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Marriage-Centered Money

Get on the Same Financial Page and Achieve Your Life Goals Together

Blending best practices from the fields of financial therapy and financial planning, Marriage-Centered Money will help you and your partner...
  • Get - and stay - on the same financial page
  • ​​Build a secure financial foundation for your family
  • ​Accelerate your financial progress to help you attain your family's most important goals
  • ​ Feel confident and empowered about your finances
  • ​... and much, much more!
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Money stress and money fights are some of the most common reasons that marriages fail.

But it doesn't need to be this way. In fact, the opposite is true as well: when couples learn to manage their money well together, it both improves their financial status and strengthens their marriage. 

What Would It Feel Like If You Could...

​Co-create a plan with your spouse to guide your financial decision making and help you achieve your deepest desires as a family.
Learn how to manage money together in a way that will bring you and your partner closer together over time and minimize the risk of you fighting about money in the future.  
Achieve your financial goals without cutting your budget to the bone and never having any fun. You know you could just eat rice and beans and save everything for the future, but you want to have a more balanced approach.
​Co-create a plan with your spouse to guide your financial decision making and help you achieve your deepest desires as a family.
Learn how to manage money together in a way that will bring you and your partner closer together over time and minimize the risk of you fighting about money in the future.  
Achieve your financial goals without cutting your budget to the bone and never having any fun. You know you could just eat rice and beans and save everything for the future, but you want to have a more balanced approach.
Make your money work harder for you using an organized, efficient system so you don't need to think and worry about money constantly or take a ton of time to complete your financial tasks each month. 
Implement a framework to help you and your spouse make big, complicated decisions as a family based on the most important priorities for each of you.
Feel confident and empowered by the way you manage money together. 

My new book, Marriage-Centered Money, will give you the step-by-step process on how to implement a customized plan for your family to accomplish all of the above...and more! 

This Book Is For You If...

#1: You're engaged or newly married and want to grow together financially as a new family. 

Managing money on your own is difficult enough. When you get married, things get even more complicated. 

You're ready to get serious about achieving your short- and long-term goals. You're looking forward to buying your first house, getting rid of student loans, starting a family, and retirement...but you recognize that you need a plan in place to help make those dreams a reality. 

You probably have a few big life changes and decisions coming up, and you want financially prepare to make the best possible decisions for your new family.

This book will give you the step-by-step process to create a plan that helps your new family focus on what's most important to make the right financial decisions. When your vision is clear, the decisions are easy. 

#2: You're sick of feeling stressed about your finances.

Whether you're drowning in debt and have no idea how you'll ever get out, or you're feeling like you haven't had a "win" when it comes to money in a long time, you're sick of feeling anxious or guilty about your family's finances. 

You probably feel behind on where you should be on at least one of your financial goals...and you might even feel hopeless that you'll ever be able to reach them.

You know that it's tempting to ignore the financial problems you're facing... but you also know that things won't get any better until you dig deep and focus on getting better.

#3: You're SO ready to be on the same page with your spouse when it comes to money.

You and your spouse might have differences when it comes to your financial habits, attitudes, or values. That's completely, 100% normal.

You might not be fighting about money today, but you know that disagreements about money can develop over time and create problems within marriages. You want to know your blind spots, and prepare so that you don't start fighting about money down the road. 

You CAN implement a system to manage money as a family that respects your financial differences and preserves your financial independence, but also enables you to easily work together toward your most important family goals. Best of all - you can do it without fighting about money. 

#4: You know your money could be working harder for you, but you're not sure what to do with it.

We all want the confidence that comes with knowing that you're allocating your money in the most optimal way to create the lives you love. 

Whether you're the type of person to accidentally overdraft your checking account, or the type of person to let wayyyyyy too much money build up in your checking account, you know that your money could be managed better to make it work harder for you. 

I'll show you exactly how to do it inside of the book... and better yet, I'll show you how to do it in a way that won't take up a ton of your time and attention month after month.

This Book Is For You If...

#1: You're engaged or newly married and want to grow together financially as a new family. 

