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Money Made Human Podcast
Personal finance with a human touch.
Money Made Human is a show about what it actually looks like to handle money well. Not the rules. Not the hacks. The real, human experience of building a financial life that fits how you actually live.
Hosted by Kelsa Dickey, founder of Financial Coach Academy® and creator of the SpendFirst® methodology, this show is for two kinds of listeners. People who want a better picture of their own money. And the financial coaches and practitioners who do this work with them.
For almost two decades, Kelsa has built her practice around one belief: most financial stress isn't a discipline problem. It's a visibility problem. When you can see where your money is actually going, what's already spoken for, and what's coming, the decisions get easier. The system doesn't have to be tight. It has to be clear.
Season 2 is the chapter-by-chapter reading of Kelsa's book, SpendFirst: The Surprisingly Simple System to Stop Stressing About Money. One chapter per episode, in her voice, from the introduction all the way through. The book launches November 11, 2026. You'll hear it here first.
If you're a coach or practitioner, this is the methodology your clients will be learning. Hearing the whole thing will make you better at teaching it.
If you're trying to figure out your own money, this is a season-long invitation into a way of thinking that doesn't ask you to be more disciplined. It asks you to see your money clearly.
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Money Made Human Podcast
Chapter 3: The Three Ways Your Money Moves
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Some months your money feels calm, and some months it feels like chaos, even when your paycheck stays exactly the same.
This week on the podcast I'm reading Chapter 3 of my book, SpendFirst®. It's the chapter where a lot of people finally set down the self-blame and see that their system was the thing missing all along.
Most budgeting sorts your spending by category: housing, food, fun. And the piece it leaves out is the one that actually gets to you, which is timing. When you start looking at how your money behaves instead of only what it's for, the whole picture settles.
A few things this chapter opens up:
- Why knowing what you spend still leaves the stress in place, and what's been missing.
- The three waves your money moves in: SpendFixed, SpendFreely, and SpendFuture, and how sorting by them brings order to the mess.
- The moment people exhale, when the shape of their money finally comes into view and the calm follows.
Get the Book: You just listened to a chapter of it. The whole book is out November 11, and SpendFirst.com/book will tell you the day it lands.
You can start sorting your own waves before the book is even out. Grab your free Quick Start Guide at https://SpendFirst.com/start
