Molly Ford-Coates

Money is emotional. It always has been. And yet most financial speakers show up armed with spreadsheets, compound interest formulas, and a slide deck that puts audiences to sleep by slide three. That's not what you'll get here — and that's exactly why your audience deserves something different. As an Accredited Financial Counselor with deep expertise in behavioral finance, I sit at one of the most fascinating intersections in the modern world: the place where psychology meets your paycheck. Why do smart people make terrible financial decisions? Why does a pay raise sometimes make us feel worse? Why do we save for a vacation faster than we save for retirement? These are the questions that behavioral finance answers — and I make those answers impossible to forget. What sets me apart isn't just the knowledge. It's the delivery. I bring an energy and enthusiasm to the stage that transforms a topic most people dread into one they genuinely can't stop talking about. Audiences don't just sit and listen — they participate, reflect, and laugh. Sessions are built around interaction, real-world scenarios, and the kind of "aha moments" that stick long after the event ends. Whether it's a corporate conference, a university keynote, a financial wellness summit, or a professional development day, the room comes alive. And I am not a speaker who showed up yesterday. I have spent years not only counseling individuals through their most vulnerable financial moments, but also reaching many through a podcast that makes behavioral finance accessible, relatable, and genuinely entertaining. As a published author, the ideas presented on stage are grounded in research, refined through real client experiences, and packaged in a way that resonates with everyday people — not just finance professionals. This matters for your event because audiences are tired of being talked at about money. They want to understand themselves — their patterns, their blind spots, their emotional triggers around spending and saving. I give them exactly that, with warmth, humor, and a contagious passion for the subject that has a way of spreading through an entire room. Booking me means your attendees will walk away with more than information. They'll walk away with self-awareness — which is the real driver of lasting financial behavior change. They'll have language for things they've always felt but couldn't explain. They'll be entertained. And they'll be grateful you chose a speaker who treated them like whole human beings, not just wallets that needed optimizing. In a crowded speaker market, the combination of rigorous credentials, real-world counseling experience, a built-in audience as an author and podcaster, and a speaking style that is genuinely fun and engaging is rare. I am a speaker who has done the work, knows the research, and knows how to make a room of strangers feel like they've just had a breakthrough. Book me — and give your audience the financial speaker they didn't know they needed.