Keynotes and Speaking for Your Next Event
We raise awareness, engage audiences, and inspire action on the topic of financial freedom for single women – and the challenges that threaten it.
Selected Keynotes and Topics
Next Gen Wealth: Building Financial Success in Single-Mother Families
Cycles of financial struggle really can be broken. This talk describes how single mothers have the power to change their own futures and establish better ones for their children, no matter their financial starting point.
Modeling Financial Responsibility
How to develop good habits around spending, saving, investing, and donating, and fun ways to bring kids in on those habits.
Creating a Safety Net
Strategies for putting insurance policies, financial cushions, and emergency funds into place to give your family a sense of security and preparedness.
Budgeting for Fun
Practical approaches for funding entertainment and extracurriculars, and even silliness and spontaneity. Too often, women in financial distress can’t give the gift of fun to their families. We explain how to do it without waste.
Planning for Growth
How to save and invest for opportunities like schooling and travel, and how to pay for resources like tutoring, training, or therapies.
Retirement and Legacy Planning
How to plan for the future so that you, your children, and even grandchildren are taken care of, no matter what.
From Chaos to Calm: Improving Mental Health Through Financial Stability
Money won’t buy you happiness. But uncontrolled debt will steal your joy.
This talk illustrates how the financial recovery process brings about mental health recovery too. It explains how to build mental health support systems and practices into financial recovery steps.
The Link Between Financial Stress and Emotional Stress
The psychological effects of debt, financial insecurity, and economic dependency, from anxiety and depression to reduced self-esteem and self-sabotage.
First Steps to Stability
A framework for building a realistic budget, covering bills, paying down debt, and regaining control over your finances, your feelings, and your life.
Meet Your Frenemy: Debt
When to take on debt and how to do it wisely coupled with how to identify debt traps and avoid them.
Financial Recovery and Community
The impact of a support network on your mental health in the financial recovery process. Includes the risks of holding onto isolation and secrecy, and the benefits of using professional advisors, support groups, mentors, safe family members, and friends.
Unlocking Prosperity: The Hidden Financial Rights and Resources for Survivors of Abuse
Recovering from financial distress can feel like a cruel scavenger hunt with clues scattered far and wide. This talk helps women assemble them into a network of resources. It reveals the answers to questions that survivors often don’t know to ask.
Women’s Financial Rights in Divorce and Separation
Entitlements to assets, alimony, and child support; strategies for a fair financial settlement; and steps for using the legal system to advocate for your family and protect your rights.
Public and Private Assistance for Single Mothers
Government benefits; housing and career programs; school and child care programs; grants, loans, and scholarships; and other largely unknown support streams available to you.
Credit Repair and Protection for Abuse Survivors
The common impacts of trauma on women’s credit ratings and financial identities, along with strategies for repairing credit, separating financial ties with abusers, and protecting financial interests from theft and fraud.
Out From the Shadows: Challenging the Stereotypes of Abuse Survivors
Women in abusive situations are everywhere, but we’re not looking. They’re unique, but we lump them together. They’re capable, but we can’t get past their need. This talk opens our eyes to the surprising costs of these stereotypes and the amazing triumphs of survivors.
Unpacking Common Myths
The characterization and dismissal of survivors as weak or vulnerable, secretly at fault, and incapable of recovery.
The Societal Impact of Stereotypes
How stereotypes contribute to stigma, block access to support and justice, hinder careers and friendships, and perpetuate a cycle of silence and shame.
Changing the Narrative
Stories and data that showcase the strength and diversity of abuse survivors, their varied paths to recovery, their skills gained through experience, and their achievements and contributions.
Selected Interactive Discussions
Forks in the Road: All the Ways to Financial Freedom
A discussion of the varied paths from financial distress to stability, including the potential pitfalls, detours, and shortcuts.
New Beginnings: Navigating Life After Loss
An exploration of the financial, emotional, and relational challenges of starting over and assuming unfamiliar leadership roles.
Standing up to Stigma: Talking About What Happened
A deliberation on whether to open up after family turmoil, the benefits of doing so, how to proceed, whom to trust, and owning your narrative.
Nurturing Hope: Raising and Supporting Strong Children
A deep dive into the complexities of protecting, strengthening, and caring for children with volatile family backgrounds.
Rising Above: Workplace Challenges for Single Women
A chance for women and employers to tackle the silent barriers and burdens that single women and mothers encounter in the workplace.
We Need to Talk.
We’re creating a world where single women have the same paths to financial freedom as anyone else. Join us in bringing discussion, awareness, and support to these women and their families.