Empowering Financial Coaching

10/09/2026

What if your faith had something to say about your money that you’ve never stopped long enough to hear? 🍂

That’s the heart of Faith and Money Fridays, a short weekly email from us at Empowering Financial Coaching.

Each Friday, we share a real moment from everyday life alongside a piece of scripture, read in its full context. Then we leave you with two simple “I wonder” questions, one for your faith and one for your money.

There are no lectures or pressure, and nobody telling you what to think. It’s just a few quiet minutes at the end of your week to reflect on what you believe and how it shows up in your finances.

If that sounds like something you need, we’d love to have you.

Sign up at https://bit.ly/4zruhMo

10/08/2026

October is ADHD Awareness Month!

Real talk: in our house, money never fell through the cracks. But the way we each kept track of it? Totally different.

One of us could hold the whole plan in our head and see it clearly. The other needed it written down, on paper, where we could both look at it. Same goals, same bank account, two very different ways of getting there. For a while, tracking felt like a tug-of-war.

When we stopped to really think about it, ADHD brings real superpowers to the money table: big-picture vision, creative problem-solving, quick thinking, and the kind of energy that gets things moving. Once we stopped trying to make one brain work like the other, those strengths started working for us.

So this month, we're celebrating the potential. In you, in your partner, and in what you can build together.

You're not bad at math, and you're not alone. 💚

10/06/2026

One of our clients sent this over with a note...

"I saved this post, and it really makes me think about a lot of the lessons you guys have and do teach me!"

Love this.

They are exactly right. When you start making choices from intention and love, it changes everything! ❤️

10/06/2026

Some news I've been sitting on, and I'm so glad I finally get to share it. 🎉

This January, I'm facilitating Faithful Finances, a four-week online course with the Center for Faith and Giving.

It's a grace-filled space to look at money through the lens of faith. No rigid rules and no shame, just honest conversation and practical tools for the life you're actually living.

We'll meet live on Tuesday evenings, Jan 12 through Feb 2, at 7 pm ET / 6 pm CT. Each session is 90 minutes, and recordings and resources are available afterward.

If money has felt heavy lately, I'd love to have you in the room.

Register here: https://centerforfaithandgiving.org/faithful-finances-registration/

10/04/2026

I built our spreadsheet. I built our calendar system. Making systems is how my brain stays grounded.

And it worked, until it didn't.

The budget said one thing. The checking account said another. And what we could actually spend right now got lost somewhere between the two.

Charles will tell you the system was solid. The gap was working memory, not discipline. No amount of "trying harder" was going to close it.

That's the gap most money advice skips. It's not about building a better budget. It's about building a system that fits the brains actually using it.

That's what we walk through in Different Brains, Same Bank Account. Opens October 17.

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/adhd_2026

10/01/2026

October is our personal deadline for getting a holiday budget in place — because November has a way of arriving faster than we plan for. 🎃

Charles and I have relied on Monarch Money for our own household budgeting for years, and it's exactly why we recommend it to the clients we coach. We use it to set a spending target for gifts, travel, and hosting, then track it against everything else so we're not surprised in December. Having it all visible in one app has genuinely changed how we plan for this time of year.

If you want to get ahead of the season instead of reacting to it, this is a good week to set it up. Try it free, and code SMARTMONEY brings the annual plan down to $49.99 (less than $5/month).

👉Click here - monarchmoneycreator.sjv.io/L0yNvV

The modern way to manage your money. Monarch makes it easy to track all of your accounts, optimize your spending, analyze your investments, and create a financial plan to achieve your goals.

09/29/2026

October is ADHD Awareness Month, and most of the advice out there is about managing your brain, your tasks, your time.

Almost none of it talks about what happens when that brain shares a bank account with someone else's.

So Charles and I built the thing we couldn't find.

Different Brains, Same Bank Account opens October 17. It's a self-paced course for those needing a money system you can actually use.

Six video lessons. A companion workbook. 90 days to go through it on your own timeline.

$17 solo · $27 for you and your partner
🔗 Register here - https://bit.ly/adhd_2026

You're not bad at math. You're not alone. We deal in facts.

09/27/2026

Imagine this... 🍂

It's a cool evening and you've got a warm c***r in your hand. And for once, your brain isn't quietly running holiday math in the background.

That's the fall we want for you. Not the version where every cozy moment comes with a side of "how are we going to pay for December?"

Here's the thing: holiday stress usually isn't about the holidays. It's about not having a plan yet. The best time to make one is right now, while the leaves are still turning and there's still room to breathe.

A little planning today means you get to actually enjoy the soup nights and the Saturday games when they come.

Peace over panic, friends. 🧡

09/25/2026

If January usually brings a statement you'd rather not open, you're not alone. And this year can feel different.

Whether you're planning as a couple or carrying it all as a single parent, our 90 Day Holiday Prep List helps you spread the prep out week by week so the joy stays in the season and the stress doesn't follow you into the new year.

Download the free list and let's plan it together. 💛

Download here - https://empoweringfinancialcoaching.activehosted.com/f/23

09/25/2026

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton

We think about this quote a lot when it comes to money.

Most of us got handed a money road we didn't pick - rules built for someone else's brain, someone else's life. Micah spent years white-knuckling a budget that made her feel like she was failing, until we realized the road was the problem, not the walker.

Paving a new one didn't look like a total overhaul. It looked like flexible systems that bend with real life, grace for the weeks that fall apart, and progress measured in momentum instead of perfection.

You're allowed to start paving your own road. Right where you are. With what you have.

How have you paved your own road? 👇