Reimagine Wealth Pod 🎙️

In this episode…you’ll hear from Zac Chapman at New Economy Coalition (NEC). We dig into topics like: what the Solidarity Economy (SE) is and the tangible examples that exist within late-stage capitalism, contesting for power and why JPMorgan doesn’t care if you raise chickens (lol), and organizing Donor Advised Fund (DAF) holders as a microcosm of organizing wealth holders to challenge the capita...

In this episode…you’ll hear Reimagine Wealth’s 2025 numbers & reflections plus intentions & shifts going into 2026. Resources: A Look Inside the Shop essay series Season 1: jordyn’s money story part 1 and part 2 Book a free discovery call ! How Much Is Enough: Self-Paced Course Nic Antoinette’s Newsletter: Now What? off the grid clubhouse by Amelia Hruby About The Show: The show is a self-funded p...

In this episode…you’ll hear about the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC), which is an example of a Solidarity Economy investment that is guided by restorative economics and builds community power. Tune in to hear more about what EB PREC is, it's structure, applying restorative economics, their community design process, and so much more! Important Disclaimer: The investments menti...

In this episode…I share the ways in which the war with Iran is impacting our global supply chain, some of the major macroeconomic impacts, what these might mean for our day-to-day lives. You’ll also hear about ways that you can prepare and take collective action to care for each other in the face of a potentially deepening economic crisis. Disclaimer: Everything mentioned in this episode is shared...

In this episode…you’ll hear the New Orleans Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chapter share how they’ve been organizing to stop Louisiana's State Treasury from renewing its investment in Israel Bonds that fund and support apartheid. You’ll also hear about the ways you can get involved and support this campaign. Resources: Sign the petition to end LA’s invesetment in Israel Bonds See if you have an Isra...

In this episode…you’ll hear about tenant organizing both as a power-building strategy and as a way to expand our organizing base. You’ll also get to hear more about the ways that you can support tenant organizing directly and about HouseUs, a pooled fund dedicated to supporting tenant organizing and tenant power. About The Show: Subscribe to the Reimagine Wealth Substack (episode transcriptions ca...

In this episode…you’ll hear more about the Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund (JTIC Fund) that is working to operationalize the Just Transition Investment Framework . The JTIC Fund is a democratically controlled integrated capital fund that is governed by five movement partners: 1) Equitable Food-Oriented Development (EFOD) 2) Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) 3) Right to the City (RTTC) 4) East...

In this episode…you’ll hear more about the Just Transition Framework a “unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy” that was developed by Movement Generation and Climate Justice Alliance. Icons were designed by Micah Bazant; framework graphic designed by Design Action Col...

How Much Is Enough Cohort Registration Now Open! Early-bird registration ends 12/1 4-week long cohort happening on Wednesday evenings 1/21/26 - 2/11/26 $450 per person (Use code 2025EARLYBIRD for a 10% discount now through 12/1) Subscribe to the Reimagine Wealth Substack Reimagine Wealth Website This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus e...

Season One of the Reimagine Wealth Pod is a wrap! 🎀 Here is what to expect looking ahead: 1) This podcast will be taking a seasonal pause and return in 2026 (although the exact timing is TBD). 2) I’m offering more workshops and group cohorts. Register here ! 3) These updates, including opportunities to share feedback and more, will continue to be shared on this Substack, so subscribe to stay in t...

In this episode…you’ll hear from Diana Gisel Yañez (she/her) a money coach at All the Colors and and wealth manager at Natural Investments. In our conversation, Diana shares more about her path to find a values-aligned career, how she works to make financial knowledge accessible and supportive to communities of color and people without access to wealth, her identity as a highly sensitive person, h...

