Financial consultant · Roseville, California

Feel more confident about your money.

A path aligned with what matters most to you. I help women feel hopeful, confident, and secure as they make financial decisions that support the life they want to build.

Empowering women to navigate their finances Compassionate, experienced guidance Single · divorced · widowed Feel hopeful, confident, and secure Smarter mortgage and cash-flow strategies Build lasting wealth Roseville, California

Start where you are

There are two ways in. Both of them work.

My core strategy isn't for everyone yet — it has real requirements, and not everyone meets them today. That's never been a reason to turn someone away. It just means we start somewhere different.

Pathway One

Getting Ready

You want this, but the numbers aren't quite there yet. Maybe the credit needs work, the income isn't steady enough, or you're still untangling things after a divorce.

  • A free step-by-step checklist to start from where you are
  • Understand what actually matters, and why
  • Work at your own pace, on your own timeline
  • No pressure and no cost to begin
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Pathway Two

Ready Now

Your situation already fits. We look at your full picture and design a strategy around restructuring your mortgage and building protected, tax-advantaged income.

  • A full review of where you stand today
  • A mortgage payoff strategy measured in years, not decades
  • Cash flow and tax efficiency built into the plan
  • Retirement income designed to be yours
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How I help

Clear is kind. Clear is where we start.

Most of the women I work with aren't bad with money. They were simply never shown the order things go in — and many deferred to someone else for years. We fix that first.

About

Meet Monica

Monica Goodpaster, financial consultant, smiling with her chin resting on her hand

I had to rebuild my own plan first.

My divorce left me financially strapped and without any retirement savings. I had spent years around money and business owners — and I still walked away without a plan of my own.

I rebuilt it. And in doing so I learned that most of what I needed was already there, just badly organized and working against me instead of for me.

“You don't need to have it all figured out to start. You just need someone willing to show you the order things go in.”

Monica Goodpaster · Roseville, California

In her words

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Free guide

Your Financial Foundations Checklist

A step-by-step starting point for handling your money on your own.

  • Eight steps, take one at a time
  • Banking, saving, budgeting, and everything in between
  • Come back to it whenever you need it

Free. Unsubscribe any time.

Questions

The questions women ask me first

Short, honest answers. If yours isn’t here, you can always ask me directly.

Is this one of those biweekly payment programs?

No. Many biweekly and “accelerator” programs charge a setup fee plus ongoing fees for something you could do yourself for free. What I focus on instead is real structure: no gimmicks, just an honest plan built around your actual numbers.

What if I don’t qualify yet?

That’s never been a reason to turn someone away. My core strategy has real requirements, and not everyone meets them today. Not qualifying usually just means one or both of two numbers, your home equity or your monthly spread, need a little room to grow. “Not yet” is not the same as “no.”

Do I have to give up everything to make this work?

No. It’s structure, not sacrifice. The fix usually isn’t more willpower or cutting your coffee budget. It’s a smarter structure for what you already have.

I’m overwhelmed. Where do I even start?

Start with my free Financial Foundations Checklist. It gives you a realistic order of operations: eight steps, taken one at a time.

Will I be judged for my numbers?

Never. Everything about how I work is private and judgment-free. No assumptions, no lectures.

What are the two numbers you keep mentioning?

Your home equity and your monthly spread, what’s left after every expense is paid.