Bossed Up

How do you know if you're on the right financial track for retirement?

If you're looking ahead to what's next in your career path, chances are you at least occasionally think about (or worry about?) retirement. In this current economic climate, it's understandable to feel uncertain about your financial future, no matter how secure your current income. Will your savings actually enable you to retire when you want?

In this episode of the Bossed Up Podcast, I sit down with Lorie Jones, the owner of Fearless Financial Advisors and host of the podcast Fearless Females. She takes a practical and compassionate approach to financial planning for women. It turns out we women are unique when it comes to job security, investing, and spending. Lorie brings both extensive education and first-hand experience to the table to offer her hard-won and practical perspective.

Map out your financial future so you know where you stand today:

✅ Why it's never too early to start investing and planning
✅ The split financial focus: surviving today vs saving for tomorrow
✅ How unpaid caregiving changes women's financial realities
✅ How to think about the threat of AI job loss

🔗 https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode551

Where's your head at when it comes to retirement? I want to hear about your financial fearlessness and what you've learned along the way 👇

When's the last time you got caught up in a mental spiral, going over and over a past event or constantly reimagining a future one?

I bet it hasn't been long. 🙃

This nasty cycle, which spikes anxiety and puts your brain on lockdown, is called rumination — and my guest on this week's episode of the Bossed Up podcast wrote a book all about it.

Donna Jackson Nakazawa's Mind Drama: The Science of Rumination and How to Outwit Your Inner Defeatist explores the neuroscience behind why we fall into these repetitive patterns. We get into a multi-faceted, research-backed conversation about how and why women and men ruminate differently, and how our relationships help or hinder our spirals. Donna even walks me through the first step of her proven framework for reclaiming your mental agency.

Stop spiraling and ramp up your power over your own mind:

✅ The role your childhood plays in shaping the stories you tell yourself
✅ Find your voice by naming and relinquishing your negative thought patterns
✅ Why rumination isn't just overthinking
✅ The radical re-parenting approach to rewiring your mind

🔗 https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode549

How does rumination show up in your life and career? What tools do you use to reassert agency over your thoughts? Drop it in the comments 👇

What have you heard about your “executive presence”?

There’s no doubt that perception of your leadership abilities directly impacts your career trajectory—for better or worse. Unfortunately, if you’ve ever gotten feedback like “you need to work on your executive presence,” there’s a good chance you left the room feeling confused. What does that actually mean?

Today’s episode of the Bossed Up brings you the research-backed insights of Dr. Alexa Chilcutt, an Executive Communication expert at Johns Hopkins University. Drawing from her experience and her recent book, The Presence Principle: Embodying Executive Presence to Lead with Impact, she demystifies this confounding but apparently vital professional concept once and for all.

Give your career trajectory a boost with Alexa’s research-backed perspective:
- What is, and what it’s not;
- Why you don’t have to impersonate the traditional leader archetype to succeed in your career;
- The impact of initial and enduring impressions;
- The three-adjectives activity that will pump up your leadership presence progress.

Listen in now to learn more: https://www.bossedup.org/podcast/episode547