You Might LIke...Sari Botton on the Real Cost of People-Pleasing from the HerMoney Podcast
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How She Does It is on a short hiatus, but Karen was kind enough to let us drop into your feed today. This show is part of the HerMoney Media Network — so if you like what you hear, come find us at The HerMoney Podcast.
On today's episode, Jean Chatzky sits down with Sari Botton, the writer and editor behind Oldster Magazine, a Substack newsletter with over 85,000 subscribers, and author of And You May Find Yourself: Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen X Weirdo.
In this episode, we cover:
What the real financial cost of people-pleasing is
How women in the Oldster community have reinvented themselves professionally in their 50s, 60s, and beyond
The "compare and despair" trap so many of us fall into around money milestones
Sari's own winding career, from ghostwriting to naming pantyhose colors to building Oldster
Making peace with financial regrets
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