Episode 293

Burn It Down to Build It Better: How to Reinvent Your Life & Business After Divorce With Marni Battista

Published on: 10th May, 2025

In this episode of I Date Money®, Lisa Drennon sits down with Marnie Battista, a Midlife Reinvention Specialist, podcast host, and author of Your Radical Living Challenge: 7 Questions for Leading a Meaningful Life. Together, they dive into what it really takes to build financial independence after divorce, release the scarcity mindset, and realign with a life of purpose—without blowing up the life you've already worked so hard to build.

From navigating money blocks and investing with intention to letting go of what no longer fits, Marnie shares powerful stories and practical wisdom that will help you ask the right questions to lead a radically aligned life—on your terms. If you’re a divorced mompreneur craving more meaning, more money, and more you in your business... this conversation is your sign.


🔑 Topics Discussed:

  • How to shed scarcity and step into strategic money moves
  • The power of asking the right questions to rewrite your next chapter
  • Why six-figure women still carry guilt around money
  • Burnout, business pivots, and building what feels good again
  • Quarterly money meetings, profit audits, and what subscriptions to ditch today


📚 Grab Marnie’s book & take her Decode Your Destiny quiz at radicallivingchallenge.com

Connect with Marni here:

WEBSITE: marnibattista.com

FACEBOOK PROFILE: https://www.facebook.com/MarniBattista

INSTAGRAM: @marnibattista_

LinkedIn: Marni Battista

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LifeCheckYourself

Substack: MarniBattista.substack.com

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I Date Money
iDateMoney® helps mompreneurs manage cash flow, ditch debt, and build true wealth—without shame. Hosted by Wealth Activator Lisa Drennon, creator of the Money Multiplier System. It’s not what you make—it’s what you do with it. 🗝️🌬️💖💸
Where Women Date Their Finances and Build Wealth—Without Shame.
They’ll tell you to hustle harder. Save more. Budget better. But here’s the truth: It doesn’t matter how much money you have—it’s what you do with it. 🗝️🌬️💖💸

Welcome to iDateMoney®, the podcast that helps mompreneurs take back control of their finances with clarity, strategy, and soul. Hosted by Lisa Drennon—Wealth Activator, money mindset expert, and creator of the Money Multiplier System—this show is where taboo ends and true wealth begins.

Each week, you’ll get a mix of raw conversations, mindset rewrites, spiritual insights, and practical strategies to help you crush debt without budgeting shame, master cash flow in your business and personal finances, save, spend, and give with purpose, and create a wealth plan you actually love living.

This is not your accountant’s podcast. This is real-talk money coaching for women ready to multiply what they already have and step into their financial sovereignty.

You’ll hear real stories. Tangible tools. Energetic alignment.
And the occasional money rant (because let’s be honest, some things need to be said).

Tune in, shift your money story, and start dating your finances—because wealth is your birthright, and it’s time to own it.

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Lisa Drennon

Lisa Drennon, Wealth Activator & founder of I Date Money™️ has been in the finance & insurance industry since 1987. Her unconventional Money Multiplier System transformed her money relationship to become a self-made millionaire, retire 2 ½ years early, pay $100K of debt in 6 months, & relocate to her beachfront dream home.