In this episode…you’ll hear from Michael Gast, who has spent more than a decade organizing young people with wealth towards the equitable distribution of land, wealth and power as a former Director of Resource Generation (RG). Since transitioning off RG staff in 2014, Michael has worked as a development director, fundraising consultant, donor educator, organizer and advisor. He is now a co-creator...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Natalie Houchins (she/her) who is a writer, content designer, and a friend who helped bring me into the local Resource Generation community.  in her story you’ll hear about: 1) how the rapid gentrification in austin enabled her family’s own class ascension; 2) Natalie’s own grapplings around reconciling with an identity that holds both financial precarity and class...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Saulo Araujo, the Director of Global Philanthropy, and Chung-Wha Hong, the Co-Executive Director, at Grassroots International. together we discuss Grassroots International’s Solidarity Philanthropy framework which in their own words is an “evolving framework built on principles and practices informed by the social movements we accompany, our sense of responsibility...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Vera Kelsey-Watts, the owner of Saltbox Financial , a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA). together, we delve into what it can practically look like for an institutional home to leverage its reputation to agitate the status quo and incubate new ways of being. Subscribe to the Reimagine Wealth Substack (episode transcriptions can be accessed through the episode page...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Morgan Curtis (she/her) as she shares about her own work as an Ancestors & Money coach and her own personal transformation which includes: her path towards redistribution, navigating intentional decisions around enoughness, and drawing on her own faith to make choices grounded in what she feels called to do (without knowing how they might turn out) publishing caden...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Chuck Collins , who is the great-grandson of the founder of Oscar Mayer meat processing brand, and who describes himself as someone born on third base. we discuss his book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books), which unmasks the industry of professional enablers that assist the ultra-wealthy to hide wealth and dodge...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Angelina Alanis (she/they), the Community Organizer and Communications Coordinator for the Festival Beach Food Forest (FBFF), share about the vision for the FBFF, how came into being and how it has evolved and expanded, how their majority volunteer-led team organizes and governs themselves to foster collective democratic decision-making, and about how the forest is...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Miriam Zoila Pérez (they/them) who is a Cuban American writer, activist, and a certified YNAB money coach. Pérez shares about how we might reframe budgeting and money management as a political act and tells the story of their family’s class oscillation, which was and is largely shaped by immigration. publishing cadence? still figuring this out, check back or subscr...

in honor of today being mother's day, in this episode…you’ll hear from both Susanna Penfield(our beloved guest from episode 5 , linked below if you haven’t listened to it yet) and her mom, Annie Penfield! together, Annie and Susanna share more about: what it was like when Susanna approached Annie about her desires to redistribute her entire $1M inheritance the messiness that comes with moving towa...

in this episode…you’ll hear from David Cobb (he/him) as he shares his own learnings and lived experience around what it means to be a Marxist revolutionary, the difference between dogma and ideology, how his mindset towards solidarity economy shifted, and how might non-reformist reforms be leveraged to create a post-capitalist future. publishing cadence? still figuring this out, check back or subs...

in this episode…you’ll learn how to use Mighty Deposits to find a values-aligned credit union or bank near you! publishing cadence? still figuring this out, check back or subscribe to see latest episodes! music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at  Intothegerogian Subscribe to the Reimagine Wealth Substack (episode transcriptions can be accessed through th...

in this episode…you’ll hear ari rosenberg (she/her) demystify elements of our tax system (including how it is legally structured to disproportionately benefit the ultra wealthy), explore what a just tax system might look like, and discuss ways we might begin to reclaim our power over our tax dollars. publishing cadence? still figuring this out, check back or subscribe to see latest episodes! music...

in this episode…you’ll hear from Anna Finklestein (she/her) as she shares more about: 1) her relationship to her identity as a white anti-zionist Jew, organizing for Palestinian liberation 2) navigating questions such as,  to what extent can you work within the system to change it? 3) her experience unschooling, ultimately becoming a high school history teacher, and then later shifting careers to...

in this episode…you’ll hear Susanna Penfield (she/her) share her story about organizing her family and financial team to dissolve her $1M trust fund and her work now which includes 1) creating integrated care teams of values-aligned financial professionals (which is how we met!) called Chosen Family Office and 2) Breaking Up Sequestered Trusts and Endowments for Distribution (BUSTED, learn more by...