#2: You're sick of feeling stressed about your finances.

#3: You're SO ready to be on the same page with your spouse when it comes to money.

#4: You know your money could be working harder for you, but you're not sure what to do with it.

Transform Your Financial Bottom Line and Your Marriage With Marriage-Centered Money And Four Amazing Bonuses For Only $9.99 Today!

Marriage-Centered Money Success Stories

(Note: to maintain strict confidentiality for the couples I work with, names and photos have been changed.)

Allison and Andrew
📍 Washington, DC

  • Issue: Allison and Andrew felt trapped in their current living situation - they were unhappy in their neighborhood but felt paralyzed trying to figure out their next move. They also had been putting off having their first child due to financial stress.
  • Action: Going through the process taught in Marriage-Centered Money, they completed their family mission statement and set very clear financial goals related to decreasing their financial stress and improving their living situation. Allison and Andrew identified their dream neighborhood and improved their financial standing so that they could buy a house in this neighborhood within twelve months. Andrew also made a career change that increased his work/life balance and they had their first child in December 2019.
  • Impact: Allison and Andrew exponentially improved their quality of life, had their first child, and bought their dream home as a result of what they learned following the proven process taught in Marriage-Centered Money. Even better, they learned how to make decisive financial decisions and stopped feeling anxious about money.

Bob and Barbara
📍 Boston, MA

  • Issue: Bob and Barbara had very different perspectives on money; Barbara was a "saver" who prioritized financial security, and Bob was a "spender" who prioritized financial freedom. The didn't have a consistent process in place to manage money together, and had fights about money almost on a weekly basis.
  • Action: Following the marriage-centered financial planning process taught in Marriage-Centered Money, Barbara and Bob learned how to clearly define their financial priorities and goals around saving, spending, security, and freedom. They then implemented an efficient process to manage money together that respected their financial differences, accelerated their financial progress, and significantly decreased their money fights.
  • Impact: They created a unified financial plan for their family that appropriately balanced both of their priorities, and clearly showed them how and when they will achieve each of their financial goals. They automated their money management, which has decreased their financial arguments and strengthened their relationship by reducing this source of conflict.

Christina and Carl
📍 Chicago, IL

  • Issue: Christina and Carl were really unhappy with how their finances were impacting their quality of life. Christina had a great job in Milwaukee, and was splitting her time living in two different cities. Even though it was a great job, it was hurting their marriage. Carl had six figures of student loan debt that he brought into the marriage, and didn't want to burden Christina with the debt. 
  • Action: Carl and Christina took time to define their family's values and set clear financial goals (Chapters 9-10 in Marriage-Centered Money). As a result, they decided to negotiate changes at Christina's job that allowed her to move back to Chicago full time (and save thousands in rent in the process). Following the process taught in the book, they also created a customized game plan to handle Carl's student loans in a way that maximized their family's financial future together.
  • Impact: By identifying their most important financial priorities as a family and diligently creating a plan to help make these dreams a  reality, Christina and Carl improved their financial bottom line, implemented a plan to become debt free in just a few years, and increased the amount of time they spent together.

Marriage-Centered Money Success Stories

(Note: to maintain strict confidentiality for the couples I work with, names and photos have been changed.)

Bob and Barbara
📍 Boston, MA

  • Issue: Bob and Barbara had very different perspectives on money; Barbara was a "saver" who prioritized financial security, and Bob was a "spender" who prioritized financial freedom. The didn't have a consistent process in place to manage money together, and had fights about money almost on a weekly basis.
  • Action: Following the marriage-centered financial planning process taught in Marriage-Centered Money, Barbara and Bob learned how to clearly define their financial priorities and goals around saving, spending, security, and freedom. They then implemented an efficient process to manage money together that respected their financial differences, accelerated their financial progress, and significantly decreased their money fights.
  • Impact: They created a unified financial plan for their family that appropriately balanced both of their priorities, and clearly showed them how and when they will achieve each of their financial goals. They automated their money management, which has decreased their financial arguments and strengthened their relationship by reducing this source of conflict.

