That's What She Said

Dr. Robin Buckley
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That's What She Said is a women's podcast for women of every generation, featuring interviews spotlighting honest conversations, real-life stories, and earned wisdom from everyday women. Many of the guests are Gen X, midlife, and older women whose experiences, insights, and voices deserve more space, not less.

  1. 2d ago

    Rebuilding Your Life After Trauma: How to Find Yourself When Everything Changes

    If your life changed so dramatically that you no longer recognize the person looking back at you, how do you rebuild without spending every day trying to become who you used to be? For Shannon Michelle, rebuilding your life after trauma became more than an idea. It became her daily reality. Shannon was a successful Los Angeles interior designer, entrepreneur, single mother, and motorcycle rider when a devastating accident changed everything. She spent weeks in a coma. Her body was shattered. Her memory was severely affected. She had to relearn how to walk, talk, read, drive, and navigate a life she could no longer remember in the same way. Then, while she was still recovering and facing additional surgeries, Shannon was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two enormous disruptions. No clean recovery timeline. No returning to normal. In this episode of That's What She Said, Dr. Robin Buckley and Shannon talk about something that often gets missed in conversations about survival: staying alive is only part of the story. Eventually, you have to figure out how to live inside the person who survived. Before her accident, Shannon was a fixer and a doer. She built a business, cared for others, solved problems, and knew how to give. What she did not know how to do was receive. Recovery forced her to ask for help with things she once did automatically. Her college-aged daughter temporarily became a caregiver. Taking a bath became a meaningful goal. Reading a word, driving a short distance, or getting through one difficult day became evidence of progress. Instead of measuring herself against the woman she had been, Shannon began asking a different question: How can I be the best version of myself today? In This Episode, We Talk About: Rebuilding your life after trauma when returning to "normal" is impossible Identity after traumatic brain injury and learning who you are now Receiving help after a lifetime of being the person who gives it Finding joy in small moments during a long and nonlinear recovery Facing breast cancer while already recovering from catastrophic injuries Reconnecting with a changed body without making appearance the enemy Replacing self-judgment with self-compassion Shannon's simple "yes, no, maybe" strategy for deciding what she is ready for One of Shannon's most practical lessons is also one of the simplest: not everything has to happen today. When she was unsure whether she was ready for something, she learned to ask herself: yes, no, or maybe? Yes meant move forward. No meant no. Maybe meant not yet. That "not yet" created space between incapability and failure. Shannon also challenges the idea that self-care is selfish. For women who have spent years caring for children, partners, clients, employees, and everyone else, choosing yourself may initially feel uncomfortable. Shannon now sees it as necessary. Caring for herself gives her more—not less—to offer other people. Her recovery is not a story about pretending trauma was a gift. She still has difficult days. Her memory remains different. Her body is different. Her life is different. The transformation comes from no longer requiring those differences to disappear before she can value the woman she is now. This conversation is for the woman whose life changed without her permission, who keeps comparing herself to who she used to be, or who is exhausted from trying to fix everything before allowing herself to live again. So if you've ever felt changed by something you never chose, struggled to recognize yourself afterward, or wondered whether you can build a meaningful life without becoming your old self again, this episode's for you. You'll want more from Shannon: Website Book

  2. Aug 4

    Complex Grief and Trauma Recovery: Learning to Live After Life Breaks Open (HopeRose)

