Most high-achieving women don't realize they're burning out until it's already showing up in their body. Marina Kay, founder of Women Who Breathe, has coached over 800 people and delivered 75 corporate workshops helping leaders recognize that pattern and break it — using tools as simple as how they breathe.

In this episode, Marina and Ysenia cover the real cost of chronic stress for women, why most of us don't catch it until it's affecting our health, and what to actually do about it.

In this episode:

• Burnout vs. chronic stress and how to tell the difference
• Why the 9-to-5 was designed around male biology and what cycle syncing can do instead
• The connection between chronic stress and ovarian health and why it matters financially
• Functional vs. somatic breathwork and when to use each
• A guided rectangle breath practice you can use anywhere

About Marina Kay
Marina Kay is an Executive Coach and Breathwork Facilitator focusing on stress and burnout prevention in leaders and entrepreneurs. She is the founder of Women Who Breathe, an online women's community offering live virtual breathwork sessions, nervous system and hormonal health courses, and quarterly health challenges for women in high stress careers. Her passion is helping women affected by chronic stress feel calm, confident and resilient. She uses full spectrum breathwork protocols, from functional to somatic, helping her clients relax, restore and recharge the body.

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What if you could invest in the companies and causes you actually believe in and build wealth doing it?

In this episode, Stephanie sits down with Marcia Dawood, angel investor in 50+ companies, TEDx speaker, SEC Advisory Committee member, and host of The Angel Next Door podcast. Together they break down angel investing from every angle, whether you're just getting curious, writing your first check, or thinking about building a values-driven portfolio.

Marcia shares why angel investing isn't just for the ultra-wealthy, how to figure out how much you can actually invest, and why more women writing checks is the fastest way to change what gets funded.

In this episode:

• What angel investing is, who qualifies, and how to get started with as little as $100
• The 5% rule for alternative assets and how to think about check sizes
• Angel networks vs. funds and how to figure out which fits your life
• The money stories and inherited beliefs that keep women playing small
• What financial fluidity means and why it changes how you think about money

About Marcia:

Marcia Dawood is on a mission to empower and educate everyone to realize their potential to invest in positive change. She is passionate about bridging the gap from early-stage inception to building thriving, profitable companies.

Author of two multi-award-winning books, Unapologetic Wealth & Do Good While Doing Well, TEDx speaker, and the host of The Angel Next Door Podcast, Marcia walks the talk and holds investments in over 50 early-stage companies and funds. She is committed to expanding support for diverse companies that overcome the world’s biggest problems and accelerate positive change.

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Women are more educated and more ambitious than ever — and yet earnings growth for women stalls in their mid-30s while men's climbs for another decade. So what's actually going on?

In this episode, Stephanie sits down with Stefanie O'Connell, author of The Ambition Penalty, to dig into the data-backed truth behind gender inequality at work. They dismantle some of the most pervasive myths women have been sold, from "women don't negotiate" to imposter syndrome as a personal failing, and explore what's actually driving the gap and what evidence shows can close it.

This conversation covers:

• Why women who negotiate are penalized more and rewarded less than men who do the same
• How the myth that women don't ask actually worsens gender bias and undermines pay transparency policies
• The "paradox of meritocracy" — why the most self-described fair organizations are often the most biased
• What transparency and accountability policies actually work
• Why collective thinking (not self-optimization) is the path forward

Whether you're navigating salary negotiations, building wealth, or trying to make sense of why the system feels stacked against you, this episode gives you the language, data, and framework to stop blaming yourself and start seeing the bigger picture.

The Ambition Penalty is available now.

About Stefanie O'Connell:

Stefanie O’Connell is an award-winning writer covering ambition, money and power with bylines in Slate, Bloomberg, CNBC, Glamour UK, Newsweek, USA Today and Business Insider. She also wrote, hosted and co-produced the WEBBY award-winning podcast “Money Confidential” for REAL SIMPLE magazine.

Her book The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up — and Then Pushes Them Down (May 2026, Basic Venture) is an essential guide to dismantling the hidden forces that hold women back, burn them out & make us all pay.

With over 100,000 followers across her social media channels and Too Ambitious newsletter, Stefanie uses data to expose how power and gender collide to keep women “in their place.” And shows how liberating women’s ambitions can liberate us all.

Find Stefanie on Instagram, Tiktok, Substack, and website.

Talk Rich to Me is a production of Huntress Wealth. On each episode, we explore the human side of finance. If you liked this episode, please subscribe and leave a review - it helps more people like you find our podcast.

Huntress is your all-in-one financial planning app. Build your plan, get actionable steps and make your money move - all under 5 minutes a day. Sign up for the Huntress Wealth app at www.huntresswealth.com.

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