So money episode fifteen twenty five living your best life when you're the effing worst with Laura Belgrade author of the new book tough titties.

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All these things that I was not supposed to do led me right to where I am supposed to be.

And so I am I am for taking that windy path and being okay with your life even if it doesn't hit the milestones that you're supposed to in the order that you're supposed to you know get.

Get a great job move up the ladder find the one have kids et cetera et cetera.

Welcome to so money everybody I'm for you sure I'll be Monday June twelve twenty twenty three I am back from Puerto Rico and let me tell you my keynote.

Rocked it wasn't perfect because what is but I'm excited that I was able to share this new talk of mine about fear and money from the healthy state of panic book which you can pre order now.

At healthy state of panic dot com and I did this in front of an incredible audience at the our money our power financial freedom summit.

In Puerto Rico host a bind another then Janice Torres who is the creator of your key to the narrow podcast and just a force in the Latina community helping women of color make that money and I'm back with something new to celebrate.

And that is my very very dear friend Laura Belgray's new book tough titties which comes out tomorrow you know Laura she's an email and copywriting expert founder of talking shrimp self described unapologetic lazy person and her memoir slash self unhelp book tough titties comes out tomorrow.

It's a memoir about a misfit Laura coming of age in the 80s and 90s New York City screwing up at life but finally finding success with her first million dollar year at age 50.

The book as her husband calls it is loser sex in the city it's for you if you ever felt behind in your life for your career you've ever felt the pain of not fitting in.

Laura is here to give us all permission to be ourselves unapologetically station for the end of the episode when I will share how you can win a copy of tough titties I have several to give out.

So make sure you listen to the episode wait till the end and hear those easy instructions here's Laura Belgray.

Laura Belgray welcome back to so money this time as the author of oh my gosh this book tough titties on living your best life when you're the f'ing worse congratulations how do you feel how do you feel at the stage.

Thank you so much for a new I feel so many different things I feel proud like kind of a sense of surrealness that it actually exists after all these years of working on it like oh it's it's a book and who is this person with the book and then also overwhelmed with all the things as you know because you're on the same road just a little behind me there's an infinite number of things to do.

There are infinite ways that you can throw everything at your success and it's just like where does it end where do you draw the line.

It doesn't that's the that's the crappy part about all this is you never feel like you can just exhale and be like I'm done I did all the things that I was supposed to bring this book to life and have a be successful.

I remember when you first told me you wanted to write a book it was at my book workshop this was now I want to say like 2017 2018 those years get really confusing for me.

Certainly this book has also been in you for your entire life like this is a book that is not just great with advice on how to as you say succeed at life when you're the f'ing worst living your best life when you're the f'ing worse we're going to get into some of that.

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