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Your financial anxiety might not be “you” — it could be your grandparents’ stress, passed down.

Having money doesn’t mean you’re healed. It just means your trauma might be better dressed.

The nature vs. nurture debate shows up in how we process financial pain.

I don’t do ‘fix your credit in 30 days.’ I do ‘heal the financial wounds you’ve been carrying for generations

I’ve never been a “can I work in with you?” Gym goer. I’ll find another machine or wait my turn. In a post COVID world? Absolutely not.

I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO.

“Wokeness” was the over correction of the liberal arm of yt supremacy in response to Black people demanding to be treated as human beings not commodities. It was infiltrated by initiatives like DEI to include the spectrum of minority groups to dilute, divide, & confuse.

Because…

Vicarious Financial Trauma: How Observing Money Stress Changes You via @forbes forbes.com/sites/rahkimsa…

Your financial socialization often starts in childhood long before you know what a checking account is… Based on those associations you may have subconsciously categorized how deserving people are of your admiration, your respect, or inversely, your disdain.

Some of you don’t fear poverty—you fear being seen as poor.

Do you need to have direct experience with financial hardship in order to be impacted by financial trauma? My latest with Forbes explains why you may not via vicarious financial trauma.

Financial trauma is real and it can be devastating - I speak from personal experience. Kudos to Rahkim Sabree for his efforts.