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Shirley is an Ageless Health Wellness Coach.  She believes there are no boundaries when it comes to shaping your quality of life.  Shirley is a certified health & wellness coach, freelance writer, practitioner, and educator with an empathetic global view.  She has worked as a project manager and did operations of spas & wellness centres in 12 countries - always with a passion for helping people to achieve a Quality of Life. Her mission is to guide other women in making more healthful choices that will lead to a more energetic and fulfilling life. She does this now with her 1:1 coaching and speaking events specifically focusing on mindset and prevention. Website:   https://www.shirleymeerson.com/ Free 5-Day Ageless Wellness Self Care Challenge (DIY):  https://mailchi.mp/f30036d53e58/ageless-wellness-self-care-challenge Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/ShirleyMeerson/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/shirleymeerson/ Pinterest:   https://www.pinterest.com/shirleymeerson/  LinkedIn:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirley-meerson-8b76ba4/ Twitter:     https://twitter.com/shirleymeerson

MiShon is a Certified Diversity Professional and owner of Culture Consultants located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Culture Consultants is a firm dedicated to bridging the gap between inclusion and leadership. We cultivate talent and build global leader capacity in today’s organizational culture through comprehensive Inclusive Leadership workshops and consulting services. MiShon is a Diversity Champion with a passion for Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Supplier Diversity, STEM, and Relationship Building principals. She functions as a change agent and influencer with over a decade of experience in People, Program, Project Management, and Leadership expertise.

Alli Owen is an intuitive alignment coach, writer, and podcast host. She is a recovering overachiever, having graduated at age 24 with a master’s in engineering, hiked 2 of the tallest peaks in the world, and traveled to 6 continents. Since then, she has learned to let go of society's expectations, stop achieving for the sake of the "next thing," and step into alignment with her true self. She has since been on a mission to help others do the same through her podcast "Aligned and Alive" and her transformational one-on-one coaching programs.  www.alliowen.com

Kimberly is a serial entrepreneur, wife, traveler, photographer, writer, speaker, sports enthusiast, volunteer and mother of two adorable fur babies. She grew up around business and started her first company at 19 while still attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  Kimberly found her passion working with entrepreneurs and enjoys being able to create and facilitate Mastermind Groups (CEO Focus DFW) for business owners that promote business growth. She loves being able to give that “no longer alone” feeling to entrepreneurs while they navigate the rough waters of business ownership. "It’s amazing to witness the excitement of a breakthrough and the inspiration that comes from working together." Kimberly's motto is: Life can be messy and sticky at times, but that just means you’re living it right!  

Debra Brennan Tagg, Managing Partner at Brennan Financial Services, is the creator of the DBT360 Financial Plan, a proprietary program that helps her clients prioritize their goals, leverage their resources, and address their risks. http://www.debrabrennantagg.com/

Wendy Perry's life was turned upside down when she was blindsided by parental alienation.  While navigating through the cruel emotional and financial devastation caused by parental alienation, she found a voice and strength she never knew she had.  Through her advocacy and consulting, Wendy has helped hundreds of family members find comfort, resilience and tenacity.  Our struggles can ultimately lead us to being the happiest and most authentic person we can be. Wendy's mission is to help others find peacefulness and joy in life even when facing the toughest challenges.    

Marilyn established the Diamond Group Wealth Advisors to empower her clients to design their ideal lifestyles… for today, for tomorrow and for life.  Our clients understand that their wealth is more than their money.  We collaborate and support our clients, while leveraging their personalized Prosperity Blueprint™, to take care of their families, and the people and causes they care about deeply.  By following our disciplined planning process, you too can build your customized Prosperity Blueprint™ to guide you on the path toward financial independence. 

