Highly Sensitive Money for Highly Sensitive People who want to align their values with their money

Reparative Capital, Buen Vivir, and Redesigning Impact Finance with Alicia DeLia 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. Thi...

Have you heard these myths about conflict and money? Myth 1: Conflict is always bad and should be avoided at all costs. Myth 2: Generosity means giving away all of your money. Myth 3: Talking about money only leads to arguments. Lily Kerrigan will share the truth about navigating conflict and money for highly sensitive individuals. You can watch our conversation here. In this episode, you will be...

Beyond the Blank Slate: Honoring Your Needs as a Highly Sensitive Therapist with Andie Whitaker Today I chat with Andie Whitaker, a therapist and founder of Spiral Tending, to talk about what it's like to navigate money as a highly sensitive person in a world where we are increasingly losing worker’s rights. Andie shares how they're creating spaces for therapists to explore money through art and c...

If Anything's Possible, What Would You Love? Christine Farrugia on Career, Money, and Enoughness Today we are joined by Christine Farrugia, an executive coach who spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder before starting her own coaching practice. Christine opens up about growing up with financial instability and how that shaped her early relationship with money, leading her to prioritize safet...

From Insurance Analyst to Advocate: Tony Steuer on Curiosity and Financial Literacy   Today’s guest, Tony Steuer shares about his transformation from numbers-focused insurance analyst to passionate financial literacy advocate. Tony shares how witnessing clients make seemingly "illogical" financial decisions led him to explore behavioral finance and the emotional drivers behind our money choices. W...

Insecurities as Gateways: Trusting Yourself Through Transition with Corinne Gardner   In this second conversation with Corinne Gardner, we pick up where we left off and go deeper into the relationship between intuition, identity, and money. Corinne shares how her decision to leave nursing — despite the fear that it would upend her sense of self and earning capacity — became one of the most honest...

Learning to Ask: Financial Literacy as an Ongoing Practice with Corinne Gardner In this episode, I sit down with Corinne Gardner, a women's health and relationship coach who helps women shed shame and practice self-appreciation. Corinne shares how her journey toward financial literacy paralleled her journey toward embodiment—both requiring her to ask uncomfortable questions and find mentors who wo...

What Happens When You Invest in Your Own Backyard with Angela Barbash Angela Barbash grew up watching her parents file for bankruptcy over and over, and as a young adult, she made a lot of the same money mistakes because no one had taught her differently. After spending years in traditional finance, she kept running into the same wall: clients asking how they could invest locally, and firms tellin...

Anne Symens-Bucher: Building Community Through Trust, Not Transactions I’m thrilled to bring you a conversation with Anne Symens-Bucher, co-founder of Canticle Farm and former executive assistant to Joanna Macy. We explore her 15-year journey of fundraising for Canticle Farm, an intentional community in Oakland. Anne shares how the realization "I can't do this alone" became the foundation for a co...

The Paradox of Sensitivity: Thriving as a Caregiver Without Burning Out with Amy Pinnell Amy Pinnell shares with us the unique intersection of high sensitivity, caregiving professions, and financial wellbeing. Amy shares her journey from burning out early in her social work career to creating a sustainable practice that serves highly sensitive helpers and healers. We explore why sensitive people a...

The Nervous System's Role in Financial Decision-Making with Sarah Carr   Today I speak with Sarah Carr about the intersection of trauma, neurodiversity, and financial well-being. Sarah shares her journey from growing up in a high-demand high-control religious environment to becoming a financial therapist who helps clients—particularly women and neurodivergent individuals—reclaim their relationship...

From Avoiding Bank Statements to Financial Therapy Pioneer: Bari Tessler's Journey Bari Tessler is a financial therapist and pioneer in merging emotional literacy with financial literacy. We talk about her 26-year journey creating the Art of Money methodology. Bari shares how she went from throwing away bank statements in graduate school to falling in love with bookkeeping and developing a somatic...

The Trauma of Money: Why Traditional Financial Literacy Isn't Enough with Chantel Chapman In this episode, I talk with Chantel Chapman, founder of the Trauma of Money Institute, about how trauma—both personal and systemic—profoundly shapes our relationship with money. Chantel shares her journey from financial literacy educator to developing the Trauma of Money after recognizing that traditional ap...

Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: Permission to Work Differently with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun In this episode, I sit down with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, author of "Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul," to talk about how highly sensitive people can engage in meaningful social justice work without burning out completely. Dorcas shares her own experiences with severe burnout in the nonprofit sector and h...

When the Body Speaks: Functional Medicine & Somatic Wisdom with Dr. Kaeri Schaefer Kaeri Schaefer brings us “collaborative understory medicine”—a root-cause, relational approach that treats symptoms as body communication. Today we cover Kaeri’s path from family medicine residency to functional medicine, bodywork, and somatic practice, and how this reshaped the way she supports “chatty” bodies...

Social Work to Wealth: Taylor Gilbert on Financial Empowerment Taylor Gilbert brings us into an exploration of what happens when a medical social worker brings courage, clarity, and financial literacy into one conversation. Together we unpack how negative money messaging shows up in social work, how salary transparency and negotiation can shift outcomes, and why values-aligned investing matters wh...

Breaking Free from Scarcity: Money Mindset, Nervous System Healing & Sliding Scale Business Models with Emily Rose In this episode, our guest Emily Rose and I sit down for a spacious, values-led conversation about how scarcity shows up—in people-pleasing, and overachieving—and what it takes to repattern those reflexes in the body and mind. I introduce Emily’s work with women and femmes at key...

Inside EQAT with Lina Blount: People-Powered Tactics, Quaker Witness, and Climate Finance My guest Lina Blount has us explore how people-powered movements change what’s politically possible—especially when traditional advocacy hits a wall. I introduce the show’s focus on the emotional, ethical, and practical sides of money, and Lina shares how a 2011 nonviolent direct-action training sparked her p...

Genet “GG” Gimja on Progressive Pockets: Align Your Spending, Giving & Investing with Your Values   In this episode, our guest Genet “GG” Gimja and I explore the gap between what we believe and what our money is quietly doing in the world. We dig into practical shifts and big questions alike: how banks leverage our deposits , the tools that make values-aligned portfolios more doable, the trade...

Supporting Activists with Secret Trust Funds with Morgan Curtis Listen in to hear Morgan Curtis’ story from climate activism, to fossil fuel divestment, to working with her people - inheritors with class privilege. We explore motivation: how guilt can open the door but love sustains transformation. We get practical about the gift economy at Canticle Farm, unpack the “activist with a secret trust f...

River Nice on Queer Finance, Mutual Aid, and Collective Transformation In this episode, our guest River Nice and I explore what it means to take control of money while resisting the individualism that capitalism promotes. River shares how their journey began in the tech world, shifted after the 2016 U.S. election, and led to their decision to dedicate their skills to supporting queer and trans com...

The Wealth Gap Closers™ Method with Shehara Wooten In this episode, our guest Shehara Wooten and I explore what it takes to build wealth with confidence and purpose, especially for Black women in STEM navigating promotions, pay raises, and the pressures that come with them. Shehara’s story of moving from engineering into finance reveals not just a career change but a mission: to help others see wh...

Trusting Your Intuition While Raising Littles with Laren LaSalle In this episode, our guest Lauren LaSalle and I dive into the tender, challenging, and transformative path of early motherhood. Lauren shares her journey from feeling overwhelmed and second-guessing herself to finding confidence, peace, and joy as a mom. As a mentor for sensitive mothers of young children, she knows firsthand how dif...

Seeing Money Through the Heart In this episode, I explore three essential tools that can transform the way we experience money. Inspired by Le Petit Prince and the reminder that “we only see well with the heart,” I share how a heart-centered perspective can guide us through common struggles such as decision fatigue, overwhelm in money conversations, and the shame that arises when we recognize ineq...

Money, Boundaries, and Care: A Conversation with Stacy Kellogg   In this episode, our guest Stacy Kellogg and I explore what it means to truly honor our capacity while still caring deeply for others. Stacy is a leadership coach and facilitator who helps high-achieving changemakers discover what they truly need and want—so they can contribute to the world from a place of abundance instead of exhaus...