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Going Out on a Limb: How Moving to Spain Gave This Working Mom the Balance She Craved

Imagine swapping your daily grind for an international adventure! Stephanie May Wilson has turned her dream life into reality under the sunny skies of Granada, Spain. Stephanie dives into how this bold move wasn’t just about chasing sunsets but strategically reshaping her family’s future, slashing living costs, and aligning her work with her deepest passions. […]

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Imagine swapping your daily grind for an international adventure! Stephanie May Wilson has turned her dream life into reality under the sunny skies of Granada, Spain. Stephanie dives into how this bold move wasn’t just about chasing sunsets but strategically reshaping her family’s future, slashing living costs, and aligning her work with her deepest passions.

She gets real about the nitty-gritty of life adjustments, from cultural shifts to juggling business hours across continents- and it’s not always glamorous. So, if you’re pondering a leap towards your own slice of freedom or just need a little nudge to make a big life change, this chat is just the ticket.

Tune in and get inspired to sketch your own map to wherever ‘better’ is for you.

 

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About Stephanie May Wilson

Hi, I’m Stephanie. I’m married to a wonderful guy named Carl—we’ve been married just over 10 years. I’m also the mom of identical twin girls, Annie and Quinn, who are about to turn four.

I’ve been running my business—teaching courses, hosting a podcast, writing books—since either 2012 or 2014, depending on where you draw the starting line.

We moved to Spain about three months ago, over the summer, for a lot of reasons. I actually studied abroad here in college, and that semester was such a transformative time for me. I grew so much, had so much fun, and completely fell in love with the country and the language. I always say I have Spanish blood—not literally, I have zero Spanish ancestry—but my heart feels Spanish.

I’ve always wanted to come back, and a bunch of things just lined up perfectly to make it happen. We’re actually here with my best friend and her family, which has been amazing.

Part of the move was just about needing a break—life in the U.S. has felt really hard lately, and we needed a mental health reset. Parenting, especially as a working parent, is tough. One of the biggest challenges for us was the cost of childcare.

That’s actually what shifted the idea from “Wouldn’t it be fun to move to Spain someday?” to “Wait, what if we actually did this—soon?” Here in Spain, our girls are old enough to attend school now, whereas in the U.S., we’d still have a while before we could access free schooling. We’re saving an incredible amount of money by being here.

We’re planning to stay for a year, maybe two—who knows? Right now, we’re living in Granada, in southern Spain, and it’s just wonderful.

 

Having a Husband Who Also Owns His Own Business Helped Them Move

People always ask, “So, work—how do you manage that?” The truth is, we made a lot of decisions over the last 10 years with this kind of lifestyle in mind. We both knew we loved to travel and wanted flexibility, so we intentionally stepped away from more traditional career paths at various turning points.

There were definitely moments where being a business owner felt really hard—like, why are we doing this? But we always came back to the bigger picture: we wanted the freedom to create the life we imagined. This move was always kind of sitting in the back of our minds.

Carl has two business partners, and together they run a marketing and branding firm. They mostly work with small businesses, startups, and companies going through big transitions—helping them tell the story of who they are through messaging, branding, and websites. They’re incredible at what they do—it’s really amazing to watch.

Thankfully, his business partners have been super supportive. They just said, “Go for it!” So Carl works remotely from here. His hours are a little wild right now—he’s often on calls late at night because of the time difference—but he’s a total night owl, so it actually works out really well for him.

 

A Day in the Life Working and Living in Spain With Children

The girls’ school hours here are from 9:00 to 2:30. We get them up in the morning and walk them to school together, and then Carl and I start our workday. I like to work out in the city sometimes, but other days I’ll work from home. Carl either works from our apartment or from a coworking space he found here.

During the school day, he’s not always super deep into work—he’ll also run errands, handle visa paperwork, or just chip away at whatever’s on our to-do list. I usually work pretty solidly from 9 to around 2:30. Then we go pick up the girls together and head back home.

I’m usually with the girls from the afternoon until about 7, while Carl’s on work calls most of that time. He wraps up around 7, we do bedtime together, and then we either relax for the night or he hops back on for more calls. He’s a total night owl, so that late schedule actually suits him really well.

He’s working a lot right now—they’re in a big season of growth at his company, and things are going really well. It’s definitely a heavy workload, but it’s manageable for now.

That said, life here feels really balanced. We’re more social than we’ve been in years, and we spend a lot of time out doing fun things. So even though Carl’s working a ton, there’s still a strong sense of life outside of work.

