THE PRACTICE OF FINANCE IS A PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY
At its core, finance is how communities share, support, and hold one another accountable.
It is the way we:
Pool resources
Build collective safety
Plan for the future
Respond to emergencies
Care for one another across generations
Healthy financial systems were always meant to be community systems.
But for many marginalized communities, this practice was intentionally interrupted and distorted by systems of oppression.
THE LEGACY OF EXCLUSION - AND EXPLOITATION
Throughout history, Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized groups have been:
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Excluded from full participation in financial systems
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Denied access to capital, credit, ownership, and wealth-building tools
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Systematically extracted for their labor, creativity, culture, and natural resources — while being locked out of the very financial structures their contributions sustain
Financial Liberation recognizes that exclusion was never accidental — it was structural.
And because harm was intentional, healing must also be intentional. Financial Liberation is about reclaiming what was stolen, restoring what was denied, and repairing both individual and collective harm.
Our programs are designed with this truth at the center:
We cannot build financial wellness without also addressing the historical impact of oppression, disenfranchisement, and systemic theft.
For many, financial healing requires confronting not only personal hardship but generations of deprivation, disinvestment, and erasure.
Financial Liberation provides the space, tools, and community to resolve, heal from, and restore what has been lost — while building new paths forward rooted in dignity, equity, and collective power.
WHY FINANCIAL LIBERATION?
Traditional financial literacy often focuses only on personal behavior — ignoring the deeper emotional, relational, and systemic realities that shape our financial lives. These models offer advice without acknowledging trauma, shame without providing healing, and education without restoring justice.
Financial Liberation is different.
We believe that financial empowerment must be both healing and liberating.
It requires:
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Trauma-informed education
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Emotional and relational support
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Community accountability
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Environmental stability
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Historical truth-telling
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Collective economics
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And the restoration of power.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This program is designed for individuals, families, and communities who:
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Have experienced financial trauma, instability, or systemic exclusion
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Struggle with stress, emotional overwhelm, or executive dysfunction related to money
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Are seeking sustainable, shame-free financial strategies that honor mental health and systemic reality
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Want to strengthen relationships, community ties, and intergenerational wealth
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Desire financial education that embraces historical accuracy, transformative community-building, and collective economics as tools for liberation
THE FINANCIAL LIBERATION FRAMEWORK
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Strengthening Mind-Body & Environmental Resilience
Before financial healing can begin, we focus on emotional regulation, nervous system stability, and building both personal and environmental resilience.
Breathwork & Mindfulness Sessions
Learn to regulate stress, increase focus, and build emotional safety.
Expanding Your Window of Tolerance
Build capacity to navigate financial and emotional stress without shutting down.
Building Internal Resources
Develop self-compassion, emotional awareness, and adaptive coping skills.
Building External Resources
Identify and build support networks, therapeutic resources, and community systems of care.
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Financial Liberation & Economic Empowerment
We reclaim agency by dismantling shame, challenging systemic narratives, and restoring collective economic power.
Trauma-Informed Financial Liberation Course
Learn to regulate stress, increase focus, and build emotional safety.
Intro to Mutual Aid & Collective Economics Course
Explore cooperative models that center shared wealth, community safety nets, and interdependence.
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Emotional & Relational Wellness
Sustainable financial empowerment requires emotional regulation and healthy, supportive relationships.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT STEPS-A) Workshops
Build emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and relational skills.
Healthy Relationships Education
Learn boundary-setting, communication, and conflict resolution in both personal and financial relationships.
How to Have Healthy Conflict
Develop tools for navigating financial disagreements without shame or disconnection.
Transformative Community-Building
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Identify the barriers to communal wellness and understand their root causes
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Design and implement systematic repairs to cultivate a community of safety, care, and resilience
Trauma-Informed Parenting Workshops
Support caregivers in raising children with the emotional and financial resilience to disrupt generational cycles of harm.
THE IMPACT: WHAT LIBERATION LOOKS LIKE
Through Financial Liberation, participants will:
Work to heal from personal and generational financial trauma
Build emotional resilience and strong support systems
Gain financial confidence rooted in power, not shame
Participate in collective economic models that restore shared wealth
Strengthen family and community ties that sustain financial freedom
FINANCIAL LIBERATION IS ACCESS TO SOCIETY, HEALTH, AND GROWTH.
Shared
Healing
Accountable
Collective
Liberating