    Some women look strong because they have never been given another option. They can manage the crisis, answer the emails, appear in court, hold the grief, and keep functioning. Other people call it resilience. But sometimes that strength is actually a survival pattern—a woman becoming so skilled at enduring pain that she loses contact with herself. Rebuilding your life after trauma is not about pretending everything happened for a reason. It is not about forcing gratitude, perfecting healing, or turning pain into a polished inspirational story. HopeRose knows that distinction intimately. Her life includes childhood abuse, intimate partner violence, single motherhood, entrepreneurship, family court, incarceration, forced separation from her son, and the ongoing grief of loving a living child she has not been able to hold for years. She also knows endurance. Before this chapter, she was a sponsored ultra-endurance athlete who learned to channel pain through movement, discipline, and achievement. But endurance can become complicated. The ability to tolerate extreme discomfort may help a woman survive—and also make it harder to recognize when she has accepted too much for too long. In this conversation, HopeRose and Dr. Robin Buckley explore what it means to live with complex, ongoing grief. Unlike a death with a defined date, HopeRose's loss continues. Her son is alive, but their relationship has been controlled through legal and custodial systems. She describes the experience as missing a part of her own body. HopeRose also discusses intimate partner violence, love bombing, financial control, psychological abuse, threats, and the way institutional systems can compound private trauma. Her story is difficult to hear partly because it challenges a belief many people depend on: that legal systems are logical and that terrible outcomes happen only when someone has done something to deserve them. That belief can lead people to question mothers before questioning institutions. In This Episode, We Talk About: Rebuilding your life after trauma without denying the depth of the loss When resilience becomes a survival pattern rather than genuine well-being Intimate partner violence, including love bombing, coercion, and financial control Complex grief connected to the forced separation of a mother and child Why people blame victims when injustice feels too frightening to accept Holding your truth without spending your life defending it to everyone Reclaiming power during legal conflict and other destabilizing experiences Turning pain into purpose without romanticizing what happened HopeRose shares that one of her most important lessons has been learning not to give away her power to people determined to misunderstand her. She no longer believes she must convince every person that her experience is real. Defending herself endlessly keeps her emotionally tied to the accusation. Instead, she focuses on what she knows, how she behaves, and how she can use her experience to support other women. That does not mean bypassing grief. HopeRose believes women must give themselves the dignity of grieving the life they expected to have: the relationship, family, career, safety, or identity they believed would be theirs. Only then can they begin living the life they have actually been given. Her work now focuses on bridging healing with legal strategy and helping women reclaim their internal power while navigating family court and other adversarial systems. Connect With HopeRose Listen to HopeRose's podcast, A Transformed Life: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZKsGIopXnzzZZqfV3fPL1?si=52872afeab634d88&nd=1&dlsi=115a8af410ae48c7 Learn more about the Family Court Summit, happening August 10–14: https://www.familycourtsummit.com/ Explore HopeRose's work and resources: https://www.hoperosespeaks.com/ This conversation is for the woman who has been praised for being strong while privately falling apart. It is for the woman living through abuse, grief, separation, betrayal, or the loss of a future she believed she was building. So if you've ever felt strong on the outside but untethered on the inside, struggled to rebuild after something broke you open, or wondered whether your pain could become something other than a private wound… this episode's for you.

  3. Jul 28

    Women Missing From History: Recovering the Stories We Were Never Taught (Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe)

