What We Built Together in 2025 and What We Are Excited For In 2026: Financial Intimacy, Yes Please

Dear friends, colleagues, and clients,

As we step into a new year, we wanted to pause and share something important with you.

Healthy Love & Money isn’t just a website, a podcast, or an email list. It’s a growing community of couples, professionals, and families who believe that money doesn’t have to be the number one source of stress, conflict, or disconnection in relationships.

In 2025, together, we helped change that story.

Here’s what happened, both in public and quietly behind the scenes.

We expanded the cultural conversation about money and relationships.
Through weekly newsletters, long-form blog posts, and podcast episodes, we continued naming something that has been under-addressed for far too long: money lives in both our emotional world and our practical world. When couples understand this, shame softens, curiosity grows, and collaboration becomes possible.

We reached people consistently and at scale.
In 2025, Healthy Love & Money published 52 original blog posts, released 36 podcast episodes, and presented at multiple conferences and online summits, reaching thousands of couples and professionals with a more humane, relational way of talking about money. Our founder, Ed Coambs, co-authored and published with Khara Crosswaite Brindle a new book called Becoming A Financial Therapist: Journeys Into Healing, Meaning, and Money, which has already started receiving multiple 5-star reviews.

We supported couples in having braver, more honest conversations.
Behind the scenes, couples came to us feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or quietly disconnected around finances. Together, we helped them slow down, understand each other’s financial stories, and begin working as a team—often for the first time in years.

We trained and mentored professionals working at the intersection of money and relationships.
Financial planners, therapists, and coaches sought deeper training in how to work with couples and money in ways that honor both numbers and nervous systems. This matters—because the quality of support couples receive shapes what they believe is possible.

We challenged a cultural narrative that isn’t serving families.
The dominant story says money problems ruin relationships. We’re offering something different: with the right support, money can become a place of clarity, trust, trust-building, and even intimacy.

Big ideas often begin with a spark. Financial intimacy is no longer a spark—it’s a building fire. Language matters here. Research in linguistics and cognitive psychology shows that the words we use shape how we understand our experiences and what we expect is possible (including the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson). By naming and practicing financial intimacy, we’re helping create a new relational expectation: that couples can talk openly, lovingly, and collaboratively about money—and that they deserve support in doing so.

As we move into 2026, our focus is clear. We’ll be:

• Growing the reach of our newsletter, blog, and podcast

• Expanding our professional services for couples and the professionals who serve them

• Developing strategic partnerships to deepen and amplify this work, both in depth and in breadth

This shift doesn’t happen overnight. It happens through conversations. Through reflection. Through people like you who read, share, talk, and stay engaged.

If you’ve ever forwarded an email, shared a podcast, talked about these ideas with your partner, or simply felt less alone reading along, you’ve been part of this work.

Thank you for being here.
Thank you for being part of this community.
Please continue to share this work with those you love.

Warmly,
Ed Coambs - Founder of Healthy Love & Money