{"podcast":{"title":"Becoming Your Best Version","slug":"becoming-your-best-version-3288450","podcast_index_feed_id":3288450,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/54765080/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.marialeonardolsen.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/14070400/14070400-1653618081522-158301d87ef86.jpg","author":"Maria Leonard Olsen","episode_count":271,"summary":"Award-winning podcast about living your best life, by Maria Leonard Olsen & her inspiring guests. Maria is a lawyer/journalist/author who seeks to amplify women's voices to share about their lives, work & life lessons. She graduated from Boston College & Univ. of Virginia Law. She served in the Clinton Justice Dept. and is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Her latest book, 50 After 50--Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life, has helped thousands reinvigorate their lives. Maria is a two-time TEDx speaker and one of her Talks was chosen as a TEDx Editor’s Pick, a designation given to fewer than 1% of TEDx Talks. See MariaLeonardOlsen.com and follow @FiftyAfter50","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450"},"episode":{"title":"A Conversation with Dr. Erika Rasure, Financial Wellness Advisor","slug":"a-conversation-with-dr-erika-rasure-financial-wellness-advisor","published_at":"2026-02-06T12:50:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-dr-erika-rasure-financial-wellness-advisor","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-leonard-olsen/episodes/A-Conversation-with-Dr--Erika-Rasure--Financial-Wellness-Advisor-e39fkk2","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7238736424.mp3","summary":"Dr. Erika Rasure — a former financial advisor and university professor turned financial therapist — has helped thousands of people approach their finances in more intentional, healthy ways. She serves as Chief Financial Wellness Advisor at Beyond Finance, where she meets weekly with hundreds of clients working their way out of debt and towards financial freedom. In addition to her work at Beyond Finance, Dr. Erika serves as Chair of the Research Board for the Financial Therapy Clinical Institute. She is a member of the Financial Review Boards for Investopedia, The Balance, VeryWell Family and VeryWell Parents. Her insight and interviews have been featured in prestigious national outlets, such as Barron’s, CNN, Forbes, Fox Business, Marketwatch, NBC News Now, USA Today and Yahoo. Erika holds a doctorate in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University and is a Certified Deep Transformational Coach — an accreditation that surrounds changing patterns in actions and behaviors. She addresses holistic wellness in her treatment, incorporating the practice of yoga (she’s also a registered yoga teacher) into her comprehensive approach to financial therapy. In this episode, we discuss: • Financial wellness and the best way to achieve it • The mental health connection: how credit card debt impacts wellbeing • How to manage (and avoid) excessive credit card debt Learn more: https://www.beyondfinance.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/beyond-finance/ https://www.facebook.com/MoveBeyondDebt/ https://www.instagram.com/beyondfinancedebtrelief/ https://www.youtube.com/@beyondfinance5099","meta_description":"Dr. Erika Rasure — a former financial advisor and university professor turned financial therapist — has helped thousands of people approach their finances…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1752,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/episodes/a-conversation-with-dr-erika-rasure-financial-wellness-advisor/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/becoming-your-best-version-3288450/a-conversation-with-dr-erika-rasure-financial-wellness-advisor.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}