    If you have ever worried that your path looks too scattered, too slow, or too unconventional to become meaningful, Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe offers another interpretation: You may be building your toolbox. Beth did not begin college planning to become a historian. She started in geology, then explored anthropology, art history, astronomy, museum work, and American studies. From the outside, the path may have looked unfocused. In reality, each discipline gave her another method for asking questions, interpreting evidence, and uncovering lives that traditional history had ignored. Eventually, those tools led her to a 30-year academic career as a history professor, co-founder of a women's and gender studies program, and author of award-winning books about women nearly erased from the historical record. In this conversation, Beth and Dr. Robin Buckley explore why women are missing from history—and why that absence does not mean women were absent from the events, communities, and movements that shaped the world. Traditional history prioritized written records, wars, governments, military leaders, and powerful men. But women were often denied literacy, legal ownership, political authority, and access to institutions that produced official records. Their lives must sometimes be recovered indirectly. Historians may examine household objects, probate inventories, court testimony, medical practices, diaries dismissed as insignificant, or records written by men with their own assumptions and agendas. Through those fragments, historians can reconstruct the daily work, resistance, caregiving, healing, labor, and community-building that made larger historical events possible. Beth explains that history should be understood as the lived experience of humans—not only a list of powerful people and dramatic milestones. Her career was shaped in part by reading Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale, which demonstrated how the diary of an ordinary 18th-century midwife could reveal an extraordinary life. The lesson was transformative: women were not missing because they did nothing. They were missing because historians had defined what counted as important too narrowly. In This Episode, We Talk About: Women missing from history and why official records tell an incomplete story Recovering ordinary women's lives through diaries, objects, legal records, and material culture Following a nonlinear career path and collecting skills across multiple disciplines Using curiosity as a guide when the original plan no longer fits Teaching young women to question accepted narratives Taking up space instead of assuming good work will automatically be noticed Women's collective action, from suffrage to the creation of the Audubon Society Living through breast cancer by focusing on what remained possible Beth also reflects on being told that a woman could earn a doctorate or get married—but not both. She has now been married for 38 years and has held her doctorate for 30. That experience reinforced something she later had to unlearn: the belief that women should remain quiet, work hard, and wait to be recognized. She learned to advocate for her scholarship, recommend herself for opportunities, promote her books, and take up space without apologizing. The episode also explores how breast cancer altered Beth's life. Diagnosed at 45, she continued teaching through chemotherapy and radiation. Rather than defining cancer as a transformative journey, she describes it as an unwanted detour—one she handled by focusing on what she could still do. When treatment made reading difficult, she bought a ukulele. Nineteen years later, she is still playing. This conversation is for the woman whose life has not followed the expected timeline, whose work feels overlooked, or whose daily experiences seem too ordinary to matter. So if you've ever felt your path was too scattered, struggled to see yourself in the stories society celebrates, or wondered whether an ordinary life can still leave an extraordinary record… this episode's for you.

  4. Jul 21

    Dating Confidence After 40: How to Become More Visible, Magnetic, and Trusting of Yourself (Kimmy Seltzer)

    If you keep attracting the wrong people—or feel as though no one notices you at all—the problem may not be your age, body, location, or the miserable state of modern dating. You may have stopped allowing yourself to be seen. Dating confidence after 40 is not created by repeating affirmations while hiding inside the same routines. It grows through experience: wearing something that changes how you carry yourself, making eye contact, starting conversations, tolerating attention, and collecting evidence that you can enter the dating world without abandoning yourself. Kimmy Seltzer is a confidence therapist, dating strategist, image expert, and creator of the Charisma Quotient. She combines therapy, personal style, body language, emotional intelligence, and real-world social practice to help people become more confident and connected. Her method grew from her own post-divorce experience. After moving from Chicago to Los Angeles, ending her marriage, and spending months "doing the work," Kimmy realized she had become trapped in analysis paralysis. She was processing, reflecting, and preparing—but not taking action. Then she looked in the mirror. She saw someone hiding beneath dark clothing, nursing bras she no longer needed, flip-flops, and a version of motherhood that had swallowed her sense of identity. Her realization was blunt: She would not date herself. During a shopping trip, a personal stylist handed Kimmy a fitted red dress. It felt too bright, too small, and entirely unlike her. But when she put it on, she saw herself differently. Kimmy calls this her "red dress moment"—the moment she stopped numbing out, allowed herself to be visible, and began behaving her way toward confidence. In this conversation, Kimmy and Dr. Robin Buckley explore why confidence is both an internal and external process. Clothing is not superficial when it changes posture, movement, energy, and self-perception. Body language communicates openness or fear before a woman says a word. This becomes especially important after divorce, menopause, weight changes, illness, or years spent caring for everyone else. Women may say they have become invisible when they are also dressing, moving, and behaving in ways designed to avoid attention. In This Episode, We Talk About: Dating confidence after 40 and why confidence grows through experience Dating after divorce and moving beyond analysis paralysis Body confidence during menopause and other physical changes Using clothing and body language to change how you feel and how others respond Flirting as connection, not manipulation or a promise of sexual interest Replacing chasing energy with openness and magnetism Recognizing emotional shields that keep potential partners at a distance Learning to trust yourself after disappointment, betrayal, or unhealthy relationships Kimmy also challenges women to treat dating as a skill rather than an immediate search for an outcome. You do not have to decide whether every person is relationship material within five minutes. You can talk, flirt, connect, and learn what you enjoy. Flirting, as Kimmy defines it, is behaving as though you are attracted to someone without a serious intention attached to the interaction. It is playful, present, and relational. It does not require manipulation, sexual availability, or a future plan. The goal is not to chase attention. It is to become available for connection. That may begin with something very small: making eye contact with five people, smiling at a stranger, dressing intentionally for an ordinary errand, or practicing conversation without trying to determine where it will lead. This conversation is for the woman who feels invisible, discouraged by dating, disconnected from her body, or convinced she needs to finish all her inner work before taking one imperfect step. So if you've ever felt stuck in dating, struggled to trust yourself after disappointment, or wondered how to feel attractive and open to connection again… this episode's for you.  You'll want more from Kimmy: Website Podcast

