Free 3-Day Live Challenge · Financial Behavior Coaching
Financial momentum doesn't start with a better budget.
It starts with mastering the moment your emotions take over.
Join the upcoming 3-Day Financial Reset Challenge and learn the 5 moves to make before you ever look at your numbers.
Register for the Free Live Challenge →Free to attend. Limited live seats. $27 replay recording available after the event.
"The bank app stays closed. The balance stays unknown. The plan stays unstarted."
"Every restart costs you ground you've already built — and confidence you can't get back from a spreadsheet."
"The real cost of avoidance isn't just financial. It's the quiet exhaustion of knowing you're capable of more."
Most women don't have a knowledge problem. They have a moment problem — and no one has ever taught them what to do with it.
Three steps. No overwhelm. One clear path forward.
Define your financial future
Get clear on where you actually want to go — not where you think you should be.
Work on your money markers
Face your real numbers — balance, debt, income — with the behavioral tools that make looking possible without shutting down.
Achieve momentum
Build the skill of returning to the plan — quickly, without shame — so progress compounds instead of restarting.
Free to attend. The challenge is where Step 1 begins.
You don't need more information. You need someone who understands what's actually getting in the way.
Most women who come into this work are responsible, capable, and hardworking. They earn income, they manage full lives, and they already know what they're supposed to do with money. The problem isn't knowledge. The problem is the moment — the exact split second when emotion takes over before logic can respond.
That moment has a name. It has a pattern. And it has a solution.
Madeleine Strasburg is a certified Financial Coach (Ramsey Solutions) and Professional Certified Coach (The Life Coach School). She has spoken at the BYU Women's Conference, the University of Utah, UVU, and the GEAR UP West national conference. She has been featured in Canvas Rebel Magazine and serves as Chair of the Women in Business initiative at the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce of Utah.
She doesn't just teach this work. She lived it.
Read Madeleine's full story →
Where is your money momentum right now?
Find your level. This is where the work begins.
Avoidance
You don't open the bank app. Your debt total is a question mark. Facing the numbers feels like more than you can handle right now — so you don't.
Awareness
You cycle between facing the numbers and pulling away. You know something needs to change. You open the app sometimes. You also close it.
Reframe
You look at your account weekly but struggle to stay consistent with the plan. You're showing up — and frustrated that the effort isn't producing consistency yet.
Momentum
You return to your plan without beating yourself up after a financial slip. Recovery is becoming real. Progress is visible, even when imperfect.
Mastery
Your weekly money reviews are consistent, calm, and completely undramatic. You have a plan, you work it, and you return to it without crisis when life happens.
Speaking & Featured Appearances
Trusted by universities, national conferences, business chambers, and faith-based communities.
What this work actually is
Most financial plans don't fail because of bad math. They fail because of what happens in the moment before the plan — the instant when emotional response overrides rational intention. That moment is identifiable, nameable, and interruptible. And interrupting it is a learnable skill.
Madeleine Strasburg's coaching is built around one core premise: financial progress comes from returning to the plan, not restarting from zero. The goal is not perfection. The goal is the skill of recovery — the ability to come back quickly, without shame, and without losing the ground already built.
Her work combines two distinct disciplines: the debt-free financial structure taught through her Ramsey Solutions certification, and the cognitive behavioral tools developed through her Life Coach School training. Together, they address both the tactical mechanics of money and the psychological layer that determines whether those mechanics actually hold.
The result is a coaching approach that respects the intelligence of adult women while providing the guidance and support that most financial programs skip entirely. Women who come into this work describe the same shift: not that money got easier, but that they got steadier. The avoidance ends. The recovery gets faster. The identity changes.
That shift is available to any woman willing to look honestly at what's been getting in the way.
Your next move is simpler than you think.
You don't need a perfect financial situation to start. You need three days, a live Zoom, and the willingness to look at what's actually been getting in the way.
The challenge is free. The seat is limited.
Register for the Free Live Challenge →Free to attend. $27 replay recording available after the event.
Program enrollment opens July 16 — challenge graduates are first to be notified.





