Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela
Welcome to Waking Up Wealthy, the podcast for visionaries and rebels who are ready to revolutionize their relationship with money and create powerful collective ripples with the money they make.I'm your host, Isha Vela—trauma psychologist, somatic practitioner, financial…
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6.16 | Matriarchy as a Marketing Tool (opens the original)
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When everyone slaps "matriarchy" on a co-housing community, a leadership coaching course, and a business model without having the ACTUAL infrastructure, it dilutes both the meaning and the movement. Matriarchy is not vibes or an aesthetic. It's a blueprint for a more humane and connected way of living. On today's episode, we're talking about what matriarchy actually is and isn't. I outline the four must-have pillars of matriarchal infrastructure, in other words, what's required legally and somat
6.15 | Building the Muscle of Reciprocity (opens the original)
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A matriarchal economy requires us to see ourselves in that bigger web of relationship, of which trust is the foundation, simultaneously releasing our patterns of transactional exchange. In this episode, you'll learn: -the differences between transaction, reciprocity and extraction; -why you default to transactional exchanges vs trusting the greater web of relationship; -the 5 relational archetypes and how they relate to how we give and receive in relationships; -how to build the trust to make re
6.14 | Starving the Machine, Matriarchally (opens the original)
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And the question of how to withdraw from the machine, strategically, structurally, collectively, is one of the most practically urgent questions available right now, perfect for today's eclipse. In today's episode, I show you exactly how to: -withdraw your life force from the machine, -make the machine lose its leverage (based on its four favorite weapons) -build the alternative infrastructure based on the four forms of capital. In just under 30 minutes, you'll receive the map to withdraw from t
6.13 | The Signs of Hidden Financial Abuse (opens the original)
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This is the first time I tell the full story of my experience with financial abuse. Because 1 in 6 women experience it, and most think it'll NEVER happen to them. Because I, a psychologist, was one of the 3 in 5 women who don't see it until AFTER they leave the relationship. Because I've sat down with dozens of women who are experiencing the same things I did and they're NOT calling it financial abuse. They're calling it: "The economy's bad and he hasn't been able to find work." "He's depressed
6.12 | Four Models of Matriarchal Wealth Redistribution (opens the original)
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I used to drool at the thought of becoming a professional philanthropist. I pictured myself donating my time, wads of money, energy funding women's businesses and ecological projects all around the world. That image in my head felt like the peak experience, like if I could achieve that it would mean I'd arrived. But when I started studying matriarchal economics and specifically wealth distribution models, I had to rethink some things. Because philanthropy is the dominant model of redistribution
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