Girl Meet Money: Recent Episodes
Jennifer Hickman, Jacqueline Direnzo, Tessa Bernier
Introducing the Girl Meet Money podcast, where the hosts talk about all things wealth and wellness. Join Jenn, Jackie and Tessa, serial entrepreneurs, wellness junkies, and energy experts as they challenge the status quo around women's relationships with money one conversation at a time.
This week the GMM ladies chat about the unofficial Pink Tax and dive into why this exists - and even more importantly, is it ever justified?
In this episode you will hear us talk about:
- · Women are estimated to spend $180,000.00 USD more than men over the course of a lifetime due to the “Pink Tax”.
- · Why is it that we pay more for the exact same item than men do?
- · The “Hot Girl Hamster Wheel”.
- · Does women’s implicit acceptance of the Pink Tax perpetuate it?
- · The financial chasm that grows wider and wider between men and women over the course of a lifetime
- · Rage Against the Machine (just because we love this topic)
- · Do most women care more about impressing other women than men? And if so, is this a good or a bad thing!?
- · It’s time to start to ask for more equitable prices, systems, and processes from society.
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This week the GMM ladies explore the subject of AI from an expansive point of view. Join the ladies for this fun and exploratory conversation as we tackle the hot topic of artificial intelligence.
In this episode you will hear us talk about:
- Our take on where this generation of teens believes technology is moving towards and what their future will look like.
- The Metaverse (aka the virtual world where people interact with a computer-generated environment and each other.
- Our belief that these are the “Wild Wild West Days” of AI
- The impact that AI will have on creatives
- The fallacy that increased efficiency = more time
- Our belief that AI will grow in a non-linear format since it is harnessing the collective knowledge and experience of all of humanity
- What is art, and who owns it in the age of AI?
- The impact of AI on education
- What it means to be human and the need for a balanced approach to integrating AI into our lives
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Link to the podcast that we reference:
Entrepreneurs on Fire.
Episode Title: How AI Will Dramatically Affect Your Business in the Future with Joel Comm
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WIRELfhyKZQHuJYVC1asM?si=j9JwzQoXT4S43Bqej2VmBAⅆ=1&nd=1
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Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
GMM is back for a second season! Tune in as the GMM ladies’ dish about money, connection, and entrepreneurship with a focus on accountability as they kick off their second season behind the mic!
In this episode you will get a glimpse into our conversation around:
· The benefit of just actioning things aka. Just Do It!
· The importance of finding your tribe and surrounding yourself with the right people.
· Exploring the notion of whether you run your life or does your life run you?
· What keeps us accountable for making changes in our life?
· Why it can be hard to make changes – big or small in your life.
· Can we be as accountable to ourselves as we are to the bank?
· It can be difficult to see ourselves as we truly are but it is so necessary to see ourselves and our lives clearly in order to be the architect of our life.
· Making a pact to each make one small change that will be positively impactful – and we want you to join us!
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
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jenn@girlmeetmoney.com
This week GMM welcomes Rhonda Wooddisse, Executive Coach and Delivery Consultant into the POD. With 20 years of experience leading operational and project delivery teams in the financial industry, Rhonda launched her coaching practice in early 2022. Having experienced the support of an executive coach herself, Rhonda believes that the client and coach partnership can create a reflective space to support the client's authentic leadership journey with support and accountability in execution.
In this episode you will get a glimpse into:
- Learning to become comfortable just being when you are not working.
- The challenge of working as your authentic self in the corporate realm.
- Rhonda’s experience moving across the country for work.
- How women CAN and DO make great bosses.
- The payoff that comes with being brave and taking chances.
- Why Rhonda doesn’t believe in regrets.
- The amazingness that can come from a single conversation with somebody.
- What it’s like to quit a job that provides financial security without a back-up plan.
- Weighing the value of lived experience vs earning a designation or certification.
- Silencing the self-doubt, and inner voice that can try to sabotage your momentum.
