Her Comeback | Episode Summary Guest: Lisa Clements, Financial Advisor & Wealth Manager — ClearSprings Wealth, Kansas City, KS

Lisa spent 24+ years in corporate America, including a role at Meta, before relocating to be closer to family and discovering a passion for investing. A New Year's Eve conversation with her two best friends — who told her "we hate this stuff, you should do it for people like us" — sparked her pivot into financial advising. She now specializes in serving single professional women navigating money decisions on their own.

Money as a Tool for Agency Lisa's core philosophy: money isn't about returns — it's about freedom. She asks clients three questions: Am I safe? Do I have options? Am I living a life aligned to who I am? She pushes back on deprivation-based saving, drawing on Bill Perkins' Die with Zero: money should fund a meaningful life now, not just a retirement account you're afraid to spend.

For Women Who Feel Behind Lisa validates the shame many women carry — but reframes it. The financial world was built by men, schools never taught personal finance, and most women have been busy building careers and caretaking. "It's not your fault." She calls the 40s and 50s "your power decades" — it is not too late to make changes that dramatically shift your financial future.

Common Mistakes During Life Transitions Two opposite patterns show up in divorce, widowhood, or career change: freezing completely, or moving too fast. Lisa's advice: pause, stabilize, and buy yourself time — 3 months, 6 months, even a year before making major decisions. She also flags a common trap: women holding $80K–$150K in cash that should be invested.

Building Financial Security as a Single Woman Lisa's framework includes: values alignment, a goals plan tied to those values, an income plan for working and work-optional years, a decision framework for emotional moments, legal clarity (wills, trusts, powers of attorney), and care planning for solo aging. She notes: 80% of women die single; planning accordingly isn't morbid — it's love for the people who'll support you.

For Partnered Women Two non-negotiables: build your own community (don't let your social world revolve around your partner's), and don't abdicate financial decisions. Know where the money is invested, who the advisor is, and how decisions get made.

What Financial Confidence Feels Like Not a number — it's the ability to make decisions without second-guessing, a clear framework for spending choices, and sleeping soundly because you have a plan. Lisa also advocates visioning your work-optional years: not just saving toward retirement, but picturing what you'll actually do with the freedom.

The 10-Degree Turn Lisa's favorite metaphor: a cruise ship leaving Miami headed southeast lands in the Dominican Republic. Turn it 10 degrees west? You end up in Jamaica or the Caymans. Same distance, completely different destination. Small, consistent changes in your financial habits today create a radically different future.

Connect with Lisa Website & socials: @ClearSpringsWealth | Free 30-minute intro call available at ClearSpringsWealth.com

Podcast: Her Comeback – Transforming Your Life After 50 Episode

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Title: Strength Beyond “Strong” with Dr. Belinda Paulicin

Episode Summary: What does it really mean to be called “strong”—and is it always empowering?

In this powerful and deeply human conversation, host Michelle Thompson sits down with Belinda Paulicin, DSW, LCSW-QS, OSW-C, a seasoned clinical social worker and oncology specialist, to explore resilience, trauma, and the hidden weight many women carry behind the label of “strength.”

Belinda shares her journey from working with families, trauma survivors, and domestic violence victims to supporting cancer patients and caregivers. Through her lens as a trauma-informed professional, she reveals how our life experiences shape the way we respond to challenges—and how understanding that can unlock true healing and growth.

They dive into the difference between empathy and emotional overwhelm, the importance of healthy boundaries, and how to serve others without losing yourself. Belinda also introduces the concept behind her upcoming book Hot Stone Woman: Strength Beyond Your Strong, redefining resilience as more than just “bouncing back,” but as building the capacity to rise, transform, and find meaning through life’s hardest moments.

This episode is a must-listen for any woman who has been told she’s “so strong” but is ready to discover what lies beyond survival—and step into purpose, power, and possibility.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• The difference between empathy and over-identification (and why it matters)
• How trauma-informed thinking changes the way we see ourselves and others
• Why resilience is more than “bouncing back”
• How to navigate life’s hardest seasons without losing yourself
• The truth behind the label “you’re so strong”
• How to turn life’s challenges into purpose and growth

Key Takeaway: You are more than what you’ve survived. True resilience isn’t just enduring—it’s transforming, expanding, and becoming.

About the Guest: Belinda Paulicin is a Doctor of Social Work, licensed clinical social worker, and board-certified oncology social worker with decades of experience supporting individuals and families through trauma, healthcare challenges, and life transitions. Her work centers on resilience, healing, and empowering women to rise beyond their circumstances.

Connect & Learn More: Stay tuned for the release of Belinda’s book Hot Stone Woman: Strength Beyond Your Strong.

Her Comeback | Episode Notes Guest: Randi Crawford, Life Coach & Author

Randi Crawford is a San Diego-based certified life coach, former entrepreneur, and co-founder of a public healthcare company focused on women's health. After stepping away from her career to raise her two children, Randi found herself at 50 facing the classic empty-nest crossroads — and chose to reinvent herself rather than coast.

Her comeback began unexpectedly when she walked into Anthropologie with zero retail experience and landed a job. What started as a way to "get back in the game" became a crash course in humility, resilience, and rediscovering her greatest superpower: connecting with women. She was quickly made a stylist — and realized that everyone brings something different to the table. You just have to give things a real chance before you quit.

It was during the post-COVID era that Randi witnessed something that changed her path entirely. Instead of the joy she expected to see as women returned to the world, she saw anger, emotional exhaustion, and women who seemed to have lost themselves. That's when she pursued certification through the Jay Shetty Certification School and became a life coach.

Randi also opens up about something deeply personal: being diagnosed with panic disorder at just 6 years old, long before it had a name. She spent years visiting specialists with no real answers — until she found information online in her 20s and finally understood what she'd been living with. Rather than letting it define her, she transformed it into her greatest professional asset. She now helps clients disrupt the mental "highways" that keep them stuck in fear and negative thought patterns.

Today, Randi coaches both teen/college-age girls and their mothers simultaneously — because she believes the two are inseparable. With young women, the work centers on navigating social media comparison and building confidence in a performative world. With moms, it's about stepping back, releasing the need to control, and finally living their own lives.

Randi also shares her take on the "not enough" epidemic driven by social media, the algorithm's role in feeding self-doubt, and why handing kids a phone without limits is a parenting conversation we can no longer avoid.

She's currently working on her upcoming book, The Pickleball Parenting Playbook — a self-deprecating, warmhearted guide that uses lessons from the pickleball court (patience, communication, position over power) as a framework for healthier parenting.

Connect with Randi: 🌐 randicrawfordcoaching.com 📱 @randicrawfordcoaching on TikTok & Instagram 📅 Book a free 30-minute Zoom call via her website