{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Empowered Money Girl","title":"SE01EP51 - What Women Need to Unlearn About Money, Work & Success | Nathalie Mansueti Stratton","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1954,"description":"Josette Mandela talks with Nathalie Mansueti Stratton, co founder of Hearth, about how her upbringing as the daughter of immigrants shaped her money mindset, career choices, and approach to family life. Nathalie shares how she moved from architecture into tech and then entrepreneurship, and why she built a household coordination product for moms and families after living the problem herself.\nIn this episode, they discuss how immigrant money habits can turn into scarcity thinking, why Nathalie sees money as a tool for expansion rather than hoarding, and how Hearth helps families reduce the mental load with a shared system for calendars, routines, and to do lists.\nKey topics:\nNathalie shares how growing up in Bogotá, Colombia, then moving to the United States at age 8 shaped her sense of responsibility as the eldest daughter.\nShe explains the financial habits she learned at home, including saving, giving, and a strong emphasis on security, and how those lessons later needed to be unlearned.\nThe conversation centers on her shift from seeing money as something to preserve into seeing it as a tool to fund education, travel, business, and new experiences.\nNathalie describes leaving architecture grad school after realizing the career path would not give her the financial freedom or family flexibility she wanted.\nShe explains how architecture skills like systems thinking, design thinking, and analytical problem solving translated directly into product design and startup work.\nNathalie walks through the origin of Hearth, which began during COVID after interviews with families who were managing life with whiteboards, sticky notes, agendas, and text messages.\nShe says Hearth is built around a 27 inch touch display plus a companion app, with calendars, to do lists, routines, meal planning, and family coordination tools in one place.\nShe discusses the product decision process, including an early mistake around screen size and how feedback from families in New York and Denver...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rM4bd463g_QsrW7beCAVUaYuWbWyc5EyRJB3lEOxFfU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOGU1/Mjc5NzhkNzFmOTRk/MjE3NWRmYTA4ZGIw/YjNlYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}