Women tend to live longer than men do. Women tend to have, unfortunately, their salaries peaked sooner than men's do. Both of these things are extraordinarily important in putting together financial and investing plans for women.

If a woman was successful, she wasn't helping other women.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Your adrenaline starts to go when the market opens in the morning. It's like sports programming.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little...Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1.5 million, $2 million, $2.5 million. Life changing amounts.

I was lucky. My children didn't have health issues, didn't have big school problems, etc. And as I watched some of my peers go through this, you can see how quickly a family can get derailed when they are not lucky.