The Lie of “Having It All” | Just Getting Good
The Financial Diet
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4.3 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Thanks to our good friends at Advisor.com for sponsoring this series! Schedule a FREE consultation call with Advisor today and never make another financial decision alone! Get $500 off your first year with them by signing up through TFD. Take this short quiz to get started: https://bit.ly/SaraJGGEp8Welcome back to Just Getting Good, our series where Chelsea sits down with women over 50 to talk about life, love, money, aging, and everything in between. For our season finale of Just Getting Good, Chelsea sat down with Sara Margulis, Co-founder and CEO of Honeyfund and former Shark Tank winner. In this episode, Sara and Chelsea discuss the wedding industrial complex, being a founder, her experience with divorce and coparenting, being on Shark Tank, and so much more. We absolutely loved this conversation with Sara, and know you will, too!You can follow her here: https://www.instagram.com/sarasebtown/?hl=enLearn more about her company, Honeyfund, here: https://www.honeyfund.com/Thank you so much to Sara for speaking so candidly with us! FINANCIAL PRODUCTS TO GET YOUR LIFE IN ORDER:Financial advisory: Advisor - https://bit.ly/SaraJGGEp8Budgeting: Monarch - https://bit.ly/JGGEp8MonarchInvesting: Betterment - https://bit.ly/JGGEp8BettermentWant to support TFD? One of the best ways is to join our membership program, The Society at TFD — join at the premium tier and get instant access to our latest member podcast, RomComOnomics! You can become a member here on YouTube or over on Patreon (we recommend Patreon for a better user experience!) — Join here: https://bit.ly/46jmyUE
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| 0:00.0 | I think the most surprising thing has been how much I enjoy being single. |
| 0:06.5 | So to your point, you know, before you, when I was in my 20s and I was at the age of, you know, |
| 0:15.2 | working, living with some roommates, you know, living in San Francisco, looking for my partner, |
| 0:22.0 | wanting to get married and have kids. |
| 0:22.9 | It was like one of those things where you were literally just like, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, God, let me meet my husband, you know? |
| 0:31.1 | And like, you just could not imagine your life if you didn't find that person and you didn't carry out this like, I don't know what, like |
| 0:39.1 | cultural sort of like and physiological need to, you know, get married and procreate. |
| 0:44.7 | Sure. |
| 0:45.5 | And then afterward, it was very much like, yeah, I don't, I don't need anything. I'm good. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Just Getting Good, our new podcast where I sit down with a range of women to talk about life, love, money, sex, divorce, children, not having them, and basically everything else you can think of. |
| 1:06.4 | And the only thing these women have in common is that they are over 50 years old. |
| 1:11.6 | You'll notice that today I am in a slightly different surrounding and it is because I am currently in Los Angeles |
| 1:16.1 | on book tour. And I knew that while I was here, there were a few very, very interesting women |
| 1:20.6 | that I had to sit down with. Today I'm sitting across from Sarah, who is in addition to being a |
| 1:26.3 | truly fabulous 51-year-old woman, the CEO and co-founder |
| 1:30.2 | of Honey Fund, which is not just a company that I personally interacted with when I went to a |
| 1:35.9 | wedding earlier this year, but is one of the most impressive success stories from my beloved |
| 1:41.8 | Shark Tank's history. I wanted to talk to Sarah about not just her |
| 1:45.2 | incredible business and her life, as well as her experience sitting across from my beloved sharks, |
| 1:50.3 | but the current state of the wedding industry, the wedding industrial complex, as we both like |
| 1:54.6 | to call it, and where she sits in on all of that, both as a CEO and entrepreneur, and as a |
| 1:59.8 | single woman who is currently on the dating |
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