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Claire Wasserman
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Real women. Real talk. Listen in on motivational speaker, author, and entrepreneur, Claire Wasserman's coaching sessions - recorded with their consent - as her clients grapple with challenges they face en route to a better future. Claire also shares her process of learning to embrace her worth as a business owner and mother. Transparency is transformative, and so let their paths illuminate yours. If you like Esther Perel, you'll love this.

  1. 4D AGO

    Interview Prep: Stop Apologizing for Your Career Path (How to Turn Your Side Hustle Into Your Biggest Asset)

    If you've ever frozen when an interviewer asks "why do you want to leave your business?" — this one's for you. This is a real, unedited coaching session with Ellie, a CRM and digital marketing specialist who started her own consulting business but hasn't gotten the traction she hoped for. Now she's applying for full-time jobs — and every interview goes sideways the moment her business comes up. What we uncover: she's not telling the wrong story. She just isn't finishing it. You'll learn how to reframe your entrepreneurial background as an asset, how to use AI to dissect any job description and find the real pain points underneath it, how to build a case study document so you never blank in an interview again, and how to answer the question that keeps tripping her up — without undermining yourself. This is part one of two. Part two covers why her business isn't converting and how she's going to fix it. The Substack post for this episode includes a full breakdown of every insight plus a 7-Day Progress Plan: https://clairewasserman.substack.com/ Learn more about working with Claire at https://ladiesgetpaid.com/coaching/

    21 min

  2. APR 4

    Stop Waiting to Be Picked to Get Paid | Building a Business During a Job Search

    In Part 1 of this coaching session, we did the inner work required to maintain confidence during a job search. In Part 2, we build a pipeline to getting paid now. Chloe — a Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience — had already built the bones of a consultancy after her first layoff. A business plan, an LLC, real work. And then after her second layoff, she quietly put it all down. In this session, we pick it back up together: working through every block, building the offer, and by the end I write her an entire one-page website live in the conversation. We also cover why a side hustle isn't a distraction from a job search — it might be the most strategic thing you can do while you're in one. And why the moment someone pays you, you are in business. Full website framework, AI tutorial, and 7-day practice plan at clairewasserman.substack.com.

    21 min

  3. MAR 29

    "I'm Job Searching... I Feel Lost and Afraid" | Rebuilding Confidence After a Layoff

    A real, unscripted coaching session with a client I'm calling Chloe — a Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of experience who was laid off twice in one year and slowly stopped believing she was still an expert at anything. In Part 1, we don't start with strategy. We start with what's actually in the way: a nervous system in chronic threat mode, an unprocessed wound, and the quiet story that rejection had been telling her about herself. If you've been doing everything right in your job search and still feel stuck, this episode will reframe why — and what actually helps. Part 2 drops next: we build the business. Companion post + 7-day practice plan: https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/when-confidence-collapses-how-to

    32 min

  4. MAR 22

    What Do You Actually Want? A Real Coaching Session on Permission, Purpose & Finding Your Center

    What do you actually want? If that question makes you go blank — this episode is for you. In this real, unscripted coaching session, I work with a woman who has spent her entire career in service to others and yet can't answer the most basic question: what do I want? What we uncover together is that she doesn't need more clarity. She needs permission. We cover how to identify your superpower and what's really underneath it, how your core wound connects to your greatest gift, how to build your Thrive List so you stop taking the wrong opportunities, how to stop believing your needs and others' needs are in competition, how to grieve old identities, and how to build a stable base inside yourself that goes wherever you go. The full key takeaways and 7-day progress plan are available in the accompanying Substack post : https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/what-do-you-actually-want-a-real

    1h 10m

  5. MAR 19

    Feeling Stuck, Burned Out, or Overlooked? How to Rebuild Self-Trust from the Inside Out

    When the rug keeps getting pulled out — your job, your relationship, your health — it's not a strategy problem. It's a trust problem. In this real coaching session, I work with Rachael, a client who came to me after being made redundant, going through a divorce, managing a chronic illness, and raising two kids alone. She'd spent over two decades being the most capable person in the room and rarely getting credit for it. When she filled out her intake form, she described herself as someone who felt lucky to have been employed. We didn't touch her resume. We built her foundation first. In this episode you'll learn: → Why you can't think your way out of feeling stuck — and what to do instead→ A simple body-based exercise to find safety and calm any time, anywhere→ How to be with difficult feelings without being overwhelmed by them→ Why pride in your capacity matters more than pride in your performance→ How to stop punishing yourself for past decisions made with incomplete information→ The "add the and" reframe that makes hard stories feel less like a life sentence This episode is for anyone who has felt overlooked, burned out, or like they're rebuilding with less runway than they'd like. Full show notes, session breakdown, and the 7-day practice plan here:https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/when-the-rug-keeps-getting-pulled

