3332: Women, Insecurity and Money: Overcoming the Confidence Gap by Kristin Wong with Get Rich Slowly

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3332: Kristin Wong explores how insecurity and societal expectations can limit women's financial growth and confidence, especially in negotiating and investing. Drawing from research and personal experience, she emphasizes the transformative power of financial knowledge, self-advocacy, and challenging gender norms to build lasting wealth and independence. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.getrichslowly.org/women-insecurity-and-money-overcoming-the-confidence-gap/ Quotes to ponder: "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." "I had a high tolerance for low pay, and it didn't do me any favors." Episode references: Secrets of Six-Figure Women: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Six-Figure-Women-Strategies-Earning/dp/0060933461 First Round 10 Year Project: https://10years.firstround.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.1	This is Optimal Finance Daily, Women, Insecurity, and Money, Overcoming the Confidence Gap.
0:59.4	By Kristen Wong with getrichslily.org. For the past two years, the topic of women and money has come up in my life quite a bit.
1:09.9	I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that I'm a
1:12.6	woman who writes about money. But as a woman who writes about personal finance, I feel I've given
1:18.6	the topic less attention than it deserves, not just in my writing, but in my own thoughts too.
1:25.6	I suppose I figured personal finance is something that we all struggle with, not just women.
1:30.9	But the more I learn, the more it hits home, and the more I realize we should embrace the topic
1:36.2	so we can do something about it.
1:39.0	The Confidence Gap
1:40.2	Last year, when I read Barbara Stani's Secret of six-figure women, I found myself nodding
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