And now that the girls are getting a bit older, I’ve been able to squeeze in a little more work in the afternoons too—while they’re watching Daniel Tiger or something, I can wrap up a few things.

 

Convincing Her Best Friend to Move With Her

It definitely helped that my best friend and I studied abroad in Spain together. She also speaks Spanish, loves Spain, and had always wanted to come back too.

Her husband didn’t study abroad and doesn’t speak Spanish, but during COVID, they watched tons of travel videos—families moving abroad, trying new things—and he was like, “I think I want to do that. What if we actually did this?”

He’s a realtor and also does real estate investing, and right now the housing market is kind of in a weird place. So it’s actually not a terrible time for him to step away—he can manage rental properties remotely.

Honestly, it was this perfect, wonderful storm that made it all work out. Between the two families, we’ve got four kids, a dog, two husbands, and two wives—and we all made it to Spain.

 

Stephanie May Wilson on Building a Business for Freedom

We’ve said it to each other so many times—we have to do this now. There were definitely years where we could’ve made more money working for someone else, or worked fewer hours in a more traditional job. But we built this for freedom, and now it’s time to cash it in.

I always knew I wanted to live in Spain someday. Location freedom has always been incredibly important to me—it’s something I’ve valued for as long as I can remember.

There were definitely times along the way when I questioned whether this kind of move was realistic. My husband tends to be a bit more on the responsible, practical side. We both dream and take risks, but he’s more focused on making sure there’s a roof over our heads, you know?

So there were moments when I’d wonder, What if this dream is unrealistic? What if it’s just not doable? But then I’d remind myself: it’s not unrealistic if we have the money to make it happen.

So I’m going to put my head down, and I’m going to hustle—so we can do the fun things we want to do, but also have some money for retirement as well.

 

How Work Has Changed Since Moving to Spain

I hate to paint with a broad brush because obviously this doesn’t describe everyone, but it really does feel like work is less important here—that people work to live, instead of live to work.

One thing that really surprised me—as someone who loves working from coffee shops—is that Spanish people, at least in Granada, do not do that. Coffee shops don’t want you to have your laptop out. Sometimes there are literal signs with a laptop and an X through it. The only place I can go and set up my laptop for the day is Starbucks. There’s one in town, so I go there and just park it. In Nashville it’s the opposite—people have laptops out everywhere.

Moving here also meant our first experience with a “traditional” kid summer. We’d never really had to deal with the fact that most schools don’t run through summer, so suddenly we had to figure out how to work and take care of our kids at the same time, all summer long.

I didn’t plan to take months off when we moved here. It wasn’t a good idea financially—but someone had to take care of the kids, and it made more sense for it to be me. So I didn’t get much work done for quite a while after we arrived. That part of the transition was definitely hard on my work.

But what’s been really cool is this: I’ll wake up groggy and tired, not wanting to start the day—but then we walk the girls to school, and within 30 seconds of being outside, smelling Spain, feeling the air, hearing the sounds… it just wakes me up. It energizes me. It’s inspiring every single day, and I didn’t know to expect that.

 

How Stephanie May Wilson Built Her Business

In college I went to school for broadcast journalism, and I loved it. I couldn’t wait to graduate, couldn’t wait to get a job—just loved it.

But while I was studying abroad toward the end of college, I met Jesus in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It was this whole thing—but obviously, it changed my life in a big way. Shortly after that, I had the opportunity to go on a humanitarian trip for the first time, and it was wild.

Falling in love with God, with His people, and with His work in the world—it was so profound for me that it completely eclipsed my passion for journalism. I couldn’t deny it, couldn’t get around it, couldn’t fix it. My heart for journalism was just gone. And it sucked. I was not happy that it happened—especially not right before graduation, which is really when you want to know what you’re doing with your life.

So I was feeling really lost at the end of college. I had most of a journalism degree—and then all of one—and I was a brand new Christian, trying to figure out who I was and what that meant. I got involved in a college ministry during my last year, and the pastor there was just wonderful. He saw something in me and offered me a part-time unpaid internship.

 

Taking on an unpaid internship

Which doesn’t sound like much—I mean, it paid absolutely zero—but it meant the world to me. It was so powerful to be seen like that, to have someone recognize that maybe I had something to offer in leadership or ministry.

He said, “Stick around your college town for another year. Do this internship. Work in this ministry. Just see what God does.” So I did. And my role was leading a Greek ministry. I’d been in the Greek system all through college, and I was the only one in the ministry who spoke fluent “sorority girl”—everyone else, I think, was kind of scared of it.

