Mary Beth Storjohann
Mary Beth Storjohann is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and the Founder of Workable Wealth. She works as a writer, speaker and financial coach to arm her clients with the necessary tools and resources needed to set them up for financial success. Mary Beth is shaking up the traditional views of financial planning by making it fun, affordable and accessible. She leverages technology to work with individuals and couples in their 20s and 30s across the country to help them plan for and navigate through the financial questions and issues that arise during their post-quarter-life transitions. Mary Beth's mission is to empower her peers to get on the right financial track by helping them to make smart, educated decisions with their money and gain confidence in their financial lives. Her writing and expertise has been featured in various industry publications on a local and national level including Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and more and she is frequently featured as a money expert of NBC. Learn more here .
Articles by Mary Beth Storjohann
- Money & Life
Your Estate Plan Isn’t Just About Your Money. It’s About What You’re Asking Your Family to Carry
This is about injury, strokes, dementia, hospitalization, and any circumstance in which a person can’t make decisions for themselves.
- Money & Life
Your Credit Card Rewards Aren’t Free. You’re Paying With Your Time.
In a life where I am surrounded by optimization hacks and on the hunt for ways to buy back my time, there is one area you won’t find me hacking.
- Opinion
I Left Corporate. I Don’t Regret It. I Still Miss It.
I was a CEO who answered to a board of directors AND now the only person I answer to is myself. This is simultaneously freeing and overwhelming.
- PowerAdvice
Your Net Worth Is a Mirror—Not a Verdict
There was still that all-familiar question I’ve been asking myself in some form since I was in my 20s: is this enough?
- Opinion
My Mom’s Cancer Forced Me To Ask Three Life-Changing Questions
It’s hard to want to write when you’re deep in your feelings and staring down actual life and death issues.
- Money & Life
Your 401(k) Is Only Part of Retirement Strategy
I’m full Italian. Italian-American, to be precise, which in my family means our entire culture orbits around food.
- Money & Life
One Day You’re a Daughter. Next, You’re Managing Everyone’s Care
That makes my heart ache in that brutiful way. I’ve had the chance to continue to learn her in a way that feels urgent and irreplaceable.
- Opinion
Behind Every Serious Business Is a Woman Doing Unsexy Work
Tell me your plan. Are you building equity with the intention to sell? Are you running at a loss, and do you know why and for how long?
- Opinion
Women Don’t Need a Seat at the Table—The Table Needs Their Leadership
On what women actually bring to the rooms they lead, and why the world needs more of it. Between Tables is where I explore the emotional, psychological, and practical sides of money, especially for women carrying a lot.
- Money & Life
You Can Afford To Help—but Should You? The Line Between Love, Money, and Resentment
When you grow up exposed to certain patterns and thought processes, you step into them like a wardrobe.
- Money & Life
You Didn’t Mean To Step Away From Your Money but It Happened Anyway
Fully closing a mental tab requires a level of trust that most of us have learned, through experience, to withhold.
- Money & Life
I Left a High-Paying Role Behind—Here’s What That Choice Gave Me
Every three weeks, I sit in a chair next to my mom while she goes through chemo. Not coordinating from afar.
- Opinion
When You Ask About the 1%, What Are You Really Looking For?
When we ask what the 1% are doing, the question is rarely about the strategy. It’s about the feeling underneath the strategy.
- Money & Life
Seven Financial “Tabs” Are Draining Your Wealth. Here’s How to Close Them
After years of doing this work, I’ve noticed most financial overwhelm comes back to the same handful of open tabs. Not dozens.
- Opinion
“You’re Welcome”: Money, Marriage, and Emotional Load Women Carry
Between Tables is where I explore the emotional, psychological, and practical sides of money, especially for women carrying a lot.
- Opinion
How We Spend Our Money When Everything Feels Like Too Much
I’m trying to figure out how to say it in a way that doesn’t oversimplify something inherently complex.
