SF Money Coach — Blog (2024)

It happened overnight. My eight year old daughter woke up with a lot of questions: How much money do you have? How much money do I have? How can I get more money? What do I do with my money? So began the conversations around regular chores, extra paid chores, allowance, and bank accounts. Honestly, I am making it up as I go along, but here's what's working so far.

I used to ignore my finances and existed for many years in thick money fog. The sum of negative consequences finally caught up with me and something had to give. My journey to becoming vigilant with my money was not a straight line.

I recently took a true vacation and experienced many benefits to time off: connection with nature, feeling embodied, easy communication, perspective, deeper relationships, physical, detachment from the news and social media, freedom, mental and emotional healing, art of receiving, deep sleep, letting go and gratitude.

My mom died two years ago and while I miss her immensely, I still feel connected to her on a daily basis. Even though my mom chronically overspent all her life, she was a great role model with money. Here are the best money lessons I learned from her.

Everyone’s lives have been impacted in subtle and overt ways since the pandemic struck and the world events around racial justice. Even amidst all the upheaval, people are finding gifts, blessings and silver linings as well as a lot to be grateful for.

Patterns in behavioral finance are not always universal. You may relate to some but not all of the following taxpayer traits on the healthy or anxiety-prone side or you may experience challenges…

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers this model for integrating the rational mind and the emotional mind. Here are the four levels of the financial wellness process and guidance…

Money is a naturally confronting topic, so we need to take extra care of ourselves (and others) when dealing with it. There are numerous simple, yet powerful exercises you can use to …

As a result of COVID-19, you may have lost your job, received a decrease in salary, been furloughed or perhaps, nothing has changed income-wise. The following case study is a true story…

The hardest part ofstaying on top of your personal or business finances is the set up. Realistically, initiating a new system to track and analyze your spending, saving, and earningcan take…

Even for families with two full-time working parents, after childcare, the mortgage payment, student loans, a busy family life with small children and monthly credit card bills, it can…

Money avoiders believe they are undeserving of money or that money is bad. They often practice noble poverty andbelieve that wealthy people are greedy orcorrupt. Because of their…

1. Unsubscribe from marketing email lists. This includes: all stores, conglomerate sites like Gilt orGroupon, vendor sites like eBay or Etsy and any otherflash sale site.

Saving is the fastest wayout of debt. Time and time again I see men and women in debt keeping themselves in deprivation mode saying things like, “I can’t buy new clothes until my debt…

Keep a bridge job. It’s critical to be able to pay your bills and live your life while you start a business. It is possible to maintain low to no overhead in the beginning. Before rushing out to rent the…