1239: Investing for Women in Their 40s Who Feel Behind with Tess Waresmith
Emotionally Uncomfortable
Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab
4.6 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"You can't talk about living your best life without talking about money and you can't talk about money without facing what you're afraid to feel."
In this episode, Heather sits down with Tess Waresmith for a powerful and emotionally honest conversation about death, money, and the stories we carry around both. From end-of-life planning to modern parenting and breaking financial cycles, they dig into what it really means to be resourced. Not just financially, but emotionally too.
Whether you're navigating aging parents, raising kids, or running a business, this conversation will challenge you to take radical responsibility for your future and give you a compassionate push to finally look at what you've been avoiding.
✨Why emotional capacity and financial literacy go hand in hand and how to build both
✨The psychology of money: avoidance, anxiety, identity, and invisible labor
✨How to teach kids financial independence without over-rescuing or enabling
This one's for the woman carrying it all - past, present, and future, finally ready to take her power back.
About Tess
Tess is an Accredited Financial Counselor® and the founder of Wealth with Tess, a financial education platform and community, to help people gain agency over their money so they can retire comfortably and have the options they deserve.
A sought-after financial expert and on-air contributor, featured on Forbes, CNBC and Business Insider, her free money and investing workshops have drawn thousands of attendees, and hundreds have transformed their financial futures through her straightforward and supportive learning programs.
Her approachable, no-jargon money tips inspire a 100,000+ community on Instagram at @wealthwithtess. Whether you're short on time or totally new to personal finance, Tess proves that you don't need Wall Street-level expertise to build wealth, you just need to decide it matters and take action.
Connect with Tess
www.wealthwithtess.com
https://www.instagram.com/wealthwithtess/?hl=en
https://www.wealthwithtess.com/founders
www.wealthwithtess.com/fi
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we dive into today's full episode, let's talk about the humongous pink elephant in the room, |
| 0:05.8 | which is my voice. And I just want you to know, I am okay. I am doing all the things. And I have |
| 0:15.2 | every middle-aged woman sending me unsolicited advice on Instagram and in my DMs and text message |
| 0:26.4 | and trying to fix me. And I'm telling you, I'm okay. I love and appreciate you. And sometimes we catch a cold. Sometimes our body's a bug. And we literally need to go through it. |
| 0:47.9 | So I thank you. I love you. I see you and I appreciate you. And if one more person tells me to rest, |
| 0:58.8 | I might throat punch them. Why? Because that is the absolute worst advice to give somebody |
| 1:07.2 | who knows themselves. Like it's just those like dumb things that come out of our mouths |
| 1:15.1 | when we don't know what to say. Rest. No shit, Sherlock. Of course I'm going to rest. I'm going to rest. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm going to listen to my body. I'm going to take all the things. I'm going to do all the things. |
| 1:29.6 | But it is wild to me the amount of unsolicited advice people give because they are emotionally |
| 1:40.7 | uncomfortable and can't just say, thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing. |
| 1:48.6 | So in my painstakingly plead to bring awareness to women everywhere of how we are chronically trying to rescue other people |
| 2:05.8 | that didn't ask for help. Also, observing how we are uncomfortable when other people are struggling. |
| 2:18.7 | So let's dive in, shall we? |
| 2:21.4 | Today, we are talking about investing. |
| 2:25.3 | Another topic that nobody wants to talk about, investing, money. |
| 2:31.0 | I mean, I love these conversations, |
| 2:33.8 | but there was a time in my life when I didn't enjoy these |
| 2:37.1 | conversations. And if you're a woman in your 40s or above and you feel like you are behind, |
| 2:43.8 | you need to listen to today's conversation. This is with Tess Wearsmith and Tess and I connected actually on Instagram and I just followed her |
| 2:54.8 | and I was like, you know what? I love that this woman is just real. She's honest. She's practical. |
| 3:01.8 | And she talks about this shit that nobody wants to talk about. And she's like, Heather, I'm the type of |
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