Brittany Luce

Very often the women that you interview are single or happily divorced or just simply living life on their own terms.

And they're very happy about it.

What made you start this series and what were you hoping your audience would gain from it?

I find it interesting, but also like, I mean, incredibly encouraging.

Makes you think about like, I don't know if you read the book by Miranda July, All Fours.

I surely did.

Yeah.

Yes.

And so we got to have her on the show when this book came out a couple of years ago.

And we talked about this line from a doctor in the book, which talks about how for many women, post-menopause is the happiest time in their lives, basically outside of

childhood.

And that's just so... The idea that, like you said, that things are just getting good when you hit your 40s, 50s, 60s, that's something that actually bears out in the data when you think about it from that perspective, that the later years can be happier for many, many, many women.

And I love that that is reflected through the lens of finance on your show.

I wonder, what's the biggest fantasy or assumption about women and money that you've been able to successfully debunk through this series?

Shopping, cooking, cleaning, all of the products and things that people interact with on a day-to-day basis.

Furniture, I mean, they're very much along like gendered lines, but that makes so much sense.

That makes so much sense.

If I look at the way the world works, many people's families work, many people's marriages work, that is kind of like the silent assumption.

Even if a couple can manage finances together, very often from what I've observed, at least from what I've observed, I've seen that the...

there's still an inclination to kind of defer or to do things as, you know, in such a way that would make the husband feel more comfortable.