Stacy Bernal is a writer, speaker, and trainer at See Stacy Speak LLC. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Weber State University with a BA in Public Relations and Advertising. She currently serves on the WSU Alumni Association Board of Directors and is the VP of the Ogden Pub Runners, where she has made a tribe of running friends who encourage her to make crazy decisions, like running marathons, triathlons, relay races, and an ultra-marathon. Stacy is the proud mom to one neurotypical daughter, two sons (one neuro- and one atypical), and two fur babies. She has been happily married since 2013. She has been published on ChicagoNow.com, ScaryMommy.com, and Autism Parenting Magazine. She’s pretty sure there’s a future book (or two) in her as well. Her shenanigans can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @seestacyspeak.

Dr. Kimberly Ellison’s passion and purpose is seeing, experiencing and being a vital part of the personal, professional and spiritual growth and development of people. Her professional career lends itself to over 16 years of experience, providing effective and innovative training and performance improvement solutions to national and international organizations through strategy development, program execution and training implementation.   Dr. Kimberly brings solutions oriented and outcome-driven expertise to small-businesses, Fortune 500 companies, non-profits organizations, churches and individuals related to optimizing organizational, leadership and individual performance and advancing women worldwide.     https://www.drkimberlyellison.com/

Cheri with a strong background in Technology Executive Leadership, now focuses on helping Corporate folks be heard and valued in the workplace. Her philosophy is to bring out strengths, so you can have the impact to make things radically better because people hear and recognize the unique value YOU bring. Being a Corporate person, and especially a woman, is hard and requires fortitude to press through. Cheri will share tools she has learned in her own professional experiences to help navigate to the impact you want to make.

Lura Hobbs is Chief Strategist of Solstice Strategies, a marketing consulting firm.  Solstice Strategies is dedicated to helping brands and advertising agencies build integrated marketing and communication strategies centered on business analytics, consumer insights and consumer behaviors.  She has a strong track record of growing established businesses as well as launching new startups and products. Lura is a change agent and problem solver that brings best practices from multiple industries to improve business performance. Her proven track record of developing key relationships that lead to lasting business results is evident in her award-winning work for global and national brands including Pizza Hut, FritoLay, AT&T, FedEx Office and McDonald’s.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/lurahobbs 

Sarah believes in the magic of collaboration. She founded the Ellivate Alliance to connect people, ideas and resources in a way that creates powerful new opportunities to elevate women entrepreneurs. The Ellivate Alliance provides women who are starting a business the inspiration, practical know-how and like-minded community to accelerate their growth during the critical start-up phase. Sarah is also the co-founder of Intend2Lead, a company that coaches CPAs to access the Dimension of Possible through one-to-one coaching, group learning and innovation labs. She was honored as one of the Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor in 2017.

Catherine Bennett is a Organizational and Talent Development Manager, Public Speaker and Consultant and with over twenty-five years of experience in Organizational Development and Performance Improvement specializing in Executive Leadership, Management Training and Development.  She is a break out speaker at the #NoMeanGirls 2018 Conference sharing why everyone needs a side hustle and how to operate to fulfill your potential. https://www.catherinebennett.net/ 

Heather Moulder is an executive coach, recovering attorney, writer, speaker, wife, mother of two, and cancer survivor.  Heather practiced corporate finance law for over 18 years and built a successful legal practice with an international law firm.  She learned early in her legal career that striving to “have it all” wasn’t all it was cracked up to be (and that she didn’t want “it all” anyway).  So, she reevaluated what she wanted and redefined what success meant to her based on her values, desires, and needs – and built her law practice her way. After battling an aggressive breast cancer, Heather felt called to serve people in a different capacity and thereafter discovered her passion for coaching.  She is the founder of Course Correction Coaching and helps professional women who are considered “successful” to finally feel that way by getting clarity around what they value and desire, redefining success on their own terms, and learning to confidently leverage their unique strengths and voice to live out their success stories. https://www.coursecorrectioncoaching.com/about-me/

Tonya Veasey is President and CEO of OCG+, a Texas based marketing and communications agency that she started in 2005. Before founding OCG PR, Tonya spent more than 10 years in the public affairs industry, were she led local, state and national public policy efforts for elected officials, large nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 companies.  Under Tonya’s leadership her agency has led successful public relations campaigns throughout the U.S., in markets such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Dallas. Veasey holds an Executive MBA from Texas Christian University and a Bachelor's degree from Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas. A native of Fort Worth, she is married to U.S. Congressman Marc Veasey and has a son, Adam Clayton. http://ocgpr.com/ 

