the "six-figure lie": capitalism's story that there's a magic number that will finally make us feel like enough. Together they reverse-engineer what it actually means to define enough for yourself, covering the hedonic treadmill, enoughness as a practice, underearning, and collective action. "It always moves. It's never gonna be enough — and that's why we know it's a lie." — Becky Mollenkamp Key Takeaways: The six-figure (and now seven-figure) target is arbitrary, designed to keep you churning rather than arriving Enoughness isn't settling. The word literally means it's plenty and capitalism warped that Calculating your actual enough number line by line often reveals it's lower than you thought Underearning is just as much a product of the system as overconsuming; both sides deserve healing The three steps toward liberation: awareness, define your enough, lean into discomfort Step four (Rachel's addition): find the people doing it too. You don't have to carry this alone Surplus beyond enough is a choice point, a chance to think collectively rather than just individually Enough applies to more than money: time, rest, connection, community About Becky Mollenkamp: Becky is a feminist business coach, writer, and speaker who helps service-based entrepreneurs build human-first businesses that honor collective flourishing over profit-at-all-costs growth. She's the author of the newly released Liberate Your Business and founder of the Feminist Podcasters Colle…