Disrupt Your Money

Some days it feels like the whole world is on fire and everyone in charge is insisting it is just a warm glow and you should smile more. If you have been wondering whether you are overreacting to the news, the policies, the creeping cruelty, this episode is here to remind you that you are not crazy. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , Meg talks about what it means to live, work and make money...

Most of us were taught that talking about money is rude, dangerous or selfish. So we keep quiet, guess in the dark and then blame ourselves when things feel hard. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg digs into how that silence around money actually serves the systems that benefit from our confusion, not us or our communities. She looks at the family stories, cultural expectations and shame s...

Who decided “high net worth” starts at a certain dollar amount in an investment account, and why do so few of those definitions include us in the picture? In this episode, Meg takes apart the idea of being “high net worth” and asks a bigger, better question instead: what does wealth actually mean for our communities? She looks at how the financial industry use labels like “mass affluent” and “HNW”...

When you picture wealth, what do you see? If it’s a tug-of-war between “take care of my people” and “don’t sell my soul,” this episode is for you. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , Meg digs into what it really means to build wealth without selling out—especially when you care deeply about justice, equity, and community.  You’ll learn how to align your prices, partnerships, growth plans, and...

Trying to grow a business when you can’t get to the money you need? That’s not a personal failure—that’s a design feature of our financial system.  In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , Meg talks about access to capital: who gets approved, who gets shut out, and why “just build your credit” is a lot more complicated (and biased) than it sounds. Meg walks through the receipts on how banks, credit...

If you’ve ever been told “if you can’t beat the system, join it” and felt your whole body go NOPE—this one’s for you. Meg digs into a hard truth: most of the systems we move through every day—money, tax, healthcare, education, “justice”—were never designed to make space for us. They were designed to protect wealth, maintain power, and then gaslight us into thinking our struggles are personal failu...

When you hear “DIY entrepreneur,” what do you picture? Because somehow it’s scrappy and admirable for some people, and reckless or “unprofessional” for others. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , we’re unpacking the double standard baked into entrepreneurship : why marginalized business owners are expected to bootstrap forever, learn everything themselves, and “just Google it,” while others ar...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we pull back the curtain on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA) —the shiny new “tax relief” law that’s being sold as a gift to families and small business owners… while quietly shoveling billions toward corporations and high-income households. Spoiler: the marketing doesn’t match the math. Meg walks through what actually changed in OBBA. From the SALT cap d...

Most people would rather talk about sex than talk about their bank account. And honestly? Fair. Because when you don’t know your numbers, looking at them can feel like peeking into a financial jump-scare—you’re bracing for something awful. But here’s the truth: the fear isn’t in the numbers. The fear is in avoiding them. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , we break down why knowing your number...

When you hear the word wealth , who comes to mind? If your answer isn’t you —you’re not alone. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , we unpack what equitable wealth really means and why reclaiming it is one of the most radical, empowering moves we can make with our money. Because wealth as we know it? It’s not neutral. It’s political, it’s personal, and it’s been intentionally kept out of reach...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we're diving deep into our inherited money stories and how they shape our financial behaviors as adults and how scarcity and shame around money impacts our financial lives.  And of course we're touching on systemic issues such as the racial wealth gap and the political manipulation of scarcity. But we're not leaving you hanging - we're als...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we call BS on hustle culture—the toxic myth that being exhausted is somehow a badge of honor. Spoiler alert: it’s not. It’s capitalism doing what capitalism does best—keeping us too tired to question it. Through real talk, personal stories, and a few spicy historical receipts, we break down why rest isn’t lazy—it’s revolutionary. You’ll learn how rest fuels w...

Dave Ramsey has built an empire on “tough love” money advice. But what happens when that advice is rigid, shame-based, and completely ignores things like privilege, trauma, or the actual cost of living in 2025? In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , Meg sits down with financial wellness coach Katy Chen Mazzara , creator of Financial Freedom for Creatives , to unpack the impact of Dave Ramsey–styl...

If you’ve ever felt guilty for wanting to make good money doing healing work, this conversation is for you. Meg sits down with licensed marriage and family therapist Tiffany McLain, LMFT to talk about raising fees in a way that’s ethical, boundaried, and actually includes the therapist in the definition of “care.” They unpack the tension between “I want to help people” and “I also need to pay my b...

If the phrase “investing in the stock market” makes your brain want to nope out of the conversation, this one’s for you. Meg sits down with financial educator and Money Bear podcast host Chloe (CloBear Money Coach) to talk about lazy investing —the simple, boring, low-drama strategy that actually works. Instead of day trading, stock-picking, or trusting some guy in a vest who won’t explain anythin...

The IRS is nobody’s idea of a sexy topic. But if you’re a small business owner—especially from a marginalized community—what happens to the IRS is absolutely a money issue. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , Meg breaks down what’s really at stake when the IRS is weakened: who benefits when it’s defunded, who ends up under the microscope instead, and how that shifts the tax burden onto small b...

Some people say our government is “broken.” Meg’s here with a spicier take: it’s working exactly as designed—for corporate interests, not for you. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , she goes full rage-with-receipts on dysfunctional government: the disinformation machine, the unqualified agency heads, the lobbying circus, and the “greatest hits” of corporate greed that turned our laws into a p...

Money isn’t good or bad—it’s power. And in a world where the economy was never built for most of us, that power can either quietly uphold the status quo… or help dismantle it. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money , Meg breaks down how every dollar you earn, spend, save, or invest is a tiny vote for the kind of world you want to live in. From where you shop to how you price your work to the way yo...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we’re tearing into Trump’s full-on war against Diversity, Equity & Inclusion—and why it’s not just a culture-war soundbite, it’s a direct hit to your money, your safety, and your community.  We break down how a handful of executive orders and budget cuts are quietly gutting the systems that helped women, Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, disabled, and othe...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we sit down with personal finance powerhouse Bernadette Joy to blow up the myth that paying off debt means sacrificing joy, self-care, and everything that makes life actually feel good. As a first-gen Filipina-American and eighth of nine kids, Bernadette went from $300,000 in debt to building a seven-figure net worth. Through real talk, lived experience, and...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we’re dragging tariffs out of the headlines and into real life—specifically, what Donald Trump’s latest tariff chaos means for your business, your bank account, and yes, your Nana’s 401(k).  Meg breaks down what tariffs actually are (no econ degree required), how Trump’s “Tariff Oprah” moment and his whiplash 90-day “10% for everyone” reversal set the stage f...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we drag the real job killers: anti-immigrant policies. Meg breaks down how the current administration’s deportations, visa crackdowns, and weaponized bureaucracy aren’t just cruel; they’re actively sabotaging small businesses, local economies, and generational wealth-building. Meg walks you through how to use your vote, your voice, and your business to fight...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we rip the “boring policy” label off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and show you exactly how defunding it becomes open season on marginalized small business owners. This isn’t abstract politics—it’s about whether there’s anyone standing between you and predatory lenders, junk fees, or shady fine print when you’re just trying to run your busin...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we bring your fitness habits and your money habits into the same room and gently (okay, lovingly) call them out. Meg is joined by health coach Mackenzie “Coach Mack” Holznecht of Running with Bacon to talk about why both movement and money feel so loaded—and how the secret to changing both isn’t willpower or shame, it’s habits that actually fit your real life...

In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg introduces herself as a CPA, entrepreneur, and loud-mouthed political nerd who actually likes tax (don’t worry, she explains), and lays out why this podcast exists in the first place: to help marginalized business owners use money as a tool for liberation, not just survival. Through stories about real estate, corporate tax, and walking away from a career...