Karen Shopoff Rooff is a Women’s Wellness Warrior who champions realistic approaches to living a fit and healthy life. After earning certifications as a personal trainer & perinatal fitness specialist, Karen launched Balance Personal Fitness Training in 2008. In addition to in-person fitness, wellness, and health coaching, Karen facilitates self-directed ecourses and virtual bootcamps for clients worldwide. Her blog Running on Balance is known for excellent content regarding women’s health, particularly as related to the childbearing year and perimenopause. In her free time, Karen loves to travel to new places to run marathons and ultramarathons. But because she believes in balance, Karen is also an avid reader and backfloater (though not at the same time).  Karen holds a variety of fitness, wellness, and health coaching certifications (listed from date earned): Personal Training, Perinatal Fitness Specialist, Group Exercise Specialist, Aqua Yoga Instructor, Prenatal Yoga Instructor, Women’s Wellness Coach , Aqua Yoga Specialist, Health Coach http://runningonbalance.com/

Dena Jansen may not know you yet, but as far as this speaker, writer, and guide is concerned, you are meant for more. Dena’s focus is professional women and leaders – both emerging and veteran – of corporations both large and small. She shows businesses and individuals that by taking small steps toward one another, they have the power to cultivate an environment where everyone wins. Dena launched Dena Speaks as a way to inspire others by sharing the real life lessons she’s learned along her personal and professional growth journey. A retired partner from Austin based accounting, tax, and consulting firm Maxwell Locke & Ritter, Dena uses the firm as an example of corporate culture done right. In her speaking and guiding, she yokes shared accountability to infinite possibility. https://denajansen.com/speaking/  

A born-and-raised Texas girl with a Texas-sized dream--to help create a world where people can find (or create) work that capitalizes on their own unique genius rather than settle for something that pays them a lot of money but makes them dreading Mondays. She believes this is possible for you, because she found that it was possible for herself. Tracy loves people, loves writing, loves speaking and loves teaching. And she found (or rather, created) a job that allows her to bring all of those things together in a wonderful and worthwhile endeavor to do some good in this crazy world of ours.  http://tracytimm.com/

Sharon Delaney McCloud calls herself a bit of a gypsy. She is the daughter of Irish immigrants whose adventures led to them to East Africa where Sharon was born and lived as a young child. Before beginning her career as an Emmy Award winning television journalist, Sharon's travels took her around the world as a member of the Department of Defense’s U.S.O. program. Now, she leads a digital marketing agency in Raleigh, North Carolina where she heads the firm’s professional development practice and a video team that creates content for local and national brands. Sharon considers her job as the mother of three the most important as she attempts to find balance every day in our fast-paced lives. She’s a cancer survivor, Olympic Torch Bearer and a communications pro who inspires audiences on resilience and finding their voices. https://www.sharondelaney.tv/

Ashley runs the podcast, It Takes A Village, all about marriage, motherhood and empowerment, some of my favorite topics.  Today she’s joined Plaid Radio to share her why with us and her thoughts around the need for a village to get through. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/it-takes-village-podcast-motherhood-marriage-truth/id1165023892?mt=2

Michelle is the woman behind Fort Worth Woman is a network for all the vibrant working women.  She’s originally from San Antonio and now resides in Fort Worth sharing her adventures and inspiring women. In this interview we talk about her village, her tribe, her squad; women who support her, support her dreams and support her family.     http://fortworthwoman.com/

Crystalee Beck is one of the co-founders of The Mama Ladder International which is on a mission to help women around the world thrive at the intersection of mamahood and entrepreneurship. They’re building a community of mamas helping mamas succeed. Why? With business training designed especially for moms, they believe you will have the freedom to enjoy family AND your work passion on your terms. In this interview we explore the different ways that women can overcome the financial hurdle of starting their entreprenuerial journey.  We’ll also discuss The Mama Ladder’s current project: The High Five Grant.  So, grab some coffee, sit back, and get ready to take some notes! The Mama Ladder International High Five Grant For Moms™

