Escaping the Money Fog with Daily Thrive Expert Mikelann Valterra

Mikelann Valterra, Money Therapy Expert at The Daily Thrive, says she’s one of those rare birds whose 50-50 left brain-right brain split makes her an ideal fit for her profession as a money coach.

“There’s the linear, skill side and the non-linear emotional side,” says Valterra. “This comes into play in helping women establish a Personal Financial Practice. We take a look at spending and earning and then move into a more conscious way of planning.”

Always Plan, Never Budget

Valterra is quick to point out that she loathes the word budgeting. “It tends to connote deprivation. But planning brings more freedom to the process.”

In private practice for over 15 years as the Seattle Money Coach, Mikelann is also on the faculty of the Financial Recovery Counseling Institute where she trains new money coaches throughout the world. She is a nationally sought after speaker on the issues of women and money, and has appeared on dozens of radio shows, television spot sand in newspapers across the United States. From KOMO News 4 to the Chicago Tribune, she talks about how women can heal their relationship to money, escape the money fog, end underearning and have more peace around money.

“I love helping women figure out why they do what they do. Uncovering the money story that leads to self-defeating behaviors allows women to step into new beliefs that nourish their lives and make it easier to create and maintain a life-giving personal financial practice.”

Over the years she has worked with many amazing professionals who come to the point where money feels like it is that last dark corner they must finally look at. In this way Valterra feels it is a “sacred duty to be a guide on a journey this important.”

What she’s now finding in The Daily Thrive is that the women who chose to become members are all remarkably ready to explore not only the money therapy sessions, but the intersecting threads of learning and transformation offered in all subject ares.

In 2004 Mikelann published, Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You’re Really Worth (Career Press 2004). Shortly thereafter she founded the Women’s Earning Institute, dedicated to empowering women to earn what they’re really worth and heal their relationship to money. She also published How To Set and Raise Your Rates, A Woman’s Guide and the workbook Emotional Pricing in 2007 and 2009. Mikelann began regularly blogging for Forbes.com in 2010, and in 2011 joined the team of experts at The Daily Thrive.