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

Dr. Julie Marty-Pearson on Podcasting, Community, and Amplifying Women’s Voices

Host Connie Warden welcomes Dr. Julie Marty-Pearson, her podcast coach and founder of Podcast Your Story Productions, who shares how health challenges, grief, and burnout after 20 years teaching psychology and statistics led her to pivot into entrepreneurship in 2020.

Julie began as a career coach for women, then discovered podcasting through a class and launched The Story of My Pet, which grew into a top 5% “small but mighty” show and introduced her to supportive communities.

After attending PodFest and a She Podcasts event in 2024, she shifted her business to helping women podcast and created the Women’s Podcaster Party networking event, emphasizing simple, accessible approaches over expensive gear and complex editing.

Julie discusses her focus on women’s representation, humor as coping (Schitt’s Creek, Clue), and her newer show Still Becoming: Women Unmuted covering women’s issues like healthcare, chronic illness, mental health, and being child-free; she shares how to connect via juliemartypearson.com.

00:00 Welcome to the Podcast
00:34 Meet Dr Julie Marty Pearson
02:07 Health Wake Up Call
03:27 From Academia to Coaching
04:19 First Podcast Origin Story
05:58 Simple Podcasting Approach
08:11 Guesting Versus Hosting
09:30 Women Centered Podcasting
10:50 Community and Representation
13:36 Humor and Comfort Shows
16:12 Still Becoming Women Unmuted
18:15 Where to Find Julie
18:59 Final Thanks and Sign Off

You can reach Julie at her WEBSITE, FACE BOOK, LINKEDIN, INSTAGRAM, YOU TUBE, PINTREST, SUBSTACK.

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

Intuitive Mindset Coaching and Learning to Trust Inner Guidance with Fran Gallaer.

Host Connie Warden welcomes intuitive mindset coach Fran Gallagher to discuss what intuitive coaching looks like, describing it as asking questions while also receiving and sharing information in-session, and emphasizing the need for permission and structure.

Fran recounts growing up with abuse and neglect, seeing non-physical beings, and early experiences that confirmed her intuitive perception, including unexpected accurate palm-reading details.

They explore spirituality as ephemeral and accessed through intuition and the “clairs,” sharing examples like smelling smoke as a warning, Connie’s inexplicable decision to go downstairs that led to helping her cat, a vacation bath impulse that revealed a failing water heater, finding Connie’s missing cats, and an intuition-based job outcome that unfolded in stages.

Fran offers a first step for those who’ve outgrown their life: ask “What do I have energy for?” and take small, grounded next steps.

00:00 Welcome to Mindful Kindful
00:42 Meet Fran Gallagher
02:22 What Is Intuitive Coaching
05:34 Early Intuition Awakening
10:19 Outgrowing Your Life
12:15 Spirituality and the Clairs
17:57 Everyday Intuition Stories
22:04 Finding Lost Cats
24:42 Intuition in Real Life
30:34 First Steps and Prompts
34:56 Closing and How to Connect

Find out about Fran's Intuitive Sessions and her classes at her website.

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