Tracking What You Spend

You cannot manage what you do not measure. 30 days of radical honesty about where your money goes.

6 lessons32 minutes totalFree preview

What this course teaches

By the end, you'll be able to:

→See exactly where your money is going for the first time — no spreadsheets, no apps, no shame.
→Build the 2-minute nightly tracking habit that becomes automatic after 7 days.
→Identify the one spending pattern that has been quietly draining the most from you each month.
→Recognize your emotional spending triggers and have a plan for each one.
→End the course with a complete spending portrait — what your money is actually doing, and what it says about what you actually value.

Who this is for

If this sounds like you, this course is for you.

For anyone who has tried budgeting apps and quit, anyone who feels embarrassed about their spending, anyone who has been promising themselves they'll "get a handle on it next month" for years. This course assumes no prior knowledge and no judgment. It's for the person who is ready to look — even if looking feels hard.

Capstone project

The proof of the work.

The 30-Day Tracking Project. Every dollar, every day, for 30 days. By the end you'll have a real spending portrait — not the version you tell people, the one that's actually happening. You'll know your top three categories, your emotional triggers, and your single biggest surprise. The portrait is the foundation everything else in Financial Literacy is built on.

The lessons

6 episodes. 32 minutes. Designed to be watched in order.

The transformation

By the end of this course, you'll never again say 'I don't know where my money goes.' You'll know. And knowing is the first thing that can't be taken from you.

Most people who finish this course report two things: relief that the unknown is no longer unknown, and surprise at how much room there actually was in their lives once they could see it. The hard part isn't the tracking. The hard part is the willingness to look. Once you've looked for 30 days, looking becomes a habit — and the habit is the medicine.

Before you start

“If you tracked every dollar for the next 30 days, what would you be most afraid to see? And what would change if you saw it anyway?”

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