Steph Wagner

I like to say this book is actually a women's empowerment book disguised as a finance book because I don't think we're talking enough about this issue.

If you're worried about how your bills are going to be paid, if you're worried that you're going to run out of money and be a burden to your family,

If you're worried about living paycheck to paycheck and that stress that keeps you up at night, you don't have the ability to think big.

You don't have the ability to dream.

You don't have the ability to say, what brings me actual joy and how might I actually figure out how to monetize that and build a career around it?

And that was something that I had to sit in.

And I had to sit in that because as I was rebuilding, yes, I could have gone and gotten a job, right?

I was in an emotional low, going and punching a clock and doing something I hated was going to make me even feel worse.

And so it became very much a focus of how do I find my purpose?

Oh my God, such a pressurized word, right?

Like, find your purpose, what the heck is that?

But I knew if I found something that gave me joy, whether it was a job or I was building a business,

I would begin to actually get excited about this new life.

And I think to your point, we are living longer than ever.

In fact, one thing to highlight is there is today, right, the average age of a woman who has means, who has the ability to create a healthy lifestyle, access to good medical care.

We can expect to live into our 90s.

Many of us are leaving the workforce maybe in our mid-50s to 60s.

That means decades of joy to create for ourselves.

Retirement looks totally different now.

Well, we have to be able to dream.