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 [...]

Episode 156 | June 11, 2026 | 33:35 Someone posted on Reddit that they spent more than $4,000 on a conference and came home with six business cards sitting on their desk. No meetings booked, no real conversations, no follow-up calls scheduled. They did everything people tell you to do. They worked the expo floor, sat through sessions, showed up to the networking cocktail hour. And they still felt like they had wasted their money. Their question was simple: What do you actually do before a conference to make it worth going? I have been to enough conferences, [...]

Episode 155 | June 3, 2026 | 29:54 A few weeks ago, an email came across my desk from a financial coach who said she'd never struggled this much to make something work. She'd been posting consistently, running webinars (eight of them), building a community, and getting engagement on every post. However, she had zero coaching clients and six months of runway left, and her friends and family were telling her there wasn't a market for financial coaching and she should go back to her corporate job. We got on a call, and what came out of that [...]

Episode 154 | May 28, 2026 | 17:18 Every business decision you face as a financial coach has three stakeholders: You, your client, and your business. Most coaches only think about one or two of them when they're deciding, and that's usually why the decisions feel harder than they need to be. I want to walk you through the framework I use for every business decision I make. I call it the Three Lens Framework, and once you see how it works, you'll start using it in places that have nothing to do with running a coaching practice. [...]

Episode 153 | May 14, 2026 | 20:58 Great coaching at the wrong moment still misses. That's the thread running through almost two decades of client work, and it's what surfaced a pattern: four stages every client moves through when they start working on their money. See Clearly, Stand Firm, Own It, Build Forward. The situations are always different. The arc is the same. This episode walks through what each stage looks like, what a client needs at each one, and how to read where someone actually is so the work you offer can land. Key Takeaways [...]

Episode 150 | April 23, 2026 | 1:22:36 Lauren is a financial coach who knows exactly what she'd tell a client juggling competing goals with limited margin. But when it came to her own money, everything felt stuck. In this Client Seat episode, you'll hear what changes when a jumbled mind finally gets to choose a direction. And you’ll hear what I'd do differently in my own coaching next time. Key Takeaways When you know a client well, the pull to steer is strongest. Name what you're remembering and hand the wheel back to them. Not choosing [...]

Episode 149 | April 15, 2026 | 22:20 Most clients can't tell if their financial work is paying off. Here's a single number that shows them exactly how much financial progress they're making. Key Takeaways Without a concrete way to measure progress, clients go by feelings. A rough month makes the whole year feel bad. A good paycheck makes everything feel fine. Neither is the full picture. Net worth is a snapshot. It shows where someone stands, but not how fast they're moving or how intentionally they're directing resources toward their future. Two clients with the same [...]

Episode 148 | April 2, 2026 | 10:26 There's a moment most coaches know well: A client comes into a session frustrated. They had a bad month. They went over budget. They're discouraged, maybe a little embarrassed. And when you ask what happened, they walk you through it: the car needed brakes, a school trip fee, a vet appointment, and their annual car registration all landed in the same three weeks. As they're telling you this, you can feel the weight of it. They feel like they failed. Like they should have been more prepared, more disciplined, more careful. [...]