The Money Sessions

Author: Tiffany McLain

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Owning Midlife Rage & Claiming her $350 Fee with Jen Gallagher
Episode 196
Sunday, 11 October, 2026

Ready to set your fee? You choose the dream, we'll do the math.🎁 Download our FREE Fun with Fees Calculator 👉🏽 https://www.leaninmakebank.com/free Ready to charge Life First Fees? Click here to fill out an application What if the rage you've been taught to suppress is actually the very thing trying to show you where you're ready to take up more space? In this episode of The Money Sessions, Tiffany sits down with therapist Jen Gallagher to talk about midlife rage, visibility, money, and what it took for Jen to step out of her husband's group practice and build her own private-pay practice. After more than 20 years as a therapist, Jen is now specializing in working with women in midlife who are experiencing rage, burnout, and the urge to blow up their lives. Jen shares the messy middle of going from an average session reimbursement of around $125 to charging $250 for 50 minutes and $350 for 80 minutes—and the internal work required to believe that this reality was actually possible for her. This conversation is about so much more than raising your fee. It's about visibility, self-trust, taking ownership of your finances, and learning to recognize that the number on your fee schedule is often just the tip of a much bigger iceberg. IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER Why Jen's journey to a $250/$350 fee required much more than simply choosing a number The difference between saying your fee and actually fully committing to it How being invisible can become a survival strategy—and why building a visible private practice requires challenging that pattern The fear and doubt that show up in the liminal space between choosing a higher fee and having a full caseload at that fee Why having only two clients at $250 and $350 doesn't mean the strategy isn't working—it can be the first visible evidence of a much bigger shift How Jen learned to separate what her fears were telling her from what was actually true The connection between suppressed rage, boundaries, self-advocacy, and money Why rage isn't necessarily something to get rid of—it can be information that tells you something needs to change How years of putting everyone else first can eventually show up as burnout, illness, resentment, and financial depletion What Jen learned from interviewing more than 20 women about rage in midlife Why women who have spent their lives being "good," generous, and accommodating eventually reach a point where their system says enough How imagining a different reality—and seeing other therapists actually living it—helped Jenn believe that a different financial reality was possible for her too The deeper transformation underneath Jenn's $350 fee—and why the money is ultimately just the byproduct of the work underneath the surface RESOURCES MENTIONED LIMB Academy LFF Calculator Jen Gallagher's Rage Style Quiz Jen's Website