Discover Your Money Personality

"Can I afford to take two weeks in Hawaii?" … "Should I do the facial package?" … "I really want a new couch!" Spending decisions are all around us. "Should I really buy this"? "Can I afford this?" "Should I do this?" I often tell my clients, "You can do anything you...

Does Money Buy Happiness? Maybe!

Mindset

Would a nicer house and new car make you happy? The answer is likely yes, particularly if your current house is getting too small for your family and your current car isn't as reliable as it once was. But does money have the power to make you happy? The answer is:...

Do You Have Financial Stress or Financial Anxiety? Here’s How to Tell

Mindset

Whew! Recently, I attended the Financial Therapy Association conference in San Diego. What IS financial therapy, you ask? It's a process that uses both therapy skills and financial knowledge to help people achieve not just financial health but higher overall...

Are You in a Money Fog? Take This Quiz and Find Out

Mindset

At fifty-one, Christine was tired of being stressed about money. She had worked as a corporate coach since her early thirties. Now, it was coming on almost two decades that she had worked with large companies on organizational change. She was very good at her job and...

The Secret Magic of Planning Your Spending to Create Your Dream Life

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild, and precious life?" – Mary Oliver, American Poet How I love this quote! It captures why I love the art of planning my spending. Because the art of planning your spending is really the art of planning...

How to Create a Life You Love After Divorce

Dare I say there is a silver lining to divorce? Well, there is. You get a fresh start in so many ways. And your relationship to money is one of these "fresh start opportunities". Now that you are single, you get to do money the way YOU want to. However, we all...

The Sacred Art of Funding Your Passions—What Is YOUR Tango?

Back in 2017, I attended a tango class for beginners Back in 2017, I attended a tango class for beginners – and low and behold I fell in love with this complex and beautiful dance between the sexes. It started as just a weekly dance class, but as time went on, I...

7 Symptoms of Underearning–Identify your Pattern and Step into Prosperity

Underearning is the pattern of earning below YOUR potential. It's about underselling yourself, even though you don't want to. But you can't overcome this pattern if you don't see it. You must identify your pattern- your behaviors– in the first place. Women tend to see...

Need to Set Rates? Find Your “Resentment Number”

Have you ever resented the amount of money you accepted to do a job? It is time to stop! If you are clear about what you need to earn in order to be happy, you will never resent your work (or having a business). You will make good money and your clients will sense you...

Your Money Personality Has This Question for You

Whenever I teach a seminar on money, invariably I ask the audience, “What is the point of having money?” Answers start flying and I throw them on a whiteboard. “Retirement, vacations, money for my kid’s college, pay my mortgage, to have fun, to not be stressed about...

Seven Tips to Access Your Money Intuition

We’ve all had that “feeling” arise–a hunch or a sudden sense guides us on what to do next or gently stops us from proceeding. We hear the whisper that directs us down a new road and leads us to explore a new topic or to avoid a bad situation. Intuition. We...

Financial Magic—Crystal Balls and Annual Plans

A couple of Saturdays ago, I finally sat down with my magic crystal ball. I was ready to create my personal annual spending plan. I was a bit nervous this year about what I would see in the ball. I am finishing a large construction project on my house, and my son is...

Do You Need a Financial Planner or a Money Coach?

A common question I get is “what is the difference between a financial planner and a money coach?” One way to think of it is that financial planners primarily focus on the future and a person’s larger asset picture (long term savings and investments). They try...

How to Discern Your Real Needs and Heal Deprivation

Siren Call: definition- The enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous; — “Unable to resist the siren call of the cards, she withdrew her savings and headed for Las Vegas.” She succumbed to the siren call of new carpeting… and left the broken...

The Food and Money Connection

As a money coach, I ask new clients about their relationship to food. What?! Why am I asking that? Because food and money issues are often related. For starters, they are the two most common things we turn to, to make ourselves feel better. Think of it this way– when...

How to Let Go of Past Money Mistakes

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we’d be millionaires” – Abigail Van Buren Raise your hand if you’ve never made a mistake with money or never had a financial regret. Anyone? I thought not. We’ve all made mistakes with money. I know I have....

The Art and Magic of Simplifying Your Finances

Want to know a secret to feeling more peaceful and in control with your money? Simplify your finances. And the best way to do this is to limit the number of accounts you have. Simpler is better. Over the years, I’ve seen just about everything. When new clients come...

Grounded Magic: Rethinking the Law of Attraction

Can you attract more money? We’ve all heard about the “Law of Attraction”—that what you focus on, you attract. (This was popularized in the book and movie, The Secret.) Said another way—many believe that your thinking creates and brings to you what you...

Conflicting Money Beliefs, Anyone?

If you’ve ever thought about your “money story”, you may have come up against some paradoxes–conflicting messages about money. And when we are confronted with paradoxes, we often react by simply doing nothing…putting our head in the sand. The first obvious conflict...

You Can Have Anything You Want…

Often, when clients come to see me, they are afraid I will tell them they can’t afford to have something they really want. They fear that they won’t be able to take that vacation to Europe or perhaps they shouldn’t be buying so many clothes. Now, as a money...

How to Create Your Very Own Freedom Fund. Yummy.

In my last post, I talked about a gloriously boring savings concept called periodic savings. It was on how to handle all those stressful unexpected expenses and avoid credit card debt. Click here if you missed it. Now I want to talk about your "freedom fund". Some...

Understand Your Brain: 6 Tricks to Help You Avoid Overspending

Whether you need to spend less when you go out shopping or you want to be a more conscious spender, it helps to have a few tricks under your belt. Stores spend billions on the science of getting you to part with your money. They understand how your brain works and...

Why Women Find Raising Their Fees Difficult