You are not behind.
You are at the beginning of a very good story.
Ninety days to know your numbers, trust your plan, and stop flinching when you open your banking app. For women starting over at any age — your 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s — with someone walking beside you.
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Rebuilding wealth · Designing freedom · Living beautifully
If any of this is your Tuesday, you’re in the right place.
The statements you don’t open, because knowing feels worse than wondering. The quiet arithmetic at two in the morning — the one that starts with your age and ends somewhere near retirement, and never quite adds up. The sentence you’ve said to yourself more than once: I earn decent money. So where does it all go?
And maybe — this is the one nobody says out loud — you earn enough. Even six figures. And you still feel behind. Still quietly afraid of your own financial future. Income was never the problem. The plan was.
Maybe you’re starting over after a divorce, a loss, a redundancy, or simply a decade that got away from you. Maybe you’ve read the books and downloaded the apps and still feel like everyone else was handed a manual you never got.
If you just felt seen — keep reading. That feeling is the whole reason this exists.
I’m not teaching you a theory. I’m handing you the map I’m walking myself.
By thirty I was earning six figures. At thirty-eight I was starting over — after walking away, after a layoff, after life did what life does. [ 🟡 Gold slot: your four-sentence compressed story, ◆ grief beat entirely your call. ]
I stopped asking is it too late? and started asking what am I waiting for? This program is that question, turned into ninety days with a map.
[ 🟡 Source: campaign stat + citation ]
The age of retirement keeps drifting further away — for the women who wait for a plan to find them. This is the number we take back, together.
Three chapters. One rebuild.
Breathe
Weeks 1–4 · Breathing Number™What does your ideal, ordinary week actually cost? Most women discover this number is smaller than their fear told them. Mine is about $4,500 a month, shared with my partner — and yes, I’ll show you mine first.
Choose
Weeks 5–8 · Intentional Spending Test™Every recurring cost, interrogated gently. Nothing cut for cutting’s sake — this is warmth without deprivation. You’ll keep the flowers. You’ll lose the drift.
Build
Weeks 9–12 · Freedom Number™ & Ownership Pyramid™Your work-optional summit, named and dated. And your first rung on the ladder from employee to owner to investor — so money finally starts coming back.
Everything you need. Nothing to perform.
- Six 90-minute private sessionsEvery other week, just us — your real numbers, your real life, nothing performed for a group.
- Email support between sessionsA message away when the wobble hits on a Wednesday. You’re never carrying it alone until we next speak.
- The Rebuild Budget appThe same one I run my own rebuild on — set up with your numbers, together, in our first session.
- Your written rebuild planUpdated after every session, so by day ninety you hold a plan in your own words, not mine.
- One of six placesI take six private clients at a time. You are a name and a story here — never a row in a spreadsheet.
This is for you if — and only if.
Walk with me if…
You’re starting over — by choice or by circumstance — and you’re done pretending you’ll “sort it out one day.” You want a plan you understand, a number you trust, and a guide who’s been in the fog herself. You can protect a few hours a fortnight for your own life.
This isn’t for you if…
You want stock tips, a get-rich timeline, or someone to do it for you. There is no hustle here, no shame, and no magic. Just ninety days of honest work, in very good company.
A plain word: I’m a guide, not a licensed financial advisor. The Rebuild is education and accountability — the decisions, and the life, stay yours.
Real women. Real numbers. Written in public.
“[ 🟡 Founding-cohort slot — until then: ‘I’m documenting my own rebuild, line by line, in the open. The women of the founding chapter will be the stories on this page next season — and one of them could be you.’ ]”Founding clients · limited places, documented in public
It’s a Sunday morning, three months from now.
You make your coffee. You open your banking app — on purpose, without the flinch. You know your Breathing Number. You know your Freedom Number, and the date beside it. Every dollar in that account has a name and a job, and none of the names is guilt.
Ninety days from now, one of two things will be true. You’ll be the woman in that Sunday kitchen — or you’ll be ninety days deeper into the drift, with the same statements still unopened. Not because you failed. Because nobody ever walked beside you. That’s the only thing this changes. It’s also the thing that changes everything.
