In this episode, our guest Sahana Mehta and I explore what it means to move money in ways that are genuinely aligned with justice, repair, and long-term social change. Sahana shares how growing up while watching her family’s wealth increase influenced the questions she began asking about accumulation and responsibility, and what she has learned from helping people with significant wealth navigate redistribution. We also explore why movements need committed communities of donors who can withstand setbacks, and why justice, peace, and repair are not passive ideals but active practices.

• Becoming politicized through the Movement for Black Lives
• Growing up alongside her family's increasing wealth
• Questioning the model minority myth and the American Dream
• Why redistribution can create guilt, shame, anxiety, and fear
• Making financial decisions that are integrated and sustainable
• How Liberation Ventures is building a culture of repair
• What repair looks like between people, institutions, and governments
• The Section 14 reparations campaign in Palm Springs
• What the reparations movement can learn from marriage equality
• Why peace, justice, and repair must be active practices

Sahana Mehta (she/her) is an organizer working to build the relationships, strategy, and power necessary to bring about the world that ought to be. As Director of Donor Organizing at Liberation Ventures, she moves resources and builds political will for reparations for slavery and its legacies, and for a broader culture of repair in the US. Before Liberation Ventures, Sahana spent three years at Resource Generation organizing high net wealth young people toward the equitable redistribution of land, wealth, and power.

Sahana has also spent nearly a decade organizing within the South Asian diaspora on issues ranging from caste equity to gender justice, and is a proud board member of Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project. Sahana is an advisor to the Jean Hardisty Initiative at Women Donors Network, Chosen Family Office, and South Asian SOAR. Her approach is grounded in her desire to honor values embedded across cultures: humility, responsibility, and reciprocity — and in learning from the past, from elders and ancestors, to chart our course.

Sahana loves to travel and eat her way through the places she visits, often on street food tours where she learns how history, culture, and movements live in vibrant flavors.

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In this episode, our guest Leah Hadley and I explore what happens when divorce, money, identity, and major life transitions collide.

Her path into this work is both professional and deeply personal: after beginning her career as a teacher, moving into investment research and financial advising, and eventually experiencing her own divorce while raising three young children, she saw firsthand how overwhelming financial decisions can become during a major transition.

• From teacher to divorce financial professional
• Mediation, divorce financial planning, and divorce coaching
• Supporting clients through emotional and financial overwhelm
• What financial abuse can actually look like
• Rebuilding trust in yourself after years of money shame
• Understanding divorce laws without letting them dictate everything
• Building financial confidence through the Empowered Sisterhood
• How Leah's childhood shaped her relationship with money
• Investing and taking financial risk after divorce
• How to financially prepare before starting a divorce

Leah Hadley, AFC®, CDFA®, MAFF®, is the Founder and Senior Wealth Advisor of Intentional Wealth Partners and Intentional Divorce Solutions. With nearly 20 years of experience in financial services, she specializes in helping women navigate divorce and major life transitions with clarity and confidence. Drawing from both professional expertise and her own lived experience, Leah is known for her compassionate, judgment-free approach to financial empowerment. Her new book, Intentional Money, is a practical guide designed to help women take control of their finances and build lasting independence.

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In this episode, our guest Lori Robinson and I explore how sensitivity, spirituality, and lived experience shaped her journey from journalism to founding VidaAfrolatina, an international women’s fund supporting Black and Afro-descendant women-led organizations across Latin America.

Lori explains how participatory grantmaking transfers decision-making power to communities traditionally excluded from philanthropy, and she shares how surviving sexual assault led to decades of work addressing violence against Black women. Throughout our conversation, Lori offers a powerful perspective on using money in ways that are restorative, reparative, and rooted in the wisdom of directly affected communities.

• Creating VidaAfrolatina and resourcing Black women's leadership
• Addressing sexual violence through healing and institutional support
• How participatory grantmaking redistributes decision-making power
• Moving philanthropy beyond colonial models
• "Same boat, different port": solidarity across the African diaspora
• Why frontline communities must shape climate solutions
• Protecting empathy from overwhelm and burnout
• Choosing meaningful work when salary is not the priority
• Spirituality, healing, and trust during financial uncertainty

Lori Robinson is the Founder and Executive Director of VidaAfrolatina, an emerging international women’s fund that mobilizes resources for Black women-led and Afro-descendant women-led organizations in Latin America. Through participatory grantmaking, VidaAfrolatina supports culturally relevant healing services, organizational development, and community-led initiatives designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate sexual violence. Lori also serves on the Board of Directors of Women’s Funding Network.

Before launching VidaAfrolatina, Lori worked as a journalist for 25 years, reporting extensively on sexual violence and Black communities throughout Latin America. In 1997, Emerge magazine published her award-winning cover story, “I Was Raped: A Survivor Explores an Accusation that has Divided the Spelman and Morehouse Family.” She later wrote I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Progressive, The Root, and other national media outlets.

In 2018, Lori was selected from more than 2,800 applicants across 155 countries as one of 35 Echoing Green Fellows, helping her develop and launch VidaAfrolatina. A bilingual speaker in English and Spanish, she has presented on sexual violence in more than 20 U.S. states and in Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Venezuela. Lori holds bachelor’s degrees in English and Spanish from Spelman College and a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

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Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.