  5. Jul 14

    Career Visibility for Women: Stop Waiting to Be Chosen (Shantel Love)

    If you have the talent, experience, results, and work ethic—but still feel overlooked—Shantel Love believes the problem may not be your ability. It may be your visibility. Self-promotion for women is often treated like arrogance. Women are encouraged to work hard, remain humble, and trust that the right person will eventually recognize their contribution. But hard work does not always speak for itself. Sometimes it sits quietly while someone else receives the credit, promotion, opportunity, or paycheck. Shantel is a global vice president at Pearson, an international speaker, bestselling author, and creator of Promote Your Damn Self. Her journey began in poverty in Detroit, where she was raised by a mother who had her at 15 and worked for decades without meaningful financial advancement. Shantel did not have a clear model of the success she wanted. But she knew the life around her was not the only one available. She pursued education, placed herself in unfamiliar rooms, asked direct questions, and learned from people whose lives expanded her understanding of what was possible. She also learned that the experiences society suggested she should hide were not liabilities. They were training. Growing up with limited resources taught her to stretch budgets, solve problems creatively, and produce results with less. Those same skills now help her manage major corporate budgets, create cost-reduction strategies, and lead global teams. In this conversation, Shantel and Dr. Robin Buckley explore how women can identify the professional value inside experiences they routinely dismiss. Managing a home can develop budgeting, negotiation, planning, crisis management, and leadership skills. Surviving instability can build adaptability. Being the first in a family or organization can create courage, perspective, and resourcefulness. The skill is learning how to position those experiences in language other people understand. Shantel's PAID framework begins with positioning your value, amplifying your work, inviting people into opportunities to collaborate or advance you, and delivering on the expectations you create. That means documenting your accomplishments, researching compensation, building relationships with decision-makers, and directly asking for the opportunity instead of relying on passive promotion. Shantel has practiced that philosophy throughout her life. After being rejected from every graduate program she applied to, she went directly to the school she most wanted to attend and contested the decision. She arrived with performance records, recommendations, evidence of her academic growth, and a clear argument for why the admissions data did not reflect her potential. She left with conditional acceptance, a scholarship, and a mentor. The episode also examines the difference between self-promotion rooted in ego and self-promotion rooted in self-respect. Ego relies on vague claims and entitlement. Self-respect arrives with facts, evidence, results, and a clear understanding of the value being offered. In This Episode, We Talk About: Self-promotion for women and why excellent work is not always enough Turning adversity into professional value instead of hiding your background Positioning and amplifying accomplishments through Shantel's PAID framework Asking for promotions, compensation, and opportunities with facts rather than emotion Building a personal brand without pretending to be someone else Practicing career conversations in trusted women's networks Replacing code-switching with authenticity when your environment allows it Leading with empathy, trust, and accountability across a global organization Shantel also shares her approach to leadership. She manages a global team of approximately 300 people and believes peak performance begins by remembering that employees are human beings. Empathy does not mean tolerating mediocrity. It means creating the trust, safety, and connection that allow people to contribute ideas, disagree respectfully, grow their skills, and perform at a high level. Her advice to women is direct: stop carrying other people's opinions as though they are facts. Decide what you believe about your own value—and start collecting the evidence to support it. This conversation is for the woman who is tired of being underpaid, underrecognized, or underestimated despite consistently delivering excellent work. So if you've ever felt overlooked, struggled to talk about your accomplishments, or wondered how to own your value without becoming someone you are not… this episode's for you.  You'll want more from Shantel: Website Promote Your Damn Self (book)

