{"podcast":{"title":"The Scenic Route with Victoria Steward","slug":"the-scenic-route-with-victoria-steward-7782802","podcast_index_feed_id":7782802,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/S6ZcgSiO.rss","website_url":"www.victoria-steward.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/951714c0-7b4d-4675-bd36-b3bd278f8546/logos/46260bbc-d587-4fc0-b414-b393efa55bf4.png","author":"Victoria Steward","episode_count":19,"summary":"What if the detour was never a wrong turn? We get handed one map early on: the superhighway. Pick the career, hit the milestones, stay in the fast lane somebody else drew for us. And one day a lot of us look up and realize it's been heading somewhere we never actually chose. This is a show about the people who got off it. I'm Victoria Steward. I spent 20 years as a federal civilian engineer/project manager before I left on a gut feeling and started taking my own scenic route. Every week I sit down with interesting people who made a change, sometimes sudden, sometimes so gradual they almost missed it, that sent their life somewhere they never saw coming. The kind of stories that inspire you to start dreaming into your own. If you've started to wonder whether there's a different road available to you, you're in exactly the right place. ✨ New episodes every week. 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Jessica Kleine is a money coach for women, and she will be the first to tell you that the numbers have almost nothing to do with it. She has watched clients double their income and walk straight into problems twice the size. Six and a half years in, she is clear that the math was always the easy part... and that the real work lives underneath it. Her path here was anything but a straight line. She was the straight-A kid headed for law school, right up until the afternoon she reached for the LSAT sign-up sheet and heard a small voice ask, “What if I hate it?” That one question set the tone for everything after: paralegal, then stay-at-home mom for what was supposed to be six months and turned into twenty years, then direct sales, then homeschooling, then a money coaching practice that found her by accident. Her family motto, “we'll figure it out,” turns out to be a whole philosophy. We get into why more money doesn't fix the feeling, what your spending is actually trying to tell you, and why Jessica is convinced that most of the rules we follow were simply made up, which means we get to make our own. We talk about building a business on your own terms, choosing time freedom over chasing a million-dollar version of success, and the relief that arrives when you realize curiosity, not crisis, has been steering all along. Jessica is living proof that none of it was a wrong turn. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to The Scenic Route 01:01 Meet Jessica Kleine: A Money Coach for Women 01:48 The LSAT Moment That Started It All: “What If I Hate It?” 03:03 From Paralegal to Stay-at-Home Mom: When the Plan Changed 04:00 How Money Coaching Found Her by Accident 07:52 Why More Money…","meta_description":"What if the thing standing between you and the life you actually want was never the number in your bank account? 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