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A Compass course
Self-paced
Self-paced
Money, in your own name.
Nine modules that take you from not wanting to look, to a plan you built yourself.
Built for the woman who is putting her financial life back in her own hands — after a divorce, in a midlife pivot, or in the season when someone else stopped handling it. Not generic money advice. The specific things that change when your household changes.
The nine
01Your Money Story22 min
02The First Honest Look26 min
03Accounts in Your Own Name24 min
04Credit in Your Own Name28 min
05Whose Debt Is This25 min
06Living on One Income27 min
07Earning Again26 min
08Taxes After Everything Changed24 min
09The Year Ahead23 min
Why this exists
Most money courses are written for a life that is holding still.
They assume a stable month, two adults, and a decade to compound. That is not the year you are having. When a household comes apart, a specific set of questions arrives all at once — whose debt is this, what does the decree actually change, can I afford to stay in the house, what happens to my credit, what does one income really cover — and almost nothing written for a general audience answers any of them.
The Groundwork answers those. It is the course I built because the women I work with kept arriving with the same nine problems, in roughly the same order.
The curriculum
Nine modules, in the order they actually happen.
Each one is a video, a written lesson, two real situations at different starting points, one worksheet, and a short check. Work in order — they build.
- 0122 min
Your Money Story
Name the pattern you have been running, so it stops running you.
- 0226 min
The First Honest Look
One page that tells you the truth about your position — built in about ninety minutes.
- 0324 min
Accounts in Your Own Name
The accounts, the access, and the small team that make you independently operable.
- 0428 min
Credit in Your Own Name
Read your own credit file, fix what is wrong on it, and build a score that belongs to you.
- 0525 min
Whose Debt Is This
Separate what you are legally on the hook for from what you have simply been carrying.
- 0627 min
Living on One Income
A spending plan built for an unstable year, not a tidy one.
- 0726 min
Earning Again
Get honest about what you can earn, and stop treating a gap in your history as a disqualification.
- 0824 min
Taxes After Everything Changed
Know which tax questions your situation just created — and which ones to take to a professional.
- 0923 min
The Year Ahead
Turn eight modules of work into one page you will actually follow.
How it works
Built to be used, not watched.
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Education, not advice.
You will finish knowing how things work and exactly which questions to take to an attorney or a CPA. That turns an expensive open-ended engagement into a short specific one — which is usually where the money is saved.
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Yours to keep.
One payment. No subscription. Lifetime access and every future update, on any device, at whatever pace the year allows.
A word on what this is not. The Groundwork will not tell you what to invest in, whether to accept a settlement, or how to file your return. Those require someone who knows your facts and holds the licence to give that advice. What it will do is make sure you walk into those conversations knowing what you own, what you owe, whose name is on it, and what to ask.
Read some of it first, free. Every module has a companion article in The Library — nine plain answers to the questions this course covers, including why a decree doesn't get your name off a joint loan and how to find what a month actually costs you. If the writing isn't for you, you'll know before you spend anything.
Who teaches it
Katherine Boean, CFE.
A CFE-certified financial strategist and business consultant who has spent more than a decade teaching people how money actually works — in workshops, in classrooms, and one at a time across a table. Her Becoming grew out of the pattern she kept seeing: capable women, mid-transition, making enormous decisions on top of a picture nobody had ever helped them assemble.
She is not a licensed financial advisor and does not pretend to be. What she is, is very good at making the practical part legible — and unusually direct about when you need to go and pay somebody else.
Enrol · Instant access
One payment. Lifetime access.
Nine modules, nine worksheets, and every update from here on.
$99
$149
when it opens
Founding price, for the first 50 women in — in exchange for telling me what worked and what didn't. After that it's $149, and it stays there.
- All nine modules — 225 minutes of video, unlocked at once
- A written lesson for every module, to read instead of watch
- Nine worksheets that save in your browser and print clean
- Two worked situations per module — one starting from hard, one from steady
- A short check at the end of each module, with the reasoning
- The questions-for-your-attorney and questions-for-your-CPA lists
- Lifetime access and free updates
Not open yet.
The nine modules are written and the worksheets are built. I am recording the video now, and I am not taking anyone's money until you can actually watch it.
In the meantime the whole of it is free to read, in different words, at the Library.
You’re first in line, friend.
I’ll write the day it opens, and you’ll have the founding price before anyone else does.
Until then, the nine modules are all in the Library, free, in different words.
Fourteen days, no questions. If The Groundwork isn't what you needed, email hello@herbecoming.world for a full refund.
Questions
Before you start.
Is this financial advice?
No, and that distinction is deliberate. The Groundwork is financial education — it explains how things work so you can make your own decisions and ask better questions of the professionals you hire. Katherine is a CFE-certified financial strategist and business consultant, not a licensed financial advisor, attorney, or tax preparer. Two modules will tell you plainly to go and pay someone, because that is genuinely the right answer for those questions.
I'm in the middle of a divorce. Is it too early?
It is the best possible time. Modules 02 through 05 cover exactly the things that are decided during a settlement and very hard to undo afterwards — what you own, whose name is on what, and which joint debts follow you out. Several of the most expensive mistakes in this course are ones you can only avoid before a decree is final.
How long does it take?
About 225 minutes of video across nine modules, plus the activities. Most women do one module a week over two months. The one exception is module 02, which asks for a genuine ninety minutes — it is the highest-value time in the course and the part people postpone.
Do I need to be good with money?
No. Module 01 exists because most women arrive convinced they are bad at this, and that belief is usually an inherited pattern rather than an accurate assessment. The course assumes no background and no maths beyond subtraction.
What if I'm not divorcing?
The course is built for women in financial transition broadly — a midlife pivot, widowhood, raising children alone, or steadying a life after a long stretch of someone else handling the money. The divorce-specific material sits in identifiable places; the rest applies to any woman putting her financial life in her own name.
Is my information private?
Nothing you type into the workbook fields leaves your device. Your answers, notes, and progress are stored in your own browser, not on our servers. We never see your numbers.
What if it isn't right for me?
Fourteen days, no questions. Email hello@herbecoming.world and you get a full refund.
The Circle is free, and it always was.
You do not have to buy anything to be let in. The Circle is open to you today — five chapters, women who have been exactly where you are. The Groundwork is for when you want the practical part taught properly.
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