Divas, Diamonds & Dollars: The Podcast for Women Building Wealth and Wisdom

Leadership, Legacy & Leverage Hosted by Larisa Troche and Cecelia Benford
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Welcome to Divas, Diamonds & Dollars—the go-to podcast for bold, brilliant women 40 and better who are ready to build wealth, grow their leadership, and reclaim their financial confidence. Hosted by sisters and seasoned professionals Larisa Troche and Cecelia Benford, this weekly show brings real talk and real strategy to women navigating the power moves of midlife. From business ownership and income diversification to personal finance and legacy building, we share practical tools, mindset shifts, and candid conversations to help you elevate every aspect of your life. Whether you're pivoting

  1. 4d ago

    274 _ The Matters of M3: Why Making More Money Isn’t the End Goal

    Financial independence for women isn’t simply about making more money—it’s about creating the freedom, choices, and resources to support what matters most. In this episode of Divas, Diamonds & Dollars, we introduce the Fourth Quadrant of Make It, Mind It, Multiply It: M3 Matters—the purpose behind the pursuit. Making money matters. Diversifying your income matters. Protecting and multiplying what you build matters. But the real question is: What do you want your money to make possible? We explore how greater financial security can support a richer quality of life, stronger relationships, meaningful causes, leadership impact, and greater independence as we age. We also look at the role of purpose, influence, community, and even the Japanese concept of ikigai—your reason for being—in creating a life that feels meaningful beyond the numbers. For midlife women, women leaders, and women entrepreneurs, building wealth can become about far more than accumulation. It can give you more choices about howyou live, whom you help, what you build, and the legacy you leave behind. Your action this week: define your personal “Matters.” Before you Make It, Mind It, and Multiply It, get clear about why the journey matters to you.  Ready for more? Join my free online community and let's build something awesome!

    274 _ The Matters of M3: Why Making More Money Isn’t the End Goal

  2. Sep 24

    273_You Are Ready: Stop Overthinking and Make the Big Move

    Overcoming fear and procrastination can help midlife women make stronger decisions, take meaningful action, and move confidently toward the career, business, andfinancial goals they’ve been preparing for. In this Diamond-ette episode of Divas, Diamonds & Dollars, we move from planning to execution. Because at some point, another strategy session is not what you need. You need a decision. We unpack the mental roadblocks that keep women stuck in hesitation, including comparison, outside opinions, procrastination, confusion, and analysis paralysis. You’ll learn how to recognize when you are busy without actuallymoving the needle—and how to get back on track. We also reframe FEAR as Focused, Excited, And Ready, helping women entrepreneurs and career professionals reconnect with the “why” behind their biggest goals and move forward even when uncertainty is still present. This episode is about personal development for women who are ready to stop circling the decision and start acting on it. Whether your next move involves leadership, entrepreneurship, multipreneurship, or financial independence, you do not have to solve everything today. Choose one thing you’ve been avoiding. Make the decision. Then take the next step. You. Are. Ready. Want more? Join my free online community to keep growing and becoming.

  3. Sep 17

    Ep 272_Mind Over Matter: Build Your “Why Not Me?” Muscle

    Mindset for midlife women can be the difference between staying inside an old version of your life and boldly pursuing the career, business, income, and opportunities you still want.  In this episode of Divas, Diamonds & Dollars, we explore why mind over matter really does matter—and how strengthening your “Why Not Me?” muscle can help quiet self-doubt, outside opinions, and the belief that it may be too late to make a meaningful change. We talk about redefining success as you grow, trusting the value of your experience, and recognizing that career growth, entrepreneurship for women, and financial independence can take very different forms in this stage of life. Your accumulated knowledge, skills, judgment, and life experience are not baggage; they can become the foundation for your next opportunity, business idea, income stream, or reinvention.  You’ll also learn why personal accountability, values, and focusing on what you can actually control are essential to personal development for women who are ready to stopplaying small.  Your challenge: identify one area where fear, age, expectations, or self-criticism has kept you inside someone else’s box—and make one move today that strengthensyour “Why Not Me?” mindset. Because freedom starts in your mind, and your next big move can start now.

    Ep 272_Mind Over Matter: Build Your “Why Not Me?” Muscle

  4. Sep 9

    271_Mega-Marketing Magic: 4 Ways to Multiply Your Content and Grow Your Business

    Smart marketing for women entrepreneurs means getting more visibility, leads, and business growth from the content and expertise you already have—not constantly creating from scratch.   In this episode of Divas, Diamonds & Dollars, we’re breaking down four practical marketing strategies that can help you build authority, extend your reach, and create a stronger business-growth ecosystem without adding a mountain of extra work.   You’ll learn how to use high-value freemiums as lead magnets and relationship builders, repurpose long-form content into short-form assets with OpusClips, make LinkedIn work harder for your visibility and professional network, and create your own “Netflix Effect” by organizing years of expertise intobingeable curated collections.   For women entrepreneurs, consultants, speakers, coaches, content creators, and late bloomers building their next chapter, effective marketing is less about being everywhere manually and more about creating systems that help your expertise travel further.   You’ll also discover why a simple content catalog can become one of your most valuable marketing assets—helping you inventory, categorize, curate, package, connect, and repurpose what you’ve already created.   If you want smarter marketing, stronger authority, and more mileage from every piece of content, this episode will help you start building the system behind the visibility. Don't forget to grab our free resource Business Growth Marketing Planner.

