25+ Years Coaching & Mentoring
Certified NLP Trainer
Your financial decisions are shaped by more than what you know. Emotion, identity, beliefs, relationships, and past experiences all influence the way you earn, spend, save, invest, and make decisions under pressure.
I'm Lisa Chastain—a money coach, author, speaker, and creator of the Financial Emotional Intelligence framework. I help people understand the emotional, behavioral, and personal patterns influencing their financial decisions so they can make clearer choices, build financial confidence, and create sustainable wealth.
Financial Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize and understand the emotional, behavioral, and personal factors influencing your financial decisions—and use that awareness to make better choices with money.
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Financial decisions are not made with math alone.
They are influenced by emotion, identity, past experiences, relationships, beliefs, and the meaning you attach to money.
That is why knowing what to do is often not enough.
You can understand the strategy and still hesitate. You can earn more and still feel financially insecure. You can have a plan and still repeat decisions that work against it.
Traditional financial advice often focuses on tracking, cutting, restricting, and optimizing. Those tools can be useful, but they do not address what is driving the behavior underneath them.
Real change requires more than information.
It requires the right financial tools, stronger decision-making, greater self-awareness, and systems that actually work in your life.
Discover Your Money PersonalityI'm Lisa
I'm Lisa Chastain—a money coach, author, speaker, podcast host, and Certified NLP Trainer, and the creator of the Financial Emotional Intelligence framework. My work focuses on the emotional, behavioral, and personal patterns that shape how people make decisions about money.
My work is built on a simple idea: financial decisions are rarely just about numbers. They're shaped by emotion, identity, beliefs, relationships, and past experiences. That's why knowing what to do with money is often not enough.
My professional background spans more than 25 years of coaching, mentoring, teaching, and leadership experience. Earlier in my career, I worked in wealth management as a financial advisor serving high-net-worth clients, and I previously held the Series 65 and Life & Health insurance licenses. In 2016, I transitioned out of licensed financial advising to build my financial coaching practice. Today I help people recognize the patterns shaping their money behavior—so they can make stronger financial decisions and build wealth with confidence and clarity.
My perspective is personal, too. I've weathered financial setbacks and navigated significant life transitions. Those experiences taught me what financial education alone can't: you can know what to do with money and still struggle to do it. Closing that gap between knowledge and behavior became the foundation of my work.
My work and perspective have been featured by CNBC, NBC News, Fortune, Entrepreneur, O – The Oprah Magazine, FOX Business, ABC News, Cosmopolitan, Bloomberg, and NewsNation. I'm the author of Stop Budgeting, Start Living and host of the Real Money with Lisa Chastain podcast.
My goal isn't to teach people to obsess over money—it's to help them understand it, and themselves, well enough to make decisions that create both financial security and a life they actually want to live.
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Hundreds of men and women have worked with Lisa Chastain to change how they make financial decisions. Whether you're a professional, an entrepreneur, or part of a couple, the results come from the same place: understanding your money mindset and building habits that actually last.
"Working with Lisa Chastain has been absolutely transformative to my career and personal life. Her expert guidance, personalized approach, and ability to connect at a deep level has helped me to rewire past belief systems. Her technique and resources have given me the confidence and drive to take control of my financial situation and build a solid foundation for my future."
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"Working with Lisa has been one of the most pivotal decisions I have made both personally and professionally. She has really helped me understand my personal habits and didn't try to change who I was, but lean in and make better decisions. My business is on its way to hit 7 figures next year and I am almost completely out of credit card debt."
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"Lisa doesn't just teach you about money—she teaches you about yourself. I came in thinking I had a budgeting problem. I left knowing I had a mindset problem, and more importantly, I left with the tools to fix it."
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I'm Lisa Chastain—a money coach, author, speaker, podcast host, and Certified NLP Trainer whose work focuses on Financial Emotional Intelligence. On the Real Money with Lisa Chastain podcast, I sit down for real conversations about the part of money no one teaches you: the emotions, beliefs, and patterns shaping every decision you make.
If you've ever earned more and still felt behind, understood the strategy and still hesitated, or wondered why you keep landing in the same place with money—this show is for you. Every episode is direct, honest, and practical, and it will change how you think, decide, and operate with money. Press play and start building the clarity, control, and self-trust you deserve.
A money coach helps people understand the behaviors, beliefs, emotions, and decision-making patterns influencing their financial lives. Lisa Chastain's work focuses on Financial Emotional Intelligence: helping individuals, entrepreneurs, executives, couples, and high performers recognize what is driving their financial behavior so they can make clearer decisions, build stronger financial habits, and create sustainable wealth. Unlike investment management, Lisa's current work centers on coaching, education, behavior, and financial decision-making.
No. Lisa Chastain's entire methodology is built on the principle that strict budgeting is not the path to lasting wealth. Her no-budget approach teaches people how to align their spending with their values, build automated savings systems, and make confident financial decisions—without the guilt or restriction of a traditional budget.
The Money Personality Quiz is a free, two-minute assessment created by Lisa Chastain that identifies your unique financial archetype. Understanding your money personality reveals your natural financial strengths, your hidden blind spots, and the specific strategies most likely to work for you.
The Wealth Within is a 4-day, high-intensity live event held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The experience is designed to expose and resolve the deep behavioral patterns driving your financial results. Participants leave with a personalized Wealth Contract and tangible shifts in how they make decisions and operate with money.
Yes. Earlier in her career, Lisa worked as a financial advisor serving high-net-worth clients and held the Series 65 and Life & Health insurance licenses. She transitioned out of licensed financial advising in 2016.
No. Lisa is not currently a licensed financial advisor. Her current work focuses on money coaching, education, financial behavior, decision-making, and Financial Emotional Intelligence.
You do not need more pressure, more restriction, or another set of rules you will eventually stop following.
You need a clearer understanding of what is driving your financial decisions, better tools for responding under pressure, and systems that support the life you actually want to build.
Financial confidence is not about having every answer.
It is about being able to make decisions with greater clarity, consistency, and trust in yourself.
