by Mikelann Valterra | Feb 3, 2026 | Planning
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...
by Mikelann Valterra | Feb 5, 2024 | Podcast
I can’t say enough about the Make Room Show podcast with Jennifer Ford Berry. (Certified Professional Organizer and Productivity Coach for Women (jenniferfordberry.com) She had read my book cover to cover and dove straight in with all her questions and...
by Mikelann Valterra | Oct 21, 2023 | 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...
by Mikelann Valterra | Sep 20, 2018 | Planning
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...
by Mikelann Valterra | Mar 20, 2013 | Planning
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...