Fashion Designer, Former Elite Athlete Product Development Strategist & Wellness Enthusiast Cydney Mar has a flair for reinvention, believing that life lessons support your next steps even in the face of challenge.  After a tragic accident ended her career as a National Level competitive figure skater, she studied Fashion, winning design & merchandising awards & launching her couture line Cydney Mar.  She went on to present her designs on QVC, selling in 8 countries for 15 years and logging over 800 hours of LIVE TV time. Five years ago, she suffered a second near-death experience from Mono, causing her to lose most of her hair. She turned her attention to her health and with the help of her naturopath, created Cydney Mar Wellness Vitamins for vibrant health & beauty. https://www.cydneymarwellness.com/

Helen Holden is a New Zealand native planted here in the states with her husband and adult children.  Through early childhood role modeling and retail experiences Helen has homed in her styling skills.  She loves helping women define their personal style and give them confidence in their abilities to shine. https://elevateunow.com/ https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/early-influences…-stylist-company/ ‎

Originally from Minneapolis, Mary spent 23 years in the Swiss Alps, where she has helped over 27,000 women from all over the world to lose weight fast and keep it off for good.  An expert in stress management and relieving chronic pain, Mary holds a Masters degree in Psychology specializing in Behavioral Science. Growing up in a family that struggled with weight challenges, Mary longed to transform her body since childhood and it wasn't until her children were grown that she had her breakthrough. https://www.marywell.com/ https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/crash-dieting-to…ess-professional/

Tomeka was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 34.  She has a 14 year old son and 13 and 9 year old daughters.  She's from Brandon, Mississippi.  She loves to decorate and helping others through community service. Tomeka was diagnosed through the SEE TEST and TREAT program  which provides women in need with free, cervical and breast cancer screening with same-day results. The program also provides women with the follow-up care they need if they receive a positive diagnosis, much like Tomeka did.  The See Test and Treat program is made possible through the philanthropic arm of the College of American Pathologists (CAP). The CAP Foundation supports patient-centered and humanitarian initiatives striving to connect people in under served communities with the specialized skills of pathologists. www.cap.org https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/overcoming-cervical-cancer-grace/ ‎  

M2G specializes in development, investment and storytelling, focusing on value-added retail and creative re positioning of mixed-use projects. The company is run by identical twins Susan and Jessica who say they are one super human combined.  The twins share their story of how the support each other in bringing out the best in each other and translate that to restoring real estate and creating community.    https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/super-human-sisters-are-overcoming-stereotypes-in-real-estate/ https://www.m2gventures.com/

Esther Kissh is the co-founder of Strategic Influence and founder of Born To Influence, a one-of-a-kind publicity & marketing agency, where she helps experts and personal brands get exposure for an extended period of time by placing them on the right media outlets. Esther is also the producer and host of the popular podcast Born To Influence: The Marketing Show where she interviews highly successful entrepreneurs and NY Times bestselling authors about their marketing and PR strategies. https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/branding-with-nomad-esther-kiss/ http://borntoinfluence.com/ http://borntoinfluence.com/checklist  

Laura is a lawyer, a writer, a productivity enthusiast, and a tech geek. Married for 40 years to her high school sweetheart, with whom she's raised five amazing kids, she's passionate about encouraging women in their individual journeys as people, wives, mothers, citizens. She joins Plaid Radio to share her personal story of moving from foster homes as a child to mother to attorney.  And she also hosts a podcast, The Productive Woman about how to be your best self and be organized too. We spend time discussing how Laura was scared to start her podcast.  She dealt with self-doubt and perfectionism.  "What if people don't like it?"  "What if people don't like me?"  She hit record, posted it and promised to come back next week and she did. Full transcript at https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/it-doesnt-have-to-be-perfect/  https://theproductivewoman.com/    

