The Confident Woman Podcast · Rachel Brooks

From Broke to Wealth: Building Financial Confidence with Tanya Taylor

November 12, 2025·40 min·3 clips

44% of bankruptcy filings stem from medical reasons, and disability insurance pays only 60% of income after taxes.

Tanya comes in with real financial range. She is introduced as an author, TEDx speaker, and founder and CEO of Grow Your Wealth, a financial education platform that helps women feel more confident with money so they can build wealth and retire worry-free. She brings 24 years of Wall Street, banking, insurance, accounting, and risk experience to a conversation about finance, insurance, wealth building, and protection. The episode starts with the basics. Tanya says many people are missing basic financial knowledge, and her book Broke to Wealth was written as a step by step starting point for building a solid financial foundation. For her, goal setting comes first. Once she knew her goals, she could line up the rest around them. That is where the conversation starts to feel less like a lesson and more like a life story. Then the story turns. Tanya talks about an accident that forced a pause after years of going, going, going and checking every box. She did not choose the stop, but looking back, she sees it as redirection. It slowed her before she rushed into the next phase of building her business. That pause changed how she talks about debt. Tanya says she had understood debt in strategic terms, but not the pain or shame of carrying it until she went through some of it herself. That shift matters for the people she serves. Financial education sounds different when the teacher has felt the weight of the lesson. Limitations to Limitless came out of that season and focuses on protecting yourself from life's curveballs. Rachel closes by asking listeners to educate themselves, advocate for themselves, and take preventative steps before they are pushed into reaction. The tone is careful, not alarmist. Money, insurance, wealth building, and protection all sit inside the same question: how do you prepare for life without getting swallowed by the pressure?

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A practical conversation about building financial confidence from the basics outward.

The episode treats financial confidence as something women build over time, not something they are expected to arrive with already. Tanya moves from basic money knowledge to wealth building and long term security, and her 24 years across Wall Street, banking, insurance,…

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For when you need a calmer way to think about money, debt, and getting started.

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