Shame-Free Money Coaching: Kristin Mason on Kindness, Accountability, and Mindful Spending

Host Connie Warden welcomes Kristin Mason, a financial coach who helps entrepreneurs and small business owners organize finances and build supportive financial teams, with a focus on reducing money stress, shame, and self-doubt.

Kristin shares her path from running an in-home daycare and having an insurance background to gaining financial education after attending a budgeting workshop, then working eight years educating families on budgeting, investing, and protection before leaving to create a more client-centered, shame-free, judgment-free coaching approach.

Connie and Kristin discuss why accountability paired with compassion helps people follow through, especially for women who often prioritize others, and highlight Kristin’s seasonal challenges focused on gratitude and reframing savings.

Kristin offers a practical habit: pause before spending and ask whether a purchase aligns with current priorities without labeling it good or bad, and emphasizes treating financial missteps as a story rather than an identity.

You can find Kristin here on Facebook, her Website, Instagram.

00:00 Welcome and Theme
00:45 Meet Kristin Mason
03:35 Kristin’s Career Origin Story
10:36 Building Shame Free Coaching
13:11 Money Mindset Challenges
16:41 Accountability Without Judgment
19:03 Pause Before You Spend
21:47 Humor Over Money Shame
24:10 Golf and Letting Go
26:12 Find Kristin and Closing

Connie here! Want to know more about my book "Speeding to Compassion: Life Lessons and Humor to the Highroad", acupuncture, and my online yoga classes? Check out my website