Episode 155: The Feminine Mistake with Leslie Bennetts

The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast

Kate Anthony

Relationships, Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.4 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

I've been a fan of Leslie Bennetts for quite some time. She is a journalist and expert on women's issues who has spoken all over the world on financial security and women's empowerment. She is the author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? She is also my guest this week on the podcast! I am so honored and excited to share this interview with you.

Leslie says, "After divorce, men's standard of living goes up and women's goes down a cliff." The system is broken. Moreover, the blueprint for women's lives is deeply antiquated. The women in my Facebook community have learned this the hard way. We need a new blueprint. Leslie joins me to bring light to this topic and offers ways we can work to rise up, overcome, and create a new, self-sufficient, path forward.

"It's time for us to say, 'No,' this isn't good enough. It's time to rise up and defend our own interests." Leslie Bennetts

Show Highlights

Why Leslie wrote her book, The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? (3:29)
We must stop telling women and girls that motherhood or marriage is the answer. (9:04)
The feminine mistake is economic dependency. (10:15)
Leslie explains why men's sense of entitlement is a problem for women. (13:52)
Women should not blame themselves or be blamed for opting out of the workforce to be a caretaker. (25:31)
But, it is critical for women to be responsible for their own destinies and financial security. (31:12)
It's not your fault! You do have to cope with radical change, but it is not your fault. (35:22)

Learn more about Leslie Bennetts:

Leslie Bennetts is a journalist and expert on women's issues who has spoken all over the world on financial security and women's empowerment. She is the author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? as well as the biography Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses and Liberation of Joan Rivers.

Resources & Links:
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Leslie's website

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go.
0:17.7	I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate
0:22.8	some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions.
0:28.5	I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side
0:34.2	of this process with your sanity and your heart intact.
0:44.4	Hey everyone. Welcome back. Thanks so much for being here. I have a really, really, really great
0:51.5	episode today, which I want to just dive into, but I have a couple of things
0:56.4	that I need to tell you. The first is that I got a lot of great feedback on the Q&A episode,
1:04.8	and people loved it and they want more. So that means you actually have to submit your questions.
1:10.6	So the only way I can do it is if I get questions from more. So that means you actually have to submit your questions. So the only way I can do
1:12.8	it is if I get questions from you. So submit your questions at kateanthony.com slash questions.
1:19.4	And the other thing I want to let you know is that my program, should I stay or should I go,
1:23.1	is going to be getting a full blown revamp. And it will be available at the beginning of April. And it's going to be getting a full-blown revamp. And it will be available at the beginning of April.
1:30.1	And it's going to be at a higher price point because it's going to have a lot more content and
1:34.3	information in it. So if you've been kind of like on the fence and you're like, should I, should I pull
1:40.0	the trigger? Should I, should I buy it or should I not? And you want to lock in the lower price
1:45.7	of $497, then you should do that very soon. And don't forget, we always have a payment
1:51.8	plan available for you. All right. So today I am so incredibly excited and honored that I was joined for this conversation by Leslie Bennett's.
2:05.6	I have been a bit of a fan girl of Leslie's for a very long time after I read her book,
2:11.8	The Feminine Mistake, Are We Giving Up Too Much, which is all about the financial power that we give over in our marriages.
2:23.2	Now that Leslie and I have connected, I'm going to keep that connection going.
2:31.0	We're going to have her on the podcast again.
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