The Money Hungry Mama

Brittany Plumeri
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Hey Mama — tired of feeling stuck, broke, or behind? You were made for more than survival mode. The Money Hungry Mama is your go-to podcast for turning chaos into cash and dreams into doable plans. Hosted by Brittany Plumeri, teacher-turned-author-turned-entrepreneur, this show mixes motivation, mindset, and mom life with real stories and business tips that help you build wealth without burnout. Because you deserve success that feels good. 💋 Stay hungry, Mama.

  1. 3d ago

    It Is Never Too Late to Begin Again — Emily Keltz on Reinvention at 43, 53, and Beyond | Mama's got Divorce Detox Roadmap

    If you are 38 and quietly wondering if you missed your window —If you are 43 and thinking "this cannot be all I was built for" —If you are 51 and looking around at the life you built one brick at a time, feeling the pull of more —If you are 55 and starting to whisper "what if I just... began again?" — Mama, this episode is for you. Emily Keltz did not expect to start over at 43. She had three children. Fifteen years at home with the kids. A marriage. A life she had been building one brick at a time for two decades. And then, as happens for so many women somewhere between 35 and 55, something inside her said "this is not it." What Emily did next — the career tries, the pivots that didn't stick, the certifications earned slowly, the quiet patient work of rebuilding her own power — became the entire foundation of her business today. She is now the founder of Empowered by Emily, an NLP practitioner, a certified life coach, a certified relationship coach, and the creator of The Divorce Detox — a program for women navigating midlife reinvention, whether they are staying in a season, leaving one, or just quietly stuck. Note Emily's own words, carefully: "I'm not advocating that route for anybody. I support women in finding their power within and channeling that — whether they're staying, whether they're leaving, whether they're just feeling stuck or unfulfilled." In this episode, Brittany sits down with Emily to unpack the slow, patient work of reinvention. The career tries that didn't stick. The ones that did. The grace required to build a business on top of lived experience. The science of why healing takes time. And the truth Emily carries into every session: You can rewrite the next chapter at any age. Starting right now. Plus: why Emily teaches women to look for GREEN flags in relationships (not just red ones), the surprisingly simple sales reframe Brittany teaches live on the episode (stop using I and me in your captions), how Emily built an entire coaching business on top of 20+ years of lived expertise, the first three to five years of business as the real survival window, and why Emily is wary of coaches who gloat about numbers and promise magical results. For every mama 35 to 55 who has been quietly wondering if it is too late. It is not. 💛 Find Emily: @empowered.byemily on Instagram | thedivorcedetox.com Money Hungry Mama BOOK - https://a.co/d/04HXaEwG

  2. Sep 24

    Going Into Business With Your Best Friend Without Losing the Friendship — Mama's Got Explore the Americas

    Kathleen and Melanie were maid-of-honor-level best friends BEFORE they started a business together. Then they started Explore the Americas — a custom Latin America travel company built from a scuba certification, a shared love of the Ava Brothers, and a decision to leap during the hardest possible moment to launch a travel business. And here is what nobody in the mompreneur space tells you: partnering with your best friend can either be the smartest thing you ever do, or the fastest way to lose both the business AND the friendship. Kathleen and Melanie figured out the difference. In this episode, Brittany sits down with both of them to unpack the surprisingly practical playbook that has protected their friendship AND their company at the same time. Slack for business, WhatsApp for friendship. Different channels. Explicit permission before crossing them. Weekly team meetings where they play Two Truths and a Lie. Virtual yoga taught by their Bolivia-based team member. Culture of joy on purpose. And when I asked them what the biggest risk they had ever taken was, Kathleen said the answer I did not expect: "Starting a travel business in the middle of a global pandemic. But there is no reward without risk." This is the conversation for the mama who has been quietly considering going into business with her best friend, her sister, her cousin, her neighbor. And for the mama who has been considering it and BACKING away because she is scared of the friendship blowing up. Both fears are valid. Kathleen and Melanie's playbook makes both fears solvable. Plus: how they built the whole business standing on their existing tourism expertise (a beautiful reinforcement of The Skill You're Standing On), why their biggest clients are busy professional moms who want the ease of a Disney trip but the meaning of Latin America travel, the trade-show networking play that turned into their entire supplier network, why word-of-mouth built the whole business before they spent a dollar on ads, and the "you cannot Google your way to expertise — you have to actually GO there" advice for anyone selling anything experiential. For every mama with a business dream she cannot start alone. 💛 Find Kathleen and Melanie: @explorethamericastravel on Instagram | exploretheamericastravel.com Grab the Money Hungry Mama Guide - https://a.co/d/06eazQVu