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GID Consulting: IG rhondareflects
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
This week GMM invite Marissa LaBrecque principal and founder of Hyperflore into the POD. Marissa is passionate about communicating with soul and strategy. As an author, journalist and playwright, words have always been her art. As a longtime entrepreneur, with successful endeavors in the food, journalism and community-building sectors, she understands the reality and mentality of your team. Bringing together the grace of story and the focus of commerce is a skill she brings to clients in worlds as diverse as wellness franchises to national educational institutions. She is also an advocate for elevating the industry with better tools and methods and the co-host of Brand Frontlines.
In this episode you will get an glimpse into:
- How making a brand is a wonderful blend of art and science that aims to find the intersection of both masculine and feminine energy.
- How building a brand goes beyond the basics by tapping into intuition, art, and creativity.
- The creative place that is just beyond thought.
- How we are all worthy of making money.
- Starting over is all about the relationships in your life.
- The importance of storytelling.
- Transitioning from being a selfpreneur to building and managing a team.
- How you can like money but actively repel it at the same time.
- You can change your relationship to money at any point.
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Hyperflore: Website
Hyperflore: IG hyperflore
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
Today GMM sits down to chat about the ebb and flow of both money and energy. This is a great conversation that will really resonate with anyone who is feeling stuck or unproductive. Sometimes giving into the moment and slowing down can be the best route forward.
In this episode you will get an glimpse into our conversation around how:
- We as humans don’t always lean into the human experience.
- Slowing down and re-charging your energy can actually be more productive than pushing on and burning out.
- Some “ebbs” are harder than others.
- Thinking sits opposite of action.
- We don’t always have unlimited energy and stamina – there is a counterbalance to everything in life.
- We all seek out community whether we are aware of it or not.
- You don’t have to be behind something 100% in order to move it forward.
- Having a firm set of values and a firm set of goals can help you build and steer your business to place that is aligned with what you truly want.
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Vaughan Women to Women Symposium – Tuesday November 8, 2022
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
Today Jacqueline and Tessa sit down for an expansive conversation with Vanessa Eckstein – mother, lover, daughter, friend, poet and designer not to mention founder and principal of BLOK design. Vanessa is known for her passion for taking on initiatives that blend cultural awareness, humanity and a love of art to advance society and business alike. Vanessa shares the challenges and profound learning that come as a result of running your own business and the preconceptions that exist of women that inhabit the creative space.
In this episode you will get an glimpse into our conversation around how:
- Why as humans we should all strive to be multi-dimensional.
- Economics and creativity are not mutually exclusive, but rather interconnected.
- Discomfort can lead to true creativity.
- There is a difference between cost and value.
- Finding freedom is the ultimate goal in business, life and finances.
- Rejecting failure as a concept can ultimately lead to success.
- The success of a business can’t be measured by growth.
- Listening to your gut - aka intuition can makes sense (even when that gut idea betrays logic and “rational” thinking).
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blok: IG blokdesign
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
This week Tessa has an open and honest conversation with Emilie Nolan the founder of both Oremme fine jewelry, and consulting agency Band of Others. Dive into this vulnerable conversation that shines light on the fact that entrepreneurship is not always easy, nor is success is not always fast. We love this conversation that reminds us that life and business is not always as easy and glamorous as social media would have us believe.
In this episode you will get an glimpse into our conversation around how:
- Sometimes money is not the only benchmark by which to measure the success of a business
- A business can change and morph alongside one’s own personal growth
- Entrepreneurship can sometimes feel like a slog
- It’s important to find your WHY and understand what success means to you
- Understanding the science behind happiness can help to explain your own actions and emotions
- Being stuck can impact your creativity
- Designing jewelry that will last generations can feed the soul
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Oremme
Band of Others
Oremme: IG oremmenyc
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
This week GMM explores the notion of gratitude and looks at it from a different lens. Can gratitude keep us complacent and prevent us from moving forward to achieve our full potential?
In this episode you will get an glimpse into our conversation around:
- Have we turned gratitude into a buzzword that has become overused?
- Selfish vs selfless – do we have it all wrong?
- Do we sometimes weaponize gratitude when we say things like “You should be grateful that you don’t have it worse than you do!”
- Do men experience gratitude in the same way that women do?
- Do we shame ourselves under the veil of gratitude?
- Does gratitude have a place in our wealth wellness journey and is it something we should practice on a daily basis?