“It’s only one percent” is the most expensive sentence in finance.
Most financial advisers don’t charge a fee. They charge a percentage — of everything you own, every year, forever. It sounds tiny. Watch what it does over a lifetime. ⏸
$250,000 invested · 30 years · 7% return vs 6% after a 1% annual fee · ⚠ verify & source before publishing
Nearly half a million dollars — not for advice you needed every year, but for a percentage you never questioned.
The one-percent model
Their fee grows every time your money does — whether they earned it that year or not. Thirty years of statements, and the knowledge never becomes yours. You stay a client forever, because that’s the business model.
The flat-fee rebuild
One transparent number, paid once — from a $425 session to $2,275 for the full rebuild, with every session fee credited if you walk further. Then the plan, the tools, and the knowledge are yours for life. Every price is printed upfront, and you will never be asked onto a sales call. That’s the whole point.
In fairness: some situations — complex estates, tax structures, large portfolios — genuinely call for a licensed, fiduciary adviser, and I’ll tell you if yours is one of them. This work is for everyone the industry finds too small to teach.
Three ways to walk together — the numbers are right here, because you’ve had enough surprises with money.
For the woman who needs a clear next step, drawn once — and trusts herself to take it.
Book the Clarity SessionThe deep dive: everything on the table in call one, your blueprint refined in call two — with room to breathe in between.
Book the BlueprintThe heart of this work. Everything on this page is the story of these ninety days.
Apply for the RebuildSecure checkout by Stripe · Sessions book instantly · The Rebuild begins with a short application
And a promise: every session fee is credited in full toward the Rebuild if you continue within sixty days. Nothing you invest in clarity is ever wasted here.
For most women in this room, the Rebuild is less than one month of their Breathing Number™ — invested once, to change all the months after it. Another year of drift costs more. It always does.
You don’t need another app, another book, or another Sunday of good intentions.
You need a map — and someone walking beside you.
Begin your Chapter One.
Choose your way in — book a session directly, or apply for the Rebuild. Ten minutes, kind questions.
I read every application myself and reply within two days — honestly, including if I don’t think it’s the right fit.
If we’re a fit and a place is open, your rebuild begins right away — no waiting for a launch date.
You will never have to get on a call to be sold to — that’s a promise. Questions first? Write to me at carissa@theintentionalrebuild.com — you’ll get me, not a funnel.
I take six private clients at a time — because this is one-on-one work, and you deserve a guide who isn’t stretched thin. When the six places are taken, they’re taken until a rebuild is complete.
Asked, and answered plainly.
How much time does it take?
Around two to three hours each fortnight: our 90-minute session, one small piece of homework, and a little quiet time with your numbers. If you can protect a yoga class every other week, you can protect this.
What if I’m truly starting from zero?
Then you’re exactly who Chapter I was written for. The Breathing Number™ works whether your starting balance has a comma in it or a minus sign.
Is this financial advice?
No — it’s financial education and accountability. I’ll teach you how to think about your money and walk beside you while you do; the decisions remain yours, always.
What if I join and it isn’t right?
[ 🟡 Policy slot — suggested: “You have the first fourteen days. If the room isn’t right for you, say so and I’ll return your investment, no essay required.” ]
What if I’m not ready to commit to ninety days?
Then don’t — start with a single session. The Clarity Session or the Blueprint Intensive will move you forward on their own, and if you decide to continue into the Rebuild within sixty days, every dollar you paid is credited toward it. Starting small costs you nothing extra.
Is there anything you ask of me?
Three honest things: an income coming in (this work builds on one, it doesn’t replace one), your numbers shared openly — with me only — and your session hour protected like it matters. That’s the whole list. You don’t need to be “good with money.” That part is my job to teach.
Who sees my numbers?
You and me. That’s the whole list. There is no group, no forum, no sharing circle — this is private work, and your numbers stay between us and your app.
When are the calls?
[ 🟡 Day/time slot ] — and every call is recorded, so a missed week is never a lost one.