30 Lessons · 5 Modules · 6 Months

The M.O.N.E.Y. Academy

A comprehensive system for financial momentum. 30 lessons. Five modules. One through-line: return, not restart.

Built for adult women who want real financial structure — without the shame, the restart cycle, or the stuffy vibe.

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Who This Is For

This program was built for you if…

  • You earn income but still feel financially stuck or stressed
  • You've started fresh so many times you've lost count
  • You know what you should do — but something stops you from doing it consistently
  • You spiral after a financial mistake instead of recovering from it
  • You avoid looking at your numbers because the anxiety isn't worth it
  • You want a real plan, not another motivational framework that disappears when life gets hard

What makes this different

Most financial programs hand you a budget and call it a plan. The M.O.N.E.Y. Academy starts where other programs stop — with the nervous system, the thought patterns, and the emotional habits that determine whether any financial plan actually sticks.

The math comes last. On purpose.

The Strasburg Three-Step

The work happens in three steps — in this exact order.

01
Regulate: your body, first.

Before you touch a single number, we address what's happening in your nervous system. You cannot make clear financial decisions when your body is in survival mode.

The Academy starts here — not because it's soft, but because skipping it is why other programs don't stick.

02
Reframe: your thinking.

A mistake is a data point, not a character flaw. We use the CTFAR Model (taught with attribution to Brooke Castillo / Life Coach School) to separate who you are from what you did.

That separation is where recovery actually begins.

03
Reform: the math.

With a regulated body and a clearer mind, the financial mechanics become executable. A spending plan. A debt strategy. A recovery system that actually works in real life.

The Curriculum

30 lessons. 5 modules. One through-line: return, not restart.

M

Mindset + Nervous System

6 Lessons

Why your body reacts to a credit card bill the same way it reacts to a threat — and what to do about it before opening your budget. You'll learn the three nervous system states, build your personal money trigger map, practice the Money Reset, run the CTFAR Model on a real money thought, and complete your first Thought Download. The Pause & Recovery System is introduced here and used in every module after.

O

Ownership: Facing the Numbers

5 Lessons

See your financial reality clearly — without drama, without shame, without the fog that avoidance creates. You'll build your Financial GPS (your real Now Point), map your cash flow, identify your Five Levels financial level, complete a full expense audit, and calculate your net worth for the first time. Facts don't lie. And facts don't shame.

N

Naming the Plan

6 Lessons

Every dollar gets a job before the month begins. You'll build a values-aligned spending plan, apply the Margin Formula, set up sinking funds for the expenses that used to ambush your budget, and establish the Weekly Money Moment — the 15-minute ritual that transforms looking at your finances from dread into a strategic act.

E

Execution + Consistency

6 Lessons

Where the restart cycle ends. You'll put the Pause & Recovery System into real-life practice, run the 48-Hour Recovery after a setback, learn how debt payoff actually works (and how to stay in the game through the slow middle), and build your CEO Planner system — the daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly rhythm that makes financial habits automatic.

Y

Your Momentum

7 Lessons

Where everything compounds. Your Future Self, your Enough Number, your Freedom Number, compound interest, investing basics, college savings, generous living — and the identity shift that makes all of it permanent. This is where you stop performing financial health and start being it.

Money Mechanics Library

Included with every enrollment: a self-paced resource vault of calculators, worksheets, and reference guides connected to every financial milestone. Use it throughout the program and long after. Tools include: spending plan templates, debt payoff calculator, net worth tracker, sinking fund planner, Freedom Number calculator, investment basics reference guide.

Enrollment

Choose your path.

Regular
$997

The complete M.O.N.E.Y. Academy experience.

  • 30 structured lessons + workbooks
  • Weekly group coaching calls with Madeleine
  • Weekly challenges + community access
  • Coach Madeleine Strasburg AI (24/7)
  • Text message accountability system
  • Money Mechanics Library
  • CEO Planner system
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Frequently Asked Questions

Your questions, answered honestly.

The M.O.N.E.Y. Academy is a 30-lesson financial coaching program for women built around the Strasburg Three-Step: Regulate the nervous system before any financial work, Reframe money thinking using the CTFAR Model, and Reform the financial plan with practical tools and a proven structure.
Not exactly. Budgeting is part of Module N, but it's not the focus. Most women already know they should budget. The Academy focuses on why they don't — and how to change that pattern. The Pause & Recovery System, the Thought Download, and the CTFAR Model address the emotional and behavioral side that budgeting tools skip.
The Pause & Recovery System (PRS) is the flagship framework of the M.O.N.E.Y. Academy. The Pause is a 4-step process used before an impulse purchase or financial decision. The Recovery is a 4-step process used after a financial mistake — helping women return to their plan quickly without shame or a complete restart. Return, Not Restart.
The Money Reset is a 3-step tool to bring the thinking brain back online before any financial activity. Step 1: Am I safe right now, in this moment? Step 2: Notice where tension lives in the body. Step 3: Relax the body — scan, notice, release. A regulated body makes clearer money decisions.
The program is designed for six months of active participation with weekly group coaching calls. The 30 lessons are self-paced and available immediately upon enrollment. The Coach Madeleine Strasburg AI (Delphi) is available 24/7 between sessions.
Yes — especially if you're in debt. Module E includes the debt payoff sequence (taught with the Debt Snowball method), and Module O helps you face your real numbers without shame. Debt is addressed directly. As Madeleine teaches: debt steals your choices. Paying it off is how you reclaim them.
Yes. The program covers all Five Levels of Financial Progress, including Levels 4 and 5: investing, college savings, the Freedom Number, and generous living. Women at any level benefit from Module M (nervous system and mindset) and the Pause & Recovery System.
The coaching and community are in English, but Madeleine is a bilingual coach and the podcast is available in Portuguese (O Dinheiro Não É o Seu Problema). Portuguese-speaking women are warmly welcome in the Academy. Madeleine switches naturally between languages.

The goal is not perfect behavior. The goal is ownership, recovery, and forward movement.

Money management is a skill developed through practice. Mistakes are data points, not character flaws. Avoidance and shame delay progress more than lack of knowledge ever will.

You don't need a perfect life to start this. You just need a willingness to take the next right move.

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