  6. Jul 7

    Nonlinear Career Growth for Women: How to Build Experience, Influence, and Opportunity (Shanna Deng)

    If you have ever looked at your career and worried that you were behind because the path moved sideways, paused, or briefly went backward, Shanna Deng wants you to reconsider what progress actually looks like. Careers are not built only through promotions and titles. They are built through experiences. Shanna is a senior executive at CooperSurgical, a company focused on advancing care for women, babies, and families. Her career did not follow a clean corporate staircase. She moved between internal roles, consulting, team leadership, strategic planning, organizational restructuring, global marketing, and sales before reaching the executive level. Each move added range. In this conversation, Shanna and Dr. Robin Buckley explore nonlinear career growth for women and why time spent in a role matters less than the experiences gained while doing it. A woman can remain in one job for five years and learn very little—or spend one year managing a reorganization, leading a global project, presenting to senior executives, and solving problems she has never seen before. The goal is not simply to stay long enough for someone to promote you. It is to identify the skills missing from your professional story and deliberately seek opportunities to build them. Shanna recommends raising your hand, asking for projects, finding mentors beyond your direct manager, and requesting honest feedback from people who regularly see your work. That feedback may be uncomfortable, but empty praise does not help anyone improve. Earlier in her leadership career, Shanna was told she could be intimidating. The feedback felt personal because she also knew herself as playful, goofy, and deeply relational. Instead of erasing her intensity, she learned to balance it with warmth and humor. The lesson was not to become someone else, but to understand which parts of herself were most useful in different environments. The episode also examines how career decisions interact with motherhood. Shanna spent five years consulting while raising young children. The move temporarily removed some of the security of corporate employment, but it gave her flexibility, new marketing experiences, and more time with her family. It was not necessarily the fastest route to her next title. It was the right structure for that stage of her life. She and her husband also made an intentional plan for parenting. They discussed their ambitions early, identified which career would take priority during specific periods, established a timeline, moved closer to family, and designed childcare around their actual needs rather than accepting one standard model. When Shanna's career accelerated, her husband became the primary parent and later built a part-time business. They divided responsibilities according to their strengths: Shanna often created the strategy, and he executed the plan. That same strategic thinking influenced one of Shanna's most important salary negotiations. After being promoted to vice president, she learned she was earning only slightly more than someone reporting to her. She researched comparable compensation, calculated what her family would need for her husband to step away from full-time work, and presented the company with a clear business case. If the company increased her salary, she would have greater flexibility to travel, lead, and meet the demands of the position. They agreed. In This Episode, We Talk About: Nonlinear career growth for women and why sideways moves can build essential experience Seeking honest feedback from peers, mentors, and colleagues beyond your direct manager Balancing authenticity and leadership presence without becoming someone you are not Using consulting or flexible work during demanding stages of motherhood Designing parenting roles intentionally instead of assuming the mother must remain on call Negotiating salary with evidence and connecting compensation to business value Recognizing when a job or culture no longer fits Advocating for women's healthcare and teaching younger women to understand and trust their bodies Shanna also challenges women to stop tolerating the belief that a difficult job will eventually improve when someone else changes. A new manager, raise, or reorganization may help—but waiting indefinitely gives away control. If the role consistently feels wrong and you cannot identify a realistic path for changing it, the answer may be to choose something different. This conversation is for the woman who feels behind, underpaid, overlooked, or torn between professional ambition and family life. So if you've ever felt anxious about a nonlinear career, struggled to advocate for your value, or wondered whether you could design success differently… this episode's for you. You'll want more from Shanna: CooperSurgical  LinkedIn

