Volume I · Newlyweds · Available now
An 8-part series dedicated to the habits that compound into a lifetime of financial confidence.
What is CK Academy
CK Academy is the education arm of Collective Kindness. We teach the practical knowledge that school skips and life demands: how money actually works, explained plainly, by people who understand where you are starting from.
We all learned the eight levels of Rambam in fifth grade. The gap between what you believe and what you do is the work.
Same starting line, very different lives. The difference is rarely mazel. It is knowledge.
Two couples
The default outcome
Revolving debt. No retirement savings. No plan. The same story, repeated across thousands of young couples who were never taught any of this.
Without the course
-$115k
Based on the same starting income, different choices. The numbers are illustrative.
Read the full story
Your guidance counselor
When you enroll, you are paired with a guidance counselor from the community. Someone who has sat at the same Shabbos tables and paid the same bills. They check in with you at each lesson on WhatsApp, walk through your questions, and give you the code to unlock the next chapter. The course teaches the knowledge. The counselor turns it into a plan.
Learn more about the counselorsThe Curriculum · 8 chapters
An interest rate is a story about time. Tell it well and it earns for you.
The spread between five hundred thousand and twenty million is your career, not your IQ.
A budget is a plan you can keep, not a prison you escape.
Borrowing is a tool. Used well it builds. Used badly it eats.
The boring list that prevents the loud emergencies.
Cutting has a ceiling. Earning has none.
Houses, cars, and where to invest. Three categories that quietly decide whether you build wealth or burn it.
The eight levels of Rambam in fifth grade. The gap between what you believe and what you do is the work.
This is the flagship program of CK Academy. Eight short lessons for couples in their first year of marriage, designed to be watched together. Real worksheets, lifetime access for both spouses, and a real person on the other end of WhatsApp when a question comes up.
“We opened our first investment account the week after the very first lesson. The course gave us a way to actually talk about money without it turning into a fight.”
A newlywed couple · Brooklyn
The first yearFrequently asked
Jewish couples in their first years together, whether you are engaged, newly married, or just starting to build a financial life as a team.
Eight short lessons, about an hour of video in total. Most couples watch together and finish within a week.
Watch each lesson, take a short quiz, and read the worksheet. Then you check in with your guidance counselor, who gives you a code to unlock the next lesson.
A volunteer who guides you through the course and checks in with you at each lesson on WhatsApp. After Lesson 1, you message them to introduce yourself. They reply with a quick hello and walk the rest of the course with you.
Yes. One login works for both spouses, and the course remembers where you are so either of you can pick up where the other left off.
Yes. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.
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