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Money and Life Shifts

Money and Life Shifts explores what happens when the structures that once grounded our lives begin to change. A marriage ends. A career loses its meaning. Children leave home. Health changes. The life that once felt stable no longer fits.

Podcast · By Joan "Raven" Friedlander · American English · Official site

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Sep 19, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 19, 2026

    Ditching the Weekend Script (opens the original)

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    Ditching the Weekend Script. This episode is about weekends and our orientation around them…when married, when divorced. Finding your own rhythm.

  2. Episode · Aug 28, 2026

    She Was Supposed to be a Good Girl (opens the original)

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    She Was Supposed to Be a Good Girl… Breaking with Tradition Shedding the Expected Roles and Finding Herself, a conversation with Gladys Morales I met Gladys at 1 Million Cups in Albuquerque, and we hit it off right away. She's a professional motivational speaker and storyteller who transforms life unexpected disruptions into stories of courage, connection, and possibility. After cancer and significant vision loss, and a life that refused to follow the expected script, she discovered that resilie

  3. Episode · Aug 10, 2026

    The 10% Rule – And Other Money Myths (opens the original)

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    Raven talks about some of the money ‘rules’ that many wealth 'gurus' hand down like gospel. And the way these rules often stop people from doing anything. For example, if you don't have the 10% to put aside each month to 'go to work for you,' what then? She shares from her own experience and points to something most financial guidance doesn’t account for: the stress that the continual pursuit of more creates. - How she finally dealt with her debt - and the strange fear she exprerienced at the th

  4. Episode · Jul 30, 2026

    The Pressure to Prove (opens the original)

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    The Pressure to Prove, or Improve. Who said you should? What if the words we use every day are shaping decisions we think we're making freely? In this episode of Life without Bookends, Raven explores two of the most loaded words in our cultural vocabulary: prove and improve. She unpacks the difference between improving your skills and improving your being, what it costs us in our bodies and our decisions to live as if we're not yet enough, and what becomes possible when we stop performing for ap

  5. Episode · Jul 14, 2026

    Bye-Bye Corporate (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Bye-Bye Corporate, I talked with Deborah Stephenson about what it was like to leave her corporate career after 40 years, not to retire, but to start something new. Said Deborah about approaching the decision moment: "And so it was a really, really frightening, awful moment at that time because ... I felt pretty trapped at that point because I was like, at my age, if I leave here, I'm going have a difficult time finding another job. And it's probably going to be the same job. It'

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