I led a small group of 27 sorority girls. Every Sunday, we’d meet and talk about life and God and relationships and all the decisions we were trying to make. And then during the week, I’d go to coffee with each of the girls individually.

And I loved it. I had never loved anything like that before, and I just knew—this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Then God threw me another curveball. I was at dinner, and a friend mentioned this mission trip—11 countries in 11 months. It was called the World Race. She said she was thinking about doing it. I was like, okay, went home, Googled it immediately, and I couldn’t unhear it.

It was like, don’t make me choose between women’s ministry and travel—please don’t make me choose. I didn’t know which one I loved more.

So I applied on a whim and got accepted. I had been thinking about going to seminary to do full-time ministry, but I figured, “Okay, maybe I’ll take a year before that and go on this trip.”

 

An Introduction to Blogging

While I was on the World Race, the organization gave us a blog and asked us to keep it updated—it was good for fundraising, for marketing, all of that. So I started writing.

And suddenly, my journalism skills were being used again. But now I was writing about something personal—what I was learning, what God was doing, what I was experiencing. It was women’s ministry.

It was the perfect combination of the two. I realized I loved to write—I didn’t know that before—and that I was actually pretty good at it. It was this lightbulb moment: this is my thing.

When I got back from the trip, I started my own blog. I couldn’t wait to design it myself and make it feel like me. I’ve been blogging ever since—in one form or another.

That was in 2012. Then in 2014, after I came back from the trip, I was hired by the same organization to do marketing for them. So I moved to Georgia. I’m originally from Colorado, and I had never spent time in the South, so I was like, Where am I? Oh… but the food is good.

I moved to a small town called Gainesville, Georgia—about an hour north of Atlanta. I figured I’d be there for six months. I was still working on my blog and doing some marketing work.

And on the very first day, I met a guy named Carl Wilson… who ended up being my person.

 

Getting laid off before the wedding

At that point, we were both working in marketing, had a great community, and I was growing my blog on the side. But then—three months before our wedding—we both got laid off.

On the same day.

It was… not great. Totally out of nowhere. Just one of those moments where business is hard, ministry is hard—and nonprofits are especially tricky. Sometimes you’re a family, sometimes you’re a business, and not everyone’s always on the same page about which you’re supposed to be.

That experience really sparked my passion for business. I liked that the rules were clear. If the idea is good, people buy it. If it’s not good enough, they don’t—and then you fix it, make it better, and build a team to help you do the thing.

So suddenly, we’re three months from getting married, trying to figure out our lives. I’m still blogging, but I’m thinking, This wasn’t supposed to be my full-time job yet. I’m not ready for that.

So right before our wedding, we got together with this couple who were basically ahead of us in the careers we wanted to have. We sat down with them and asked, “What would you do if you were us?”

And they said, “What if you moved to Nashville? Stephanie, you could be a writing assistant for her, and Carl, you and I could start a marketing company together.”

 

Moving to Nashville

And we were like… okay! So that’s what we did.

We moved to Nashville right after our wedding—with really only half a job between us. I was getting paid a little to do some writing, and Carl was kind of doing this startup thing with her husband.

We did that for about six months. Meanwhile, I was still growing my blog on the side, trying to build something of my own.

Then, about six months later—just a couple months before our first anniversary—we went to lunch with them, and they said, “You know what? It’s not you, it’s us… but we need to part ways.”

I think they were trying to be kind, like, “We don’t want to hold you back.” And we were like, No, please do hold us back—we have no idea what we’re doing! We just need to make some money somehow.

And just like that, we lost our second set of jobs… before our first anniversary.

 

Diving into Entrepreneurship

So we came home, and that was the day I realized—yeah, I want to do this on my own. I don’t want to rely on someone else. I don’t want to be fully dependent on a partner.

I’m fine with partnering, but I need clear lines. I need a fence around my property—something that says, this is mine. I need to set some rules. I didn’t want to live on rented land anymore.

So both Carl and I just started pursuing our own things. We figured—there’s no better time. We had two houseplants, no dogs, no cats, no kids, no anything.

We just started trying to figure out what we wanted to build—and then started building it.

That really kicked off at the very beginning of 2015.

 

Stephanie May Wilson on Growing Her Blog

Yeah, so one of the coolest things about my blog had always been that people would write me emails telling me how something I wrote impacted them, what they were going through, or asking, “What would you do?”—and I just loved that. I loved those conversations.

