Do you want to become a financial coach but aren’t sure where to start?
Have you tried DIY’ing it with free training, podcasts, and blog posts, but still feel like you’re spinning your wheels?
Are you good with the financial and technical concepts but need help coaching people to change their behaviors?
Do want someone to show you it all while you design a business you love?
Great. You’re in the right place.
The Financial Coach Academy™ is an online course designed to walk you through every aspect of becoming a financial coach. Coach with confidence and run a legit business that adds to your life.
The best part? You can start the Academy today.
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“I can’t even really believe I was calling myself a financial coach before taking the Financial Coach Academy. I could not recommend this program enough to anybody who is motivated to grow their coaching business and learn from the best of the best.”
MEERA MEYER, Life Money Balance
“Before enrolling in FCA, I had a passion and a dream but hadn’t made any steps toward launching my financial coaching business. I have my MBA and can confidentially say that the FCA program is like an MBA for financial coaches. I am still amazed that with the help of the FCA I’ve been able to build a business from the ground up and in just 16 weeks!”
AMANDA BOUZAKINE, Broad Park Financial
“I started Financial Coach Academy with the thought of starting a side business along with my current career, and I am now committed to doing this full-time. I took another coaching course from a well-known financial personality and, although I got a lot out of it, there was nowhere near the detail provided by FCA.”
BRAD FINCH, Finch Financial Fitness
A Financial Coaching Program That Covers It All
The Financial Coach Academy™ will walk you through step-by-step how to become a coach and efficiently run your business.
After more than a decade of running our financial coaching business and years of running this course, we have identified the five core concepts that every financial coach needs to be a successful coach.
The Academy has assigned each of these concepts a module, and within each module is a series of lessons, videos, handouts, materials and actions to help you work through mastering this concept. Because the course is designed to have you build your business as you work through it, by Module 2, you’ll take on clients.
And by the time you finish all five modules, you’ll have the coaching skills to serve clients confidently and a business that is 100% up and running. Who knows, you might even start to enjoy selling your services. (WARNING: This is a common side effect of completing Module 4.)
Get Training Created By And Specifically For Financial Coaches
Financial coaching is a different kind of business.
You need financial knowledge and numbering crunching abilities people usually only associate with financial advisors.
You need the ability to help people change their behaviors and mindset which are usually traits associated with business or life coaches.
You also need the drive and discipline of any other entrepreneur running a business.
Being a financial coach takes mastering a unique blend of skills and traits.
It’s one of the many reasons we love being financial coaches and think financial coaches are so freaking awesome.
That’s why our program doesn’t just focus on financial theories or coaching skills. It covers this trifecta of skills to serve as your foundation.
Financial Coach Training That Benefits Your Whole Business
Expand Your Coaching Skills
It’s one thing to teach a client a financial concept. It’s a whole other skillset to coach them to change their behavior. We teach you how to be an effective coach who gets better and quicker results from your clients.
Gain Financial Knowledge
We teach you all of the same financial concepts we teach our own clients. You will build upon the natural skills you already have with money and get more financial exercises to work through with your clients.
Get A Business Blueprint
Build the systems and master the tech needed to run a business that’s as close to auto pilot that it can be. And no, you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars every month on fancy software to do it.
We are the creators and instructors of the Financial Coach Academy, but first and foremost,
WE ARE FINANCIAL COACHES
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“Prior to taking the Academy I felt like I was constantly spinning my wheels, but going no where. FCA provided the traction for me to take my idea/dream and turn it into a reality. The program gave me the confidence I needed to quit my job and pursue financial coaching full-time.”
DAVID GOURLEY, The Budget Teacher
“FCA was one of the most intensive and informational courses I have ever taken! Anything and everything you would possibly want to know is in this course. I completed it having no background in finance, and I feel confident in building a successful financial coaching business.”
JESSICA KLEINE, Mindset Financial Coaching
“FCA gave me everything I needed to start my coaching business and the encouragement to actually do it. Instead of spinning my wheels and never launching because I’m a perfectionist, I was able to take decisive action with what I learned. I had income before I even finished the course.”
AMBER PIETRANGELO, Abundance Financial
MONTHLY LIVE COACHING CALLS ARE INCLUDED WITH THE ACADEMY
Get your questions answers, get unstuck, and get advice from the creators and instructors of the financial coach academy in real time. Calls are hosted on Zoom on the last Wednesday of the month. They are open to ANY coach who has enrolled in the Academy, at any point.
We offer lifetime access to the Academy, and this monthly call is part of that access.