    271_Mega-Marketing Magic: 4 Ways to Multiply Your Content and Grow Your Business

  5. Sep 3

    270 Big Moves, Bigger Results: How to Finish the Year Strong

    Finishing the year strong starts with making bigger, more strategic moves—and for midlife women, women leaders, and women entrepreneurs, September is the perfect time to reassess what matters and turn unfinished goals into meaningful results. Busy is not the same as productive. So before another quarter disappears, we’re taking a 360-degree look at the year: What have you accomplished? Where have you stalled? What no longer fits your vision—and which unfinished goal could make the biggest difference in your career, business, or financial future? In this kickoff to Seismic September: Big Moves for Bigger Results, we’re talking about how to “eat the frog” and finally tackle the Big Thing you’ve been avoiding, reassess and reprioritize your remaining goals, and focus your energy where it can truly move the needle. For women entrepreneurs and multipreneurs, we also explore You, Everywhere, Now—using strategic marketing, content repurposing, freemiums, workshops, collaborations, and other one-to-many strategies to increase visibility and move more prospects through your pipeline. You still have time to change the trajectory of your year. The goal isn’t to frantically do everything. It’s to identify what matters most, make the big moves, and finish with bigger results.

    270 Big Moves, Bigger Results: How to Finish the Year Strong

  6. Aug 27

    269 _ The CEO Mindset: How to Lead What You’re Building

    Developing a CEO mindset helps midlife women, women leaders, and women entrepreneurs move beyond simply doing more—and become the strategic leaders capable of building something bigger. In this final episode of our Empire Building for Tomorrow series, we turn the spotlight from the business you’re building to the woman who must lead it. Because eventually, working harder stops being the answer. We explore how to develop the CEO habits that help you lead at a higher level: setting effective boundaries, delegating instead of doing everything yourself, scheduling thinking time, creating monthly Vision Days, protecting your energy, and holding purposeful CEO meetings that focus on decisions and results. We also look at the remarkable leadership journey of Ursula Burns, whose path from engineering intern to CEO of Xerox demonstrates a powerful lesson in women’s leadership: your capacity often has to expand before your title does. Whether you’re pursuing midlife career growth, building a business, or creating multiple income streams, the CEO mindset requires a different question. Instead of asking, “How can I work harder?” begin asking, “Who do I need to become to lead what I’m building?” Your next level doesn’t just require a bigger vision. It requires a bigger version of you.

    269 _ The CEO Mindset: How to Lead What You’re Building

  7. Aug 20

    268_Build Once, Profit Forever: Turn Your Expertise Into Income-Producing Assets

    In this episode of Divas, Diamonds & Dollars, we explore how to transform what you already know into intellectual property that can be documented, repurposed, monetized, and scaled. From SOPs, courses, templates, and checklists to books, memberships, licensing, evergreen content, and digitalproducts, you’ll learn how one core idea can become an entire library of valuable business assets. We also spotlight Madam C. J. Walker, whose business went far beyond selling hair-care products. She built a system of products, training, operating methods, distribution, and entrepreneurship that created economic opportunitiesfor thousands of Black women—an extraordinary early model of scalable enterprise. For women entrepreneurs and multipreneurs, the lesson is powerful: your next income stream may already be hiding inside work you’ve done, knowledge you’ve accumulated, or a process you use every day. If you’re focused on entrepreneurship for women, financial independence, or building a business that can grow beyond your individual time and effort, this episode will help you start thinking differently about your expertise. Your expertise can become an asset. Your asset can become an ecosystem. And your ecosystem can become part of your empire. Want to learn more? Join my online community of like-minded empire builders today.

    268_Build Once, Profit Forever: Turn Your Expertise Into Income-Producing Assets

  8. Aug 13

    267_AI for Women Entrepreneurs: Six Prompts to Level Up Your Empire

    AI for women entrepreneurs can be more than a productivity shortcut—it can help midlife women think strategically, build multiple income streams, and make stronger CEO-level decisions. In this episode of Divas, Diamonds & Dollars, we explore six powerful AI prompts designed to help women entrepreneurs move beyond simply doing more and start building with greater focus, intention, and executive judgment. You’ll learn how to uncover valuable assets you may already possess, evaluate your businesses and projects as one portfolio, create a focused six-month growth strategy, strengthen your authority positioning and content, and design a CEO week that protects time for the work that matters most. We also celebrate Black Business Month with a Legacy Builder Spotlight on Bozoma Saint John and the career-changing power of asking better questions. Whether you're pursuing entrepreneurship, income diversification, or midlife career growth, these CEO-level AI prompts can help you organize complexity and turn years of experience, relationships, knowledge, and ideas into strategic assets. Because empire building isn't about collecting more exhausting side hustles. It's about deciding what to build, strengthen, systemize, monetize—or stop—so you can create greater financial resilience, freedom, and ownership. Remember, grab your free gift, Empire Builder Starter Kit:

    267_AI for Women Entrepreneurs: Six Prompts to Level Up Your Empire
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Welcome to Divas, Diamonds & Dollars—the go-to podcast for bold, brilliant women 40 and better who are ready to build wealth, grow their leadership, and reclaim their financial confidence. Hosted by sisters and seasoned professionals Larisa Troche and Cecelia Benford, this weekly show brings real talk and real strategy to women navigating the power moves of midlife. From business ownership and income diversification to personal finance and legacy building, we share practical tools, mindset shifts, and candid conversations to help you elevate every aspect of your life. Whether you're pivoting

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