- Money & Life
You Don’t Need a Better Plan. You Need Permission To Trust the One You Have.
I’m out of the present moment by trying to think of ways to capture the moment. I’m ruining it for myself and I. Just. Can’t. Stop.
- Money & Life
How To Talk About Money Without Shame, Judgment, or Empty Cheerleading
And I’m lucky to be surrounded by ambitious women who are changing the world and stereotypes for others and for our girls.
- Opinion
The Magic We Make While Falling Apart: On Boundaries, Burnout, and Being Human
This is what nobody tells you about having financial resources: it doesn’t protect you from the emotional labor.
- Opinion
Why Your Cash Cushion Never Feels Like Enough — And What You’re Really Chasing
The second we use the money for its intended purpose, we lose the cushion. We lose the option. We lose the identity of the person who has X dollars saved.
- Opinion
Stop Waiting. The Perfect Time Is Never Coming.
There is conservatism, there is responsibility, and then there is hiding. Delaying gratitude for reasons we don’t actually understand.
- Money & Life
Stop Living on Autopilot: Create Financial Optionality and Design a Life You Actually Want
Think of it this way: optionality is like having multiple doors available to you instead of being stuck in a hallway with only one exit.
- Future of Advice
Why Your ‘Innovation Culture’ Is Driving Your Top Talent Out the Door
Welcome to the innovation paradox that's plaguing financial services across every practice area and firm structure.
- Opinion
What Happens During the Summertime Lull—and Why It Matters More Than You Think
When everything’s too much and you’re too tired to care and why that’s okay. How do you keep going when the sun is blazing, the kids are on your last nerve, and you want every human out of your house?
- Money & Life
The Psychological Price of Your Money Role—and Why It Matters Now
Stepping back from the details, trying to share the load, or managing everything solo, each approach comes with hidden costs and unexpected benefits.
- Money & Life
When Emotions and Portfolios Collide: A Real Conversation About Risk
The math makes sense. The logic is sound. But something in your chest tightens, and you think: But what if? #risk #investing
- Opinion
The Magic of Beginnings, the Weight of Endings—And What We Miss in Between
Why We Stay Stuck and How to Move Forward #growth. There's something magical about beginnings.
- Money & Life
Your Hidden Money Beliefs Are Running the Show — Here’s How to Spot Them
Let's talk about something we all have but pretend we don't: weird money habits that make absolutely no sense when you say them out loud. #Money
- Opinion
The Real Cost of Women’s Health: An Invisible Tax We’re All Paying
This is a callout to the systems and inequities that perpetuate women's health disparities or, frankly, erode them altogether. #women
- Money & Life
The Ellie Question: Finding Courage Through Our Children’s Eyes
And somewhere along the way, I became one of them. Until Ellie came along and showed me another way forward. #investor
- Money & Life
Boost Your Financial Confidence: 10 Essential Money Questions for Women
These 10 questions aren't meant to overwhelm you or make you feel inadequate. You don't need to have these answers memorized. #women
- Money & Life
A Love Letter From Your Finances
So today, just because, I want to offer you something different. Something tender. A reframe. A reminder. A love letter from your finances. #finance
- Opinion
Why We Undervalue Ourselves Financially—And How to Stop
What Women Are Really Saying When We Joke About Money #women #money #humor. If you’re like me, you love a good meme, a good reel or quick-witted thread.
- Opinion
Time as an Investment: How to Maximize Your Greatest Asset
What we don’t often consider is that the most expensive choices are often the ones we never consciously make. #cost #choices
- Opinion
Finding True Satisfaction in a Hot Wheels World
It was a solid plan until our son decided to funnel every cent back into the Hot Wheels industrial complex. #HotWheels
- Opinion
Why the Toughest Conversations Lead to the Biggest Breakthroughs
These conversations have expanded my patience, taught me to listen more deeply, lead more effectively, and live more authentically. #growth