Modules, Lessons, and Topics Covered in the Financial Coach Academy
Module 1
Clarity On Who You Are And Who You Serve
Understand your purpose and your Why behind your business.
Module 1 Lessons
LESSON ONE: Your why story
LESSON TWO: Your vision of success and your title
LESSON THREE: Your ideal client
LESSON FOUR: Your business name and legal protections
By the end of this lesson, you will have:
- Gained clarity on who you are and who you serve.
- A clear vision for what kind of business you’re creating.
- Identified your niche.
- Learned the challenges your ideal clients are experiencing.
- Embraced where your desire to become a financial coach comes from.
- Begun crafting that into a compelling Why story.
- Picked a business name and chosen a title.
- A good understanding of some administrative and legal steps you can take for your business right now.
Module 1 Feedback
Module 2
A Client’s First Experience Working With You
Getting clients booked and coached
Module 2 Lessons
LESSON ONE: Creating first impressions and onboarding
LESSON TWO: Qualifying a client
LESSON THREE: Delivering your first session
LESSON FOUR: Working with beta clients
By the end of this lesson, you will have:
- Mapped out a client journey for your business.
- Created your Quick Audit process.
- Designed and launched your Discovery session.
- Activated a scheduling software.
- Built a tracking system for leads, prospects, and clients.
- Announced you’re looking for clients (maybe even had a couple practice clients under your belt as well)
Module 2 Feedback
Module 3
Building Long-Term Client Relationships
Design a client experience they won’t forget
Module 3 Lessons
LESSON ONE: Program development and design
LESSON TWO: Effective coaching and content creation
LESSON THREE: Boundaries and crucial conversations
LESSON FOUR: Support your business with systems
By the end of this lesson, you will have:
- Mapped out a coaching program for your business.
- Created really great content that gets your clients results.
- Learned effective coaching skills.
- Identified the four key roles coaches play.
- Wrapped your brain around asking effective questions.
- Drafted a Coaching Agreement.
- Designed and launched an onboarding sequence to lead clients through.
- Built a tracking system for your clients’ journey through your program.
- Established important policies to help you establish boundaries and expectations with clients.
Module 3 Feedback
Module 4
Selling Your Coaching With Integrity
Sell your discovery session or programs with confidence
Module 4 Lessons
LESSON ONE: Bridging the gap
LESSON TWO: Mindset of sales
LESSON THREE: Energy of sales
LESSON FOUR: Scripts and objections
By the end of this lesson, you will have:
- Identified where your clients are today, where they want to be and how your services help to bridge that gap.
- Brainstormed ways your coaching program helps clients to solve their current challenges.
- Reflected on what you appreciate and dislike about sales conversations you’ve experienced.
- Designed a pre-game sales strategy.
- Learned the strategy of “teeing up” your coaching.
- Wrote out pivot statements for your Discovery session.
- Learned how the energy in your workspace impacts your sales conversations.
- Explored various objections you may hear and how you’ll respond to them.
- Identified 10 benefits of your coaching.
- Outlined how you will wrap up your Discovery session for three scenarios that could occur.
Module 4 Feedback
Module 5
Marketing Your Coaching
Get out there and create a brand and a name for yourself
Module 5 Lessons
LESSON ONE: Developing referral relationships
LESSON TWO: Rocking your social media
LESSON THREE: Creating a killer website
LESSON FOUR: Designing marketing resources
By the end of this lesson, you will have:
- Learned strategies for making the most of your referral relationships.
- Identified who’s in front of your ideal clients on a regular basis already.
- Brainstormed ways your coaching program helps their clients to solve their current challenges.
- Designed a reach-out strategy for connecting with referral partners.
- Picked and launched a social media platform for you as a financial coach.
- Learned about the key components of your website.
- Wrote out the copy for your website.
- Explored various commercials you can use to gain the most from the networking meetings you attend.
- Designed a follow-up strategy after a one-to-one with a referral partner.
- Established goals for your referral marketing and social media marketing.
Module 5 Feedback
Lifetime access to the course and all of its materials is included in the cost of the Financial Coach Academy.
We don’t expect you to get everything right off the bat. We cover a lot of material, and we want you to have the ability to go back and watch whatever lessons you need as issues and questions pop up in your business. You’ll never lose access to the materials in the course so long as the course is around.
We’re in this for the long haul because we love financial coaching.
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Did we mention more than 600 coaches have already completed the Academy?
“After FCA, I am so confident I don’t think anyone can knock me down. I network like a champion. I have content that looks good and provides value. I have goals in my business. I HAVE A PAYING CLIENT. I just feel like there is nothing stopping me.”