  3. Sep 17

    "Don't Ask What They Can Do for You. Ask What You Can Do for Them." —Mama's Got Sponsor My Athlete

    Every mompreneur has an ask she has been afraid to send. The DM to the dream brand. The pitch to the local business. The email to the podcast host. The request to the school district. The sponsorship inquiry to the neighborhood pizzeria. And most of us never send it. Because we walk into the ask thinking about what we NEED — and forget to think about what we can OFFER. Mandy is here to fix that. Mandy is a sports mom, a 20+ year magazine publishing and marketing pro, and the founder of Sponsor My Athlete — a 60-minute online course teaching parents how to get local businesses to sponsor their kids' athletic expenses. Not through fundraisers. Not through popcorn sales. Not through donations. Through marketing partnerships. In this episode of The Money Hungry Mama Podcast, Brittany sits down with Mandy to break down the ask-reframe that changes everything: "Don't walk in and say, can you give us $250 for our season. Walk in and say, here's what we can offer YOU." That single shift is the difference between crickets and $4,000-a-month recurring sponsorship deals for kids' teams. And here's the thing, mama — it applies far beyond sports. If you have ever wanted to pitch a brand collaboration, ask a local business to sponsor your event, land a podcast guest spot, get featured in a magazine, or make ANY ask that felt too big — Mandy's framework works. Because the psychology of the ask is universal. Plus: how Mandy built the whole business using her existing PR skillset (proof of The Skill You're Standing On), the 20-minutes-a-day method that lands sponsorships between carpool runs, why she priced her course at $249 on purpose (Brittany affirms this with her own Money Hungry Mama Table story), the chamber-and-BNI networking play that gets you in front of decision-makers, why in-person asks with your kid present are near-impossible to turn down, and the money lessons Mandy is teaching her 11-year-old through this exact process. For every mama sitting on an ask she's been too scared to send — reframe it. And send it. 💛 Find Mandy: @carpoolstocontracts on Instagram | sponsormyathlete.com Grab a copy of The Money Hungry Mama- https://www.amazon.com/Money-Hungry-Mama-Ultimate-Looking/dp/B0FTLRBSLF

  4. Sep 9

    She's Not Calling It Self-Care — She's Calling It "Presence With Yourself." | Mama's Got the Beauty Way

    Every wellness voice in the mompreneur space will tell you to practice self-care. Take a bath. Put your phone away. Tune out. Jyoti calls it something completely different. And once you hear it, you cannot un-hear it. "I don't call it self-care. I call it presence with yourself. It's not about tuning out. It's about tuning in — to what you actually need, not the noise of what everybody else needs." Jyoti is the founder of The Beauty Way — a clean, non-toxic body care line paired with daily mantras designed for busy mamas who cannot commit to 30-minute meditations or weekly yoga classes but who desperately need a moment of themselves in the day. She built the whole company as a stay-at-home mom with a one-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. She started while showering. She built while nap-timing. And she launched with an audience she had spent SIX MONTHS quietly cultivating before the products were even ready. In this episode of The Money Hungry Mama Podcast, Brittany sits down with Jyoti to talk about the daily practice that changes everything: the shower ritual with a mantra, the "Sunday reset" that goes on the family calendar, the difference between martyr-mom self-care and the kind of presence that actually feeds you. Plus: how Jyoti's mom modeled radical self-care in the 80s and 90s before anyone was talking about it, why she emailed Oprah Daily's director and got a response within 30 minutes (the audacious ask lives on), the six-month audience buildup that made her launch actually LAND, why she refuses to make fear-based decisions, and why she believes women building wealth is one of the most powerful movements happening in the world right now. For every mama who has been told to "practice self-care" and quietly wondered why it never actually feels like a break. 💛 Find Jyoti: @thebeautyway_co on Instagram | thebeautywayco.com Grab your copy of The Money Hungry Mama Guide -  https://a.co/d/04HXaEwG

