Safe Space with Francesco Lombardo Navigating Wealth and Relationships
Sep 30, 2025
In this engaging conversation, Kelly Willis Green—a certified money coach and host of Serious Coin—shares her journey from private wealth marketing to transforming relationships with money. She discusses the emotional impact of money, including childhood beliefs that influence financial behavior. Kelly highlights how money reflects one’s self-relationship and introduces the concept of money archetypes, exploring their significance in shaping financial habits. She emphasizes curiosity as a driver for personal growth and effective money management.
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Marrying Into Wealth And Power Fears
- Kelly married into wealth and initially split expenses down the middle to avoid losing power in the relationship.
- That led to vague resentment until she recognized money wasn't the only form of capital her husband brought to the relationship.
Advisors' Blind Spot: Money Psychology
- Financial advisors avoid the emotional side of money because it's outside their training and comfort zone.
- When advisors examine their own money biases they become better able to serve clients in transition.
Childhood Rules Cap Adult Earnings
- A consultant couldn't raise her hourly rate until she connected the block to childhood messages from her mother.
- That childhood rule acted as a ceiling on her adult pricing until she made it conscious.
