No starving artists here… just Freedom Seekers who transformed their mindset and their habits!
"Working with Katy has been one of the best decisions I've ever made.”
As a freelancer in the entertainment industry, I was feeling stagnant in my career and overwhelmed by my finances. I was also experiencing some turmoil in my personal life, which left me with a sense of dissatisfaction. My work with Katy quickly yielded powerful results. She helped me focus on where I wanted my career and what I needed to do to get there. The exercises she provides are in-depth and thoughtful, not only getting to the root of financial blocks and attitudes, but also addressing the impact of early life experiences and how those shape and affect us subconsciously. Since working with Katy, I've forged a new path in my career, reaching levels of success and personal fulfillment I never had before. I have a tangible plan for paying off debts and saving for retirement, and I've experienced a newfound sense of peace and calm in my personal life now that I'm living authentically. I even got engaged! What Katy taught me has been invaluable and I'm so grateful to have her in my life!"
- Annette Valencia, Co-Executive Producer
“The program has helped me completely shift my energy and as a result I’ve transformed my career path.”
“As a Korean woman in Hollywood, the Stop Asian Hate Movement brought up so many emotions. Katy never shied away from these conversations. In fact, she encouraged them. By coming to terms with my feelings, I’ve realized my desire to use my career as a vehicle for positive change, equity, and representation. This realization has propelled my success and I started getting much bigger auditions...a lead for a feature film, a guest star role for HBO Max, and I booked a co-star on a hit FOX show! Everything is really about ENERGY first.
Now I see just how tightly I had been holding onto the money I had before. I kept giving in to the fear of loss. And now, I’m leaning into the possibility of GAIN. I’ve actually come to love investing in myself. And I started attracting abundance in ALL areas of my life. All of a sudden my mom sent $4000 at the end of March, I won free clothes, my LA rent relief got approved, and did I mention I’ve lost ten pounds?!
Today I feel free, and I thank you so much, Katy!”
- Sun Park, Actor
“Katy helped me see that having a stable abundant financial life doing what I love is possible.”
“I am so full of appreciation and love for Katy and her beautiful spirit. I started FFCC broken, depressed, unable to see my worth working a shitty hustle job sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day in a windowless dusty room creating FedEx shipment labels. Through Katy's brilliance and beautiful, kind, open energy, I am now working full time as an audiobook narrator and about to start the process of incorporating because she helped me tap into my worthiness, a feeling that I hadn't felt in years and was seemingly so far away from me.”
- Julienne Irons, Actor and Audiobook Narrator
"I know I'll look back and know that this was the year I turned my finances around. My financial life is the best it's ever been."
“One year ago I had credit card debt of $24,000, now I have credit card debt of $2,500 and I have savings for the first time ever!! And it doesn’t even feel like I'm sacrificing anything! It’s kind of incredible. I started saving 10% of absolutely everything I earned, then I gradually started saving more and more and then I became excited by my savings and I knew I would rather see my savings go up than spend the money frivolously on clothes that I probably wouldn’t even like next year. I still buy myself some nice things - I’m a big fan of Poshmark - But my unconscious spending habit has completely disappeared.
Prior to working with Katy in the Financial Freedom for Creatives Club, I could never pay my tax bill on time. This year for the first time ever, I paid my taxes on time.
However, the biggest change is in my self worth. I truly feel VALUABLE, and this has allowed me to dream big and attract abundance everywhere, including selling my 6 year old car for top dollar, finding a very reasonable and trustworthy building contractor to do repairs on my property and negotiating and receiving money owed to me from an insurance company.
I said no to the jobs I didn’t want to do - before FFFC I would have always taken jobs I didn’t want to do because ‘I needed the money.’ But as soon as I started putting myself and what I actually wanted first, everything just fell into place. I feel secure in my finances now for the first time in my adult life and I can honestly say I’m not worried about money because I know it will always be coming in and I trust myself to make smart decisions. The subtle shifts that I made from implementing what I learned from you have truly changed my life from the inside out and I am forever grateful to you Katy!”
- Emma Pyne, Actor and Creator
Now I can't promise you'll get engaged, lose ten pounds, feel lighter and happier or book a role on a hit TV show… but the ripple effect of financial wellness is real!
When you heal your money traumas and figure out your financial life, transformations beyond money happen in all areas of your life.
Hi, I’m Katy Chen Mazzara, your not-so-typical Financial Wellness Coach!
I am a certified trauma-informed master financial wellness coach who helps creative freelancers and entrepreneurs make more, worry less and achieve true financial freedom so they can create the life of their dreams!
I Am Uniquely Qualified to Support You.
I'm a 20-year veteran in the media and entertainment industries. As a freelance TV and digital producer, documentary filmmaker, and former journalist, I understand the cycle of what it's like to work for a few months, go on unemployment, and find another job. Living that lifestyle put me on a journey to learn how to manage my finances and change my mindset from one where 'feast or famine' is a common theme to a mindset of continuous abundance and freedom!
My Own Money Story Has Led Me Here
After graduating college, I went from making $20,800 a year, with $35,000 in student loans and $3,000 in credit card debt, to paying it ALL off, using an unconventional method, saving up a year's worth of expenses, and buying my first home — a downtown Los Angeles loft — all on my own.
However, prior to that was a very different scenario…
My parents fought about money all of the time, and my dad's mom would live in fear that everyone was out to steal her money.
So what I learned was — I didn't want to be like them.
And what resulted from that belief — as an unconscious act of rebellion in my teens and 20's, any time money came in, it went out. I just didn't want money to play an important role in my life, so I unconsciously got rid of it — as fast as possible.
I Have an Original and Powerful Approach.
You can live the abundant life you desire once you’ve done the inner work.
Through practical tools and spiritual practices, I empower you with knowledge, help you to clear out those money blocks, release generational trauma, and I teach an easy system to pay down your debts and build up your reserves… without sacrificing your life or “budgeting.”
And I Have a Deeply Personal Reason for Why I Do This Work.
Three reasons, in fact… three amazing women in my life who stayed in abusive situations because of the lack of money and resources to take care of themselves and their young children.
Not having their own money or not knowing how to utilize money in a way that aligned with their values is what kept them stuck – in a very bad situation.
I get emotional every time I think about them because I don’t want this to happen to anyone, EVER.
I want you to not have to make decisions based on money, but rather based on the goals you have for yourself and your family. You can build wealth and the life of your dreams, doing exactly what you love, one step at a time… and I can help you do just that inside the Financial Freedom for Creatives Club.
I also received my…
Undergraduate degree from New York University
Trauma-Informed Master Coach certification from Elementum Institute
Personal Financial Planning certification from UC Berkeley
On the other side of fear, practical action-taking, mindset shifts, and healed money trauma is…
An abundance of financial confidence and creative flow…
More income and less stress…
Renewed energy and excitement around your artistic and entrepreneurial goals…
Freedom to just BE as you please.
When you invest in yourself, you’re investing in limitless possibilities… and you deserve it.🩷