  5. Sep 3

    She's Not Doing It for the Money — Jessica on The Joy Hustle and Redefining What "Hungry" Means | Mama's Got The Blooming Rose Paint & Create

    Every episode of this podcast has featured a mama hungry for income. Growth. Freedom. More. Jessica is hungry for something else entirely. She is a 22-year registered nurse. She has spent two decades sitting with people during their worst moments — illness, loss, suffering. And two years ago she decided she wanted to be part of someone's HAPPIEST moments instead. So she launched Blooming Rose Paint and Create. A birthday party and craft-event business. Not to replace her nursing income. Not to scale to seven figures. Not to quit her day job. For joy. In this episode of The Money Hungry Mama Podcast, Brittany sits down with Jessica to talk about the version of mompreneurship almost nobody names — the one that isn't about the money at all. The one that is about JOY. About community. About being fully present in the version of yourself that gets to CREATE something instead of just survive it. And here is what stopped me cold when Jessica answered the "what does being a Money Hungry Mama mean to you" question: "To me it means chasing your dreams. Not necessarily wealth. I'm hungry for joy and happiness and fulfillment. Freedom as far as being with your kids more. And having that with your kids right beside you." Mama, if you have been feeling like a fraud in the mompreneur space because you don't want to build a seven-figure empire — this episode is your permission slip. You can be hungry for JOY. That counts. Plus: how Jessica started her whole business with a Canva flyer and 4 moms at a playground, the collaboration-over-competition mindset that has grown her network, the maternity leave comeback (three weeks postpartum with a stuffy party!) and what she wishes she had known, why her 8-year-old daughter is already in training to inherit the business, and the honest conversation about how HARD it is to come back after a leave when the algorithm has moved on without you. For every mama whose hustle is her happy place. This one is for you. 💛 Find Jessica: @thebloomingrosepaintandcreate on Instagram

  6. Aug 13

    "Your Silly Is Someone Else's Business." — Lexi Birmingham on Why Every Mompreneur Is Sleeping on AI | Mama's Got Bermo Co

    I said something in this week's episode that I did not realize was a confession. I told my guest that I only use AI for "silly things." Outfit ideas. Recipe swaps. Silly little searches while I fold laundry. She stopped me cold. "Brittany, what you're calling silly? That's someone else's business. When you look up outfits, someone's outfit business gets found. When you search for a gift, someone's gift business gets found. Your silly is someone else's product being discovered." Mama. Chills. In this episode of The Money Hungry Mama Podcast, I sit down with Lexi Birmingham — a former corporate sales VP who quit her 15-year job during maternity leave, taught herself Claude in six months while her son slept, and built Bermo Co: a talent growth marketplace that runs on custom AI infrastructure. Lexi is the smartest AI voice I have talked to in months. She is not the person telling you to let AI write your captions. She is the person teaching you how to build an AI infrastructure that runs your business behind the scenes while you keep your voice, your writing, and your family time completely intact. This is the conversation for the mama who has been told to STAY AWAY from AI — but who is quietly worried she is being left behind. Both things can be true. AI can be a threat to your authentic voice AND the most powerful business infrastructure you have ever had access to. Lexi teaches you how to hold both. Plus: the six months she spent on maternity leave learning Claude, how she cut 90% of her business subscriptions by building her own AI tools, why GEO is replacing SEO (and what 60% of your buyers are actually searching), the "gap scan" she runs for startups that surfaces where their revenue is quietly slipping, and the "lobster roll in Miami" moment where she decided to quit her corporate job for good. For every mama who has been afraid of AI. And every mama who is quietly wondering if she should be more afraid of being LEFT BEHIND by it. 💛 Find Lexi: @bermo.co on Instagram | bermoco.com Pre-Order The Money Hungry Mama Guide - https://a.co/d/04HXaEwG

