Client Creator Challenge

Tired of the Client-Acquisition Hamster Wheel?

Join The Client Creator Challenge and Build a Client Attraction System That Works in 2026

You’ve invested time, energy, and resources into building your business. You’ve had some wins, maybe even some great clients, but it feels like every time you get traction, the momentum slips away.

One month, everything is running smoothly. The next, it’s back to square one trying to find new clients.

The stress of inconsistent income and unpredictable client flow can take a toll. It’s not that you don’t know what to do, you’ve tried everything from posting on social media to attending networking events. But the ups and downs can leave you feeling exhausted.

Sound familiar?

One month, you’re fully booked, and the next, your calendar is empty.

You feel stuck in “feast or famine” mode, constantly worried about where the next client will come from.

You’ve thrown yourself into every strategy you’ve read about, yet nothing seems to create sustainable, repeatable growth.

You’re starting to feel like you’re running a business on hope instead of strategy.

This kind of uncertainty doesn’t just affect your bottom line. It can affect your confidence, energy, and motivation. And that’s exactly what the Client Creator Challenge is designed to solve.

Imagine having a consistent flow of ideal clients where your energy goes into serving them, not searching for them. The Client Creator Challenge helps you stop the cycle of chasing clients and start building a reliable, sustainable system that works for you.

Join the Financial Coach Academy® Team (and in 2026 – additional guest mentors!) as they guide you through creating a client attraction system that actually works for you. No more throwing spaghetti at the wall, just implement, review, & refine.

Introducing…

The 2026 Client Creator Challenge

The 2026 Client Creator Challenge runs from Jan 12th – April 12th, 2026

In 2025, participating coaches finished the challenge with an average of $9,443 in NEW CLIENT revenue per coach!

That means that 83 (incredible) financial coaches added 219 BRAND NEW CLIENTS to their rosters!

Just take a peek at some of the celebrations from Week ONE:

“I just got my first 6-month client for this challenge last night!!!! WOOHOO!!!!! And it’s just week 1! That’s a lot of exclamation points, but I am OWNING IT!”

“I received payment this morning for a new program client!! It’s my first client for this new program, and they PAID IN FULL!”

“I’m closing out WEEK 1 of the challenge with my first sale for a Money Map (what I call a Discovery Session). He attended a workshop I did for a referral partner!”

BOOM!

The Financial Coach Academy® Client Creator Challenge is designed to provide you with the tools and support system you need to create a consistent client attraction system without…

  • Posting to social media 5+ times a day every. single. day.

  • DMing random profiles while crossing your fingers

  • Cold pitching potential clients

  • Hustling at all hours, hoping that “this time” it works

  • Staring at a blinking cursor feeling uninspired and frustrated by your creative paralysis

“I recommend the Client Creator Challenge to any financial coach who wants to gain more clients because it encourages and motivates you to take action. The mindset videos are GOLD and being in a group of other financial coaches who are all working toward the same goal is so energizing!”

When you join us for The 2026 Financial Coach Academy® Client Creator Challenge, you’ll…

  • create a client attraction system that works for you consistently!

  • build better, more reliable habits that make marketing your business easier! 

  • get more clients & identify which marketing tactics are working 

Imagine what your business will look like with a client attraction system that actually works (and you enjoy!)…

  • No more spinning your wheels

  • No more second-guessing your posts

  • No more cold DMs

  • No more hustling

  • No more lost momentum

  • No more creative paralysis

The shift that happens when you get 4 new clients in one week AND one of them says……. “This price is great”…….😳

I’m never going back to:

* Thinking I’m too expensive
* Thinking no one will buy from me
* Being scared to make an offer
* Not showing up for the clients who are looking for me

Yesterday’s ME is not today’s ME!!!!

BTW…next time the Client Creator Challenge comes out, make sure you’re the first one to sign up. It changed me and my business! Outside of FCA, it’s been one of the best investments I’ve made!

I’ve been fairly quiet and slow moving over here. But I’ve had a few great moments in the past week that have given me a jolt and wanted to share and encourage.

For those like me coaching super part-time or only a year or two into it…

I realized a few weeks into this challenge that “getting clients” wasn’t my problem. I needed to get clearer on who I serve, more confident in serving them, structuring a program, etc.

