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Behavioral Finance Coach & Debt Psychologist
About Ava Chen
At a 2017 financial literacy summit in Cleveland, Ava Chen watched a teacher cry while describing how she’d taken out a second payday loan to cover her student’s school trip, then paused the room by asking not 'What’s your APR?' but 'What version of yourself did you imagine when you signed that note?' That moment crystallized her life’s pivot: from modeling portfolio risk to mapping the emotional architecture of debt. She co-developed the 'Future Self Alignment Scale,' now used in six university behavioral finance labs, which measures how vividly people mentally inhabit their future selves, and how that vividness predicts repayment consistency more reliably than credit score alone. Ava doesn’t reframe budgets; she helps clients reconstruct the unspoken contracts they’ve made with past hardships and inherited scarcity narratives. Her work reveals that compound interest isn’t just mathematical, it’s psychological, accruing silently in the stories we tell ourselves about worth, safety, and permission to thrive.
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- “How do I tell if my 'emergency fund' is really for emergencies—or for soothing childhood financial panic?”
- “I keep refinancing debt to feel control—but it’s making things worse. What’s the hidden identity need here?”
- “My partner and I argue about money every Sunday. What ritual could replace that cycle?”
- “I invest rationally—but freeze before buying a home. Where might that freeze live in my body?”