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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In this episode, our guest Besan Abu-Joudeh and I explore how money, education, spirituality, and social impact can come together to create more liberatory ways of working and learning. Besan shares how her training in economics led her from management consulting and international development to co-founding BuildPalestine—and how the burnout and self-doubt she experienced as a founder inspired a more intuitive, soul-aligned approach to entrepreneurship.

• From economic theory to the realities of social impact
• Founding BuildPalestine and learning to trust her own intuition
• Zakat, barakah, and the Islamic understanding of money as flow
• Birthing the School of Radical Imagination during personal and political transformation
• Reimagining education as a path to becoming better humans
• Helping independent academics earn a dignified livelihood
• Reciprocity, scholarships, and working through faculty money blocks
• Building a faculty-centered 70/30 revenue-sharing model
• Creating ventures through trust instead of overwork and control
• Energetic hygiene and sustainable leadership for sensitive founders

Besan Abu-Joudeh is a Palestinian American social entrepreneur, ICF-certified coach, trauma-informed life coach, and energy healer. Her work is dedicated to creating spaces where people can reconnect with their purpose, step into their power, and share their unique medicine with the world. Through her coaching practice, Pause Impact, she supports people in bringing soul-aligned ventures, movements, and offerings into being through intuition, inner work, mindfulness, and sustainable action.

Her professional background spans management consulting, economic development, research, and nonprofit leadership, including roles at Accenture Federal, A.T. Kearney, and the Office of the Quartet. In 2016, she co-founded BuildPalestine, a platform created to support social innovation and changemakers in Palestine. Her experiences in consulting, international development, and entrepreneurship helped shape her belief that meaningful outer impact must be grounded in inner transformation, local community, and an understanding of human interconnectedness.

Besan is currently building the School of Radical Imagination, a global education platform where academics can teach live, cohort-based courses without institutional gatekeeping. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, as well as a master’s degree in Development Economics from SOAS University of London.

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In this episode, psychologist and Certified Financial Therapist™ Huong Diep explores how family history, cultural identity, and inherited beliefs around scarcity shape our financial lives — and why financial stress so often lives in the nervous system long after someone becomes objectively successful. Together, we unpack the tension between high sensitivity and high ambition, and what it truly means to feel financially safe from the inside out.

• One foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes as an HSS-HSP
• How money entered Dr. Huong's work as a psychologist
• Why money can feel more intense for sensitive people
• Inherited scarcity, survival, and the pressure to succeed
• Wanting wealth without betraying your values
• The narrow definition of acceptable success
• Class mobility, survivor's guilt, and grief
• Understanding money through a biopsychosocial lens
• How family messages become money patterns
• Balancing personal security with collective wellbeing
• Raising financially responsible children without shame
• Building a personal menu of restorative rest

Huong Diep is a board-certified psychologist, Certified Financial Therapist™, and wealth psychologist working at the intersection of culture, identity, and wealth. Her work helps thoughtful individuals, couples, and families understand how emotion, family history, cultural expectations, identity, and learned strategies around safety and self-worth influence financial decisions.

Huong is transitioning from a primarily clinical foundation toward a consultative role in the wealth advisory space. She is particularly interested in helping families develop the communication, emotional capacity, relationships, and shared purpose needed to use wealth well. Her clients have included high-achieving professionals, globally mobile individuals and families, and people navigating transitions involving money, identity, career, success, and belonging.

As a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American, first-generation college graduate, and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Huong brings a deeply cross-cultural perspective to the human side of money. Her approach draws from financial psychology, trauma-informed frameworks, and systems thinking. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and is licensed in California, Nevada, New York, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington, DC.

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In this episode, our guest Lynn Festa and I explore how money, work, identity, and well-being intersect for people who process the world deeply. Lynn shares how her career as an occupational therapist, her own experience of burnout, and her training in coaching and positive psychology led her to support people in creating sustainable, meaningful lives.

• Discovering sensory processing sensitivity
• Why the world's design can lead to burnout for highly sensitives
• Powdered milk and the "taste of poverty"
• Financial abuse and the belief that "I don't know money"
• Building a profitable clinic without a traditional loan
• "We know before we know": trusting sensitive intuition
• Using character strengths to create an upward spiral
• Extrinsic and intrinsic causes of burnout
• Reclaiming financial knowledge and locus of control
• Reasonable fees, accessibility, and charging with integrity