Podcast Referenced: Cathy Heller Presents Don't Keep Your Day Job
Episode Title: Lisa Bilyeu on Radical Confidence, Building a Billion Dollar Empire & What Makes a Healthy Marriage
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
This week GMM sat down with Stacey Martin who is the Founder and CEO of Stacey Martin Lifestyle Inc. Stacey is an entrepreneur, fashion designer, mom and ambitious dreamer who began her career as a professional performing artist and Broadway dancer. Stacey's mission is to blend together fitness and fashion clothing while empowering women to feel incredible in their present moment!
With only 14% of major fashion brands being run by a female executive, and less than 0.5% of Black female entrepreneurs receiving venture capital funding, Stacey also wants to educate and inspire other female leaders to move confidently and go there!
In this episode you will get an glimpse into:
- Grab inspiration from Stacey’s story who as a black woman started a business and raised capital without having a formal business education and never compromised her value system.
- Discover how Stacey has effortlessly weaved eco-consciousness into her clothing line.
- The level of confidence that a woman feels when she feels good can translate into all areas of her life.
- The learning that has led Stacey to believe that confidence is a muscle that can strengthened through practice, repetition and reinforcement
- How Stacey draws inspiration from the Caribbean where she believes people do not impose the same set of limitations on themselves as people do here in North America.
- Why Stacey designs eco-conscious clothing to capture the essence of a memory is the same way that a picture does.
- What Stacey means by just “Going There”, and how woman can and should “Go There” at any age.
- How as women we can reframe and reshape what success looks like – business doesn’t have to be stern and boring! Business and success can be soft, fun, vibrant and beautiful!
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Stacey Martin Lifestyle
Stacey Martin Lifestyle: IG staceymartinlifestyle
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
This week GMM sits down with Asha Frost - an Indigenous Medicine Woman and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. Asha is the best-selling author of You are the Medicine, and has guided thousands of people through profound and lasting transformation. She is from the Crane Clan, the totem of leadership, and believes in holding space from vision and heart. As an energy healer, homeopath, and mentor, Asha has blended her life experience with her innate gifts and the wisdom of her Ancestors. She loves sharing her Medicine in powerful ways through Ceremonies, teachings, and speaking events. Through this work, she loves seeing people reclaim their roots, find their healing wisdom, and rise into their power.
In this episode you will get an glimpse into:
- Why Asha believes that the world would be a better place if more money were in the hands of Indigenous people.
- Asha’s vision of getting more money into the hands of not just women but to all people who have been oppressed.
- What is means to Asha to be a peaceful warrior
- The work that goes into writing an international best-selling book such as You Are The Medicine
- How it feels for Asha to watch her white counterparts rise 10x faster
- Why it would be a beautiful room if there were more nuance and more room for repair
- The importance of slowing down and tuning into what our body needs and not just what our mind needs
- How to be resilient without having a hard skin
- The importance of checking in with our internal knowing to question our feelings, emotions and even the sensations that we experience in our physical body and explore the root of these feelings to understand if these are by-products of systemic colonial and patriarchal impacts.
- The importance of building safety both within our nervous system and within the context of building wealth as a woman
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
GMM: IG girlmeetmoney
Asha Frost: IG asha.frost
Asha Frost
This week GMM co-founders (and sisters) Jenn and Jackie chat candidly about what causes money stress, and what can be done to help mitigate it.
In this episode, you will explore:
- Ways to become more at peace with your money stories to help avoid money stress as presenting as middle of the night panic attacks
- Creating a relationship with money so that a little bit of extra spending doesn’t keep you up at night
- The interesting psychological parallels that exist between food and money
- The importance of healing your relationship with money before taking other tangible steps such as budgeting
- Getting comfortable with the discomfort that comes when facing your money stresses head-on
- The notion of healing vs. curing when it comes to money issues
- Why community is so important throughout the process of reframing our relationship with money
- The mindset shift that occurs when we start to looki at money in mindful and expansive versus in a restrictive way
Toronto Realtor and Ebb and Glow podcast host Jenelle Tremblett joins the show this week. She first talks about her belief that you can have a healthy family life and successful career, and how she saw it come to fruition in her own life. Jenelle talks about why she got into real estate and the freedom it gave her, but also gives advice on creating stability before you jump into the world. Jenelle shines a light on why we need more money transparency, a stronger community of “expanders” that support each other, and stronger boundaries with our time and energy. Jenelle discusses her Ebb and Glow podcast and how it’s afforded her a fun place to connect with others and share personal stories. At the end, Jenelle provides some of her personal favorite books and resources to continue your journey into abundance.
