{"podcast":{"title":"Making Change with your Money","slug":"making-change-with-your-money-6046388","podcast_index_feed_id":6046388,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/laJ9DAai.rss","website_url":"https://true-abundance.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/imports/podcasts/7a971e85-5103-4225-9c50-34e29ae2f385/making-20change-20with-20your-20money.jpg","author":"Laura Rotter, CFA, CFP® | Financial Advisor for Women in Midlife Transitions","episode_count":135,"summary":"Making Change with Your Money is the go-to podcast for women in midlife experiencing major life transitions and ready to transform their relationship with money. Hosted by Laura Rotter, CFA, CFP®—a financial advisor and Founder of True Abundance Advisors—this podcast features intimate conversations with women who have successfully navigated career changes, divorce and financial independence, retirement planning, entrepreneurship, and complete life reinvention. Every episode explores both the practical side of financial planning for women and the deeper inner work around money mindset, worthiness, and values-based living. From healing financial trauma to building sustainable businesses, from leaving corporate careers to investing with confidence, these stories provide both inspiration and actionable financial guidance. Whether you're contemplating a career pivot, managing an inheritance, recovering from divorce, or simply feeling that there must be more to life than the relentless pursuit of more—this podcast will help you use your resources (money, time, energy, and talent) to create a life of meaning and purpose. Laura brings her Wall Street experience, mindfulness practice, and…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T02:22:45.662457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-change-with-your-money-6046388"},"episode":{"title":"Your Money Story is Running Your Life","slug":"your-money-story-is-running-your-life","published_at":"2026-06-13T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-change-with-your-money-6046388/your-money-story-is-running-your-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/making-change-with-your-money-6046388","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/9398f50a4056a19bde80b61752ec766d4f14420eb49364478dd469a03f6d9ce0/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0MjdjMjljZi1kOTBlLTQwYWItYTUxOS03MjVkYzYxODdlODgiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3YTk3MWU4NS01MTAzLTQyMjUtOWM1MC0zNGUyOWFlMmYzODUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTJlMTFhYmZmYmExODU1NmI3ZTY1MTYiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyYzI5NTdkZmFjOWVkZThiNDBkNTU3L2xhdXJhLXJvdHRlcnMtc3R1ZGlvLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtNi0xMl9fMTctNDQtMjMubXAzIn0=.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/9398f50a4056a19bde80b61752ec766d4f14420eb49364478dd469a03f6d9ce0/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI0MjdjMjljZi1kOTBlLTQwYWItYTUxOS03MjVkYzYxODdlODgiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI3YTk3MWU4NS01MTAzLTQyMjUtOWM1MC0zNGUyOWFlMmYzODUiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTJlMTFhYmZmYmExODU1NmI3ZTY1MTYiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEyYzI5NTdkZmFjOWVkZThiNDBkNTU3L2xhdXJhLXJvdHRlcnMtc3R1ZGlvLWNvbXBvc2VyLTIwMjYtNi0xMl9fMTctNDQtMjMubXAzIn0=.mp3","summary":"What happens when the financial plan is solid, but the client still can't move? That's the question at the heart of this week's conversation with Ashley Quamme, a financial behavior specialist and former marriage and family therapist who now works inside advisory firms helping clients get unstuck. Ashley didn't set out to work in financial services. She built a thriving private practice doing clinical work with couples and families, but kept running into the same wall: money kept showing up in her clients' relationships, and the therapeutic tools she'd been trained to use weren't quite reaching it. She Googled her way into the emerging field of financial therapy, went back for a graduate certificate, and gradually found herself fielding calls from financial advisors asking her to help them understand why their clients were making the decisions they were. In this conversation, Ashley shares a story that captures the real work of financial behavior change. A high-achieving husband — senior executive, frequent traveler, financially successful by every external measure — was stuck in a life that didn't feel like his own. He was missing his kids. He felt the pull to slow down. But he couldn't make the leap. When Ashley and his advisor started exploring why, the answer wasn't in his balance sheet. It was in a family story he'd been carrying since childhood: that achievement was how you earned love, and that stepping back from success meant something was wrong with you. Getting him unstuck meant surfacing that story first. Ashley describes her framework simply as think, feel, do. Understanding why we think, feel, and act the way we do around money before we try to change any of it. As she puts it, all behavior makes sense in context. The advisor's job, and the financial thera…","meta_description":"What happens when the financial plan is solid, but the client still can't move? 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