About
Tari Vickery is the owner of Life Matters Financial Group, where she has spent 25 years helping clients navigate their relationship with money through her unique blend of sociological training, business expertise, and personal experience. Born to a young single mother in Oklahoma, she gained early insights into the complexities of money as part of a family of business owners. After co-owning a business with her husband, Kent, for a decade—building and then losing significant wealth—they relocated to Palo Alto, where she earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in sociology from Stanford University. She later used this foundation to support high-tech startup entrepreneurs before dedicating her career to financial counseling. Now based on Kauai, she draws on a lifetime of lessons to explore beliefs about money and foster meaningful financial connections.
Featured Work
The Emotional Side of Money: An Inner Journey to Financial Peace
The Emotional Side of Money focuses on the emotional triggers that drive our assumptions, beliefs, and habits around money. These beliefs can create a lifetime of fear, anxiety, and confusion around this important aspect of everyday life. And yet, it is possible to change these beliefs by examining how we came to them. Done correctly, we can replace them with a healthier, more balanced, more constructive attitude about money.
As the founder and CEO of Life Matters Financial Group, I’ve spent more than two decades observing the consequences of my clients’ ambivalent relationships with their money, the issues that cause them stress, and the way their habits sabotage their efforts to have a healthy relationship with their finances. Using case histories from my practice that capture the difficulty many of us face dealing with money, The Emotional Side of Money shows readers how to leave their bad habits behind, leading to a more powerful, peaceful, and productive relationship with their finances.
