Financial Wellness Programs Your Team Will Actually Use
Tools, Not Another Lunch-and-Learn They Forget by Friday
Your people aren’t just stressed about deadlines, they’re stressed about money. And that stress doesn’t stay home. It shows up in focus, attendance, turnover, and the benefits they never use because nobody explained them in plain language.
It makes sense if past financial wellness efforts felt like a compliance checkbox. Most of them are.
I do this differently. I give your audience more than motivation. I give them tools they’ll use the next morning.
Led by Mariah Hudler, MSW, MBA, CFT. Trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, values-based, anti-perfection, built for real life.
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Hi, I’m Mariah
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MBA, and Certified Financial Therapist who translates money psychology and real-world strategy into engaging, sassy-smart sessions that actually change behavior.
I work with employers and people leaders who want the best financial wellness programs to mean something: less money stress, more values-aligned decisions, and benefits people finally understand and use. No jargon soup. No recycled 2019 slide deck. No therapy in the break room.
Why This Matters Right Now
Your team is living in a high-cost world, juggling rent, caregiving, debt, and uncertainty, often without a safe place to talk about any of it at work. A generic budgeting webinar won’t touch that.
The best financial well-being solutions for corporate teams look less like one-size-fits-all modules and more like:
- Language that lowers shame, so people actually ask the question they came with
- Skills for couples and households, because money stress is rarely a solo problem
- A clear bridge to benefits they already have, including the retirement education that makes 401k participation click
- Live, human interaction, because async videos alone rarely shift behavior
When it’s done well, this work supports retention, psychological safety, and real use of the benefits dollars you’re already spending.
What I Deliver
Financial Wellness Webinars
Live, virtual financial wellness webinars for company-wide or ERG audiences. Crisp frameworks, practical scripts, and stories from West Coast FI life your team will quote later.
Popular topics:
• Emotional spending and burnout seasons
• Values-based money decisions in a high-cost life
• Couples and money communication (no awkward role-play, promise)
• Coast fire and flexibility: working smarter, not just harder
• New parents, caregiving, and sandwich-generation pressure
Webinars can stand alone or kick off a series.
Workshops and Team Intensives
Half-day or multi-session workshops with exercises your people can run the next morning: scripts for money conversations, rhythm-based planning, and stress-aware spending guardrails. For smaller leadership cohorts, ask about customized intensives timed to your calendar (open enrollment, bonus season, return-to-office).
401k and Benefits Education
A 401k only helps the people who actually use it. My 401k financial wellness sessions translate matching, vesting, and contribution decisions into plain language tied to real values, so participation rises because people get it, not because they got nagged.
Consulting for HR and Benefits Partners
Short engagements for HR, Total Rewards, and wellness vendors who want therapeutically informed content design, built for your workforce instead of pulled off a shelf.
Ready to Build Something Your Team Will Use?
Tell me your workforce, your pain points, and your calendar, and I’ll scope a session that fits. We can start with a single pilot webinar and measure fit before you scale.
Inquire via the Speaking Page or book a 20-minute strategy call if you’re exploring a pilot.
Built for Remote and Hybrid Teams
Financial wellness tools for remote teams fall flat when they ignore time zones, caregiving at home, and always-on laptop culture. My formats are built for camera-on or camera-optional, with take-home worksheets and micro-practices that don’t require a perfectly quiet house. People can join from anywhere and still leave with something they’ll use.
Best Practices for Financial Wellness in Corporate Plans
If you’re evaluating the best practices for financial wellness in corporate plans, here’s what I’ve seen actually move the needle:
- Meet people in their season. New hires, new parents, caregivers, and near-retirement staff each need a different door in.
- Reduce shame first. People won’t ask questions if they feel judged.
- Offer live interaction. Recorded modules alone rarely change behavior.
- Include household context where it fits, because money stress is relational.
- Measure engagement, not just sign-ups. Attendance, replay use, and follow-up clicks tell you more than a headcount.
- Connect it to existing benefits. 401k, EAP, on-demand pay, and leave should feel like one story, not competing ones.
I design sessions to complement your stack, not replace your vendors.
A Different Take on “Top Financial Wellness Companies”
Search for top financial wellness companies and you’ll get vendor roundups. This page isn’t that.
I’m an independent practitioner with clinical and business training, not a white-label app. If you already work with a platform, I plug in as expert-led programming. If you’re building from scratch, we design a pilot and measure fit before you scale. You get a human in the room who knows both the money and the nervous system behind it.
What I’ll Need to Scope Your Program
- Audience size and format (live webinar, workshop, series, fireside chat)
- The topics causing the most stress (debt, inflation, caregiving, emotional spending, retirement anxiety)
- Whether sessions are company-wide or ERG-specific
- How this ties to your benefits story (401k, EAP, on-demand pay)
Dates and budget range
A Note on Our Coaching Pages
You may have landed here from an older link about individual coaching. That work is still available, just not on this page.
Individual and couples coaching lives at My Financially Flexible Life, through intensives, and via strategy calls. Premarital coaching has its own home at premarital financial wellbeing coaching and the premarital money intensive. We consolidated overlapping service pages so employers get one clear front door. This page is the workplace one.