So I bought the FCA. I told myself I’d wait to start when the challenge was over but see how I’ve used it as a way to procrastinate. I need to transition from being “interested” to “invested.”

However, I had a lead message me saying a post “spoke to her soul today” and another tell me she wished she’d met me years ago. 😊

I sat down and looked at my sales from last year (way cheap prices and not much coaching) which was $1,690. This year in almost 4 months I’ve already made $1,406 with $200 due the end of April.

This blew my mind!! 🤯 I know I’m charging way less than I could and don’t even feel like I’m fully invested. What if I was?!

There are so many other things that I gained from this challenge that I can’t put a number on. For example, just like with my running journey, I owned where I was and what I wanted to accomplish during this three months. Derick Kopp, you would be so proud of me in that I was finally able to let go of the numbers and focus on the tasks and habits to get me to my goals. Here’s the deal…I didn’t hit my income goals…but I did add income and more importantly, I focused on my own journey and doing the things I needed to do to learn and grow myself and my business and I am good with that. My confidence is WAY higher than it was when I started. I KNOW I will reach my goals.

I have learned to embrace messy action while continuing to work systematically through FCA. (In the past and with other endeavors, I was either/or rather than both/and). Instead of trying to do “all the things,” I picked a couple and really focused on them and let the others go. For example, I let the networking piece go during this challenge. But because of the focused work that I DID do, I will add the networking in June.

I am learning to have healthy downtime. I have had SO. MANY. MINDSET CHANGES! Thank you Derick Kopp for pushing me the second half of 2021 and helping me lay the foundation for the work that I did in the Client Creator Challenge.

Thank you to the Financial Coach Academy team…Kelsa Dickey, Jill Emanuel, and Jaclyn Wise. This was truly life-changing and I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2022 brings!

Regardless of where you are in your business, I challenge you to jump in on this next year. I promise you will see results if you put in the effort!

Over the course of 90 days, we’ll gather as a hyper-focused (and super encouraging) client-attracting community. Providing you with the support and guidance that you need to keep moving forward while building real, lasting relationships with other financial coaches who share the same passion & goal: creating more clients.

“The Challenge is a holistic approach to client creation. It provides so many different options and angles that each coach has the space to create a process that works for them. You see who you want to be, and build your foundation from there. I’m already planning to join again next year!”

“The Client Creator Challenge ROCKS! I didn’t have processes for getting leads (except for one that made me miserable) and converting them. Now business is booming!”

“I would absolutely recommend the Client Creator Challenge!!! The coaching information is top-notch and will be used over and over again in my coaching business. The skills that I learned helped me improve immediately and will continue to inspire me for years. The support and inspiration of the other coaches – it’s hard to describe, but so worthwhile!”

When you join the challenge, you’ll receive…

  • An exclusive, challenge members only Facebook group where real-time coaching happens with the FCA team (a $1,300+ value)

  • Weekly mindset coaching with Kelsa (a $1,300+ value)

  • Group coaching calls led by the FCA team, along with the coaches participating in the challenge (a $1,800+ value)

  • Pop-up bonus calls featuring special guest experts who’ve cracked the code on client attraction ($900+ value)

  • Weekly social media prompts (+ ideas to get your creativity flowing!) (a $650+ value)

  • Access to email scripts, conversation starters, and daily affirmations (a $500+ value)

  • An interactive toolkit that includes a host of resources to support you during the Challenge from creating content that converts to forming strategic partnerships to holding effective 1:1s with referral partners and more (PRICELESS!)

That’s a $6,000+ value!!

And you can join the Challenge for just ONE single payment of $6,000+ $997.

Meet Your Coaches (and biggest cheerleaders!)

Kelsa Dickey

Kelsa Dickey

Jaclyn Wise

Jaclyn Wise

learn more about us

…when we say you’ll get results, we mean it. In 2025:

63% of coaches completed all 90 days of the challenge. (That’s 52 coaches out of 83 total registrants!))

The total NEW client revenue generated over those 90 days was $524,999. (Yes – 11 cents short of $525k!)

Active participants averaged $9,443 in revenue during the challenge

There were 219 NEW clients added to the participating coaches’ rosters.