  7. Jun 30

    Clarity Over Confidence: How Women Can Focus on What Actually Matters (Carol Kabaale)

    A lot of women are exhausted—not because they are doing the wrong things, but because they are carrying too many things that were never theirs to manage. The pressure to perform, help, anticipate, stay available, and keep everyone happy can make a full life feel like a failing one. You are constantly busy, but the work that actually matters never seems to move. Carol Kabaale believes the answer is not more confidence. It is clarity. Carol began her career in hospitality, where she learned to solve problems quickly and keep complicated operations moving. Eventually, she realized she was not simply handling daily emergencies. She was identifying patterns and creating systems. That insight led her into marketing and her work as a fractional chief marketing officer, helping businesses replace confusion and constant activity with strategy, structure, and measurable action. In this conversation, Carol and Dr. Robin Buckley explore how women can stop overthinking and feeling overwhelmed by questioning what they have automatically agreed to carry. Carol spent years trying to be the perfect employee, wife, daughter, business owner, and friend. She arrived early, stayed late, overdelivered, and gave more than clients had asked for. Eventually, she realized she was attempting to serve everyone from an empty cup. Learning to say no did not happen through one bold transformation. It began with small moments: pausing before automatically agreeing, asking someone she trusted to help her word a boundary, and allowing herself to hold her ground without writing a lengthy explanation. Carol recommends starting with support. Ask a friend, mentor, partner, or AI tool to help you draft the message until saying no becomes more natural. The episode also examines the difference between being busy and making progress. Carol loves a list and the satisfaction of checking off tasks. But when she committed to finding work as a fractional CMO, she realized much of her activity—writing captions, adjusting content, organizing small details—was not bringing her closer to the actual goal. She created a 30-day plan, reverse-engineered the outcome she wanted, and followed the daily actions even when they felt uncomfortable. By day 28, she had an offer. The lesson was simple: the tasks that feel productive are not always the ones that create movement. Carol also shares how systems can reduce the mental load. A system is simply a repeatable decision about how something will happen. It might mean working only in one room, planning goals with a partner, dividing responsibilities at home, creating a routine, or identifying the few daily actions that support a larger goal. Good systems create calm because they reduce how many decisions you must remake every day. But perhaps the most damaging mental load comes from solving imagined problems. Carol recognized that she routinely created multiple negative scenarios before anything had happened. When she sent a longtime client a larger-than-usual invoice, she imagined objections, conflict, judgment, and damage to the relationship. She considered lowering the price and overdelivering to compensate. Then she sent the invoice and went to sleep. The client paid it without a question. Every problem had existed only in Carol's mind. In This Episode, We Talk About: How to stop overthinking and feeling overwhelmed Setting boundaries without overexplaining or apologizing Recognizing busyness that is not creating real progress Building systems that make work, home, and relationships easier to manage Separating capacity from responsibility Delegating tasks instead of believing everything must come from you Solving observable problems rather than imagined ones Creating different kinds of friendships instead of expecting one person to meet every need Carol also encourages women to give themselves permission to imagine what they genuinely want. Her starting point is simple: visualize the life, audit what already works, and choose one area to improve. That improvement does not have to begin with a new house, new career, or dramatic transformation. It may begin with a red lip, new underwear, a clearer workspace, an honest no, or ten minutes spent defining the life you are trying to create. This conversation is for the woman whose mind is constantly racing ahead, managing everyone's needs and preparing for problems that may never arrive. So if you've ever felt overwhelmed by everything you carry, struggled to separate productivity from busyness, or wondered how to create more clarity and calm… this episode's for you.

