About From Their Story To Yours: A Historical Leadership Podcast
Stories are powerful. This storytelling podcast was founded to reconnect with the leadership heritage of America. By bringing the stories of extraordinary leaders to life, we make them accessible to anyone seeking to lead with purpose. It is built on the belief that leadership becomes richer and more meaningful when it reflects the full spectrum of experiences that have shaped our nation. By rediscovering the lives, decisions, and defining moments of past American leaders, Elaine seeks to inspire a new generation to lead with greater depth and perspective.
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The lesson was Handle Your Finances. Abigail Adams was the leader. Now meet someone whose passion for Abigail's story brings a wonderfully personal and deeply knowledgeable perspective to everything we explored in Episode 30.
This episode, Elaine sits down with Colleen — a private citizen whose love of history and deep knowledge of Abigail Adams makes for one of the warmest and most fascinating conversations of the season.
Because sometimes the most illuminating insights don't come from the lecture hall or the published biography. Sometimes they come from the people who have simply fallen deeply in love with a story and spent years living inside it. Colleen is exactly that kind of expert: the kind whose enthusiasm is infectious, whose knowledge runs deep and whose passion for Abigail Adams reminds us why history matters so much in the first place.
Together Elaine and Colleen dig into the life, the legacy and the lasting lessons of one of the most remarkable and underrated figures in American history. A woman who managed money, managed a household, managed a farm and managed to shape the thinking of the founding fathers all from the margins of a world that was not yet ready to give her the credit she deserved.
This conversation is warm, rich and full of the kind of detail that makes Abigail Adams feel not like a figure from a history book — but like someone you wish you could sit down and have a conversation with yourself.
Season 1: Self Leadership continues and this episode is a beautiful reminder that history belongs to all of us. Not just the experts. Not just the academics. But to anyone who takes the time to look back, listen carefully and let the lessons in.
From Their Story To Yours — because the best leadership lessons aren't new. They're just waiting to be rediscovered.
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16 Oct 2026
Handle Your Finances Pt. 2
Episode 30 — The Reveal: Handle Your Finances
You waited. You wondered. The moment is here.
Welcome back to From Their Story To Yours — and to the reveal behind Lesson 7: Handle Your Finances.
The historical leader behind this lesson?
Abigail Adams.
A name that deserves to be spoken in the same breath as every great financial mind in American history — and rarely is.
While her husband John Adams was busy helping to build a nation, Abigail Adams was busy doing something equally extraordinary and far less celebrated. She was managing the family finances with a shrewdness, a discipline and a strategic intelligence that was decades ahead of her time. In an era when women had no legal right to own property, no formal financial education and no seat at the table of economic life, Abigail Adams quietly and deliberately built financial stability and independence for her family — and used it as the foundation from which she could influence, advise and lead.
She invested in land. She managed the household accounts with meticulous care. She made financial decisions that her husband trusted entirely and that shaped the Adams family's future for generations. And she did all of this while raising a family, running a farm, and corresponding with some of the most powerful minds of the founding era.
Abigail Adams understood something that every leader needs to hear. That financial independence is not a side note to leadership. It is the foundation of it. Handle your finances and you create the freedom to lead on your own terms — for your family, your community and the causes that matter most to you.
Season 1: Self Leadership continues — and this story is proof that some of the greatest leadership lessons in history have been hiding in plain sight all along.
And speaking of going deeper — we have a very special expert interview coming up in the next episode. We're not ready to reveal who just yet… but trust us, you are going to want to come back for this one. 👀
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From Their Story To Yours — because the best leadership lessons aren't new. They're just waiting to be rediscovered.
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14 Oct 2026
How To Handle Your Finances Pt.1
Nobody talks about this one enough. And it might just be the most important lesson of the entire season.
Welcome back to From Their Story To Yours — where history's greatest leaders hand you the playbook, one lesson at a time. Your host Elaine McLoughlin is back with Lesson 7 of Season 1: Self Leadership — and this one is going to make you think differently about something we all deal with every single day.
Lesson 7: Handle Your Finances.
Because here is the truth that nobody likes to say out loud. If you want to lead, whether that is your family, your team, your community or something far bigger: it all comes back to money. Not because money is everything. But because what you can do with it is. Financial independence is not just a personal goal. It is a leadership strategy. The freedom to make the right decisions, back the right causes, support the right people and show up fully in the world — all of it is connected to how you handle your finances.
This episode, Elaine introduces us to a historical figure who understood this long before it was fashionable to say so. A leader who managed money not for personal gain but as a tool — a means of creating the freedom and the stability to lead with purpose, intention and impact.
But who are we talking about? That's the reveal — and it's coming in Episode 30. Trust us, this one is going to surprise you. Come back and find out. 🎙️
Season 1: Self Leadership is in full swing — and the deeper we go, the clearer it becomes. The leaders who changed the world always understood that true leadership starts with taking care of your own house first.
From Their Story To Yours — because the best leadership lessons aren't new. They're just waiting to be rediscovered.
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