Women, Wealth & the $34 Trillion Shift: What the Financial Industry Won't Tell You

What if the financial advice women have been given was never designed for us to win big?

In this episode of the Dope Living Podcast, host Janee sits down with Michelle Taylor — founder of Women in Wealth and a decade-long veteran of financial services — to dismantle the myths holding women back from building generational wealth.

Women are projected to control $34 TRILLION in U.S. wealth by 2030. Oxford Academic Research confirms the gender investment gap is not about risk appetite or emotion — it's about income, household size, and financial vulnerability. Structural barriers, not personal failures.

Together, Janee and Michelle unpack:
✅ Why "women are bad with money" is a myth designed to keep us out of the room
✅ How your emotions around money are actually a SUPERPOWER
✅ The spending plan vs. budget framework that actually works for modern women
✅ What a real wealth strategy looks like for career gaps, business ownership & divorce
✅ Why women are better long-term investors — backed by data
✅ Retirement planning when you live longer but retire with less
✅ The guilt holding women back from wanting MORE — and how to release it

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 — Intro: The $34 Trillion Wealth Transfer
02:22 — Meet Michelle Taylor
03:28 — Where did "women are bad with money" come from?
07:24 — Emotion as a financial superpower
13:01 — The system that labeled women "risk averse"
19:27 — How to play a rigged game without ignoring the rigging
22:46 — Real wealth strategy for women's real lives
27:12 — Emergency funds, brokerage accounts & liquidity
28:44 — Retirement: planning for longevity
31:37 — Why women are better investors
34:09 — When saving for others gets in the way of building yourself
37:09 — What women still get wrong (the honest answer)
41:48 — Where to find Michelle Taylor

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