We all chose a career when we were 17 or 18.

And the decisions I was making when I was 18 compared to in my 30s, the decisions I make.

Like, it's okay to reevaluate these things and say, this actually isn't going to give me the life I want.

And I had no idea.

And it's okay to change course now. And there's another

financial planning saying that's like the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best

day is today. I feel the same way for these types of decisions for clients who are analyzing it.

Like never think that it's too late. It's okay to take the leap and do something different because

it's what you want for your future now and who you are today.

At the end of 2024, we put out a call for Rich Girl Roundup Questions and received hundreds

of submissions as we often did. Now, as you know, we transitioned away from

weekly Q&A, Rich Girl Roundups in 2025. So there were a lot of great topics from that final

round that basically got left on the cutting room floor. Forty-four of them had already been

answered in a previous episode. Ten got answered

in the last couple months of the year, but then the rest just floated into the ether, long-forgotten.

Yeha! But I have a confession to make. As all of you, hopefully know by now, I am not a financial

professional. I do not work one-on-one with clients. I'm not formally trained in financial planning.

I'm just a gal who likes money. And there are plenty of important areas of finance that I have

never encountered personally or read

a lot about. And as a result, I lack the depth of insight in some of these topics that somebody

who does work with people's personal financial situations all day, every day would have.

So every once in a blue moon, I like to bring a certified financial planner onto this show

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