A Midlife Money Masterclass with Suze Orman: Cortisol, Self-Worth, and Taking Back Your Financial Power
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A Midlife Money Masterclass with Suze Orman: Cortisol, Self-Worth, and Taking Back Your Financial Power

  • Writer: Dr. Mindy Pelz
    Dr. Mindy Pelz
  • 2 days ago
  • 3 min read

EP346 with Suze Orman



Dr. Mindy has spent years tracing women's hormonal dysfunction: belly fat, insomnia, menopause symptoms back to one common root: cortisol. And underneath chronically high cortisol, she keeps finding the same thing: money stress.


So she invited the woman who has spent 45 years teaching women to take control of their finances, Suze Orman. What makes this conversation special: after recovering from a life-threatening illness, Suze stepped back from television and podcasts almost entirely. This is one of the very few shows she agreed to do.


The result is part money masterclass, part mindset reset, and part permission slip. Suze connects financial fear directly to the cortisol Dr. Mindy fights every day and lays out exactly how women in midlife can take their power back, one dollar at a time.


"I want your financial cortisol to be zero." — Suze Orman

Key Takeaways


  • You keep putting everyone else's oxygen mask on first: your kids, your partner, your work and then wonder why you feel so powerless, when the truth is your power was never waiting in the bank account. It was waiting for you to choose yourself.

  • The stress you keep blaming on your hormones may be living inside a number you're too afraid to look at, and your body will not stop sounding the alarm until you finally turn and face it.

  • Every yes you hand over out of fear that someone won't like you is a quiet no to the woman you are trying to become and she has been waiting a long time for you to choose her.

  • You keep treating your money and your body as two separate battles, when they are the same wound asking the same question: why is it so hard for you to believe you're worth taking care of?

  • You tell yourself you're staying in the job, the marriage, the life, because you don't have the money to leave, but the day fear stops making your decisions for you is the day you stop merely existing and finally start living.



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Meet the Guest

Suze Orman

Suze Orman is one of the most recognized personal finance experts in the world. A former waitress who became a Merrill Lynch broker after suing the firm for discrimination, she has written multiple New York Times bestsellers — including Women & Money, The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom, and The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+. She hosts the Women & Money podcast (700+ episodes) and has built her life's work around one belief: you are never powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money.



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This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and is not financial, legal, or medical advice. Please consult a qualified professional about your individual situation.

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