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We’re changing the rules and changing the conversation around Gen X Women. No longer are we, as Gen X women, going to blend in the background, wait to be promoted, or cringe when having to talk about our rates for our services.We are going to declare the life and success we want and go after it, without apology. Modern Gen X Woman, it's your time. Jackie Ghedine + Mimi Bishop are top career and business coaches for Modern Gen X women who want to make an impact, leave their mark and increase ...
Emotional Balance Sheet is a show focused on working parents and families who are struggling to balance the pressures of multiple financial priorities and life transitions. It is a guide to help you manage life, money, and multiples. Each episode we’ll provide insights on successfully sustaining an active lifestyle, career, and family through comprehensive wealth management strategies, financial education, and lifestyle planning specific to parents raising twins, triplets and more. Your Host ...
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[REPLAY] - Jackie Ghedine & Mimi Bishop – Helping Gen X Women Bridge the Worth Deficit Gap
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Did you know that research shows that 92% of people do not keep their new year's resolutions or goals? What if you could find a way to be part of the 8% who see success pursuing their lifestyle and financial goals? With this data in mind, Jackie Ghedine and Mimi Bishop launched their firm, The Resting Mind, to help gen X women who are struggling to…
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Dr. Jennifer Dragonette – How To Stay Connected in Your Most Important Relationship
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Parents, do you ever feel like passing ships in the night while trying to raise active kids with your spouse/partner? How can we stay better connected during this stage of life, so we don't lose each other once our kids are grown? Dr. Jennifer Dragonette is a licensed psychologist with expertise in relationship dynamics and trauma and is trained in…
My mind is not what it once was and I know it. I struggle to admit it to myself because I used to be able to decipher a million things thrown at me at once…or at least I thought I did. In actuality, I didn’t because most of us can’t. We, as humans, intake so much information in any given day, hour or minute. Our brains work hard to weed through all…
We believe Gen X is Gen Next. The generation who is going to change the rules and the conversation around what it means to be a woman 40+, at work, in health, in finance, and in life. We aren’t going to allow anyone to put baby in the corner. We’re always ideating and, asking the question, “What else can we do to advance women 40+?” It became very …
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[REPLAY] Joline Godfrey – Raising Financially Fit Kids
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How do you raise financially fit kids? Joline Godfrey has spent a lifetime helping families to do just this. Trained as a social worker, Joline has spent most of her career being involved with kids; much of it focused on resilience. Joline has focused on this issue in a way that few people have been able. Joline believes that financial fluency is a…
It seems like any chance we can, Gen Xers proudly exclaim Gen Xer here! This of course starts a conversation and mutual bonding over Gen X nostalgia… the hair, the music, the fashion. That’s why Jackie and I had so much fun talking with Erin Mantz, a Gen X Girl and Founder and Editor of the Gen X Girls Grow Up blog and the 33,000 followers strong G…
LIVE! From our hotel room! We are taking you behind the scenes as we travel to Denver, Colorado to present Help! How Do I Figure Out My Next Career Move workshop at CareerCon. This episode is unplanned and unrehearsed. Be prepared to listen to us, raw and unedited. We highlight the antics of our trip, the insights from the event and the amazing ene…
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[REPLAY] Laura Vanderkam – Tranquility by Tuesday: Making Time for What Matters
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Are you trying to find time to do more things that matter to you? Are you trying to squeeze more enjoyment out of your life? Laura Vanderkam, a time management expert, walks us through her latest book, Tranquility by Tuesday, in which she identifies 9 ways to calm the chaos and make time for what matters. A topic that we address by asking, how can …
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Madonna, Paulina, Ashley Why Women (of a certain age) Can’t Win
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The Grammy’s really struck a nerve in me. We were traveling for business and missed them and instead of seeing news dropping about the music, the performances, and the winners, my news feed was blowing up with negative, nasty comments about the work Madonna had done. It stopped us in our tracks and we rearranged all of our podcasts to quickly produ…
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[REPLAY] Meg Wagner – The Goal Guru: How to Learn to Develop Achievable Goals
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Have you ever wondered how to make realistic goals that you could achieve? Maybe a goal guru could help? After making her own career pivot which turned into a career identity crisis, Meg Wagner launched her coaching and consulting practice, The Goal Guru. A firm that helps you define your work, align your life, and design your future. While there i…