In this interview we find out how two childhood friends have remained that way through life, why community is so important for women and that sometimes people are not going to like you.  Kelsey Aldinger:  Kelsey is a mid twenties Texan married to a boot wearing, Ford driving, wine selling, handyman, and cat mom to Ellie and Pete. She has a love for run on sentences, is an avid reader, real-housewife wannabe, Mexican food aficionado, budget decorator, and continental traveler. Kelsey is also a speech pathologist. Kelsey Baty: Kelsey is a blend of deep south and yankee culture who was raised in the great state of Texas. She is married to a green-eyed outdoorsman and loves coffee with coconut milk. Kelsey is passionate about having and creating connection within a community. She is also a 5th grade teacher. www.kitschykountdown.com   https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/not-everyone-is-…itschy-kountdown/ ‎  

Melissa Monte started her career in digital media and was the Vice President of a startup when she fully realized her passion of helping people become their best selves. Her countless hours of research and self-experimentation contribute to her vast knowledge of improving the human condition. Melissa is the host of the very popular podcast titled “Mind Love”. She lives in Santa Monica with her husband; they have a dog named Maverick Danger that fills their hearts and she spends her free time doing yoga, slacklining, and drinking matcha lattes by the beach. https://www.mindlove.com/ https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/helping-others-best-selves/    

Nina left corporate marketing in to pursue her passion of building people up rather than products.  She now is paving her own path as a professional coach who specializes in career growth and development, leadership, team building, and individual branding. Check out her story and get tips on how to Pave Your Way.   http://www.paveyourway.com/  https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/pave-way-career-business-growth 

Elyse Dickerson is the CEO and founder of a fast growing pharmaceutical company Eosera.  She also practices gratitude, leading with grace and paying it forward.  Today we are going to learn a bit more about her gratitude practice and how we can implement a few elements in our own lives.  https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/origin-bank-wome…o-founder-eosera/ www.eosera.com www.earcaremd.com

Even though I run a platform all about no judgement, I was in fact being a bit judgy on gratitude.   As a practicing Christian, I felt that gratitude was mostly for people who didn’t pray.  Where as a Christian I was a prayer warrior and my gratitude my religion  How does that sound for judgement? I got past my own judgment and determined you can follow your own religious beliefs plus be grateful and in fact I was probably a bit of a better person for it. https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/gratitude-without-judgment/ ‎ https://www.marieforleo.com/2014/11/powerful-gratitude-practice/ https://www.soulfuelcompany.com/  

Working as a radio host allows you to connect with others, enjoy music and change music tastes as you mature. It's all about connecting people and music. Plaid Radio guest Angela Chase shares how she got into radio, her favorite concerts and how she strives to improve her skills.

Renee is a writer, entrepreneur, scholar of gender biases, feminist life coach, and passionate about women owning their own “Wild, Cozy Truth”. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her husband, Joe, and her cat, Asparagus. Wild Cozy Truth is a multimedia project of personal essays.  Sharing our stories and listening to other women's stories is incredibly powerful. https://www.wildcozytruth.com/ https://seejane.org/ Full transcript - https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/wild-cozy-truth-millennials-personal-story-encouraging-others/ 

We often see this division of like I'm a woman and then my other self is being a woman in corporate America and I'm not able to bring my full self in whatever capacity that is. Join Plaid Radio in conversation with Elizabeth Lions author of  Hear Us Roar: Unapologetic Women Leading in Corporate America.   Elizabeth has designed and developed leadership and career courses, webinars and even a radio show entitled, “Leadership Lessons from the Lioness” An expert advisor, Elizabeth has been quoted in Yahoo, The Ladders, and Dice job boards. Her words have reached as far as the front page of the Philadelphia Tribune, PBS, CBS Money Watch, Dale Carnegie and John Tesh’s blog  

