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May 2024
49m 12s

Healing Financial Wounds: Addressing Fin...

Shari Rash, Money Podcast for Women, Personal Finance, Relationships & Mental Health
About this episode

In this eye-opening episode, we delve deep into how trauma influences your financial behaviors more than you might realize. Financial traumas, often rooted in experiences like job loss, underpayment, or inherited money beliefs, shape your financial decisions subconsciously. For Afro-Latinas, Black women, and women of color, these traumas are frequently generational and systemic, affecting their financial outlooks profoundly.

Featured Guest: Alejandra Rojas, Money Mindset Mentor and Founder of The Money Mindset Hub and Money Mindset Podcast

Key Discussion Points:

  • Identifying Financial Trauma: Learn how to recognize the signs of generational financial trauma that might influence your money habits.
  • Cultural Identity and Money: Discover how embracing your cultural identity can enhance your relationship with money.
  • Healing Financial Trauma: Practical steps to overcome financial trauma and create lasting change in your financial life.

About Our Guest:

Alejandra Rojas is an Afro-Latina money mindset mentor and trauma-informed expert who helps individuals uncover and heal from financial traumas. She shares valuable insights on transforming your financial mindset through her platform, The Money Mindset Hub, and her podcast.

Why Listen?

  • Understand the deep-rooted impacts of financial trauma.
  • Gain insights into how generational and systemic factors influence financial behaviors in the BIPOC community.
  • Learn actionable steps to improve your money mindset and financial well-being.


Episode Highlights:

  1. The Invisible Hand of Financial Trauma: How financial trauma manifests and influences daily money decisions.
  2. Generational Trauma: The powerful effects of unspoken beliefs and emotions passed down through generations.
  3. Cultural Empowerment: Using cultural heritage to foster a positive financial mindset.
  4. Practical Healing: Strategies to move past financial traumas and build a healthier financial future.


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The Money Mindset Hub

Top 5 Financial Growth Habits for BBIPOC Founders

CONNECT WITH SHANNAH

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