When you’re Childfree, life insurance may barely make your list, which is exactly why disability insurance is so easy to overlook and so important to get right. Bri Conn, CFP® and Scott Barnes, CFP®, TPCP®, CLTC break down how to protect the paycheck that funds the life you’ve built, and the fine print that decides whether your benefit shows up whole when you need it.

Building real community as an adult is hard, and harder still when you’re Childfree and the friends you counted on get busy, have kids, or move away. In this episode, Maddy Roche sits down with Kari Cardinale, Florence Wlodarski, Charlie & Ali Higgins, who all stopped waiting and built the Childfree communities they couldn’t find.

When you are a Childfree adult, no one hands you a built-in community, so you build it intentionally. Melissa Holcombe, DSW, LCSW, Maddy Roche, Bri Conn, CFP®, and Alli Gage share honest stories of rebuilding their circles after divorce, sobriety, and big moves, plus the practical habits that turn strangers into the crew you actually do life with.

Being Childfree shapes how you build a business, from the money you reinvest to the hours you keep to the question of what you’re building toward. Jena Gribble of Blush Cactus and Huzefa Kapadia of Scalar Learning join Bri Conn, CFP® to talk about what that’s really looked like, the freedom, the trade-offs, and how it changes what a business can become.

In the United States, only 15 banks are women-owned. Ilaria Rawlins, CEO of Fortuna Bank, joins Bri Conn, CFP® to talk about why female entrepreneurs face a capital gap that most people do not even know exists, and what she built to change it.