One topic I kept getting asked about was singleness and dating, and I really understood how hard that was because I had just walked through it myself. That became a guiding force for me—really my mission statement, in life and in business: Be who you needed when you were younger. I think about that all the time.

At that point in my life, who I needed was someone to walk with me through singleness and dating—especially within a church context. Because I’ve found, and still believe, that the church gives really terrible dating advice. So many women were saying things like, “I haven’t talked to a guy in seven years, but I’m waiting for God to drop my husband on my doorstep.” And I was like… okay, am I just not a good enough Christian because that hasn’t happened to me yet? There were so many things to unpack there. So I’d try to walk people through it in those emails, like, There’s another path. Let me show you.

At the same time, I was starting to see other women building online businesses, and I thought, What I really wish I could do is have a small group with everyone who reads my blog. But obviously, that wasn’t possible in person—so I started thinking, Maybe I can do a course. Maybe some videos and worksheets.

 

Launching an online course

So I created my first course, called Love Your Single Life. I opened it up for just three days and taught it live on Facebook. I made all the PDFs in Word and exported them myself. That was in 2015, and 48 women signed up.

It was $50, and I remember thinking, Oh my gosh, this is so awesome. That was my very first course.

After that, I took a little detour because I wasn’t sure I wanted singleness and dating to be my thing. That’s something I’ve wrestled with over the years—trying to explain or even understand myself what my “thing” is, because it’s kind of broad.

So instead, I spent six months creating this giant course on identity. I was so excited about it, and I charged somewhere in the $300 range. I took 40 women through it, but because I hadn’t beta tested it, I realized I had taken people into really deep territory—too deep for that format. Some of them got discouraged and quit halfway through, which was so hard to see.

I learned a lot from that. I realized, Okay, let’s go back to Love Your Single Life, because I knew that content deeply, and I knew it worked. Since then, I’ve taught that course for eight years, and more than 7,000 women have gone through it. The stories of what God has done through it are just beyond me—marriages, babies, adoptions, cross-world moves, job changes, best friends. It’s so cool.

That’s just one facet of my business, though. Along the way, another thing was happening too.

 

Writing a Book

Back when we were still working with that first couple, I had this idea in the back of my mind: I want to write a book someday. I thought it would be the story of how I met Jesus in the Sistine Chapel. I figured it would be something I wrote when I was 40—when I was old enough and wise enough.

But they were like, “No, that’s not your final book. That’s your first book. You should write it and give it away as a freebie, like an opt-in gift.”

So I did. I wrote it in 2014 and released it at the end of that year. It’s a little long for an ebook, a little short for a traditional book—about 130 pages—but it fits perfectly in Christmas stockings.

It’s called The Lipstick Gospel. And what’s crazy is that we’ve never changed it—it’s still exactly the same.

Right away, people started reaching out saying, “I’d love to give this as a Christmas gift.” It was like eight people—but at the time, I only had maybe 3,000 people on my email list, so that felt huge.

 

Stephanie May Wilson on Learning to Self-Publish

I turned to Carl and asked, “Do you know how to turn this into a physical book?” And he was like, “Yeah, I think so.” So we stayed up all night, designed it, printed it on demand, and I created a little e-commerce shop to sell it. And that was the beginning of this whole side of the business.

Since then, I’ve written and self-published eight other books and journals—really beautiful journals. We’ve done a couple of those.

I always knew I wanted to write books, but I also knew I wanted to build on my own land. I didn’t want to spend years hustling for approval from a publisher, begging to be let in the door. I watched so many friends fight for publishing deals, only to get paid peanuts and have a miserable experience. Their work would be rejected or shelved, and they were so discouraged.

And I just thought, I don’t want to go through that. We had accidentally figured out self-publishing early on, and I thought, Let’s just keep doing that.

So we did—for years.

It actually wasn’t until this past spring that I traditionally published a book. I have it right here. It came out in April.

 

Stephanie May Wilson on Building an Audience

A lot of it has been word of mouth. So I blogged for a long time, and that was something that people kind of passed around to friends, like, “Okay, I learned something here—you should read this too.”

In 2017 though, I decided to start a podcast, and that has been just this cornerstone of our community. It’s called Girls Night, and in it, we talk about everything you talk about at a girls’ night—so all of life, and what that looks like for us as women, how to make decisions and weather transitions.

So a lot of people would find out about me from the podcast—passing it on. A lot of it has been word of mouth.

