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Meet Charlese Williams, a powerhouse therapist from Atlanta who almost didn't join LIMB — because she "couldn't afford it."

What happened next changed everything.

Charlese joined anyway. She faced her money fears, dismantled the lies she'd learned about what Black women "should" earn, and built a thriving private practice charging $250 per session — with boundaries, ease, and joy.

If you've ever believed that financial freedom was for "other people," this episode will shake that story loose.

In this episode, Charlese shares:

• The moment a white professor told her therapists only make $40K — and what she did with that information
  
  

• How she broke free from the insurance "pimp game" and scarcity mindset
  
  

• Why joining LIMB became an act of liberation
  
  

• How she's now leading with her worth and refusing to settle
  
  

• What she's learning about boundaries — even at her own wedding
  
  

Resources mentioned:

• LIMB Academy
  
  

• Fun With Fees Calculator
  
  

• Charlese`s Instagram
  
  

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There's a reason your practice feels capped.
There's a reason $300 per session feels theoretical instead of inevitable.
And it has nothing to do with your clinical skill, your niche, or "this economy."

It's this: you are not in the room.

In this episode, Tiffany builds on her conversation with Sarayu and names the uncomfortable truth most therapists avoid: if you are not consistently putting yourself in spaces with people who have the resources to pay your Life First Fee, you are unconsciously choosing to stay stuck.

Not because you're lazy.
Not because you're bad at business.
But because fear, shame, and old class conditioning are quietly running the show.

In this episode, Tiffany breaks down:

• Why therapists instinctively avoid rooms where people can easily pay $300–$400 per session

• The real emotions that surface when you imagine being around wealth, power, and influence (imposter syndrome, envy, shame, fear)

• How "networking with struggling therapists" and outdated marketing tactics protect you from discomfort—but sabotage your income

• Why this is not a moral failure, but is a strategic problem

• The two things required to do the unimaginable (leave insurance, raise fees, step into authority):

• • a container for regulation and integration

  • clear, strategic steps so you know what you're doing and why

• Why staying out of the room doesn't just hurt your business—it harms the future of therapy itself

• How therapists excluding themselves from power has opened the door for AI, tech companies, and non-clinicians to define the field

• Why agency in your business is the gateway to real cultural impact

• How booking your first Life First Fee client fundamentally changes how clients experience you

This episode isn't about marketing tactics.
It's about agency.

If therapists are not in the rooms where decisions are being made, we will be replaced, undercut, and erased.
And the way back starts in your private practice.

If you're ready to stop hiding, stop circling scarcity, and finally be in the room where it happens, email Tiffany at tiffany@leaninmakebank.com with the word "Room."

Because your clients are not just paying for therapy.
They're paying to experience agency—and it starts with you embodying it first.

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In this episode, Tiffany sits down with Sarayu Meraki, a Wisconsin-based therapist who joined LIMB Academy at a powerful crossroads: turning 40, questioning everything she'd been told about success, and finally asking herself what kind of life she actually wanted.

For years, Sarayu did what so many therapists do — she worked hard, followed the rules, kept her head down, and waited for things to feel "worth it." Instead, she found herself exhausted, disconnected, and quietly wondering if this was really all there was.

This conversation is about identity, grief, reinvention, and what happens when you stop living by other people's timelines and start choosing yourself.

• What turning 40 revealed about the life she'd been unconsciously settling for

• How growing up without financial modeling shaped her relationship with money and safety

• Why she realized she was building a practice that looked good on paper — but didn't feel good in her body

• The moment she stopped outsourcing her decisions and claimed her Life First Fee

• How redefining success changed the way she shows up as a therapist, partner, and human

• What it means to let go of hustle and step into intentional, values-led earning

• Why choosing herself didn't make her less caring — it made her more alive

• LIMB Academy

• Fun With Fees Calculator

• Sarayu`s email