“I am now in the exciting stage of the ‘debt payment snowball’ where I’m down to one credit card balance. This brings me so much JOY, I cannot even tell you! Thank you for giving me tools and a roadmap.”
Britt Harris
The Financial Empowerment Program
Dedicated to setting emerging artists on the path to financial stability and success from the very beginning of their professional journeys, our program offers unparalleled support for a full year, ensuring that participants are equipped to make informed financial decisions right from the start. Our comprehensive approach teaches participants how to navigate the financial ups and downs inherent to the arts, providing them with the tools and knowledge they need to thrive. Join us in laying a strong financial foundation for your career, mastering the financial roller coaster with confidence and skill.
Financial education & guidance for emerging artists, allowing you to:
Feel in Control
Instead of budgets and deprivation, our students learn to make choices that support what matters most — your quality of life and the work you feel called to do in this world.
Get out of Debt
For those pursuing careers in the arts, student loans and credit card debt are extremely common. You'll be fully supported in creating a personalized plan for any debt, alowing energy that has gone towards worrying to now go towards growth.
Build Wealth
Saving for the future is important, although often ignored by artists who are not at all focused on “retirement”. Starting from exactly where you are, you'll learn simple, long-term strategies for building wealth — increasing your choices and independence.
Have you ever said to yourself...
“I’m afraid I’m going to have to give up on everything I’ve always dreamed of doing. I wish I wasn’t always worried about money. I’m overworking, and under-earning and can’t seem to get out of this cycle. I’m so tired of struggling.”
I get it. I spent the early years of my acting career getting into over $80K of credit card debt. Nobody could say I wasn’t working hard. At one point I had 11 different part-time gigs! But 25 years ago I began a critical process of understanding how to approach my money in a way that could actually support all of my goals and dreams.
I know how to help you move forward financially without giving up on the pursuits that matter most to you.
Miata Edoga
CEO & Founder, Abundance Bound
In the Financial Empowerment Program, we'll lead you through the 3 keys of money:
Mindset
We’ll address the roots of how you feel and think about money. Your creative energy will stop being drained by a mental spin cycle of financial worry. You’ll develop a healthy relationship with money so when windfalls arrive, you won’t slide into poor habits.
Management
Mainstream money advice doesn’t serve freelancers, artists, and gig-economy workers because it doesn’t fit a life with fluctuating income, fluctuating employment, fluctuating expenses — and many other factors outside of your control. We’ll teach you how to create stability in a way that works (and feels good).
Making More
Whether you want to generate a new stream of income from scratch or find side-line employment that works with your life, you’ll learn the building blocks of how to create cash so you feel stable even when the world doesn’t.
You don’t have to do this alone.
We are here to help.
(To cheer you up and to cheer you on!)
Money Mindset Course
Follow Through on Your North Star Goals
This self-paced course along with our mindset live group coaching calls (one time each month), walks you step-by-step through the process of understanding your power and removing barriers that can short circuit your dreams. No fluff or empty promises… just simple, actionable lessons and exercises that will provide absolute clarity about what you need to do (and why you need to do it) on your journey to a truly abundant life.
Money Management Course
Make the Most of a Non-Traditional Income
Move out of the Pain Cycle of sinking costs and into a Power Cycle of building wealth. Gain the practical tools you need to take action on your new mindset, to model your revenue, and to invest funds in a way that feels doable. Bring your questions to our live group coaching calls (twice each month). We’ll help you get clear on your next best steps.
Creating Cashflow Course
Build a Set of Big, Beautiful Business Muscles
Make your business journey smoother and simpler… and a wee bit more fun. With the self-paced course plus our live group coaching calls (twice each month), you’ll have everything you need to turn your skills and strengths into income to help fund the life you want to live.
Community Forum
Join Forces with People Who Get It
In a culture where discussing money is taboo and you’re supposed to care more about your passion than what you’re getting paid, this is your judgment-free space to get real — and get really good advice. Nothing makes you feel less alone than knowing other people who’ve been where you are and are making the same shifts you want to make.
Mastery Conversations
Up-level Your Career, Business & Money Skills
From investing for retirement to navigating creative industries to developing profitable side-businesses, we bring in guest experts that provide high-level skills and insights specifically for non-traditional earners, artists, freelancers, and creative professionals.