But really, one of the main engines behind my growth has been paid ads. And it was when I started—I sort of stumbled into the funnel thing. I’m not exactly sure how. I don’t remember someone explicitly teaching it to me. I think I went through a couple of other people’s email funnels and was like, Oh, okay, I think I could do this.

 

Building a Sales Funnel

So I put together an email funnel specifically for my course Love Your Single Life, and in the six weeks leading up to it, I would run ads.

And it started out—I mean, this was in 2015—it started out with boosted posts, and then I started to get a little fancier with it and started doing some targeting. And I did it myself for a long time. And it was the glory days, where you could get—I mean, everything. Leads were cheap, and it was great.

So I think a lot of my women now, if you said, “How did you find out about Stephanie?”—it would either be, “A friend told me,” or, “Years ago I came across one of her ads.”

And so that was really—doing that twice a year, I would do a giant push before this launch. And that was when I would really grow my audience by a big chunk, a couple times a year. And that was really, I mean, really big.

And that was our main revenue generator for most of the last 10 years. Which is also stressful. It’s stressful to have your whole income come from two weeks a year.

It’s a lot.

 

Having hard years in business

It’s interesting that we’re talking—and we can keep going backwards—but as I was thinking about this conversation today, I was like, Oh gosh, it’s so interesting that we’re talking right now, because I think everyone prefers to talk from the mountaintop… but right now, I’m totally in—and starting to climb my way out of—a valley. It’s been brought on by a whole bunch of different things, but the last handful of years in business have honestly been really hard for me.

And then, because I was feeling tighter financially, I stopped all my ads and I turned off all of my automation. I actually did that in 2020 because I didn’t want any emails going out on a bad day. And it just felt like we had so many bad days.

I couldn’t stand the idea that someone could be losing a family member, or something awful was happening in the world again, and they’d get this fluffy marketing email from me. I just couldn’t take it. So I turned everything off.

And then over the last handful of years, as I’ve started to come out of the motherhood fog a little bit, a lot of my effort has gone toward some things that are really awesome and really worthwhile—like my book, traditionally publishing for the first time this year.

 

Having a business that looks shiny on the outside

I got to do a TED Talk. I got to do a bunch of different TV appearances and PR things. This past year, I joined a great podcast network. All of these things that, from the outside, look really, really great—credibility builders, I guess.

But in the process of working on all of that, and then also just trying to stay above water financially and take care of my family, I feel like my revenue machine has really slowed to a halt.

And it’s crazy, because this year has been, arguably, one of the most successful outwardly years of my life. But I’m having to relearn all over again: Wait—how does business work? What do I want to be selling?

That whole “If you build it, they will come” thing? I’ve always known that’s not true—but now I really know it’s not true.

So where I’m at right now is doing a lot of reflecting and trying to figure out: Okay, I’ve been doing this for a long time. Am I still on the right track?
And I think the answer is yes.

Do I still love this? Yes.
Do I need a new direction? I don’t think so.

But I think what I’m learning is: just because something looks shiny on the outside doesn’t mean it’s sustainable on the inside.

 

Stephanie May Wilson on Making Money in Her Business

I think there’s this idea that a rising tide raises all ships—and I totally believe that.

I know a lot of people—and there have been some people, notably, who have really bet the farm on books lately. Like, Okay, if I have this book come out, it’s going to do so well. It’ll be the best lead magnet I’ve ever had. So many people will come in and buy my things. And if I do a TED Talk, surely it’ll go viral, and then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I knew better than to believe those things were automatically true.

But I also just wasn’t spreading out my investment of time well enough to make sure, Okay, while I’m working on these credibility-building things, I’m also keeping the revenue engine running over here.

 

Beta Testing New Offers

I would say—beta test it. Beta test it.

My husband and I are actually teaching a course right now—today’s the first day—it’s called Just Married, and it’s for newlyweds. The idea is, why do we just let people get married and ride off into the sunset without ever checking in on how it’s going? That season is so important. So this course is doing just that. It’s kind of like premarital counseling, but for after the wedding—when you actually know what you need help with.

And even now, this is our third time teaching it, and we’re still re-recording it every time. We’ve done it live, and this time it’s not live—because of time zones—but we’re still holding off on bringing in a real camera crew or filming edited, multi-shot versions.

Because we want to make sure it’s exactly the way we want it before we commit to that.

So for me, I’ll always teach something live—or week to week—a handful of times before I record them.