In this episode, you will learn more about:
- Why Jenelle went into real estate, and some of her advice to get financially ready for the ups and downs of switching industries.
- Women that work at even the most progressive of corporations often find it difficult to come back after taking maternity leave.
- Jenelle talks about investing in her own education to start the Ebb and Glow podcast, and what has come out of that experience.
- How Ebb and Glow provides her with a fun place to learn and talk with others, and to take a break from just talking shop with people.
- Jenelle speaks to her experience with both the risk comfort of real estate and the upside of abundance.
- How has Jenelle’s money mindset changed over the years?
- What are “expanders” in your life, and how do you find them?
- Jenelle talks about saying “no” as a full sentence and creating strong boundaries for herself.
- Why more transparency about our salaries with others can be a good thing.
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
Jenelle: Ebb and Glow Podcast | Website | Instagram
Rich Bitch
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Think and Grow Rich
Rich as F*ck
This week, Krystal Van Westerop from TD Bank joins the show. Krystal is the National Manager For Women In Enterprise at TD Bank, and has a bird's eye view of what the largest bank in Canada does for women. Krystal shares some great tips to help women make sure they are asking the right questions, and what she would love to see in the future when it comes to supporting women-owned and led businesses. Krystal talks about her personal relationship with money and how it allows her to have the life she has envisioned for herself.
In this episode, you will learn more about:
- Krystal talks about her diverse background in the finance world, and the challenges that she faced as typically one of the only women in that world.
- How can we truly support women-led businesses from a foundational level?
- Krystal talks about TD Bank’s strategy to take their evolving collaboration national and make sure it was inclusive, not exclusive.
- More about TD Bank’s grassroots approach.
- What has Krystal seen over the past 14 years when it comes to females and their money mindset?
- How women can come to the bank and make the most out of their experience, while knowing that the bank is itself a client.
- Some shocking stats around women and money - including the fact that women access business loans only 14% of the time, using their personal savings, personal assets and family and friends in the meantime.
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
Krystal Van Westerop
TD Bank
Women in Business
This week, the conversation starts with a serious tone as the ladies discuss the recent news with Roe v. Wade being overturned, and what that means for women’s rights all across the world. They are then joined by Sarah Mukpo who talks about the importance of educating and empowering women, what she has learned from working in finance and starting multiple businesses, and her takeaways from being both the main support system for an entrepreneur and a mother.
In this episode, you will learn more about:
- The Roe v. Wade overturn really highlighted the fact that in an instant, the old white patriarchal system can pull the rug out from under your feet.
- Sarah talks about her experience in investment banking. Is it everything everyone says it is?
- The differences between investment banking and venture capital.
- How Sarah learned to stand up for herself in her career, even when it mostly was working in a room as the only woman.
- Sarah discusses the opportunity she saw in cannabis investing, and more about Pamos.
- As the new generation is about to inherit the largest wealth transfer in history from our parents' generation, what can this mean for a more conscious way of viewing money?
- Sarah talks about her own relationship to money, family, and retirement.
- How you can begin to have a relationship to money that doesn’t involve guilt.
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
Pamos
Sarah: sarahmukpo@gmail.com
This week, the ladies are joined by Michelle Sengara, Cognitive Social Scientist and Education Strategist. Michelle discusses her interest in money from a young age and her contribution to empowering women in a practical, tangible way, using education and a research-based scientific approach. Michelle talks about the biological and psychological perspective of why we struggle with creating new money habits, and how we can use that information to win. She discusses how technology can support good teaching, and how the GMM community can help you move steadily towards your money goals with a supportive community and abundant approach. As the Director of Academic Innovation for York University, Michelle studies cutting-edge teaching and learning techniques.
In this episode, you will learn more about:
- How we can use technology and AI in education to create deep change on a personal level.
- Michelle talks about the process and personalization necessary to understand our money patterns.
