Earn better. This is for anyone who has ever felt shame about needing help. I use the self checkout at the grocery store so I can avoid the checkout person. I don’t want them to see that I’m using food stamps. Five years ago, I was at the pinnacle of my career. I’d landed a mid six-figure book deal and thought I’d finally proved that I could do good work and make good money. Then, what took years to build was gone in two: the pandemic decimated my business and my son was born with severe…

Earn better. This is for anyone who feels like their current title—whether it’s on your business card or just in your head—doesn’t quite fit anymore. Like you’ve outgrown it, or maybe it never really fit to begin with. For years, I introduced myself the same way: “I’m a career coach.” It felt safe. Legitimate. Something people could understand at a dinner party. But lately, I’ve been trying on a different identity: “I’m a writer with a newsletter about women, worth, and work.” Same work….

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Earn better. This is for anyone who has ever wanted something they couldn’t afford. There was a woman at the retreat who smelled like money. Not in a gaudy way. In a way that made you pause mid-sentence when she passed. The kind of scent that lingers in a room after someone leaves, the kind that makes you lean in slightly during conversation without realizing you’re doing it. “What are you wearing?” I finally asked, unable to help myself. Of course it was expensive. Out of my budget…

Earn better. This is for anyone who has ever wondered who they’d be without their job title. I vomited on the bus. Not the grand entrance I’d imagined for a wellness retreat designed to “heal, restore, and revive” me for the next season of my life. But there I was, winding through the Tennessee hills, coffee sloshing in my empty stomach, losing it completely before we’d even arrived. If I’d known what was coming, I might have taken it as a warning. But looking back now, I wonder if it was…

Earn better. This is for anyone who wants something desperately but can’t seem to follow through. It’s 2am and I’m staring at the ceiling, running through the list in my head. Five projects. Five unfinished screenplays and book manuscripts sitting in Google Drive in various stages of almost-done. Every single one matters to me. Every single one feels urgent and important and mine. And yet. When I have time to work on them — those precious hours when the kids are occupied and my inbox is quiet…

Earn better. This is for anyone who’s trying to make money from what they love—and it’s not working. You’re watching your credit card balance climb. Your Kickstarter sits at 26% funded with just 17 days left. People keep telling you “the money will follow” and “just believe in yourself,” but those words start to feel like accusations. Like if you can’t make this work, it’s because you didn’t want it badly enough. My grandfather used to say, “Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in…

Earn better. If everyone who opened my emails gave $5 to my Kickstarter, I could stop bothering you about it 😉 🙏 I’ve been feeling the itch lately. You know the one—it starts as a pebble in your shoe, barely noticeable. Then it becomes a rock. It’s not something you can name exactly. More of an absence. A wondering. A wandering. Typically, I just work harder, trying to override it with more to-dos. But the universe has a way of staging aggressive interventions. Mine came in the form of a…

Earn better. I’ve been sending free weekly emails for years. If you’ve received value, please consider contributing $5. I’ve been crowdfunding for two weeks now and after spending five hours straight individually emailing people yesterday, let’s just say I’ve learned a lot about how to ask people for money. And more importantly, how to not feel awkward doing it. Yes, even me, Ms. Ladies Get Paid, can feel uncomfortable even when it’s for something I believe in as much as The Practice. But…

Earn better. I need to raise $28,000. I’ve only done $3,618. I’s almost a week into my Kickstarter campaign, and that funding bar is barely moving. My first thought: “This is failing!” Which immediately spiraled into: “I’m a failure!” There it was—that old, familiar trap. The one where a project’s performance becomes an indictment of my worth as a person. My body contracted. My creativity shut down. I could feel myself shrinking into a spiral of self-doubt I knew all too well. So I did what I…