Here you are shopping at Target or your favorite store and you have a list of items you need. Laundry detergent, toothpaste, paper towels, ketchup, and mascara. I would guess you go down each of those aisles knowing what you’re getting. When I say that, I mean the brand you are buying. Mine…Tide, Toms, UpandUp brand, Heinz, Benefit. Generation X is…
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Jason Feifer – Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change
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Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast |Google Podcast | Amazon Music | Spotify What can an entrepreneur teach a non-entrepreneur? What value could a relationship like that even bring? With an open mind, it may help you build for tomorrow. Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine. But that is not who he is or what defines what h…
We refuse to stay behind a locked door, curled in a corner waiting for midlife to pass. Midlife isn’t a stage we need to endure or wait out. It’s a point in time when we can boldly embrace who we are. And we are kicking the door wide open. We’re not alone in breaking down the midlife door and boldly barging through. This week, we are talking with T…
Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast |Google Podcast | Amazon Music | Spotify Are we in a recession, headed for a recession, and does it really matter given that in 2022 we experience one of the worst-performing stock and bond markets ever? How will a continued robust job market, slowing inflation, and higher interest rates impact corporate earni…
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Building and Leveraging Reputation Equity
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Nothing matters more to our professional success than our reputation and yet, it is one of the most amorphous traits we can try to ascertain. Unlike other skills to support our success, our reputation is actually only a reflection of a perception and it can change, morph, grow and shrink. Ageism is real which is why we, as Gen X women, need to rely…
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Ayelet Fishbach – Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation
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What happens when the person you most want to influence is you? Setting and achieving goals for yourself at work, home, and in relationships—is harder than it seems. So how do you know where to start? Ayelet Fishbach, professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has focused much of her career on determining…
You must think positively. Look at the bright side. The glass is half full. The grass is always greener. There is always a rainbow after rain. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Put on your rose-colored glasses. See the good in people. Look for the silver lining. It could always be worse. We are told positivity makes a tremendous difference …
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Mercedes Coffman – A Willingness to Learn to Increase Relationship Success
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How does knowing your ideals and purpose how help you to figure out what you want out of life? How does someone begin to identify what their ideals and purpose are? Mercedes Coffman is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Born in Suriname, South America, Mercedes has experienced a wide range of different cultures and dynamics, which have led t…
Gen Xers are the proud CEO’s of the Big Box Store named Resilience. We owned it, operated it and sold it as the best thing anyone could buy. Yes, I am proud of being resilient because the opposite of that would be me collapsing under pressure (and lord knows when we get to middle age, there are a lot of pressures). However, as a Gen Xer, I have als…
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Dr. Morgan Levy – Understanding Burnout & How to Create Sustainable Harmony
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Did you know that there are 12 stages of burnout? Did you also know that burnout can show up in many different forms within your life, such as physically, mentally, and emotionally? Dr. Morgan Levy is a licensed psychologist focusing on working with executives and professionals from all over the world. As a high-achieving professional, you’ve alway…
For as long as there has been a world, men have ruled it. I am going to just say this, without apology, ‘how is that working out for us so far?’ To kick off the New Year, we aren’t going to be talking about resolutions, sticking to your goals or creating a plan. We aren’t going to be talking about word of the year or how to pick your North Star. In…
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[REPLAY] - Melody Wilding – Strategies to Stop Overthinking and Make Decisions Faster
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Do you feel overworked and on your way to burnout? Have you returned to running a chaotic life as we move into a post-Covid world? Burnout is the number one topic that Melody Wilding, a licensed therapist and coach is helping to address with her current clients. A year ago, Melody was on our show when she launched her book, Trust Yourself, and how …
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Best Of: Is Your Identity Tied Up in Your Job?