AMANDA JACOB, Life Changes By You
“Before the Academy, I was stuck in the beginning stages of my business not knowing what steps to take or how building a program worked. Kelsa and the team helped me take my business from beginning stages to up and running. I highly recommend you take FCA if you want to become a financial coach.”
TANYA GEHRES, Table Talk Financial
“The training offered by the FCA was precisely what I needed at the early stage of my financial coaching career. Excellent training, excellent support, and excellent applications to all aspects of financial coaching important to a new financial coach.”
DAVID KNAPP, Smart Cents Personal Financial Coaching
A Program Designed to Grow With You – The Bonus Modules
Once a coach has worked their way through the five core modules, they have completed the course. Their Academy graduate seal is on the way!
But as we said, the first five modules are just the core concepts. There’s so much more.
As you grow your business, we have created bonus modules to guide you there too.
You may want to add a course, group program, or mastermind in addition to your one-on-one coaching. We cover each one of those in the Advanced Programming Bonus Module.
In the Thinking Like a CEO Bonus Module, we help you devise a strategy and plan for hiring your first assistant or support person.
In Advanced Marketing, we help you create your signature presentation and fun gifs!
If you think you might want to offer your services to corporations, we give you our entire Corporate Wellness strategy
The five bonus modules are designed to help you and support you beyond your initial launch.
BONUS MODULE: Thinking Like a CEO
Includes:
- Taking action in your business
- Working in your Zone of Genius
- Planning and goal setting for your business
- Managing your time as a business owner
- Finance and operations
BONUS MODULE: Corporate Wellness
Design and run a profitable financial wellness program for corporate clients. Learn how to network with key players, develop you niche, build a dynamic workshop, and land your first corporate client from your academy instructors as well as Shane Robson-Smith of the Workplace Money Coach.
BONUS MODULE: Advanced Marketing
Lessons include:
- Creating your signature presentation
- Writing your got-to-open-it newsletter
- Getting PR stories and featured articles
- SEO and Google Analytics for financial coaches
- Gif-ify your brand (let’s make gifs!)
BONUS MODULE: Advanced Programming
Lessons include:
- Understanding your client success path
- Setting the stage
- Designing your one-to-many offering
- Extending the coach-client relationship
- Daily money management
BONUS MODULE: Q&A Recordings
Includes 35 Q&A sessions with the Academy instructors and coaches who went through the live version of the Academy. There are audio recordings, video recordings, and lists of questions included for each of the 35 calls included in this module. It’s more than a day’s worth of coaching calls!
How We Structure Our Financial Coach Training
And How We Get You To Take Action
Anyone can learn how to be a coach. We want you to become a coach.
Messy action is kind of our mantra, so we guide you and encourage you to jump into coaching even if you don’t have it all figured out just yet. In fact, that’s why you’re taking this course. We show you how to do it all (everything from creating materials for your clients to materials for your marketing) and then nudge you in loving way to go out and make the things and talk to people.
Our course is designed for the coach who is ready to take action and become a coach, whether that’s as a side hustle or making coaching your primary source of income.
Know Exactly Where You Are With the Rubric
Every module also includes a rubric, which is your guide to the lessons and their associated actions in that module. We’ve separated each lesson into four action steps: learn, design, build and finesse.
LEARN
Watch the lesson videos and absorb what we’re teaching.
DESIGN
Plan, brainstorm, and sketch out how that lesson applies to your coaching.
BUILD
Create and build the document, process, script, or program you just designed.
FINESSE
Perfect or up level what you’re doing. But only if you want to. You can always revisit the finesse sections later.
How long does it take to complete the Academy?
That’s the question we get asked most frequently. Our answer is that’s really difficult to say because it’s a self-paced course.
You can go at your own speed so there is no set time. And because some lessons will be harder than others based on your own skillset, how long the course takes is really up to you. We aim to provide the whole shebang with this course so there are a lot of lessons and exercises to work through. This is not a course you will finish in a day or a week. In fact, we recommend you don’t try to get through it in less than a month’s time.
But we also don’t want you to spend all your time learning without doing. By the end of Module 2, we encourage you to go out and start getting clients while you finish the remaining modules. The goal is that you start coaching relatively quickly while you continue designing your program and building your business.
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- The second payment will be processed 30 days after your first payment.
Who Should Take the Academy?
New Financial Coaches – If you are just starting out as a financial coach and want to have evidence-based systems in place, gain mastery of more advanced financial concepts and coaching strategies, and graduate with a proven business model integrated into your financial coaching practice, the Academy is for you.
Professionals Looking for a Career Change – If you are good with your money, love helping your friends and family with their budgets as a hobby or side hustle, and want to turn your passion into a career, the Academy is for you. Same goes for financial professionals and entrepreneurs who want to move away from corporate America and start your own business.