Power Hour Sessions
Do Hard Things - With Support
When we do it together, even the most tedious or overwhelming tasks can start to feel doable. Drop in on these twice-weekly virtual co-working sessions — introduce yourself, state your intentions, and cross things off your list! Check-ins and final sign-offs offer time to celebrate together.
And to ensure your success, you’ll be guided by our Financial Empowerment Program Roadmap!
No two roads to a healthy, thriving financial future will be exactly the same, but there are very specific steps to take to ensure you are Abundance Bound — continually binding yourself to, and directing yourself towards abundance.
As you embark on this journey with us, know that you have the expanse of a full year to navigate through this roadmap.
This deliberate pacing ensures that you don't merely skim through the surface. Instead, you internalize, implement, and see palpable transformation, all at a pace that's consistent yet unhurried. This allows the foundational changes you make to be not just impactful but also enduring and deeply rooted in your daily life.
This Roadmap was carefully designed to guide you through the process of creating a strong foundation, one step at a time. True financial freedom requires a strong foundation. No matter which stage of the journey you’re currently at, you’ll simply follow the map, with complete clarity around where to focus your time and attention.
PLUS we offer two special coaching calls every month specifically to address your Roadmap questions. We want to keep you progressing, growing, and hitting those milestones.
The Financial Empowerment Program is uniquely positioned to support creative and non-traditional earners like you:
1. Money worries will no longer drive your decisions.
You’ll navigate gigs, jobs, auditions, and opportunities with discernment, power, and confidence — never desperation.
2. You’ll learn about finances in a judgment-free zone.
You’ll get effective, tailored-to-you advice that moves you in the directions you want to go.
3. You won’t be misunderstood.
You’ll have mentors who’ve been where you are, respect where you’re at, and want you to honor your dreams.
4. You won’t need to squeeze your non-traditional life into a traditional budget.
It’s time for a different model that will provide you with long-term stability, career development, and — dare we say it? — FUN with some of what you earn.
5. You will feel the power of your own self-worth.
You are entering a new chapter of your life where you’ll be making money choices that affirm your goals, talents, and desires.
"Why a whole year? That seems like a really long time…"
This program is not a quick-fix. Life is not a quick-fix.
Being where you want to be financially doesn’t have to take forever, but as you begin your professional journey, it will take time to orient your relationship with money. With a plan, new perspectives, and consistent steps, you will get to a place where your burdens are lifting and your wealth is building.
Figuring out the money piece can be uncomfortable at first, but it quickly starts to feel a lot better than exhausting yourself while you wait for a big break to happen. You will start to feel in control. You will start to know exactly what to do with your money — and why.
You will start to feel like the unconventional life you’ve chosen is not only manageable, but a perfect fit for you.
Phew!
How Do We Know This Works?
At Abundance Bound, we’ve been supporting thousands of artists — in different stages of their financial life — for over 19 years. They’ve reported back that we helped them to get results in a way that felt really, really good.
We’ve poured the best of our expertise and tons of personal coaching opportunities into this program.
The Financial Empowerment Program provides a minimum of EIGHT opportunities a month for you to be coached live and get smart solutions for challenges like:
- Advocating for yourself with clients, agents, managers, directors, HR and employers.
- Navigating complex tax questions with confidence.
- Making major financial decisions on housing, transportation, and where to live and work.
- Identifying, reaching, retaining, and multiplying your ideal clients and customers.
- Sharing your message and streamlining your marketing — online and off.
- Modeling your revenue from gig work, part-time work (and full-time work), contracts, and side-businesses.
- Setting up debt payment plans and wealth-building plans that don’t undermine your current quality of life.
- Pricing and packaging your offerings to maximize your profits.
- Releasing shame that keeps you avoiding looking directly at your debt, monthly income, and expenses.
- Moving past mindset blocks that keep you procrastinating about setting up that Roth IRA that you really do want to set up.
- Alleviating the pressures of status and pain of FOMO that prompt you to spend money on things you don’t truly want or need.
- Gaining clarity on what you really care about in life so you can resist the pull of everything else!