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Love Over Addiction

Financial Advice Every Woman Needs To Know When You Love Someone With Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Michelle had the pleasure of interviewing financial expert and President & CEO of Francis Financial, Stacy Francis. She's a financial expert that specializes in working with women that love someone suffering from addiction. You can start making changes today in order to protect yourself, regardless of what stage of the relationship you're in.

Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll hear in the interview:

  • What does it mean to be financially independent?
  • What is financial abuse?
  • What steps do you need to take to feel confident, knowledgeable, and equally as in control of your finances as your partner?

Read our blog at https://loveoveraddiction.com/2018/07/financial-advice/

If you want to learn more about the Love Over Addiction program, visit us at http://TheLoveOverWay.com/programs/love-over-addiction

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. So when I was going through my divorce, one of the very first things that I did was start to get informed about my finances.

0:29.0

Now I had been a very typical woman with my head in the sand for many, many years, thinking it was

0:37.4

super romantic to play the role of ignorant wife and hand over all of the financial responsibility and accountability

0:49.2

to my husband. I was a stay-at-home mom and he was the one that made the living, therefore he would be in charge of our money.

0:58.0

Also, I've never been good at math, as most of you know and so almost out of laziness I think I chose

1:08.8

to be uneducated. Today we have a very very special guest. Her name is Stacy Francis and I cannot

1:19.4

tell you how many ways I love this woman but the first way is because she was the person who

1:28.9

helped me understand that I needed to take accountability and responsibility for my financial situation during my divorce.

1:41.0

She's located in New York City.

1:44.0

She is the president and CEO of Francis Financial,

1:49.0

which is a fee-only boutique wealth management,

1:52.0

financial planning planning and divorce

1:54.5

financial planning firm dedicated to providing ongoing comprehensive advice for

2:01.4

successful individuals, couples, and women in transition such as divorce or

2:07.5

widowhood. Now that sounds pretty impressive, right?

2:13.7

But here's what I love about Stacy.

2:16.5

She has all these very fancy letters after her last name.

2:20.5

She's certified in almost everything you can be certified in, but she is also

2:26.1

the founder of Savvy Ladies, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to

2:31.7

educating and empowering women to take control of their finances.

2:37.6

She has helped over 15,000 women through free one-on-one financial consulting workshops and retreats.

2:47.1

And this is, she's the founder, so if you go to savvy ladies,

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