Become the kind of person who’s good with money—without shame, stress, spreadsheets
Smart Money Management Quest
Money stress doesn’t just live in your wallet or bank account—it follows you everywhere . . . in your thoughts, your body, and your feelings.
It’s there when you’re lying awake worrying about how you’ll pay for expenses coming your way, when you avoid looking at your checking bank statements or opening bills, or when you feel guilty spending on things you actually want.
It’s draining. It eats up your energy, weighs on your mind, and quietly chips away at your health.
But it doesn’t have to run your life.
The Smart Money Management Quest gives you a down-to-earth, practical way to take back control—not with strict budgets that spell “deprivation” or toughing it out with willpower, but with small steps that actually work in your real life.
In just minutes a day, you’ll start breaking the patterns that keep you stuck and build habits and routines that help you feel more confident, secure, and free.
This is your path to less stress, more choice, and the sense that you’re finally moving forward—on your own terms.
The Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.
Is Money Pressure Wearing You Down, Straining Your Relationships, and Undermining Your Health?
You know the advice: Track your spending, stick to a budget, avoid impulse purchases, automate your savings.
And you’ve tried. You did it all:
Downloaded the budgeting apps
Read the personal finance books
Listened to the podcasts
Reviewed your past spending and listed current priorities
Even made spreadsheets—maybe color-coded
But somehow, you’re still not where you want to be.
You feel the tension when a bill comes due. You delay checking your bank balance. You wonder why someone as smart and capable as you still doesn’t feel confident nor secure.
And maybe, under it all, you carry a hidden sense of shame. Not because you don’t earn or have enough—but because you know you could be doing better.
This Quest gives you a science-based approach to change the way you relate to money—so it stops being a source of guilt or guesswork and becomes a way to live your values and priorities in real time.
The Hidden Reason Smart Money Management Is So Crucial
Money has never been just about math. It’s about security, peace of mind, and trust in yourself — knowing you can handle life’s demands, protect what matters, and make choices that reflect your priorities.
When you worry you’re not where you should be financially, it doesn’t just weigh on your wallet — it weighs on your health, your mind, and your relationships. Chronic financial stress keeps your nervous system on high alert, flooding you with stress hormones meant for emergencies, not everyday life. Over time, this toll can show up as headaches, insomnia, weight gain or loss, high blood pressure, heart disease, digestive issues, and chronic fatigue.
The emotional cost runs just as deep. Financial strain is strongly linked to anxiety, depression, and feelings of failure or hopelessness. In severe cases, particularly among middle-aged men facing job loss or crisis, research shows suicide risk can increase up to twentyfold.
And the damage ripples outward. Money stress strains marriages, fuels arguments, creates isolation, and erodes the connection and support people need most. Even basic self-care slips, leaving people worn down and running on empty.
But here’s the hopeful part: When you begin to shift how you relate to money — aligning habits with your values — you interrupt the stress cycle. You sleep better, think more clearly, and regain the energy and security to care for yourself and the people and priorities that matter most.
This Quest isn’t just about managing money. It’s about reclaiming and optimizing your health, peace of mind, and sense of purpose.
The (Good) Ideas You’ve Tried Before That Haven’t Worked
You’ve tried to be more disciplined. You’ve made budgets, deleted shopping apps, avoided looking at your statements . . . or even tried some kind of time-limited challenge
And for a little while, it worked. You felt in control. You stuck to the plan.
But then life happened. An unexpected expense. A stressful week. A moment of “I deserve this.”
And just like that, it slipped. The budget broke. The old patterns returned.
That’s not a failure of willpower. It’s a failure of strategy.
Most financial advice is built around control, punishment, or performance.
It doesn’t work for real people with real lives.
This Quest offers something different. It’s not about forcing change. It’s about becoming someone who makes better financial choices because they’re living differently—from the inside out.
Introducing the Smart Money Management Quest
That’s why we’ve created the Smart Money Management Quest, a seven-day guided experience to help you move beyond short-term fixes. It teaches you how to build a relationship with money that reflects your values and priorities, and supports the life you want—not just for now, but for the long run.
And more than that, it helps you turn money from a source of stress into a source of security and peace of mind—so you can enjoy your life, care for the people you love, and feel more confident about the future.
That’s not wishful thinking. It’s what this Quest is built to help you do, drawing on practical tools and the latest insights from neuroscience to make change stick.
Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.
How to Create Financial Habits That Stick — Without Rigid Rules, Willpower Battles, or Sacrificing Your Time, Energy, or Pleasure
In just minutes a day for 7 days, this Quest gives you a structured, science-based process for improving how you handle money in ways that are simpler, healthier, and more sustainable than you ever imagined.
You won’t just “budget better.”
You’ll learn how to act with confidence and purpose in the moments that matter most—so your financial choices reflect your values, not just your habits or fears.
This Quest helps you:
Define what truly matters to you—not just financially, but in the life you want to build
Shift from guilt and self-criticism to practical steps you can actually follow through on
Spot what’s already working, no matter how small—and strengthen it
Focus on meaningful progress, not perfection
Mentally rehearse the better future you want to live, where money supports your well-being and security
Take small, effective actions that move you forward
Whether you’re working, retired, supporting family, or planning your next chapter, this Quest will help you live with greater ease and financial effectiveness. Protect your health, your energy, and your peace of mind by joining now.
The SAVE Framework
The Smart Money Management Quest features the SAVE framework—a practical, structured, solution-focused approach to help you make meaningful, lasting changes in how you manage your financial resources.
SAVE doesn’t just give you tips. It offers a clear, step-by-step path to shift your mindset, reshape your habits, and build the kind of sustainable financial future you want.
SAVE stands for:
- S – Shape your future
Define what you want your money to make possible — from financial goals to personal priorities — and why they matter for the life and well-being you want. - A – Amplify what’s already working
Notice even the small financial choices and actions you’ve taken that have worked, so you can build on that capacity to shape the future you want. - V – Visualize your better future
Mentally rehearse the life you want — helping your brain turn intention into action, so the way you manage money supports your health, relationships, and peace of mind. - E – Engage in one small, meaningful step
Make progress visible with an action you can take today, creating momentum not just in your finances but in your health and well-being.
These four steps guide you through a process that helps you:
Focus on where you want to go, instead of getting stuck in worry or regret
Notice what’s already working, even if it’s small or easy to miss
Set realistic, near-term goals and mentally rehearse meaningful, doable actions
Take one small action today that moves you forward and helps you feel more secure, confident, and aligned with the life you want
Through SAVE, you stop defaulting to guilt or avoidance—and start handling money in ways that reflect who you are at your best.
Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.
“I’ve found that each tool I’ve been given from this program adds to my toolbox to build on my resilience. Every opportunity to reflect on what is happening and how I’m responding gives me power to take control of how I handle what life springs on me.
Thank you for this course!”
Meet Your Expert Designers
Dr. Deborah Teplow
An expert in the science of behavior change, hope theory, and human performance, she is the co-founder and Chief Program Architect of Stamina Lab. She also the co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Wellness Education, where she set the US national wellness coaching standards and currently trains professionals in public health and social service agencies to engage clients in a self-change behavior process.
She earned her doctorate at Stanford University and holds certificates in several therapeutic modalities for helping professionals, including solution-focused brief therapy, and Tiny Habits® certification.
Glen Lubbert
Stamina Lab co-founder and seasoned tech entrepreneur, pioneers in human performance coaching to extend healthspan. His expertise in behavior design addresses the critical impact of sleep on health and performance, offering solutions for stress, burnout, and flow.
Glen’s credentials include mindfulness study under Jon Kabat-Zinn, Tiny Habits® certification, and certified as a Thrive Global coach and sleep expert, leveraging his Division I athlete experience to elevate others’ professional and personal lives.
It is bitesize but transformative learning is easy enough to do everyday and provides an accessible and practical way of applying what you have learnt to your unique situation and help you further build your resilience skills.
Why This Quest Will Do More Than Just Help You Manage Money—It Will Change Your Life
This Quest isn’t about budgeting harder or learning clever money hacks. It’s about transforming how you relate to money — so you can make decisions that reflect your values, care for your well-being, and feel secure and confident in the life you’re building.
With values-based money management, you don’t just make quick fixes — you reshape your financial life into something that supports you, your loved ones, and your peace of mind.
That transformation has real, measurable benefits.
Research shows that improving how you manage money can:
- Protect your health — Reducing financial stress lowers cortisol, improves sleep, supports better eating and activity patterns, and lowers risk of anxiety, depression, and cardiovascular strain.
