Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for Women of Faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 88 of the Flying Free Podcast. I am excited to introduce you to

Leah Hadley. She's a best-selling author. She's a certified divorce

financial analyst, master analyst in

financial forensics, and an accredited financial counselor. She's also the

founder of Great Lakes Divorce Financial Solutions and Great Lakes Investment Management,

and she's the author of a book called When It's Just Not Working, a Practical Divorce Guide for stay-at-home moms. She also has a divorce

resource bundle on her website that we can talk about later, but welcome Leah.

Thank you Natalie, thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, you have a lot of experience and education under your belt in this area, it sounds like.

So... I do.

I love to learn and I love to help my clients as best I can and the only way I can do that is by keeping you know continuing to learn.

Yeah, that is that is amazing. That's huge value. I would really like to know what caused you to pursue a career in helping people find financial stability and specifically, you know know going down the road towards

writing a book about you know for stay-at-home moms who might be divorcing

which seems sort of like who's a stay-at-home mom who gets divorced I mean I

know tons of them but you know when you just say

that most people would be like I why would a stay-at-home mom get a divorce?

Well it's a good question and it's it's an important one. So just if I rewind, you know, looking back toward where I started in my career, I was actually started on the institutional side of investing.

So I was an equity research analyst and, you know, making investment recommendations like big

hedge fund managers and mutual fund managers and I was ready to start a family and that kind of a role is very hard to have when you're ready to expand your family because it requires quite a

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