Carrie Friedberg

Carrie Friedberg was raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She studied Buddhism at Trinity College in Connecticut before moving to San Francisco to attend the graduate school of education at the University of San Francisco. There, Carrie became a certified yoga instructor and started practicing Vipassana meditation and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

After years of underearning and overspending, Carrie took a deep dive into coaching as a client herself to try and heal her own relationship with money. Subsequently, Carrie became a certified financial coach at the Financial Recovery Institute and, later, a Financial Behavior Specialist® at the Financial Psychology Institute.

Carrie has been featured by the US News, Forbes, New York Post, MarketWatch, and Oprah Magazine. Carrie has consulted with Visa, Macy’s, SAP, WeWork, and Google. She was involved in research at Kansas State University and presented at the University of San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. Carrie is a first-time author and lives in Portola Valley, California with her husband, two children, and a Havanese named Luna.