- Boost cognitive performance — People who feel financially secure show stronger executive function, clearer thinking under pressure, and better decision-making.
- Strengthen relationships — When you’re not stuck in money conflict or avoidance, you can communicate more openly, share goals, and build trust with the people who matter most.
- Reduce emotional fatigue and burnout — Letting go of money shame and constant worry frees up energy for what brings joy, meaning, and connection.
The SAVE framework helps you build these skills in real life — whether you’re just starting up, navigating retirement planning, supporting family, managing debt, or simply wanting more ease and security day to day.
Through this Quest, you won’t just learn to cut expenses or follow rules. You’ll learn a whole new way to approach money, creating a financial life that supports your health, your values, and your future.
The ripple effects are real. This process:
- Aligns your spending and saving with what matters most to you
- Breaks cycles of avoidance, guilt, or self-sabotage
- Builds trust in your ability to make thoughtful, values-based decisions
- Sparks hope and creativity where old patterns kept you stuck
- Gives you a lived experience of progress — not perfection
This isn’t just a deep dive into money management. It’s about becoming the kind of person who handles money in a way that gives you security, freedom, and peace of mind — and whose financial life supports their well-being, not erodes it.
This Quest is where that begins.
Most financial advice is based on control: control your spending, control your willpower, control your emotions.
This Quest takes a unique, solution-focused approach — one that starts not with blame or breakdown, but with where you want to go.
Instead of asking what’s wrong, we help you ask wholly different and more fruitful questions like:
This approach doesn’t just feel better — it works better. It teaches your brain and body how to step out of stress, recognize new choices, and act in ways that reflect who you want to be.
That’s not theory. That’s transformation.
Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.
It is the whole package. When I’m distressed, often I can recall one or two aspects of toughness. but this provides a variety of tools that fit together. If one doesn’t work, lean on another.
How This Quest Works?
This is an immersive experience designed for real life because it focuses on pragmatism, not theory.
The Smart Money Management Quest is a robust program that will transform your sense of what you’re capable of handling—and how you show up under pressure.
You’ll walk away with a new sense of yourself: not as someone ruled by stress, fear of conflict, shame, frustration, or regret, but as someone who manages it in ways that support your health, energy, relationships, and peace of mind. You’ll see yourself as someone grounded, capable, and aligned with what matters to you—able to respond and act effectively, even when life gets intense.
This Quest makes it easy and quick for you to experience this transformation.
Stamina Lab’s digital Health Optimization Platform is the hub of the Quest. It’s where you’ll find all the content and most activities of the program.
Each day, you’ll get a small, bite-sized:
Daily lesson
Learning activity
Inspirational quote or story
Journal prompt
Be Your Own Detective: Try Out Something New
A valuable feature of the Quest is the human connection that extends opportunities to explore and discover new ways to boost your capacity to take valued action, and it comes in three ways:
2 live group coaching sessions for expert guidance and community support
Online forum and discussion for sharing
Private messaging
Your Quest Journal – A simple way to capture your answers to the daily journal prompts.
Studio Session Extended Group Coaching Session
The platform also provides a host of digital resources that expands and reinforces what you get out of the learning activities and community engagement.
Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.
You can make improvements in areas of your life you thought were “fixed” and not changeable. You don’t have to live with the thought” well this is just the way I am.”
What is Our Unique Solution-Focused Approach?
At Stamina Lab, we believe you are the expert on your own life. You know what works for you and what fits your needs, interests, and values. Our solution-focused coaches help you harness the strengths, skills, and resources you already have but that you may have overlooked, underestimated, discounted, or not even recognized.
Instead of focusing on problems and what you’re doing wrong, we emphasize what is already working for you, even if it’s just a tiny bit. We help you identify moments of success and effective coping and managing during hard times. Then, we use the evidence as a springboard for positive change.
Our approach reinforces the belief that progress is a matter of “when,” not “if,” and by celebrating small steps, we help you take manageable actions that lead to significant, lasting health outcomes.
Your Satisfaction Guaranteed
We stand behind the transformative power of this program. If you don’t feel more equipped to handle stress and change after starting the Quest, we offer a full refund within seven days of the program’s start.
Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.
Who Should Enroll?
This Quest is for people who care about their financial well-being — and are tired of the unworkable habits that lead to anxiety, avoidance, or guilt instead of progress.