Lynn Festa is an occupational therapist, speaker, and coach with more than 35 years of experience in healthcare. After experiencing her own professional burnout in 2012, Lynn became deeply committed to supporting people to reconnect with the meaning and passion that first drew them to their work, and to help them live more meaningful and purposeful lives. Drawing on the philosophy and skills of occupational therapy, Lynn uses a strengths-based, practical approach to coaching and speaking, helping professionals build sustainable careers while protecting their well-being. Her work focuses on burnout prevention and recovery, especially for highly sensitive professionals who care deeply about the people they serve. Since 2002, Lynn has presented workshops, keynotes, and conference sessions at numerous national and international events. She is especially proud of her TEDx talk, Creating Sustainable Trust Through Integrity-Based Medicine, which has received nearly a quarter of a million views. Lynn is the owner of Lynn Festa Coaching. In her free time, she enjoys open-water swimming, reading, hiking, and pursuing her next creative chapter as a cabaret singer.

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Danielle Howard shares how more than 30 years in financial services led her beyond transactional advice and toward conversations about money stories, identity, values, and financial wellness. She also reflects on selling the financial planning practice she built and entering a new chapter focused on consulting, education, and helping people integrate financial health into every part of their lives. Together, we discuss why knowing what to do with money does not always make it easier to act, how childhood experiences shape financial behavior, and why changing a habit often requires changing the way we see ourselves.

• From insurance sales to holistic financial planning
• Selling a practice and learning to let go
• When traditional financial planning no longer felt right
• Helping money-avoidant clients open up
• Why "enough" is more than a number
• Balancing generosity with long-term security
• Sensitivity, overwhelm, and financial justice
• Moving beyond shame and blame in financial advice
• Rewriting money identity to change behavior
• Learning to spend after a lifetime of saving
• Giving from guilt, generosity, and intention

Danielle Howard is a Certified Financial Planner®, author, speaker, consultant, workshop facilitator, and passionate advocate for holistic personal finance. With more than 30 years of experience in financial advising and client engagement, she has become a transformative voice in reshaping how individuals, families, and organizations approach their financial lives. Her work brings together financial tools, practical techniques, individual temperaments, and healthy money mindsets to make financial wellness more personal, meaningful, and sustainable. After 21 years in the traditional financial services industry, Danielle founded Wealth by Design, LLC. Through the firm, she worked alongside clients to align their financial decisions with their personal values and manage family portfolios in ways that reflected their circumstances, priorities, and desired lives. She successfully led Wealth by Design for more than a decade before selling the firm in 2025. Today, Danielle focuses on consulting, speaking, education, and facilitating workshops for individuals, families, and organizations. By bridging Wall Street strategies with Main Street realities, she makes complex financial concepts accessible and relatable. Her work encourages open conversations about money, challenges financial taboos, and helps people expand their monetary mindsets while integrating financial health into every aspect of their lives.

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In this conversation Alicia DeLia and I explore what it means to move money in ways that are relational, reparative, and non-extractive. Alicia is the founder of Buen Vivir Capital Institute, and her work sits at the intersection of philanthropy, impact investing, social movements, and community-rooted leadership. This conversation brings our show’s ongoing questions about money, values, power, and care into the world of capital allocation—asking not only where money goes, but how it arrives, who gets trusted, and what kinds of relationships it creates.

• Alicia's work across philanthropy and impact investing
• Why the Buen Vivir Capital Institute needed to become a platform
• Wealth holders as financial activists
• Trust-based, restorative, and reparative capital
• The roots of impact investing: Catholic nuns, microcredit, and activism
• Activating wealth holders in Latin America
• The role of network weavers and ecosystem builders
• Alicia's multi-class childhood and financial background
• Rewriting the development playbook in Central America
• The need for dignified, non-extractive investment

Alicia works at the intersection of capital, community, and impact leadership development across the U.S., Latin America, and Africa. Throughout her career, she has raised and helped mobilize more than $100 million for social enterprises and impact-driven initiatives globally. As a fundraiser, international economist, and convener of right-relationship capital, she designs spaces and programs for impact leaders and funders where money, power, and humanity can be brought back into alignment to accelerate human and ecological thriving.

Through the social impact institute and network she founded, Buen Vivir Capital Institute, she helps mobilize integrated capital (investments + philanthropy) into the most undercapitalized ecosystems of the Americas & Africa—while helping impact leaders and entrepreneurs create effective and sustainable fundraising programs grounded in trust and relationship as well as organizational rigor. She also works with philanthropists and impact investors to help advance their ability to fund impact enterprises in innovative and impactful ways, particularly advancing learning and activation of integrated capital and blended finance to marginalized communities and emerging economies.

She is building the future of impact capital—and it is grounded in rigor, humanity, and relationship. Join her @Buen Vivir Capital Institute

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