Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have about

our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and self-confidence.

A better calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the full. Life is so much better,

and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as girlfriends and they cannot

wait to get started. So friends, I am so excited about today's episode. Today we're talking about

how to set yourself up for success in your finances. Now for some of you listening, you might be

thinking to yourself, why are we talking about this at Girls Night? Like it doesn't totally fit.

But I wanted to make sure to talk about this on our show for two reasons. One, because this is a

conversation my girlfriend's and I are having at our real-life Girls nights. And two, because for the

longest time, I'm being honest, I didn't know a thing about retirement planning or investing or

my credit score or why any of that mattered. And for the longest time, I was so intimidated by all of

it that instead of doing the research and trying to figure it out, I just sort of set it aside and

decided that I'd worry about it later. But the thing is our finances and our future financial

planning aren't areas that we could more for long without there being some serious repercussions

for us and for our families and for our kids and more. And so I have been finally biting the bullet

and diving into this topic, learning all that I can. And I wanted to bring you guys along with me,

just in case there's anyone else out there that needs this. We know that money isn't the goal or

that end all be all most important thing in our lives at all. But it is the kind of thing that when

our finances are a mess, it tends to take the rest of our lives down with it. Have you experienced this?

I think a lot of us have. We know that if we want to do the things we want to do in the world

and live the life we want to live and make the impact we want to make and have the security and

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