It’s for you if you want to be the best version of yourself with money: making clearer decisions, responding more thoughtfully, and breaking the cycles that leave you stressed, stuck, or second-guessing.
It’s for people like you who want their financial choices to reflect their core values, and care for the people and priorities that matter most.
Whether you’ve felt overwhelmed or uncertain, frustrated or behind, this Quest helps you find a better way forward — one that honors your values and reveals your capacity to create meaningful, lasting change in how you handle money.
But this Quest isn’t for everyone.
It’s not for you if you expect your circumstances to change while you keep doing things the same way.
It’s not for you if you want to avoid all discomfort, or you see money management as just a way to “get ahead” rather than a way to live in line with what matters.
And it’s not for you if you’re looking for scripts or shortcuts to control outcomes instead of skills to engage more meaningfully with your financial life.
This is a Quest for you if you’re ready to lead the change you want to see — one decision at a time.
94% of participants agreed they gained practical strategies to increase their resilience, reduce stress, and rewrite their story.
Participants consistently experience a 30% boost in confidence after completing our Quests.
Participants rate our strategies 4.5 out of 5 for their effectiveness in creating healthier routines and life balance.
Net Promoter Score (NPS): A score above 50 is considered excellent, indicating high participant loyalty and positive word-of-mouth.
I found the interactive Resilience program to be really useful and powerful. It helped me to be very insightful, intentional and mindful of my activities during the day and to be aware if I was behaving within my values. It also made me recognize I had other values that I may not exercise as often, so I made some intentions to act on that value for the upcoming day. Very motivational.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the SAVE framework?
SAVE stands for:
- S – Shape your future
Define what you want your money to make possible — from financial goals to personal priorities — and why they matter for the life and well-being you want. - A – Amplify what’s already working
Notice even the small financial choices and actions you’ve taken that have worked, so you can build on that capacity to shape the future you want. - V – Visualize your better future
Mentally rehearse the life you want — helping your brain turn intention into action, so the way you manage money supports your health, relationships, and peace of mind. - E – Engage in one small, meaningful step
Make progress visible with an action you can take today, creating momentum not just in your finances but in your health and well-being.
What will I learn in the SMART Money Management Quest
In just minutes a day for 7 days, this Quest gives you a structured, science-based process for improving how you handle money in ways that are simpler, healthier, and more sustainable than you ever imagined.
How much time do I need to commit each day?
The daily commitment is designed to be manageable even for busy schedules. Participants should expect to spend about five minutes each day on mini-lessons and exercises.
What kind of support will I receive during the Quest?
Participants will receive support through various channels, including direct access to instructors during live sessions and Q&A periods, a dedicated online forum for discussion with peers and trainers, and email support for more personalized queries.
Who is this Quest for?
This Quest is for people who care about their financial well-being — and are tired of the unworkable habits that lead to anxiety, avoidance, or guilt instead of progress.
It’s for you if you want to be the best version of yourself with money: making clearer decisions, responding more thoughtfully, and breaking the cycles that leave you stressed, stuck, or second-guessing.
It’s for people like you who want their financial choices to reflect their core values, and care for the people and priorities that matter most.
How is the program delivered?
The program is conveniently delivered via our app, compatible with both iPhone and Android devices. This allows you to participate from anywhere at any time. The app provides access to all guides and coaching materials, enables connection of wearable data when applicable, and facilitates messaging with your coaches throughout the Quest.
Are there any live sessions, and will they be recorded?
The Quest includes two 30-min live group coaching sessions for real-time interaction and deeper learning. To maintain a safe space for sharing and ensure the privacy of our participants, these sessions will not be recorded. This policy helps foster an open, trusting environment where participants can freely explore and share their experiences and insights.
What happens if I miss a day or fall behind?
All materials, including video lessons and resources, will be accessible throughout the Quest and after its conclusion, allowing participants to catch up or review at their own pace.
What if I find that the Quest isn't right for me?
We offer a satisfaction guarantee with a full refund within seven days of the program’s start if you feel the Quest does not meet your expectations.
This is not the same old, same old tips and tricks. It changed the way I think about procrastination. My new focus on outcomes has made me more productive, and I’m working on the tasks that matter.
Join the Smart Money Mastery Quest Today
Let this be the week you finally shift your relationship with money—by becoming the kind of person who manages it wisely, consistently, and with self-respect.
Quest Begins August 4th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins August 1st.