71% of active participants made their money back
 

Active participants averaged 3.9 NEW clients during the challenge

What will YOUR growth look like?

“The Client Creator Challenge really helps you dive head-first into the pieces of building a successful business. Follow the steps, and you will get results and grow in the process. You’ll even get results if you follow half the steps! You make more progress and achieve more when surrounded by a community – it’s built-in accountability. I highly recommend the Challenge whether you’re new or experienced. It’s amazing for any stage of business.”

“The Client Creator Challenge is INCREDIBLE and I cannot recommend it enough!! I loved seeing everyone’s wins, loved the weekly mindset videos, and loved the honesty and transparency of tracking what really worked for my business. The Challenge is BEYOND worth the investment for the confidence that I gained in selling – honestly, just ONE of the mindset videos made the Challenge worth it!”

“I feel like I am creating systems that work for my business for the first time in my life. I have worked hard to be curious and approach this from the perspective that I am experimenting. I am feeling more confident as I use the systems I’m developing to hold Q&A calls. I even had a couple of Beta Discovery Sessions that I learned so much from! I have learned a lot about my ideal client, and I cannot wait to learn more.”

Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers…

The Client Creator Challenge is open to any coach looking to gain more clients (just know that you will be joining a community of financial coaches in the group!). We start in January with a (really fun!) kick-off party, and a few days later, we get to work as the Challenge starts. It goes for 90 days.

And while this is a challenge, let me stress the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.

You’ll set benchmarks and goals that are motivating to you. Your goal can be to make $200 or $20,000, to get two clients or 20 clients. The number doesn’t matter.

YES … if you put in the time and effort.

Part of what creates a more reliable stream of prospects is building consistent outreach habits. One of the many benefits of doing the Client Creator Challenge is building those habits.

By creating a system and working it throughout the Challenge, you’ll get clear on what does and doesn’t work for you. You’ll also be able to identify and fix weak points in your sales process. You’ll gain insight into your leads, prospects, clients, and ideal clients that you might not have on your own.

We’ve compiled a bunch of resources (including some training videos and documents from the Financial Coaching Academy!) into the How-To and FAQ Guide for the Challenge.

It’s a 50+-page document that includes creating content that converts, forming strategic partnerships, performing 1:1 with referral partners, and prompts for 13 weeks’ worth of social media posts. You’ll have no shortage of things to post about!

This document will serve as your guide throughout the Challenge (in addition to all of the awesome coaching I mentioned above). And it’s yours to keep.

No. There is no “secret sauce” or “magic formula” to gaining new clients. You still have to talk about what you do as a financial coach to gain more clients (but those happy clients will start to talk about you too!). BUT we are going to help you market yourself more effectively, consistently, and in a way that feels better to you during the course of the challenge.

Many coaches say they were marketing themselves even more than what they wound up doing during the challenge, but they were doing so in a way that felt exhausting and lacked strategy. After the challenge they have built a new system and habits that allow them to market their business with more ease, flow, and in a way that actually gets them results.

Throughout the Challenge, you’ll track your progress. We have a results-driven scorecard that you’ll update weekly with your numbers: efforts, offers made, and sales. By filling it out through the Challenge, you’ll get useful client data and know instantly if you’re on track to meet the goals you set.

And when you do, we’ll reward you for your efforts because it’s the effort that counts. We want those efforts to turn into habits that turn into new clients.

This challenge is open to any financial coach wanting to get new clients and create a system for consistently getting clients.

We will say, though, if you’re brand spanking new to coaching or if you’re a new Academy enrollee, now might not be the best time to do the challenge. Unless you’re ready to take some serious messy action, then by all means, go for it!

Also, if you’ve got a big event happening in the next 90 days or are going on a sabbatical starting in February, maybe skip it this year. If you’re not sure, drop us an email, and we’re happy to help you decide.

If you’re ready to…

  • Create a reliable system to get more clients.

  • Build better client outreach habits.

  • Increase your revenue.

  • And most importantly, help more people! (That’s what we’re all here for right?)

Join us!

The 2026 Client Creator Challenge runs from Jan 12th-April 12th, 2026.

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