Psst. If you’re an established financial coach looking to gain more coaching skills, you might be better served by the Financial Coaching Toolkit.
The Toolkit was designed for coaches who are looking to better serve their clients with more resources and coaching exercises. If you’re not sure which offering is best for your business, schedule a free 20-minute, no pressure call with Kelsa to help you figure it out.
Meet Your Instructors
Jill, Kelsa, Michael, and Jaclyn
Why We Created the Academy
Financial Coaches have the power to change the world. We truly believe that. In fact, it’s why we created the Financial Coach Academy. We love financial coaching. Honestly, we’re a wee bit obsessed.
Our coaching business began with Kelsa Dickey. She had passion for financial coaching and wanted to help everyone take the stress out of managing their money. Literally everyone. (See, obsessed.) But knowing there was just one Kelsa, she knew it wasn’t possible. Who has that kind of time? She grew her team to include her husband Michael and they created the Academy in 2016 to start training more coaches. Since then, they’ve helped hundreds of coaches work their way through the Academy.
But that was just the start. Two of the coaches who’ve taken the course, Jill Emanuel and Jaclyn Wise, joined Kelsa’s team and are now Academy instructors too. We launched a completely revamped and redesigned Academy in 2021 that features everyone on this expanded team.
The Financial Coach Academy is our way to help as many people get financial coaching as possible. By creating a course that is practical and demonstrates everything we have learned over 10 years of financial coaching, we can help more coaches coach more people. So thank you for contributing to our mission because we still love coaching and we still want to help everyone. We are so glad you want to become a financial coach.
Not Sure If The Academy Is Right For You?
TALK TO THE ACADEMY’S LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Schedule a free Q&A call if you want to make certain the course is right for you, right now. In this 20-minute chat, the Academy’s lead instructor Kelsa Dickey will give you an honest, no-pressure assessment of whether or not the Academy is what you need.
Frequently Asked Questions
The lessons are all previously recorded and available immediately, so you can watch them anywhere, at any time. The monthly live coaching calls are hosted on Zoom. You’ll be given instructions to join upon enrollment in the Financial Coach Academy.
Our program sets us apart from other financial coaching training in a few big ways:
- Financial Coach Academy covers three main pillars – financial concepts, business building strategies, and coaching skills. Our approach to these topics is thorough and based on experience. We do not provide theories. We provide practical, hands-on, step-by-step instruction on tried-and-true methods that have worked for us. We share what didn’t work for us and why. We live and breathe financial coaching every day! Our approach to financial concepts, for example, is behavioral and we provide skill-based applications and exercises you can do with clients.
- We don’t spend time talking about mortgages, bankruptcy, estate planning, insurance or other topics that you are probably familiar with already. And if you’re not, we show you how easy it is to discover those topics – you don’t need to pay us for those lessons.
- We provide lifetime access to the course materials. So long as the course is around, you never lose access to them, nor do we ask you to pay more to keep them. That means as your business grows and you face new obstacles, you can revisit the materials and tackle those challenges with confidence!
- Monthly coaching calls! In addition to lifetime access to the course, you get ongoing access to our free monthly coaching calls. These calls are open to any and all coaches who have enrolled in the Academy at any point.
- Finally, not only do we share exactly how we do everything, we also give you the framework so you can create your own strategies that are unique to your personality and business. Our goal is for you to be inspired by us, not that you have to do everything exactly how we have.
- As a financial coach first and foremost, Kelsa knows what it feels like to coach clients on their finances. She knows what you’ll go through, the things you are likely telling yourself, the worries you feel and hope you have for others. Throughout the Academy, these gems are sprinkled throughout so you feel understood and supported not just as a financial coach, but as a whole person.
We can say without any hesitation that the Financial Coach Academy is the most comprehensive, thorough, specific and valuable training for financial coaches there is.
We don’t give you terms and definitions to study, such as what is a mortgage or what is an interest rate. Instead, we take major financial topics (shown below) and coach you on the technical aspect of them AND THEN add in the behavioral and mindset components so you’re coaching the whole person on their money, not just their money.
Some of the major financial topics we cover in the FCA include, but are not limited to:
- Budgeting
- Debt payoff strategies
- Specific scenarios and how to coach around them
- Net Worth
- Savings Rates
- Emergency Budgets and Goals
- Goal-Setting Strategies (did you know there are a bunch?)
