She's not here to sell you a version of peace she's never lived in.
Nicole Richards spent over 14 years in a demanding corporate career before walking away from a six-figure salary, and a 15-year marriage, to rebuild a life that actually belonged to her.
She holds a Master's in Accounting from Syracuse University and is a CPA, along with multiple coaching certifications, including through Susan Hyatt's University of Life Coach Training. But this isn't financial coaching, it's coaching for the whole life a woman is trying to hold together.
She built her practice, and the Pay Yourself First Mentorship, because she's done the work herself, rebuilding from a household that once relied on food stamps, through a career inside the federal government, to walking away from all of it to build something that was actually hers.
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Lisa Perry on what working with Nicole actually looked like.
▶ Watch Lisa's TestimonialHow She Got Here
- The corporate years 14+ years in corporate accounting and financial consulting, across a range of industries, building the credentials and the career everyone told her to want.
- The reckoning A six-figure career and a 15-year marriage, both ended, at close to the same time. She'd always been the one who had it together. This was the season she didn't.
- The rebuild Learning that having it together and actually having agency over her own life were two different things, and rebuilding from the second one, not the first.
- Change Purpose Action Coaching Built from her own CPA Framework, Change, Purpose, Action, now the foundation of everything from private coaching to the Pay Yourself First Mentorship.
What She Believes
She's not a financial coach, and this isn't financial planning. She's a Certified Trauma-Informed Master Coach who happens to also be a CPA, which means she understands both what a spreadsheet says and what it costs a woman to keep everyone else's world running while her own goes unattended.
She believes rest isn't a reward you earn after burnout. It's a birthright you reclaim. And she believes real change starts with a woman making decisions from her own values, not the guilt, fear, or expectations someone else handed her, in her calendar, her relationships, or her bank account.
Mission & Vision
Vision: A world where women no longer measure their worth by burnout or sacrifice, but by alignment, rest, and intentional living. CPA Coaching exists to raise up a ripple of women who choose themselves first, and by doing so, change their families, businesses, and communities for generations to come.
Mission: To provide women with the tools, coaching, and space to reset their rhythm, reclaim their time, and live intentionally.
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