- The ways that both our biology and upbringing affect our relationship with money.
- How the GMM community can help address your money blueprint and show you subconscious patterns with money you may not have even known you were doing.
- How we can create self-awareness of the ways our money stories play out.
- Biology sets us up in a way to look out for our survival first. How does that show up in our relationship with money?
- How has evolution changed the way we look at money?
- We can use innovation and technology to better understand our own patterns and help others.
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- Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
- Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
- Tessa: IG tessabbb
- Michelle Sengara
While at a yoga retreat in Italy, Jenn, Jackie, and Tessa explore the feelings of imposter syndrome and guilt that come up when you take time for yourself or break away from the everyday routine. They discuss why we tend to feel guilty even when we know it’s important to take time to recharge, and how to not judge ourselves even more during the moments when these feelings arise. At the end of the episode, tie together how the feeling of guilt can tell us a lot about our relationship with money, and some simple strategies to start feeling a little less bad for embracing the beautiful (and maybe even boring!) moments in life.
In this episode, you will learn more about:
- In what ways does guilt show up for you in your life, both professionally and personally?
- Don’t feel guilty about feeling guilty, but try doing these few things instead.
- Hustle culture has brought along with it a feeling that we always need to be productive and move on to the next thing.
- Guilt is omnipresent when it comes to being female. Contacts
- Guilt can appear at times when we are doing something big, like going to a retreat in Italy, or in smaller ways with just smaller decisions and habits.
- It is a conscious practice to be mindful of how feelings of guilt come up, especially surrounding money.
- Recognizing where you feel guilt is the first step to letting some of it go.
- How your money story can have a big impact on how and why you feel guilt creep in.
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
This week, Jenn, Jackie, and Tessa explore the prompt, “What have you learned about yourself through your relationship with money?” They talk about how observing the way we deal with money, both when we have it and also when we feel like we don’t have enough, can really show us how we operate in a lot of other sectors in life. Whether it’s learning to forgive yourself, having tough but honest conversations, or overcoming financial challenges, a person’s relationship with money can be a tricky one. This is a place where we can talk openly about it and learn and grow together.
In this episode, you will learn more about:
- How to begin the process of observing your relationship with money.
- What we can learn about ourselves and our habits and mindset as a whole when we get clear on our relationship with money.
- A money mindset is not a one size fits all approach! People need to find what works for them individually, and that can look very different for all of us.
- We need to normalize more honest conversations about money and our capabilities around spending.
- Social media and watching the “highlight reel” of others can make us feel like we don’t have enough wealth or possessions, but really it all begins with getting a healthier relationship around money.
- Regardless of the amount of money you have, you can always learn to reframe your relationship in a more positive way. Just stick with this show!
- When it comes to building better money habits, it’s all about small wins and taking baby steps toward your goal.
- Having a good relationship with money is more important now more than ever, with inflation and the cost of almost everything going up exponentially.
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Jenn: IG jenn.jm.hickman
Jackie: IG jacqueline.direnzo
Tessa: IG tessabbb
Welcome to the first episode of the Girl Meet Money show, where we explore the potency of the possibility. Your hosts are Jenn, Jackie, and Tessa, serial entrepreneurs, wellness junkies, and experts in all things energy. They are thrilled to talk about wealth and wellness in all forms and rise up together as a community of savvy and successful women. In this episode, they give a preview of what to expect for future episodes, and why you’ll want to stick around. They also explore the idea behind progress vs. perfection, reframing investment, and how the way that we invest ourselves as women is so dynamic. In this episode, you will learn more about:
● Who are your hosts, and how did they come to establish a like-minded community?
● Money is dynamic, and the way we invest ourselves as women is also dynamic.
● This show will help you unpack and observe your money stories, and give you new and more expansive ways to think about wealth and investment.
● There is room for everyone to succeed, and we can begin to view money from the divine feminine rather than in our masculine.
● Investing can be fun, and not something that is boring or terrifying!
Introducing the Girl Meet Money podcast, where the hosts talk about all things wealth and wellness. Join Jenn, Jackie and Tessa, serial entrepreneurs, wellness junkies, and energy experts as they challenge the status quo around women's relationships with money one conversation at a time.