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A high income doesn't shield you from a hard season. When everything hits at once, you deserve financial support without judgment. Austin & nationwide coaching.

If you're facing divorce, do you know whether you'd qualify for a mortgage on your own? Learn the four factors lenders look at, the tax timing that matters when selling a home, and how a financial coach connects you to the right specialists. Serving women in Austin and nationwide.

If you're successful in every area except your money, the shame you feel isn't proof of failure. It's a skills gap, and skills can be learned. Financial coaching for women in Austin and nationwide.

She Already Had the Quote. Here Is What Kept Her From Clicking Submit My client already had the car insurance quote. She had done the research, found the Farmers website, entered all her information, and gotten a number she felt good about: $217 a month, compared to the $479 she had been paying. All she had to do was click submit, yet she could not bring herself to do it. When we met for our next session, I asked what happened, and she said something I hear more often than pe

You've built something real. A career that required years of sacrifice, licensing exams, late nights, and a level of discipline most people never develop. You've learned an entire profession's worth of knowledge, managed complex systems, and made high-stakes decisions under pressure, and you've done most of it for others. And somewhere along the way, your own finances slid to the bottom of the list. Not because you're irresponsible or don't care. Because you've been giving ev

Note: My client's name has been changed to protect his privacy. Austin came to me because his ADHD had cost him. Not in the dramatic, everything-fell-apart way. In the quiet, accumulating way that financial avoidance tends to work: a medical bill that never got paid, a subscription that went to collections, a credit score that kept sliding while he kept meaning to deal with it. He wanted to buy a house. His credit score was standing in the way. I am a financial coach for wome

More than one client was referred to me after first sitting with a financial advisor or a financial planner. This wasn’t because these professionals did anything wrong, but because the client’s situation was outside the scope of what a financial planner and advisor is equipped to address. For example, one woman went to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), but was looking for a way out of debt, and had little money left over to invest. The CFP immediately recognized that she n

Most of us have been there: you want to make a purchase, pay down a debt, or transfer money to savings, but instead of looking at your actual numbers, you go by what you feel. The account seems okay. The paycheck is coming. It should be fine. And then it is not fine. This is not a willpower problem. It isn't a math problem. It's an information problem, and it's one of the most common issues I hear from women managing their finances on their own. What a Client Said This Week A

My Client Was Paying $479 a Month for Car Insurance. Here's What Changed When She Finally Compared Rates There are certain numbers most of us just accept. We set up a bill once, usually in a rush or just trying to get something done, and then we stop looking at it. Car insurance is one of the most common examples. We pay it every month, are glad our car is covered, and move on. Questioning it requires knowing what "reasonable" looks like, and most of us were never taught that

Do you know how much you pay in annual and monthly credit card fees? Not in interest. Not late fees. Not the cost of carrying a balance. Just the fees that leave your account every month or once a year, simply because the card exists in your wallet. For most people, the answer is not exactly. For high earners, the answer is often far more than they expect. What a Client Told Me in Our Initial Meeting During a recent Financial Insight Session, a client described her credit c

She sat across from me and said something I have heard more times than I can count. "I am horribly uneducated about money." She has a medical degree. An MBA. A GPA that was the highest in her graduating class. She has built a career that most people would look at and call exceptional. And she has spent years quietly carrying the belief that something is wrong with her because her finances do not reflect the same level of mastery. She is not the exception. She is the rule. T

What if the reason you cannot stay on top of your finances has nothing to do with your character? I work with a lot of high-earning women who carry a specific and particularly painful kind of shame. They are accomplished. They are capable. By almost every external measure, they have their lives together. And yet, month after month, the expense report does not get submitted. The credit card statement does not get opened. The conversation with their partner about money does not