skillUP | Finance: Build Financial Confidence to Support Your Career Decisions
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Financial confidence plays a critical role in how women navigate their careers, particularly when returning to work, considering a pivot, or reassessing long term goals after time away. Understanding money is not simply about numbers or budgets. It is about agency, options, and the ability to make informed choices that align with your values, responsibilities, and life priorities.
For many women, financial uncertainty quietly shapes career decisions. Questions about income, flexibility, timing, and sustainability often sit beneath professional choices. Without clarity, it can feel safer to delay decisions, settle for misaligned roles, or limit possibilities altogether.
The skillUP | Finance session is designed to address this reality directly. This in person educational event creates space for women to build comfort with financial concepts, strengthen confidence, and understand how financial awareness supports intentional career decision making.
Hosted by Untapped Potential, this session continues the organization’s mission to support women as they return to work, pivot careers, and rebuild professional identity in ways that are sustainable and aligned.
Why skillUP | Finance Exists
Many women reenter the workforce or explore new career directions without a clear understanding of their financial foundation. This lack of clarity can restrict perceived options and create pressure to prioritize short term stability over long term fit.
Research and lived experience consistently show that one of the barriers to women’s advancement is not capability, but access to financial language and confidence. When financial concepts feel inaccessible, women may hesitate to advocate for themselves, connect their work to business value, or pursue opportunities that better reflect their skills and needs.
The skillUP | Finance session can help change that dynamic. By strengthening financial understanding, participants gain perspective, not just information. Financial clarity allows women to evaluate opportunities realistically, assess tradeoffs thoughtfully, and make career decisions grounded in strategy rather than fear.
Who This Event Is For
This session is designed for women at different stages of their career journey who want to strengthen financial confidence as part of their professional growth.
This includes women who are:
Returning to work after a career break
Rebuilding professional identity after caregiving
Considering a career pivot or new direction
Evaluating when and how to opt back into paid work
Seeking greater confidence discussing money, value, and planning
Whether you are early in your return journey or already back at work and reassessing next steps, skillUP | Finance offers practical insight that meets you where you are.
How Financial Confidence Supports Career Decisions
Career decisions rarely exist in isolation. Choices about roles, hours, industries, entrepreneurship, or leadership paths are deeply connected to financial realities. Without understanding your personal financial position, it can be difficult to assess what is feasible or sustainable.
This session explores how financial awareness can:
Support intentional, values aligned decisions
Reduce anxiety around transitions or change
Increase confidence in long term planning
When women understand their financial foundation, they are better positioned to choose paths that support both professional goals and personal responsibilities.
What You Will Gain from Attending
The skillUP | Finance session is designed to be educational, practical, and accessible. The focus is on building comfort and clarity rather than overwhelming participants with complexity.
Participants can expect to gain:
Greater Comfort with Financial Jargon
Many women experience hesitation when financial terminology enters professional conversations. This session helps demystify key concepts so participants can engage more confidently in discussions related to compensation, value, and outcomes.
A Clearer Financial Foundation
Understanding where you stand financially is a critical step in planning next moves. Participants explore how money connects to priorities, values, and real life constraints that shape career decisions.
Confidence to Explore Options
When financial understanding improves, confidence follows. Participants leave better equipped to explore different paths, whether that means returning to a familiar role, pursuing something new, or pacing a return in a way that supports long term well being.
About the Speaker
This skillUP | Finance session is led by Noelle Casey, Financial Advisor, RICP®, with Certified Financial Services welcoming Untapped Potential into their Farmington office. Noelle Casey brings experience supporting the needs of women who are reassessing income, flexibility, and long term goals following career pauses or transitions.
Taking place at Certified Financial Services, the session is set within a professional environment that emphasizes practical, educational learning.
Supporting Returners, Pivoters, and Caregivers
Untapped Potential’s work consistently centers the realities of women whose careers do not follow linear paths. No matter where you are in your career-life success journey, we want you to have the basics to help you compete on equal footing in today's work environment. Financial understanding is a critical piece of that readiness. It empowers women to engage with opportunities from a place of clarity rather than uncertainty.
The Power of Learning in Community
Another important element of this session is shared experience. Talking about money can feel personal and, at times, isolating. Learning alongside other women who are navigating similar decisions creates a sense of belonging and reassurance.
Untapped Potential is known for creating environments w
here women feel supported, respected, and encouraged to ask questions. skillUP | Finance continues this approach by fostering open dialogue and practical learning without judgment.
For those interested in ongoing engagement, you can also explore upcoming events designed to support return to work journeys and career growth.
Event Details
📅 Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026
🕤 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
💻 Location: zoom
🎟 Tickets: FREE
Take the Next Step Toward Financial and Career Confidence
If you are navigating a return to work, considering a career shift, or simply want greater confidence in how financial understanding supports your professional decisions, this session is a valuable step forward.
You can RSVP for the event to secure your place at skillUP | Finance.
Financial clarity creates options. skillUP | Finance helps you claim them.
This seminar is for informational purposes only. Guest Speakers are not affiliated with or endorsed by PAS, Guardian, or Certified Financial Services and opinions stated are their own. Registered Representative and Financial Advisor of Park Avenue Securities LLC (PAS). Securities products and advisory services offered through PAS, member FINRA, SIPC. Financial Representative of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian), New York, NY. PAS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Guardian. Certified Financial Services is not an affiliate or subsidiary of PAS or Guardian. AR Insurance License #19548719, CA Insurance License #075079. 8740112.1 Exp 2/27/2026