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It's time for women 40+ to be seen and heard for all they are, not the title they have. This is why we chose this episode for our Best Of this week. If someone asked you, who are you… would you immediately start talking about your role at work, your business, or your overall career? Somehow this has become the norm. Gen X women have lost their iden…
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[REPLAY] - Dr. Amber Selking – The Playbook for Building Championship Mindsets
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Are you setting yourself up for success, joy, and excellent and extraordinary outcomes based on the things you choose to focus on? For example, can you choose to "Think Like a Champion?" From the locker room to the board room, Dr. Amber Selking has dedicated much of her life's work to the power of Mindset and Leadership to drive lasting change in b…
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Best of: Anna and Elizabeth, Why We're Obsessed With Them
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Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison leading to the perfect timing to choose this episode as our Best Of: Fake it 'til you make it is the worst advice women have received and here's why. There is a phenomenon going on, a thirst for uncovering and understanding stories like that of Anna Delvey, the fake German heiress who scammed New…
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Barbara Oakley – Learning How to Learn: Insights for Parents on How to Help Their Kids Learn
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How can parents help their kids make the most of their studying time? And why is it okay for kids not to like their parents when it comes to studying? Barbara Oakley is a distinguished engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior—a focus tha…
The holidays are here! We're making a list for our midlife gal pals, the women we go to for laughs, support and help us stay the course as we navigate being women 40+. MAIN POINTS Vibrator, I’m just going to say it Story of My Life Book Compression packing for travel Hot Sauce Making Kit from Uncommon Goods 80’s Pop Culture Trivia Game Multi-chargi…
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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox – The Hidden Secret: The Best Decades of Your Life For Parents
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What if you woke up and suddenly realized you had more time? Not just hours, days, or weeks, but decades? Avivah Wittenberg-Cox thinks about time in not only decades but in 25-year increments. As someone who thought in her thirties she would be retired at age 60, she now finds herself starting anew again, refreshed by the ability to start something…
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Catherine Balsam-Schwaber 2022 Modern Gen X Woman of the Year
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Carve your niche and build a world around it. Make your biological professional clock your bitch. Don’t complain about what doesn’t work, change it. These are a few of the qualities of the Modern Gen X Woman. So when we considered who met the criteria for the 2022 MGXW of the year, Catherine Balsam-Schwaber was the first to come to mind. Catherine …
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Laura Vanderkam – Tranquility by Tuesday: Making Time for What Matters
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Are you trying to find time to do more things that matter to you? Are you trying to squeeze more enjoyment out of your life? Laura Vanderkam, a time management expert, walks us through her latest book, Tranquility by Tuesday, in which she identifies 9 ways to calm the chaos and make time for what matters. A topic that we address by asking, how can …
In 2019, CBS ran generation guidelines on TV and literally left Generation X off. Try to Google research on Generation X and you’ll get a few hits but do the same for Millennials and you’ll have pages and pages of data. Go into any corporate office and look around the room at the leaders and try to find the Gen Xers among Boomers and Millennials. Y…
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[REPLAY] Jim Sexton – How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together
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How would you go about staying out of a divorce attorney's office? Find a great divorce attorney to listen to? Jim Sexton is an accomplished New York divorce attorney who has seen it all throughout his 20 plus year career focused on divorce law. What makes Jim unique is that he took his life experience and work as a divorce attorney and created a b…
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High Performance Athlete in the Workforce
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When you think about sports icons, any one of the greats, our minds can go from Babe Ruth to John McEnroe to Serena Williams. Commanding, confident and quite frankly, superior in their element. It took decades of specific practice and dedication in order to develop into the powerhouses they are. Why are we talking about the Michael Jordon’s of the …
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Bill Dwight – Helping Your Kids Develop Good Money Habits
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How do you help your kids develop good money habits? How can you overcome the challenges that simply talking about money can bring? Bill Dwight, a lifelong software engineer, faced these questions while he and his wife were raising their five kids. So, Bill did what any reasonable person would do facing a problem such as this; he started his own co…
I think I have adult ADHD. I can’t remember half the stuff I need to anymore. My concentration is absolutely gone. I’m easily distracted. I feel like I’m in a fog. Do any of these sound familiar? Heck, I have said this myself. I thought I may have developed ADHD in adulthood so I started investigating and this science geek dove deeply into the real…
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Gary Noesner – It's Not About the Nail; Lessons in Listening From a Hostage Negotiator
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How can you link hostage negotiating with building better relationships with your family, spouse/partner, and kids? How can you keep your emotions in check when situations become intense? Gary Noesner spent over 30 years in the FBI, ten of which were as the Chief Crisis Negotiator. A few of you may know Gary from the Netflix series Waco, as Gary wa…
