Financial Empowerment Workshops
Real-life money skills, built for youth, families, and community partners.
Workshop Categories
Our Workshops
Epic Money Matters & Beyond equips individuals with practical money skills, healthy mindsets, and real-world tools to help them build independent futures.
Students ages 12-24 and Young Adults
Families
School, churches, youth groups, community centers
Culturally responsive, hands-on, real world learning
Financial Confidence for Mothers
Each workshop focuses on simple, actionable steps that help participants reduce stress, build confidence, and strengthen family stability.
Participants receive guided activities, resource information, worksheets, and take-home tools that can be used immediately.
Workshop series designed to provide practical financial education, resource awareness, and real-life problem solving strategies.
Workshop Pricing
We believe financial education should be accessible, transparent, and community‑friendly. Pricing reflects preparation, materials, facilitation, and post‑session resources.
Standard Workshops (45–60 minutes)
$350 — Small groups (up to 25 youth)
$500 — Medium groups (26–60 youth)
$650 — Large groups (61–100 youth)
Premium Workshops (60–90 minutes)
Includes Simulation Lab, $100 Challenge, First Job Playbook, and Bills, Bills, Bills.
$600 — Small groups
$800 — Medium groups
$1,000 — Large groups
Multi‑Week Series
4‑Week Series:$1,800
6‑Week Series:$2,500
Community Partner Pricing
For churches, nonprofits, and youth groups. If our standard packages don’t align with your current financial reality, please let us know. We offer sliding scale spots for mission driven projects and community partners.
School & District Contracts
Custom pricing available for:
Annual partnerships
Curriculum integration
Staff training
Multi‑site programs
Workshop Categories
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Money in Real Life: Simulation Lab
A fast-paced, station-based experience where youth earn a paycheck, pay bills, shop for groceries, and handle surprise expenses — just like real life.
How to Make Your First $1,000
A practical income-building workshop teaching teens how to earn safely, price their skills, avoid scams, and build confidence.
Level Up Your Paycheck: Understanding Taxes & Paystubs
Youth learn how paychecks really work — taxes, deductions, take-home pay, and how to avoid first-job mistakes.
Budgeting for the Life You Want
A vision-building workshop where youth map their values, design their dream life, and build a starter budget to support it.
Smart Spending: How to Stretch Your Money
Teens learn comparison shopping, price awareness, marketing tricks, and how to make their money last longer.
How to Open Your First Bank Account
A step-by-step guide to banking basics, avoiding fees, using debit cards safely, and protecting against fraud.
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Credit Without Confusion
A teen-friendly breakdown of credit scores, credit reports, and how to build credit responsibly from day one.
Financial Red Flags & Scams
Youth learn how to spot social media scams, fake job postings, payment-app fraud, and identity theft.
Your Money, Your Identity
A safety-focused workshop on protecting personal information, freezing credit, and avoiding digital traps.
Apartment Ready: Renting 101 for Young Adults
A reality-check workshop covering applications, deposits, utilities, roommates, and move-in costs.
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Money & Mindset: Breaking Generational Patterns
A reflective workshop exploring money beliefs, cultural messages, and how to build healthier financial habits.
Money Boundaries: Friends, Family & Pressure
Teens learn how to say no, avoid being used financially, and set healthy boundaries with peers and relationships.
Money & Mental Health
A supportive session exploring stress spending, avoidance, shame, and how to build calm, confident money habits.
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Money Survival Skills 101
The real-life basics no one teaches: filling out forms, reading bills, calling customer service, avoiding late fees, and setting up autopay safely.
Financial First Aid Kit
What to do when money goes wrong — overdrafts, declined cards, scams, lost wallets, and unpaid bills. Youth build their own “Financial First Aid Kit.”
How to Adult With $100 Challenge
A hands-on challenge where teens must survive a week on $100 — planning meals, transportation, school needs, and emergencies.
Your First Job Playbook
Everything teens need to know: applying, interviewing, tracking hours, avoiding wage theft, and quitting professionally.
Bills, Bills, Bills: Understanding Real Household Costs
Youth rotate through stations to learn about rent, utilities, groceries, transportation, and phone plans using real San Diego prices.
How to Not Get Played by Companies
A deep dive into subscription traps, free trials, in-app purchases, predatory lenders, and Buy Now Pay Later schemes.
The Broke‑Proof Meal Plan
A practical workshop on shopping smart, comparing prices, planning meals, and avoiding food waste.
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For many mothers, financial stress can add an additional layer of pressure. This workshop is designed to meet moms with compassion, practicality, and support. Offering simple tools and guidance that can make a difference in their daily lives.
Multi-Week Series Options
6‑Week Youth Financial Empowerment Series
Money Mindset & Values
Income, Paychecks & Taxes
Budgeting & Smart Spending
Banking & Credit Basics
Safety, Scams & Money Boundaries
Real‑Life Simulation Lab
4‑Week “Adulting Starter Pack” Series
Money Survival Skills
First Job Playbook
Bills, Rent & Real‑Life Costs
Financial First Aid Kit