    58 min

  6. MAR 18

    She Felt Lucky to Have a Job. That Was the Problem. | Real Coaching Session on Self-Trust, Burnout & Starting Over

    Rachael came to me after being made redundant, going through a divorce, managing a chronic illness, and raising two kids alone. When she filled out her intake form, she described herself as someone who felt lucky to have been employed. That sentence stopped me. Because Rachael isn't someone who got lucky. She's someone who spent over two decades being the most capable person in the room, rarely getting the credit, and slowly — without realizing it — started to agree with the environments that had failed her. In this episode I skip her resume entirely and start where the real work begins: her foundation. We move through a somatic framework for rebuilding self-trust from the inside out — finding safety in the body, being with hard feelings without being consumed by them, summoning pride in capacity rather than performance, and learning to become your own biggest champion. This episode is for you if you've ever felt overlooked, burned out, or like you're starting over with less runway than you'd like. If you've been waiting to feel ready before you make a move. If the rug has been pulled out enough times that you've stopped trusting the ground. What you'll take away:→ Why clarity about your next move is often a trust problem, not a strategy problem→ How to find a felt sense of safety in your body that you can return to anytime→ How to be with difficult feelings without being swept away by them→ Why pride in your capacity matters more than pride in your performance→ How to stop judging past decisions with information you didn't have yet→ The "add the and" reframe for any story that feels too heavy to be the whole truth The full Substack post, session breakdown, and 7-day practice plan can be found here: https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/when-the-rug-keeps-getting-pulled

    58 min

  7. MAR 18

    Why You Struggle to Follow Through on Good Advice

    You've gotten the advice. You understood it. You agreed with it. And then you didn't do anything. This isn't a motivation problem. It's a resistance problem — and resistance is never random. It's always pointing at something. In this episode, I'm sharing something I've been sitting with. I coached a woman I'm calling Sara — a six-year entrepreneur who built her CPG brand into Nordstrom, Barnes & Noble, and the Ulta Beauty MUSE Accelerator. Her business had stopped generating enough income and she needed a job. She came to me because she couldn't find the words to make people see what she'd built. We recorded the session. The plan was to publish it. And then she reached out and said she wasn't ready. Sitting with her decision got me thinking about the session itself — and I have to be honest: I wasn't satisfied with how I coached her. Not because of the resistance I met. But because I didn't do enough to help her see things differently. And if you can't see things differently, you won't do things differently. So this episode is what I wish I'd given her more of in the room. I break down the 5 patterns of resistance I see most often — in clients, in the women who write to me, and honestly in myself — and what each one is actually trying to tell you. We cover:→ The Deflection: why you name your values instead of what you actually want→ The Blur: why you can't see your own experience clearly even when it's extraordinary→ The Grief Resistance: why you keep returning to the feeling instead of moving toward the solution→ The Identity Resistance: why reframing your story feels like erasing it→ The Core Wound: the question underneath all the other questions The companion Substack post goes even deeper — and paid subscribers get a 7-day exercise plan that turns every insight into a daily practice: https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/what-your-resistance-is-trying-to

    15 min

  8. MAR 18

    How to Stop Burning Out Without Burning It All Down | Live Career Coaching

    Feeling burnt out, undervalued, and too exhausted to do anything about it? This one's for you. In this live coaching session, I work with Éire, a creative in advertising who's six months into a new job and already running on empty. She's navigating office politics she never got a playbook for, people-pleasing her way through every interaction, and watching the creative part of herself go completely quiet. We cover:— How to stop leaking energy at work (patching the boat)— Navigating office politics without losing your values— The difference between reacting and responding— Why overworking gets you taken for granted, not recognized— How to build a creative life outside of work when you have nothing left— The real reason you can't let yourself rest If any of this sounds like your life right now, this episode is for you. Want to go deeper? The full breakdown — key takeaways and a 7-day Progress Plan — is waiting for you over on Substack: https://clairewasserman.substack.com/p/when-the-boat-is-leaking-how-to-stop

    1h 5m
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Real women. Real talk. Listen in on motivational speaker, author, and entrepreneur, Claire Wasserman's coaching sessions - recorded with their consent - as her clients grapple with challenges they face en route to a better future. Claire also shares her process of learning to embrace her worth as a business owner and mother. Transparency is transformative, and so let their paths illuminate yours. If you like Esther Perel, you'll love this.

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  • Creator
    Claire Wasserman
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Claire Wasserman
  • Show Website
    Ladies Get Paid

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