No matter where you are
with your money . . .
You’re worthy of ease.
Rest. Room to breathe.
I honor you for choosing your calling.
For dedicating yourself to what you do best — even if your gifts haven’t been the most straightforward way to earn a living.
You’ve been making it work. You’ve defied expectations.
And you don’t need to be any further along to feel at ease around your time, money, and energy.
For most people, there is no magic number or level of success that will shift their earning, spending, and stressing patterns.
What works: to shift those patterns from the inside-out so your budgets, business plans, and personal goals can actually stick. I call this Money Repatterning.
It’s a liberating process.
And I will guide you through it.
I’m Erica Ando.
Your Money Coach,
and not your average money expert.
I understand your choices, because I’ve made them too.
I’m not only a credentialed somatic practitioner and mindfulness teacher who’s mentored dozens of non-traditional earners, artists, and heart-centered entrepreneurs over the years.
I’m also an artist and writer who’s earned an income every which way. I’ve built businesses, freelanced, sold design work internationally, and experienced every extreme when it comes to work, time, and money.
I know how hard it is to show up as yourself when money is a source of pain. And I believe it doesn’t always have to be that way.
Money Repatterning
offers a path to freedom.
This goes deeper than the numbers.
Awareness of what’s beneath the surface of our money struggles
helps us discover who we truly are.
We gain freedom. From shame. From guilt.
From culturally-imposed biases, beliefs, and values.
From having to prove and perform our self-worth.
This is how we break generational cycles.
And begin to express more of ourselves and our values
through our creativity, our time, and our money.
That is our work together.
I help you get to the bottom of money patterns.
Uproot those patterns from your body.
And create intentional shifts that last.
Unlike traditional financial advice
and new age money mindset work:
I understand and honor the unique ways creative, unconventional people make and spend their money, and won’t try to fit you into a box.
I hold an analysis of how cultural biases undermine our power, and help you unlearn what’s been internalized so you can disrupt society’s expectations. (No gaslighting here.)
Through the lens of somatics, I tend to your emotional experience of money. Because without processing emotion through the body, even the best thoughts and plans won’t stick.
I care about this work because I want folks who’ve historically been excluded from having money to have more power and influence in the world.
We may not be able to change the ways others perceive us.
And we may not be able to control everything that happens in our lives.
But we can disrupt cultural constructs and create more stability for ourselves.
We can establish a pattern of making more than just enough and
having energy left over at the end of the day.
And we can use that money and energy to be kinder to ourselves,
more compassionate with others,
and more engaged in our communities.
MY METHOD
How I help you create lasting change
I call my method Whole Person Money Repatterning, because it attends to your entire money system: internalized biases and cultural beliefs, emotional obstacles, and financial flows (aka, budgets, expenses, desires, and income streams).
This is key, because if you want to shift your earning and spending patterns, you have to first gain insight into what drives those patterns, and then work with your nervous system to support a different way of being.
That’s why the result of using this method is not just less stress and more money. It’s greater freedom to be you.
3 Pillars of Money Repatterning
SEE YOURSELF CLEARLY
Get to the root of patterns you’d like to shift.
PRACTICE NEW PATTERNS
Create emotional states for doing things differently.
PLAN TO
EXPAND
Set up simple, flexible systems to support your goals.
MY EXPERTISE
The wisdom behind Money Repatterning
My coaching method is informed by extensive training in multiple disciplines,
diverse career experience, and successfully helping dozens of coaching clients over the years.
Here’s a closer look at what I bring to the table:
I’m a Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Method Practitioner. I’ve been practicing this somatic framework since 1999 when it helped me heal from a car accident. My intensive 4-year training informs the way we work with your nervous system so that you can more easefully confront challenges.
I’m a longtime mindfulness practitioner. I bring forward mindfulness and loving awareness meditations to help you cultivate self-compassion, quiet the noise of other peoples’ opinions, and get to know your true self.
I have a Certification in Integrative Hypnosis, which I draw upon to help create states of calm where you are able to confront difficult situations and gain deeper awareness.
I completed the Art of Money Mentorship Program with Bari Tessler, which has given me a robust understanding of the conditioned responses many of us have to money, and a way of helping you uncover and unlearn any beliefs you’ve internalized.
I’ve taken courses on personal finance and investing since 1997. I’ve always been interested in money, even though as an artist I wasn’t supposed to be. And now I adapt those practical tools for non-traditional earners, without the judgements about your lifestyle or career choice.
I have a PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts, an MFA in Sculpture, and a BFA in Sculpture, so I know what it means to be dedicated to your craft even when the market for it is uncertain — and can help you think creatively about how to balance that pursuit with a need to earn a living.
Rest more. Prove less.
Trust yourself to provde for what matters.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
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Alleviate money stress, see your situation in a new light, and access solutions you hadn’t thought of.
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Figure out your first step towards what you’ve been wanting to do with your money or your career.
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Feel more at ease with money now and set yourself up for long-term stability according to your values.
My story.
How I arrived at Money Repatterning
As a child of immigrants, I learned early on that money meant working hard, and that success was granted to those who gave it their all.
In my early 30s, I built a successful design business. On the outside, I looked successful. But on the inside, I was a mess.
I worked from morning to night believing I had to prove myself.
It never felt like it was enough.
At the same time, I felt guilty. As an art school graduate, I’d absorbed the belief that making money meant “selling out.”
The conflicting thoughts I had about money were exhausting as the late nights.
After several years, I burned out. Badly.
Fearing I’d overwork myself again, I fell into a period of severely underearning, not being able to save, and feeling out of control with money.
When I started working with a coach, I became aware of how my fear of burnout kept a money ceiling over my head.
And as I practiced becoming aware of my beliefs and emotions, I was able to break that ceiling — without falling back into my pattern of overexerting myself.
To this day . . .
Paying attention to my money patterns is key to protecting my time, my energy, my mental health, and my future.
Over the past 4 years, money has become the focus of my coaching because it entangles every aspect of our lives and is an incredible tool for self-discovery and growth.
When we learn to feel okay about money, we often start to feel better about ourselves.
And that leads to more agency, more creativity, more rest, closer relationships, higher confidence, and often, higher income.