By grabbing your copy of the book, you'll learn how to:

Get Your Spouse On Board with Making Financial Changes
(Chapter 4)

Immediately Accelerate Your Progress with a "Quick Win"
(Chapter 3)

Bring Your Money Into Alignment with What's Most Important to You
(Chapter 9 + 10)

Get on the Same Financial Page and Make Decisions Easily
(Chapter 5 + 6)

Resolve (and Prevent) Financial Conflict
(Chapter 7)

Implement the Perfect Account Structure For Your Family 
(Chapter 11)

Budget as a Family (Without Micro-Managing Each Other!)
(Chapter 12)

Handle Your Existing and Future Debts as a Team
(Chapter 13)

Balance Career & Location Decisions
(Chapter 14)

Protect Your Family's Future Financial Security
(Chapter 16)

Set Your Family Up for Long-Term Financial Freedom
(Chapter 16)

Implement Efficient Family Routines to Stay On Track
(Chapter 15)

But above all else...

Marriage-Centered Money will give you the confidence you need to finally make money a source of strength in your lives and in your relationship - rather than a source of shame or stress.

PLUS You'll Get Immediate Access to These Bonuses to Help Jumpstart Your Success

(These Bonuses Are Only Available On This Page!)

BONUS 01

Instant Digital Download

You'll get your paperback copy of Marriage-Centered Money in the mail in a few days...but as soon as your order is complete, you'll receive an email containing your personalized link to a PDF digital download of the entire book.

This is the sort of book that's meant to have notes handwritten in the margins for you to circle back to time and time again. But that doesn't mean you need to wait for the print-and-ink version to get started!

BONUS 02

Getting Your Spouse On Board With Financial Changes Workshop

When you purchase the book, you also get FREE instant access to our popular workshop about how to get your spouse on board with making financial changes. This one hour, deep-dive training will help you put the material in the book into practice and get your spouse on board with implementing a financial game plan for your family - without fighting about money.

BONUS 03

Budgeting Strategies for Busy Newlyweds Podcast

I know you've got a lot on your plate. You don't need to be spending hours and hours every month monitoring the ins-and-outs of your family's budget. Which is why I'm including this private podcast series - that you won't find published anywhere else - to complement what you'll learn in the book and help you reach your goals faster.

BONUS 04

Audiobook

Prefer to listen to audiobooks? When you order Marriage-Centered Money, you'll receive a 6 hour audiobook file, recorded by the author in a professional recording studio. This audiobook is not available anywhere else!

Meet The Author: Bill Nelson, CFP®, CFT-I™

I'm a Certified Financial Planner™ and a Certified Financial Therapist-Level I™ Practitioner, and I've helped over seventy couples use their money to create the lives they love since launching my financial planning practice back in 2016.

But that's not why I wrote this book. I wrote this book because the process I teach in Marriage-Centered Money changed my own marriage.

I know what it feels like to have anxiety that we would never achieve our most important financial goals because of choices we've made in the past. I know what it feels like to juggle multiple financial decisions and feel paralyzed by fear of making the wrong choice. I know what it feels like to dread bringing up a financial choice we have ahead of us, because of how likely it is that the conversation will end in a fight.

I didn't become the expert in marriage and money issues by accident - I'm here because I learned a lot of lessons the hard way a few years back. I've been in your shoes before - and I'm here to tell you from the future that there is a way to use your money to create the lives you love - together. 

I'm here to tell you that there is a path forward where you can feel empowered and emboldened by the financial choices you make, rather than afraid.

I know you can do this! I developed the principles taught in Marriage-Centered Money for my own marriage, and I've guided couples all across the country through the process since 2016. And I'm here for you and your spouse, too.

If any of the things we've covered on this page have resonated with you... you are in the right place, my friend. There's a spot at the table here just for you. So grab a copy of the book and commit to making your marriage stronger through the way you manage money.

Transform Your Financial Bottom Line and Your Marriage With Marriage-Centered Money And All Four Bonuses For Only $9.99 Today!

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