Episode 157 | June 17, 2026 | 11:09
After 157 episodes, the Financial Coach Academy Podcast has a new name. Starting June 25, this show becomes Money Made Human: Same feed, same voice, same Thursday mornings, but with a conversation that has room for everyone. This episode explains what’s changing, why it matters, and what Season 2 looks like. Here’s the full story.
Key Takeaways
| The podcast is becoming Money Made Human. Same feed, same voice, same Thursdays, bigger conversation. | |
| A listener who wasn’t a coach found this show, used what she learned to hire the right coach, and was out of debt in six months. The audience for this conversation was always bigger than coaches alone. | |
| Season 2 features the full SpendFirst® book read chapter by chapter, one per week, in Kelsa’s voice. Podcast listeners hear it before the November 11 launch. | |
| For coaches, Season 2 is a front-row seat to how Kelsa talks with everyday people about money: the words she uses, the energy she brings, the way she puts the methodology into practice. | |
| Everything from FCA (trainings, community, coach development path) stays in place. The rebrand adds more; nothing goes away. | |
| The new home for the show is spendfirst.com/podcast. No action needed if you’re already subscribed. | |
| Season 2 opens June 25 with a welcome episode. The book reading begins the following week. |
What 157 episodes built
When the Financial Coach Academy podcast started, financial coaching barely had a name. There was no roadmap for this profession, so we built one out loud, episode by episode. Episode 1 asked a question nobody could answer cleanly yet: What is a financial coach?
From there, the show tackled the things people didn’t want to talk about. Pricing, when nobody wanted to say their numbers out loud. What actually happens inside a coaching session. Real client work on display in the Client Seat episodes, so coaches could hear coaching in action rather than just hear about it.
On the other side of those 157 episodes are coaches who left careers they’d outgrown, coaches who signed their first clients, coaches who raised their prices and watched their businesses hold. People who built something real with helping others as the foundation.
On the other side of the last 157 episodes are coaches who built something real with helping people, serving clients, and getting results as the foundation.
The listener who changed everything
One listener in particular is the reason this episode exists. She wasn’t a coach, and she didn’t want to be one. She was thinking about working with a coach, and the idea of reaching out to someone about her money, showing a stranger the parts of her finances she’d been avoiding, felt intimidating.
She found this podcast. A show made for coaches. She listened to the episodes about what makes a coach effective, what to look for, and how sessions actually work. And something shifted. She realized she didn’t have to feel intimidated. She knew what to look for now. She felt capable enough to reach out to several coaches, interview them, and hire one.
Six months later, she was out of debt.
An episode I made for coaches changed the life of someone who never wanted to be one. The audience for this conversation was always bigger than I knew.
That moment clicked something into place that I haven’t been able to unsee: The audience for conversations about money was always bigger than coaches. Everyday people are hungry for this same information. They’ve just never been invited in.
Why the name is changing
The honest reason, the version I would tell you over dinner, is that the work outgrew the name. For years, the podcast was the CEO version of me. The business educator version. Real, and useful, but not the full picture.
There’s also the person who manages my own money. Who has my own goals I’m working toward. Who has spent 20 years sitting across from real people, talking about real money, in real life. On Money Made Human, listeners get the full Kelsa.
The goal is one conversation where everyday people and coaches come together to talk about money and financial progress. Because that’s how money actually works in real life. Coaches manage their own paychecks too, and everyday people are often one good conversation away from helping somebody else.
What Money Made Human is
Money Made Human is personal finance with a human touch. A show about what it actually looks like to handle money well. The real, human experience of building a financial life that fits how you actually live.
Same feed. Same show, right where it’s always been. Same Thursday mornings. But with a new name, new artwork, and a bigger conversation.
Money Made Human is personal finance with a human touch. A show about what it actually looks like to handle money well.
What’s coming in Season 2
The SpendFirst® book launches November 11, 2026. Before it ever hits a shelf, I’m reading the entire book on the podcast. One chapter per episode, in my own voice, every Thursday, all summer and into the fall.
Season 2 opens June 25 with a welcome episode. The book reading begins the following week. By the time the book launches in November, listeners will have heard every word of it.
For coaches: This is the SpendFirst methodology, taught the way I teach it to clients. Hearing it chapter by chapter is a masterclass in how to use it, how to explain it, and how to understand the thinking behind it.
For everyone else: This is a book about what it actually looks like to handle money well. The real version, told by someone who still sits across from clients every week.
To the coaches
Everything coaches have relied on from FCA, the trainings, the community, the path for building a practice, stays right where it is. The rebrand adds more; nothing goes away.
What opens up when coaches and everyday people are part of the same conversation is more nuance, more depth, and more practical demonstration of the work in action. Coaches will hear how I talk with everyday people about money: the energy I bring, the words I use, the way I put theory into practice. For a coach, that’s a masterclass hiding inside a podcast.
What you need to do
Nothing. Stay subscribed, right where you are. Next Thursday, June 25, the feed transforms: new cover art, new name, new music, same show in your app.
If you want to see the new home for the show, it’s on our new SpendFirst website. And if there’s someone in your life who’s been wanting a better relationship with their money, Season 2 is the one to send them. They can start fresh on June 25.
Goodbye, Season 1. You were everything. I’ll see you Thursday.
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