Because you just don’t know how it’s going to land. And you get better at it each time. By the time you’re ready to really “can it,” you want it to be the best it can be, and you want to know for sure what’s going to help people.

 

Regrouping after 10 Years in Business

It’s been messy—and it’s been a while.

A lot of the work I’ve been doing since getting to Spain has been internal. I had a lot of time to think while I was with my girls all summer, but not much time to actually do anything. So that was tricky.

It’s been slow—a slow process of asking myself questions and finding the answers. I’ve had a lot of conversations with people who really love me—not always business experts, but people who ask great questions and give me space to think and process.

So it’s been a lot of that. A lot of pulling and tugging, sitting with things for a while, and just writing down anything that comes to me—those moments of, That’s true, or I still really love that.

 

Having Grit as a Business Owner

There’s a book I’ve been reading that’s been fantastic—I haven’t finished it yet—but it’s called Grit by Angela Duckworth. It came out a few years ago, and it’s amazing. It’s about why people are successful.

I had this hunch about a year ago, that maybe the people who are most successful aren’t necessarily the most talented or the most connected—but they’re just the ones who don’t give up. And that’s what she talks about.

So in some ways, I’ve been trying to figure out: What are the areas where I’m just not going to give up?

And at the same time, I’m asking: How do I be wise about the things that haven’t been working for a long time? Or the things I haven’t enjoyed for a long time?

So it’s both. I feel like in some areas, I’m digging my heels in—I’m not quitting this. I’m going to iterate until I get it back, or I fix it, or I build something new.

And then in other areas, I kind of feel like I’m in my Taylor Swift era—like I’m coming all the way back around to this idea of building on my own land.

I don’t want to rely on something where someone can change the algorithm and it all disappears. I don’t want to put all my eggs in the Instagram basket and then have my account get hacked or deleted.

I want to do this my way. The way that’s worked so far.

So that’s kind of where I’m at right now—just weighing those things and carrying both.

 

Staying Motivated During Difficult Periods

I think it’s that we work so many hours every day, and I just don’t want to do something I hate.

That’s kind of been my bottom line.

It’s all the reasons you mentioned—impact, freedom, wanting to travel, wanting to provide for my family. And it’s also the fact that, in my bones, I feel like this is what I’m meant to do. It’s part of my DNA. I just can’t shake it.

But I think at the very, very end of the day—the last stop on the train of why I can’t give up—is this:

I do not want to hate my days.

Life is too short to hate your days.

And I love my work. I love working. The line between hobby and business is so thin for me, because I genuinely enjoy it that much.

 

Creating a Budget to Move to Spain

So, being in Spain—my take-home every month has been significantly less. I cut it way down maybe a year ago. And for a while back in the US, we were… not scraping by, but then we were barely scraping by.

We had to make a bunch of different lifestyle shifts. We rented out our house, moved out of the city for a while to be closer to grandparents, and we knew we were coming to Spain. It was a whole thing.

But being here, we’re living significantly below our means because the cost of living is so much lower. And that’s allowed us to use the extra to kind of right the ship—to get our stuff back together.

Because honestly, life was just too much for us for at least a year.

So that’s part of why we’re here.

You’re like, I’m so stressed, I have to do something. But then you do it, and it doesn’t sell that well—because your heart’s not in it.

And that’s where I’ve been for the last two years, I would say.

Which, again, is so crazy—because during that same time, I’ve made some things that I’m wildly proud of. But it’s like… where the accolades go, money doesn’t always follow.

And that’s been the case. I’m rich in accolades at the moment. Lots of little trophies.

But yeah. I knew it. I was like, This is an interesting time to have this conversation.

 

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Stephanie’s Tedx Talk

Stephanie’s Courses on Relationships

Books written by Stephanie

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Girls Night Podcast

Shanna Guest on Stephanie’s Podcast: Relationships & Money

 

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Stephanie May Wilson

Stephanie May Wilson is a bestselling author, podcaster, TEDx Speaker, and go-to guide for women as they navigate the murky waters of what she calls the “Everything Era.” Through her books, courses, and chart-topping podcast, Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson, Stephanie has mentored more than a million women as they make decisions and go through life transitions surrounding career, marriage, motherhood, and more. When she’s not writing, speaking, or recording a podcast episode, you can find Stephanie eating tapas in Granada, Spain with her husband Carl and twin toddlers. (They just moved there!)

CONNECT WITH STEPHANIE:

Website | Instagram

 

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February 27, 2025

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