  8. Jun 23

    How Women Can Stop Playing Small and Start Building Their Own Income (Renee Carbone Fleming)

    If you keep waiting until you feel confident, fully prepared, or certain everyone will approve, Renee Carbone Fleming has a challenge for you: Stop waiting. Confidence does not arrive before action. It develops after you try, fail, adjust, and prove to yourself that you can keep going. Renee is the founder of the Badass Queen brand, host of Unapologetically Badass, and author of books including Watch Me. Her work helps women stop playing small, build visible personal brands, and create income that gives them choices. That mission is deeply personal. Renee grew up without much money, slept on a pullout sofa through high school, and began working early. She advanced in corporate life without a college degree through drive, grit, and a willingness to figure things out. Then divorce changed everything. After years as a stay-at-home mother, Renee had to rebuild financially and professionally while raising two daughters. She could return to a traditional job and let someone else determine her options—or create something of her own. She chose herself. In this conversation, Renee and Dr. Robin Buckley explore why capable women hesitate to take up space. Fear may sound like practical thinking: What will people say? Who am I to call myself an expert? What if I fail? What if no one buys it? Renee reframes the question: Who are you not to try? Her WATCH philosophy encourages women to withdraw from explanation, act before approval, take up space publicly, commit without consensus, and hold the vision when no one else does. That does not mean every idea succeeds. Renee has failed, pivoted, learned, and tried again. The difference is grit—the willingness to treat an obstacle as information instead of a final verdict. The episode also examines why Renee is passionate about women creating their own income. After divorce, she understood how frightening it is to feel financially dependent and uncertain. She now encourages women to build multiple income streams and what she calls a "$100,000 f**k-it fund": money that creates the freedom to leave a bad job, unhealthy relationship, or life that no longer fits. Financial independence is not only about money. It changes how a woman thinks, negotiates, chooses, and moves through the world. Renee also explains why personal branding matters even for women who never plan to become full-time entrepreneurs. Careers are changing, automation is reshaping jobs, and a visible body of expertise can create consulting, contract, speaking, and business opportunities. A personal brand is not a polished performance or a public diary. It is a consistent expression of who you are, what you understand, and how you help. In This Episode, We Talk About: How women can stop playing small and act before they feel fully confident Starting a business after 40 without a degree, perfect plan, or guaranteed outcome Building financial independence and multiple streams of income Creating a personal brand that reflects your expertise and personality Developing grit by learning from failure instead of treating it as defeat Sharing your story strategically without oversharing or seeking validation Finding purpose by identifying what naturally energizes and interests you Committing to yourself even when your goals and timelines change Renee's daily practice includes listening to a recording of her future-self vision as though she has already created it. That vision gives her something to return to on the days when she does not feel particularly bold, certain, or badass. This conversation is for the woman who has an idea but keeps asking the wrong people for permission. It is for the woman who feels financially stuck, professionally invisible, or convinced she is too old, inexperienced, or late to begin. So if you've ever felt afraid to take up space, struggled to believe your experience has value, or wondered whether you could create income and opportunity on your own terms… this episode's for you. Renee's message throughout is simple and direct: you don't need to feel ready to start. You need to start so you can become ready. You'll want more from Renee: Website Badass Queen podcast Watch Me Build Your F*ck It Fund

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That's What She Said is a women's podcast for women of every generation, featuring interviews spotlighting honest conversations, real-life stories, and earned wisdom from everyday women. Many of the guests are Gen X, midlife, and older women whose experiences, insights, and voices deserve more space, not less.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Robin Buckley
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026
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