  7. Aug 6

    For the Mom Who Cried at Daycare Drop-Off — Your Fire Is Not Too Much

    You looked down at your baby and something pulled — I don't want to leave her. I want to figure out how to stay. This is Episode 100, and it's for the mom who refuses to choose between being present and providing. If you've felt the guilt of maternity leave ending, the ache of daycare drop-off, or that quiet fire that lit the day you became a mom — this one will find you. Brittany shares the urgent care moment that started it all ("with every mouth comes a loaf of bread"), why the pull to stay home isn't selfish, and how she built a work-from-home life so she never had to hand her kids to someone else. For every mom searching for a side hustle, a work-from-home income, or a way off the maternity-leave cliff — there's a third door, and it's not on the menu they gave you. 🎧 Then join the FREE Find Your Perfect Hustle class on September 17 — https://themoneyhungrymama.myflodesk.com/freewebinar Stay hungry, mama

  8. Jul 30

    I Tried 30 Side Hustles. She Built ONE for 20 Years. — Vanessa Rose on the Slow Build Nobody Talks About | Mama's Got Pumpkinly Prints

    I have a confession, mama. Before I built The Money Hungry Mama into what it is today, I tried thirty side hustles. Thirty. Because every time I saw someone else winning at something new, I thought I could do that too. I chased every shiny thing. I burned out. I quit. I started over. I called it "figuring things out." Meanwhile, this week's guest was quietly doing something I could not do at the time. Vanessa Rose Watts is the owner of Pumpkin Lee Prints — a custom invitation and event design business she has been building for twenty years. No storefront. No website (still doesn't have one, four years into planning to make one). No TikTok dances. No viral trends. No pivots. No off-ramps. Just twenty years of the same beautiful work, done a little better every year. In this episode of The Money Hungry Mama Podcast, Brittany sits down with Vanessa Rose to talk about the growth philosophy that saved her from every trap most mompreneurs fall into — and gave Brittany the words for what she wishes someone had told her ten years ago. "Stay in your lane. When you're ready to grow, make it a two-lane road. Then a three-lane road. But it's still YOUR road. It's branches off the same tree — not nine different plants in your garden." This is the conversation for the mama who has been chasing every trend, jumping between hustles, exhausted from being pulled in a thousand directions — and quietly wondering if there is a different way. There is. Vanessa Rose has been living it for two decades. Plus: how she built her business entirely on word-of-mouth and referrals (no paid ads, no dance trends), why "being your own marketing" beats copying what everyone else is doing, the elementary teacher pivot that changed her life, how to know when it's time to expand your lane, why the "excited bug" of trying every new thing is the biggest threat to your business, and why the mama who says yes to less makes more. For every mama who has been made to feel like her slow build is falling behind. It's not. It's compounding. 💛 Find Vanessa Rose: @pumpkinlyprints on Instagram Website: Pumpkinlypaperie.com The Money Hungry Mama Guide — coming Sept 8, 2026. https://a.co/d/04HXaEwG Fb group → https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1FVmxXpM3J/

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Hey Mama — tired of feeling stuck, broke, or behind? You were made for more than survival mode. The Money Hungry Mama is your go-to podcast for turning chaos into cash and dreams into doable plans. Hosted by Brittany Plumeri, teacher-turned-author-turned-entrepreneur, this show mixes motivation, mindset, and mom life with real stories and business tips that help you build wealth without burnout. Because you deserve success that feels good. 💋 Stay hungry, Mama.

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  • Creator
    Brittany Plumeri
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    107
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Brittany Plumeri
  • Show Website
    The Money Hungry Mama

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