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#205. Caring for Aging Parents: The Care Team and Plan Every Family Needs with Nicole Hilgenkamp (opens the original)
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If you have aging parents, this is a conversation you will be so glad you had before you needed it. Desiree Stanley sits down with Nicole Hilgenkamp, founder of Your Parents Keeper, who spent 30 years fixing broken systems for Fortune 100 companies before turning that same skill toward the one system that fails almost every family: caregiving for aging parents. There is no manual, no checklist, no map. So Nicole built one, in honor of her own mom and everything she wishes she had known sooner. O
#204. Life Is Happening For You, Not To You: How to Take Back Your Power with Deborah Small (opens the original)
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In this thoughtful, uplifting conversation, Desiree Stanley sits down with Deborah Small, internationally recognized author, holistic healing expert, and creator of the Integrative Reprogramming Technique. Deborah shares how the "program" we absorb in our first seven years quietly runs on autopilot for the rest of our lives, and why simply becoming aware of it is the first taste of real freedom. At the heart of the conversation is a beautifully simple truth: you can only ever choose in the prese
#203. Divorce & Your Finances: The 5 Experts Every Woman Needs Before Signing with MaKaela Carter (opens the original)
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Knowledge is power, and when it comes to divorce, it can also protect your future. Desiree Stanley sits down with MaKaela Carter, founder of Her Financial Restart and creator of The Divorce Team Method, who shares the hard-won wisdom she gained after a 28-year marriage ended and she found herself signing away her home and retirement in a three-hour arbitration, without truly understanding what she was agreeing to. MaKaela turned that experience into a mission: helping other women walk in prepare
#202. Why Passion Fades in Long-Term Relationships (and How to Bring It Back) with Caroline Hood (opens the original)
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In this candid, honest conversation, Desiree Stanley sits down with Caroline Hood, certified sex therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and author of Sex Begets Sex, who brings 25 years of clinical expertise and a warm dose of humor to a topic most of us were taught to tiptoe around. Caroline makes a compelling case that desire doesn't have to disappear with age, motherhood, or the passage of time—but keeping it alive does take intention. Caroline challenges one of the most quietly damaging
#201. Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time: The Essential Skills We Were Never Taught with Nami Prakash (opens the original)
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In this thoughtful, encouraging conversation, Desiree Stanley sits down with Nami Prakash, scientist, former corporate leader, author, and founder of The Mind Quotient, who is on a mission to make human skill development as essential as anything we learn in a classroom. Nami pushes back on the term "soft skills," and makes a compelling case that these are actually the essential skills that make everything else in life possible. Nami opens up about her own journey, including being diagnosed with
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