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CLASSES START AUTUMN, 2025!

For Love and Money Enrichment Series (FLAMES)

Two couples. Two callings. One powerful experience.

Knapper Financial Coaching and Real Connections Counseling & Coaching are joining forces in a way few could have imagined. In their own fields, each couple has built a practice that strengthens relationships, one through financial clarity, the other through relational healing. Now, for the first time, they step into the same room with the same mission: to help you and your partner thrive in both love and money.

In this series you will learn to:

  • Turn financial tension into connection

  • Use tested tools to manage money as a united team

  • Build trust, intimacy, and stability while growing wealth

  • See how relational strength fuels financial success

Couples rarely get the chance to learn from two pairs of leaders who not only share a marriage but also a mission. That alignment creates an experience you will not find anywhere else.

Say yes to less stress, deeper trust, and a future you both believe in.

Register today and step into this one-of-a-kind series.


 








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Our FLAMES Masterclass

What if we didn’t have to fight so hard about money again?

 

Money and love shape every relationship. They touch your choices, your goals, and the way you live together every day.

At FLAMES, we care deeply about helping couples talk about money with safety and love. We bring years of experience guiding people through tender conversations. In this masterclass, you will discover how to share your story, hear your partner’s story, and create a path that feels strong and connected.

We know how important this is. When couples learn to talk about money well, they often find more joy, more peace, and more harmony in every part of their life together.

Experience four dynamic classes - once a month on Wednesdays from 6:30–8:00 PM - at Real Connections in Urbandale. Walk away with tools that change the way you talk and think about money and the way you see each other.

💵 $75 per couple (or commit to all 4 masterclasses for $200!)
Led by financial strategists Meg & Ron Knapper and relationship experts Rick & Monique Elgersma

Upcoming Classes

Classes will be held at Real Connections Counseling, 2540 106 th ST, Suite 202, Urbandale, IA 50322

CLASS TOPICS AND DATES

Wednesdays from 6:30-8 PM

Most Couples just aren’t on the same page about money.

When that happens money tears at your trust. That’s just the fact.

Drains your energy.

Keeps you from intimate partnership.

A marriage in parallel universes.

Same house. Same bills.

Not the same page.

When there’s no margin, the smallest surprise feels like an earthquake.

One of you wants to talk. The other shuts down.

And the silence between you grows louder than the words ever could.

Here’s the rub. You choose “stuck.” We’ll help you choose freedom. Hope. Help you live as integrity allies.


This series is for you if:

  • You’re tired of fighting about money.

  • You feel unheard, unseen, or untrusted in your own relationship.

  • You want tools that actually help you talk and act together.

  • You’re ready to build trust, intimacy, and financial peace at the same time.


Four Masterclasses. Real Talk. Real Trust. Real Love.

Class 1: Cash Flow & Conflict

Learn to calm the money chaos, deal with conflict, and make a plan you both believe in.

Class 2: Let’s Talk About U$ & Money

Finally have the conversations that connect you. Build priorities and a money plan that fits your relationship.

Class 3: $hit Happens, Now What?

Create an emergency plan that doesn’t wreck your bond. Stay deliberate. Stay connected. Stay safe.

Class 4: Time & Money with a Purpose

Move past survival. Dream together. Set boundaries. Live with intention.


Your Commitment

  • $75 per couple, per class.

  • Or commit to all four for $200 total.

  • Show up together. Call it a learning date night.

BONUS:

Your Mountain Retreat.

Complete all four classes and receive a private invitation to our Colorado mountains couples weekend. Far from the noise, you’ll reset, reconnect, and strengthen the partnership you came here to protect.


Upcoming Dates

  • Sept 17 — Cash Flow & Conflict

  • Oct 29 — Let’s Talk About U$ & Money

  • Nov 19 — $hit Happens, Now What?

  • Dec 17 — Time & Money with a Purpose

  • Jan 21 — Review Class (2-hour special)

  • Feb 18 — Cash Flow & Conflict

  • Mar 18 — Let’s Talk About U$ & Money

  • Apr 15 — $hit Happens, Now What?

  • May 20 — Time & Money with a Purpose

(Classes don’t have to be taken in order.)


Ready?

How you talk about money is how you live your love story. Money talk is love talk, and the way you speak it shapes the way you live it.

You don’t want to lose this opportunity. Before you know it, it’ll be gone and you’ll keep fighting. Take the first step toward trust, intimacy, and financial peace.

UP NEXT - Masterclass: Let’s Talk About U$ & Money

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from 6:30-8 PM / Wednesday, March 18, 2026

What if your money conversations didn't turn into conflict and you could actually make a plan together? 

Finally have the conversations that connect you. Build priorities and a money plan that fits your relationship.

That is why we created Let’s Talk about U$ & Money, our next class in the For Love and Money Enrichment Series (FLAMES). This is not just another workshop. This is about learning how to:

  • Talk confidently - and honestly - about money issues that are important to you

  • Lower the tension around financial discussions while learning to truly hear your partner's perspective, too

  • Take control of your finances together with a regular "money date"

  • Determine your priority list and begin to dream together again!

You’ll learn practical things. More importantly, you'll break the silence and start telling a relational money story that belongs to both of you.

Register now - $75 per couple. Or commit to all four classes for $200 (pay upfront). INVEST in your relationship!

UP NEXT - Masterclass: Sh$t Happens, Now What?

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 6:30-8 PM 

Create an emergency plan that doesn’t wreck your bond. Establish practices that tame financial flare-ups that can create relational breakups. Prevent the wreckage! 

Life will test every couple. The question isn’t if something hard will happen. It’s what will you do when it does?Connection can vanish when health scares, job uncertainties and more pushes you to your limits. Most couples react. Few have a plan.

Our Sh$t Happens, Now What? class in the For Love & Money Enrichment Series (FLAMES) system helps you build one.

This is about learning how to:
  • Create an emergency relationship plan that helps you stay together when everything around you feels unstable.

  • Recognize your stress patterns and replace reaction with intention.

  • Decide how you will communicate, comfort, and support one another when crisis hits.

  • Clarify who handles what so neither of you feels alone in the storm.

  • Build a financial safety rhythm that keeps both partners informed and prepared.

  • Identify what expenses, debts, and financial moves are most urgent in a crisis and which can wait.

  • Revisit your vows as a living choice you make, even when it’s hard.


When life happens, you don’t have to lose each other in the fallout. Face it together. Plan for it. And you can come out stronger.

Register now - $75 per couple. Or commit to all four classes for $200 (pay upfront). Invest in your relationship!

Masterclass: Cash Flow and Conflict

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 from 6:30-8 PM / Wednesday, February 18, 2026

What if your money fights aren’t really about money at all?

When the budget feels tight, even small surprises can set off arguments. Tension grows. Connection suffers.

That is why we created Cash Flow and Conflict, the first class in the For Love and Money Enrichment Series (FLAMES). This is not just another workshop. This is about learning how to:

  • Get on the same page about money

  • Lower the tension around cash flow

  • Talk honestly without shutting down or blowing up

  • Take control of your finances together

  • Begin dreaming as a team again

You’ll learn practical things. More importantly, you'll break the silence and start telling a relational money story that belongs to both of you.

Register now for just $75 per couple. Or commit to all four classes for $200 and pay upfront. Because the way you talk about money shapes the way you live, and the way you love.

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