Lisa Chastain
Financial Expert | Money Coach | Author | Speaker
Lisa Chastain brings practical financial strategy together with the emotional and behavioral forces that drive financial decisions.
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Lisa Chastain is a nationally recognized money coach, financial expert, bestselling author, speaker, and creator of the Financial Emotional Intelligence framework.
Her work explores the intersection of money, behavior, identity, decision-making, confidence, and sustainable wealth.
Lisa has appeared across national television, major publications, podcasts, and financial media, including NewsNation, FOX Business, CNBC, NBC News, ABC, MeritTV, O – The Oprah Magazine, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Business Insider, and MSN Money.
She is available for interviews and commentary on personal finance, money psychology, financial behavior, wealth, consumer trends, relationships and money, financial stress, financial confidence, and behavioral decision-making.
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Lisa regularly provides financial commentary on consumer behavior, inflation, debt, spending, wealth, and the emotional side of financial decision-making.
August 10, 2024 · NewsNation Now
Lisa joined NewsNation Now to discuss rising restaurant prices, inflation, consumer behavior, value meals, and how households can make intentional spending decisions as everyday costs rise.
November 7, 2024 · Morning on MeritTV
Lisa appeared on Morning on MeritTV to discuss money and consumer financial decision-making.
Lisa spoke with KTNV about rising credit-card debt and practical strategies for improving cash flow, lowering interest costs, managing credit utilization, negotiating rates, and paying down high-interest debt.
Watch / Read InterviewLisa discussed inflation, financial stress, household spending, and the economic pressures influencing American families.
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Financial commentary and analysis on the economic pressures shaping American households.
Lisa provided financial commentary on the growing cost of school meal transaction fees and the added financial pressures facing families.
Read on FOX BusinessLisa discussed the growing phenomenon of money dysmorphia, financial comparison, social media influence, and how constant exposure to wealth imagery can distort perceptions of financial success.
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Lisa's work and financial commentary have appeared in national television and major publications.
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Long-form conversations exploring money, behavior, wealth, identity, confidence, leadership, and transformation.
December 10, 2025
A conversation for the financial-advisor community about money beliefs, financial behavior, childhood influences, high-net-worth financial decision-making, and moving beyond traditional budgeting.
March 12, 2026
Lisa explores how money becomes connected to identity, self-worth, emotional patterns, decision-making, and the stories people carry into their financial lives.
April 20, 2026
A long-form conversation about financial wellness, restrictive budgeting, emotional patterns around money, and creating a healthier financial life.
February 4, 2025
Lisa discusses her personal financial journey, freedom, success, money mindset, and building a life that supports both financial and personal wellbeing.
April 3, 2023
A deep conversation about Lisa's financial journey, coaching philosophy, money beliefs, and why traditional financial advice often fails to address human behavior.
September 10, 2026
Lisa shares her personal story, financial journey, coaching work, and perspective on helping people transform their relationship with money.
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Lisa's current authority centers on the connection between money, behavior, emotion, identity, and decision-making — not budgeting alone.
Booking note for producers & journalists: Lisa's work connects money + behavior + emotion + identity + decision-making — ideal for stories that go beyond standard budgeting advice.
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Lisa Chastain is a nationally recognized money coach, financial expert, bestselling author, speaker, and creator of the Financial Emotional Intelligence framework.
For more than two decades, Lisa has helped people understand not only what to do with their money, but why financial decisions can feel so difficult in the first place.
Her work combines practical financial strategy with the behavioral and emotional forces that influence money: fear, identity, self-worth, relationships, confidence, freedom, and beliefs formed throughout life.
Lisa's financial commentary and work have appeared across national television and major media including CNBC, NBC News, FOX Business, NewsNation, ABC, MeritTV, O – The Oprah Magazine, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Business Insider, and MSN Money.
She is the bestselling author of Girl, Get Your $hit Together and Stop Budgeting, Start Living, host of the Real Money with Lisa Chastain podcast, and founder of The Wealth Within, an immersive experience designed to help people change the patterns driving their financial and personal decisions.
Her work today centers on Financial Emotional Intelligence — the ability to understand and manage the emotional, behavioral, and financial forces influencing our decisions.
Author
Lisa Chastain is a bestselling author of two books on money, mindset, and behavior — Girl, Get Your $hit Together and Stop Budgeting, Start Living (Simon & Schuster). Together they bring Financial Emotional Intelligence into a practical, human approach to everyday money decisions.
Book One
Lisa Chastain
Lisa's bestselling first book — a straight-talking guide to getting honest about money, mindset, and the patterns holding you back.
Book Two
Lisa Chastain
The book behind Lisa's no-budget philosophy — a practical and behavioral approach to money that replaces restriction and guilt with clarity, alignment, and sustainable financial confidence.
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Lisa Chastain is available for television, podcast, print, radio, digital, and live-event commentary.
She brings a practical and human perspective to financial stories — combining financial strategy with behavioral insight to explain why people make the money decisions they make.
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