Claire Wasserman is the founder of Ladies Get Paid, an author, and a career coach with a master's certificate in financial psychology. She bootstrapped her business to seven figures, built a community of over 100,000 women, and got a $300,000 advance for her book. She is also, right now, raising twins in Los Angeles on food stamps.
In this episode, she sits down with me for the most honest money conversation we have had on this show.
Claire and I walk through her whole earning journey, from trading salary for equity at a startup that later sold for $12.9 million, to the seven-figure years of brand sponsorships and thousand-person conferences, to the $300K book advance.
Then the part almost nobody says out loud: how the pandemic broke her business model, why a family medical crisis drained their finances, and how they ended up $150K in debt
Claire reveals what it actually feels like to swipe an EBT card, the half-price apartment her grandfather wrote into a building's deed, and why the shame around food hits differently than every other benefit.
She gets into how childcare math forced her and her wife to renegotiate everything including their sleep, her lightning round of negotiation advice, and why she thinks being in the middle of healing makes her a better coach.
Download Ashley's free "Get Paid What You're Worth" negotiation guide (https://www.thefiscalfemme.com/get-paid).
Learn more about Claire's work and coaching at ladiesgetpaid.com, subscribe to her Substack, and follow her on Instagram at @clairegetspaid and @ladiesgetpaid.
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