Are there any changes in your life that ended up being for the better? Inevitable life changes Graduation Love Children Starting a job Part of the joy of life is change.  Is change better if you are in control of the change versus the change happening to you?  I think of changes that I had semi-control over; marriage, children, first job.  And then I consider changes that sometimes happen to you, death, loss of relationship, layoff.  Being adaptable to each of these changes is dependent on attitude and future prospects.   What do you think?  Is change good or bad?  Is it better when you are in control of the change?  What life changes have significantly impacted your life? Join the discussion at the #NoMeanGirls Private Facebook Group

Meredith has traveled the world and made every mistake in the book. She was too often ‘that tourist’ - laughing too loud, asking the wrong questions, wearing her heart on her sleeve and much more. But an adventure at night always brings a great story in the morning!  Learn more about Meredith http://flippingtourist.com/

Jill Kramer has been the Director of Volleyball at TCU since being hired on December 29, 2014 and has led the Horned Frogs to three straight appearances in the postseason. Kramer brought a resurgence to her alma mater including two wins over top-10 programs, a No. 1 strength of schedule and back-to-back Prepvolleyball.com top-25 recruiting classes. A native of San Antonio, Kramer earned a bachelor of business administration degree in marketing from TCU in 2000 and is married to Willem Kramer of the Netherlands.   https://www.plaidforwomen.com/read-post/meet-volleyball-…oday-origin-bank/   

Jennifer Klos is based in Dallas, TX as an Art Advisor who assists private collectors in acquisition of fine and decorative art specializing in modern and contemporary art.  As president of Collector House Inc., Jennifer enjoys sharing her eye, knowledge and experience of the art world with clients in a fun and accessible manner. This podcast is being included in our Fear series, so we’re going to break down some fears around art with Jennifer and get into her expertise.  http://www.collectorhouse.com/  https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/dont-be-scared-of-art/ ‎

Join Judy and Sarah as we discuss the fear of selling.  We break it down to really every person is a sales person.  You sell your ideas and projects in the corporate world to traditional sales of services and products.   Judy Hoberman, President of Selling In A Skirt has created a suite of workshops, seminars and coaching programs that take the negativity out of selling. Her 30 years in sales has given her both the knowledge and sense of humor about the gender differences that we should all understand and embrace instead of feeling unable to communicate. Judy’s humorous stories about how men and women sell, manage, recruit and supervise differently will enlighten you in learning how both genders can support each other's successes in a more productive way. https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/do-you-fear-selling/ ‎  

How does FEAR hold you back?  Are you afraid to try something new?  Do you have FOMO? Fear is physiological, it's internal and often deep rooted with something besides our physical survival. We have the fear of failure, fear of the unknown and most recently social media has created the fear of missing out (FOMO). I'm also going to give you a preview of the podcasts to come this month touching on fear. Check out the full article at https://www.plaidforwomen.com/audio-post/fear-how-is-it-holding-you-back/

Kristin MacKelvey is the CFO of a Houston private equity firm.  She has spent the last 7 years in private equity, following almost 8 years in public accounting.  Mrs. MacKelvey is a CPA and holds a Masters in Professional Accounting and BBA in Business Honors and Accounting from The University of Texas. This is the wrap up to our personal financial series in 2017.  One of the things we keep hearing about in the media is private equity and women’s access to venture capital.  While investing in private equities and seeking venture capital is way beyond investing in the stock market I think it good for all of us to understand this a bit better.  Kristin is here to help us understand this concept at a high level. As a disclaimer this is not tax or financial advice, our lawyers make us say this and you should not count on us or this podcast for helping in making personal financial decisions. 