- Value-based spending
- Financial principles
- Money Mindset
- Dream Budgets
- Planning Ahead Financially
- Business Budgeting & Coaching
We host a monthly coaching call for ALL Academy enrolled which is the best place to get your questions answered. We do not answer questions about the Academy’s content or individual coaching situations via email.
In addition, all attendees of the Academy are invited to join a Facebook group just for FCA graduates and our free Financial Coaches Unite Facebook group. Financial Coaches Unite is a 7,000+ member group made up of FCA graduates, veteran financial coaches, and newer coaches, so all experiences and skill levels are represented. It’s the best place to ask questions for two reasons:
- You will get feedback from other financial coaches on what has specifically worked for them, not just us.
- It will help other coaches who have the same question (and may not even know they have that question).
We respond to questions in the group as often as we can, but can’t guarantee that we will answer your question. We’re tagged a lot.
If you need more guidance and want more access to the FCA instructors, consider joining the Financial Coach Academy Mastermind. We open registration to this group twice a year, so be on the lookout for emails from us about open registration.
The Academy comes with a 60-day refund policy. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase, but we also want you to give your best effort to apply the strategies in the course. In order to received a refund, you have to request it within 60 days of your purchase and submit completed course work. See here for all the terms and conditions of the Academy refund policy.
Yes, absolutely. We’ve had coaches from across the world enroll in and complete the Academy with huge success.
There is one supplemental video at the end of Module 1 that is all about business structures and options for incorporation that is for U.S. businesses only. We also talk about payment processors like PayPal and Stripe, which are not used in some countries. But often, coaches know which payment processors are commonly used in their country.
But everything else (and it’s a LOT) in the course applies. The fundamentals of the Academy are all about the client journey, human behavior, and our mindset as coaches, and that applies no matter where you are from.
If you’re part of our Facebook group, Financial Coaches Unite, then hopefully you’ve watched and reviewed a good amount of the free resources we offer in the guides section of that group. We offer a lot. There are 8 different guides that include more than 70 posts and 50 videos. That is HOURS UPON HOURS of free financial coach training. There are also free downloads and resources, like our example coaching agreement.
They are great. But they’re not the Academy.
The Academy is far more robust because you get everything, and I do mean everything, you could possible need to become a coach and run a coaching business. You get the entire blueprint of how to attract the right clients, how to sell to them without being sales-y, how to design your program, how to coach and move clients through your program, and how to get feedback and reviews so you can get more just like them. In addition, you get all the materials and resources you could possibly need because we give you all the materials we use in our coaching business. And unlike the guides, you don’t have to piece it all together. The Academy is ordered in a way where all you have to do is follow along.
So yes, the guides are great, but they are truly just the tip of the iceberg.
You will be able to take your knowledge and passion for personal finance and become a successful financial coach. It’s that simple. Most importantly, you will feel confident and be able to serve people well and get them great results. The course was designed to help you do that, so that’s what we want you to be able to do, regardless of where you are in your coaching career.
All graduates of the Financial Coach Academy receive a Certificate of Completion as well as a Financial Coach Academy Graduate Seal to place on their website and in their marketing materials. Being a graduate of the Financial Coach Academy sets you apart from other financial coaches in skill and service so we want your clients to know about it! We also provide you with some sample language to put in your marketing to promote your commitment to your own professional development.
Purchase the course and begin learning immediately! Or if you have questions, you can set up a time to talk with Kelsa, the founder and creator of the Financial Coach Academy, by clicking here. You can call us at (480) 788-4588 or email info@fiscalfitnessphx.com to set up a discovery session to find out if this program is right for you.
Yes, once you purchase the course all videos, workbooks, materials, and exercise will be available to you immediately. However, the course is designed so the first five modules should be completed in order. Start with the core concepts and off you go!
Practical steps to take your knowledge of personal finance and craft a business model around it. You will learn everything from client contracts and pricing to scheduling and marketing. We want you to learn from our mistakes and successes and use them to create a successful financial coaching business that’s all your own. You will also learn tried and true methods from exercises, discussion topics, handouts, and real-time questions that get results with clients.
None! Just a passion for helping people with their personal finances. It’s possible other people view you as a certified budget geek. Don’t worry. We love budget geeks. We are budget geeks. You will be in good company.
Certainly not. All you need is a desire to help people and a passion for personal finance.
We have poured a decade’s worth of lessons and hard work into this course’s materials. The Financial Coach Academy will show you everything that has brought us success and every mistake that we have made so you don’t repeat them. We truly believe that everything you get out of this course is directly related to the effort you put into it. We provide ample execution time so you can apply everything that we teach to your business, and we are confident that work, plus accountability to keep you motivated and on track, will set you up for success. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee any level of results.
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