Speaking & Workshops

Financial wellness is about more than knowing how to budget, save, or manage debt. The way we use money is often connected to our experiences, relationships, emotions, beliefs, and sense of safety.

Lauren Staley, LMFT, CFT™ brings together financial education, emotional wellness, and practical strategy to help people better understand their relationship with money—and make meaningful changes in how they manage it.

Through engaging keynotes, workshops, retreats, and facilitated conversations, Lauren helps participants move beyond simply knowing what they should do with money and begin understanding the beliefs, emotions, relationships, and behaviors that can influence what they actually do.

Available for corporations, churches, community organizations, professional groups, and conferences.

Helping people understand what they do with money — and what’s happening underneath it.

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Most of us have heard the financial advice.

Save more.
Spend less.
Create a budget.
Pay down debt.
Plan for the future.

But knowing what to do doesn't always mean we do it.

Financial behavior doesn't happen in a vacuum. Our family experiences, relationships, emotions, beliefs about ourselves, and experiences of safety and security can influence the way we earn, spend, save, avoid, give, borrow, and plan.

Lauren brings a unique perspective to financial wellness by combining her experience in mental health, financial therapy, financial education, and financial services.

The result is a conversation about money that is practical enough to create action and human enough to address what can make that action difficult.

Money Is Practical. And Personal.

Signature Speaking & Workshop Topics

  • Because knowing what to do isn't always enough.

    Explore the experiences, emotions, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that influence financial decisions.

    Participants begin identifying what may be happening underneath their financial behaviors while learning practical strategies for developing a healthier and more intentional relationship with money.

    Topics may include:

    • Money beliefs and money stories

    • Emotional spending and financial avoidance

    • Financial anxiety and overwhelm

    • Understanding financial behavior patterns

    • Creating healthier money habits

    • Moving from awareness to action

  • Practical tools for creating more clarity, confidence, and control.

    Financial stress can affect far more than a bank account. It can influence emotional well-being, relationships, decision-making, productivity, and our ability to plan for the future.

    This workshop helps participants understand their financial stress while identifying practical steps they can take to strengthen their financial well-being.

    Topics may include:

    • Understanding financial stress

    • Creating a realistic spending plan

    • Building savings

    • Developing a debt strategy

    • Setting achievable financial goals

    • Creating financial habits that support long-term well-beingDescription text goes here

  • Money conversations are rarely just about money.

    Differences around spending, saving, debt, financial priorities, and financial responsibility can become significant sources of tension in relationships.

    This workshop explores the emotional and relational dynamics behind money conversations and helps participants develop healthier ways to communicate about finances.

    Topics may include:

    • Understanding different money histories

    • Identifying financial expectations

    • Money, trust, and emotional safety

    • Navigating differences in spending and saving

    • Communicating about financial goals

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  • Our relationship with money can be shaped long before we ever open a bank account.

    Family experiences, messages about money, experiences of scarcity or abundance, and beliefs about worth, success, safety, and belonging can influence financial decisions throughout adulthood.

    In this interactive experience, participants explore the patterns behind their financial behavior and begin identifying new ways of responding to money with greater awareness, intention, and peace. description

  • Employees don't leave financial stress at home when they come to work.

    Financial concerns can affect concentration, emotional well-being, relationships, decision-making, and overall quality of life.

    Lauren provides approachable and engaging financial wellness experiences that help employees understand both the practical and behavioral sides of money.

    Programs can be customized around topics such as budgeting, saving, debt, financial stress, money behaviors, financial goals, and building greater financial confidence.

    Ideal for employee wellness initiatives, professional development programs, lunch-and-learns, employee resource groups, retreats, and financial wellness events. description

Programs can be customized based on the needs, goals, and audience of your organization.

Faith-Based Financial Wellness

For churches and faith-based organizations, Lauren also offers experiences that integrate practical financial wellness, emotional health, and faith.

These conversations create space to explore not only how we manage money, but also our beliefs about stewardship, contentment, generosity, financial pressure, purpose, and what it means to pursue financial well-being without shame or perfection.

Faith-based workshops can be customized for women's ministries, couples, young adults, leadership teams, conferences, retreats, and congregation-wide financial wellness initiatives.

Financial education matters…but sometimes information isn't the problem.

Many people already know they should save more, spend intentionally, manage debt, and plan for the future.

The harder question is:

What's getting in the way?

Lauren's approach brings together practical financial education with an understanding of human behavior, emotions, relationships, and the experiences that shape the way we interact with money.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Financial Therapist™, Lauren brings a relational and behavioral perspective to financial wellness conversations while making financial concepts practical, approachable, and relevant to everyday life.

Participants don't simply leave with more information.

The goal is for them to leave with greater awareness, practical next steps, and the belief that meaningful financial change is possible.

More Than Financial Education

Who I Work With

Speaking engagements, workshops, and facilitated experiences can be customized for:

  • Employers and employee wellness programs

  • Employee resource groups

  • Conferences and professional organizations

  • Churches and faith-based organizations

  • Women's organizations

  • Community and nonprofit organizations

  • Couples and relationship programs

  • Mental health and helping professionals

Programs may be delivered virtually or in person and can range from keynotes and lunch-and-learns to interactive workshops, retreats, and multi-session experiences.

A Unique Perspective on Money & Wellness

Lauren Staley, LMFT, CFT-I™, brings a unique combination of experience in mental health, financial therapy, financial services, leadership, and financial education to her speaking and workshops.

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Bring This Conversation to Your Organization

Looking for a financial wellness experience that goes beyond budgets and spreadsheets?

Let's create a conversation that helps your people better understand their money, recognize the patterns influencing their financial decisions, and identify practical steps they can take next.

Lauren is available for keynotes, workshops, lunch-and-learns, retreats, facilitated conversations, conferences, and customized financial wellness programs.

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