You look great for your age. I didn’t think you were a day over 40. You’re too experienced. I think we need someone with more tech experience. Good for you for starting a business at your age. Do you still play basketball? I can’t believe how fabulous your skin looks, what do you use? These statements may seem like innocent comments but they are co…
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Ed Coambs – How to Work Towards Healthy Love and Money
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Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast |Google Podcast | Amazon Music | Spotify How does your view or interaction with money affect your relationships? How does your spouse or partner view money? Have you ever been challenged getting on the same page with money? Ed Coambs, a firefighter turned financial advisor turned marriage and family financial …
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Feeling Trapped at 50 (oh and 40 and 60 too)
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Here comes midlife. We’ve anticipated it, heard about it and even remember being young and snickering when your middle-aged neighbor bought that bright red Corvette because that was the midlife crisis car of the 80s. I remember at that age believing a midlife crisis was something that happened to men who were trying to hold onto their youth. Midlif…
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Margaret Echelbarger – The Living Lab; Engaging Kids in Conversations About Money
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How can parents engage their kids in conversations about money? And how do those conversations shape kids' thoughts and future financial choices? Margaret Echelbarger has spent much of her career researching the unique connections between kids and their financial decision-making processes. Currently, Margaret is an assistant professor of marketing …
This week, we are coming to you LIVE from Toronto. Yes, the podcast, Modern Gen X Woman is officially international. As Mimi and I are traveling on a retreat with our amazing coach and 14 outstanding entrepreneurs who are pushing us to be better. Stay tuned for the adventures of Jackie and Mimi in Canada. Get the People Pleaser’s rX Kit. Being the …
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Jenny Wood – Finding The Meaningful Moments in Career, Parenting & Life
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What do you want to go after in life unapologetically? Are you willing to be strategic and give yourself the intentionality you deserve? Jenny Wood is an executive at Google who helps people thrive in their careers. So much so that she founded and led Own Your Career (go/OYC), one of Google's largest and fastest-growing career development initiativ…
We know we’re all still works in progress but how many of us thought we had it all figured out when we were in our 20’s? Our professional lives were just getting started, we had dreams, goals and a plan. Here we are, almost 30 years later… with some older and wiser perspectives. In this week’s episode, we’re sharing the 10 things we wish we DID kno…
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Leidy Klotz – Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
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Why do we look to make additions when trying to solve a problem or work through one of our many life transitions? What if we reversed the equation and considered what we could subtract to improve our lives? University of Virginia engineering professor Leidy Klotz has given this idea much thought. So much so that he wrote the book, Subtract: The Unt…
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B#tchy, Bossy, Bold Let's Change the Language
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Bitchy, Bossy, Bold believe me, the labels thrown upon women don’t all start with B but each of them aren’t flattering and do more to diminish women than to bolster women. At MGXW, we’re on a mission to make Generation X the wealthiest female generation because when this happens, we get to change the rules and the conversation and we so we no longe…
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Cullen Roche – The Most Important Financial Question to Ask
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Am I providing my family with the best possible life I can? That was the question that Cullen Roche, an accomplished author, writer, and expert in global macroeconomics, behavioral finance, and monetary theory, brought to our attention during our conversation. We also discussed the topic of inflation, what it is, how to understand it, and where it …
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Fast Track to Leadership (with or without a title)
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Leadership, it’s a big word. Many of us strive to have big leadership positions. In the corporate world, this could mean running a team, running a division or even running a project. Being put in a position where you can use forward-thinking, strategy, motivation, inspiration, implementation and efficiency to get the job done. As entrepreneurs or e…
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Dr. Riley Moynes – Squeezing All The Juice Out Of Retirement
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Ep.82 – When you envision what retirement looks like, what comes to mind first? Bucket lists, freedom, the ability to do anything you want? What about the loss of identity, purpose, or relationships? Our lives are full of under-rated transitions, and the transition from your career to retirement, in my mind, is one of the most critical transitions …
We are human beings which means we are all emotional and moody. It’s natural, it’s common. But what happens when your emotions or your moods seem irrational and extreme? In coaching, we talk a lot about how our thoughts impact our feelings which impact our actions but we don’t talk enough about some physiological factors impacting our mood. In this…
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Jayne Monroe – A Triplet Mom's Fight For Her Kids
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What if you had to choose between your family or your career? While the answer may seem obvious, the complications behind such a decision can be endless. This is the precise situation that Jayne Monroe and her husband Mike found themselves in after having one of their triplet boys diagnosed with ADHD. A situation that came to a tipping point after …