This past year we have interviewed over 25 financial authorities on what they do with their personal income as well as how they advise their clients.  Generally these recommendations fall into three categories: savings, debt and relationships. Savings We all know we need to save for big things like retirement and kids college, but sometimes we get shiny object syndrome from something staring us right in the face. We interviewed Chris Hogan on Plaid Radio, Episode 60, Dave Ramsey personality and author of Retire Inspire.  Chris advises that we need to dream big for retirement.  We need to have big goals that are so worth the sacrifice of today we decide to invest for tomorrow.  If we have a spouse or partner he recommends a dream date.  What do you both see for the future? Dorethia Kelly also shared in Plaid Radio Episode 96 tactics on saving for college.  She recommended specialized savings accounts as well talking to your student so they understand their responsibility in the paying for college in addition to making the grade. And along with savings we cannot ignore investing and the need to make our money work just as had as we do.  We have few episodes that address investing (Terry Savage), markets (Bobbie Rebel, Episode 102) and your personal risk levels (John Wasik, Episode 99). Debt Honestly, debt keeps us back from our financial goals.  We had several guests knock out big levels of debt through side hustles (Lisa, Episode 86) and other just save, save, save. Bola from Clever Girl Finance shares her strategy in building up an emergency fund in Episode 119 and Melanie from Dear Debt helps clarify needs versus wants in Episode 106.  Both have different strategies, but are clear on their goals and working their way towards financial freedom.  They want to chose where their money goes not let debt tell them where they have to spend. Relationships As if having a personal relationship with money is not challenging enough, many times we have relationships with others that also involve money.  We are partners, married, parents and children which all come with their own set of money rules. Nick True from Mapped Out Money shares his relationship with love and money in Episode 109.  Following the episode he jumped in a tiny house and is touring the US with his bride so we need to check in on that. We also cover the tough topic of how to talk to your adult parents about money with Emily Stroud in Episode 121.  While we think the holidays can be a great time because the whole family, it's not.  Holidays are full of all kinds of emotions so plan this talk for another time. Plaid Radio also interview the Dr. Phil named "Cheapest Family in America," Steve and Annette from Money Smart Family (Episode 115).  These parents share how they economized with a big family, saved for college and instilled a work ethic in their own children. Check out these great episodes to learn more, get inspired and take control of your financial life.

Terry Savage is a nationally known expert on personal finance, the markets, and the economy.  Terry’s most recent book is a new edition of The Savage Truth on Money, which was named one of the ten best money books of the year by Amazon.com in its first edition.  You can read Terry’s columns, as well as post questions and comments at her website www.terrysavage.com, follow her on Twitter @TerryTalksMoney and on Facebook –The Savage Truth.

Cara has always been known as outspoken, funny and loud.  Most recently she has launched a new blog Mamability (http://www.mamability.com) where she details her life as a mother to three little boys (newest arrival last week).  She shares her experiences with her oldest son E who receive a birth diagnosis of Down Syndrome. She is a member of Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network (http://www.dsdiagnosisnetwork.org/) as a Rockin' Mom because E rocks an extra chromosome.  She combined her professional life as a communications professor and her mom life with E in a Tedx talk with ACU,  https://youtu.be/Vk5RcCqnX9w?list=PLTGlZq79p8GHqQ_Xn3dRZdkRTQIWDXbQj

Do you think living frugally means you don't live well?  Think again, by focusing on saving your resources and being creative you can live a full life and be frugal.  Being frugal brings up mental images of doing without or making something last just past the point of usefulness.  With the recession in 2008 being frugal came into vogue and more people began open conversations about their spending and more importantly their savings.  Teresa joins Plaid Radio as the founder of Living on the Cheap and helps us get in a frugal mindset without too much sacrifice. http://www.usnews.com/topics/author/teresa_mears https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresamears Living on the Cheap (http://livingonthecheap.com) Miami on the Cheap (http://miamionthecheap.com) Fort Lauderdale on the Cheap (http://fortlauderdaleonthecheap.com)

Are you an business owner?   Do you like doing it all yourself or do you wish you had a team?  When is it nice to add someone versus you must add someone to grow your business. Check out Plaid Radio with Crystalee Beck from The Mama Ladder International.  She will give us tips, ideas and share her own experience.

Julia is the a Swiss/Texan theater actress who, through a very strange series of events, ended up co-owning a financial planning firm with her husband Philip. Spending several years in the mortgage industry gave her number-crunching confidence and a unique insight into real estate and lending. She’s also a self-professed foodie, budget-wizard, yogi, a vintage-clothing collector and has owned several of her own businesses.   http://theartoffinance.biz/