In this inspiring episode of Harmonious Wealth, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, founder of Therapy for Black Girls, shares her incredible journey from starting as a blog to creating a groundbreaking mental health platform for Black women and girls. She dives into the accidental beginnings of her business, the evolution of her revenue model, and the power of community healing through her foundation.

Dr. Joy also reflects on personal lessons, such as transforming her money mindset, integrating her family into her business, and cultivating a strong team culture. Listen in as she discusses the balance between personal and professional life, the importance of hiring early, and her vision for building physical spaces dedicated to supporting Black women’s mental health.

Takeaways

• Therapy for Black Girls started as a blog to share mental health resources.
• The therapist directory evolved from free to paid listings to ensure sustainability.
• Understanding your money mindset is vital for business and personal growth.
• Community healing plays a critical role in challenging times.
• Hiring children for specific tasks can serve as both a tax benefit and a wealth-building strategy.
• Building a strong team culture ensures a positive experience for clients.
• Physical spaces for Black women and girls can bridge gaps in mental health support.
• Teaching children financial literacy early can set them up for long-term success.
• In-person events strengthen community bonds.

GET TO KNOW DR. JOY

• Therapy for Black Girls Website
• Dr. Joy’s Instagram
• Past episode about strategies to dictate what you pay in taxes

In this inspiring episode of Harmonious Wealth, Jasmine Espy opens up about her journey with Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS), a chronic inflammatory skin condition that deeply shaped her life. Jasmine’s story is one of resilience, advocacy, and community-building.

From overcoming severe HS and bullying to creating a nonprofit organization and hosting the I Reclaim Summit, Jasmine shares how she turned her pain into purpose. She dives into:

• Advocacy and Awareness: How her personal experience with HS inspired her to raise awareness and fight for health equity.
• Mental Health and Healing: The transformative power of therapy and spirituality in her journey.
• Community Creation: The importance of fostering safe, empowering spaces for individuals with chronic conditions.
• Harmonious Wealth: Her definition of true wealth, centered on financial literacy and the strength of community.

This episode is a heartfelt conversation about overcoming adversity, finding purpose, and creating meaningful change.

CATCH UP WITH JASMINE ESPY AND HER STORY!

• The AHSID Org
• Jasmine’s HS Documentary Series
• Jasmine’s Instagram

In this heartfelt episode of Harmonious Wealth, host Iyanna Vaughn speaks with Ameka Coleman, founder of Strands of Faith, a clean beauty brand empowering textured hair care with purpose-driven products. Ameka dives into her personal and entrepreneurial journey, sharing candidly about balancing family and business, overcoming personal traumas, and the pivotal role of faith in her life.

Ameka also unpacks her mission to end texturism in the beauty industry, how she secures grants and funding for her brand, and her insights into building a trustworthy team. For aspiring entrepreneurs, she offers actionable advice on starting a product-based business, understanding market demand, and preparing for challenges in entrepreneurship.

This episode is filled with wisdom, faith, and encouragement, making it a must-listen for anyone navigating the intersection of personal growth and business success.

Key Takeaways:

• Ameka Coleman is the founder of Strands of Faith, a clean beauty brand for textured hair.
• Personal growth and faith are critical for success.
• Support systems, like Ameka’s husband, are invaluable for entrepreneurial balance.
• Creating demand-driven products is essential for product-based businesses.
• Delegation and overcoming personal traumas are key to scaling.
• Grants and funding require strategic alignment with business goals.
• Entrepreneurship influences family dynamics, often modeling resilience for children.

In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Jereshia Hawk discusses her year-long sabbatical from her business and the financial preparedness required to take such a break. She shares her journey of building her business and prioritizing profit, living below her means, and budgeting for leisurely spending. Jereshia emphasizes the importance of knowing your owner's intent and aligning your financial goals with your desired lifestyle. She also highlights the significance of self-control and letting go of ego when it comes to personal finances. Overall, the conversation provides valuable insights into achieving financial stability and creating a sustainable business. In this conversation, Jereshia and Iyanna discuss the importance of financial stability and how it relates to taking a sabbatical. Jereshia shares her personal journey of overcoming financial struggles and creating a healthier attachment style to money. She emphasizes the need to live below your means and prioritize profit in your business. Jereshia also explains how she prepared her business for her sabbatical by standardizing her offers and operations. She provides practical advice for testing your business's ability to function without you and creating processes to reduce owner dependency.

Takeaways

• Prioritize profit in your business and live below your means to achieve financial stability.
• Create a budget and allocate a percentage of your profit for leisurely spending.
• Know your owner's intent and align your financial goals with your desired lifestyle.
• Practice self-control and let go of ego when it comes to personal finances.
• Automate your money management using apps like Copilot or Quick and Simplify. Live below your means and prioritize profit in your business.
• Test your business's ability to function without you by taking short breaks and documenting the problems and decisions that arise.
• Create processes and standardize your offers and operations to reduce owner dependency.
• Assign every dollar a purpose to ensure financial stability and avoid arbitrary spending.
• Strive for a harmonious balance between your personal life and your business, where your business supports the fullness of your life.

Learn more about Jereshia:

• Jereshia Said Podcast - Full episode about sabbatical
• Follow Jereshia on IG!
• Check out Jereshia's Website

In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Danielle Desir Corbett shares her journey as a creative entrepreneur navigating maternity leave. She discusses her vision for a four-month leave, the financial preparations she undertook, and the importance of intention setting. Danielle emphasizes the need for a supportive partner and effective systems in place to manage her business during her absence. She also reflects on the transition back to work, the evolution of her business model, and the significance of building passive income streams. Finally, she offers valuable advice for future parents planning their own maternity or paternity leave.

Takeaways

• The importance of having a clear vision for maternity leave.
• Financial planning is crucial for entrepreneurs taking leave.
• Intention setting can guide your decisions during pregnancy.
• Building a supportive network is essential for new parents.
• Passive income streams can provide financial stability.
• Communication with clients is key when preparing for leave.
• Documenting systems can help manage business operations.
• It's important to prioritize self-care during pregnancy.
• Planning for unexpected complications is vital.
• Enjoying the precious moments of parenthood is paramount.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• 6 Maternity Leave Plan Mistakes to avoid as an Entrepreneur

• How to Plan Maternity Leave When Self-Employed

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Danielle's Journey

02:40 Vision for Maternity Leave

05:48 Financial Preparation for Leave

08:28 Navigating Pregnancy Challenges

11:45 Systems and Support During Leave

14:30 Returning to Work After Leave

17:22 Evolving Business Model

20:08 Building Passive Income Streams

23:08 Advice for Future Parents

26:01 Defining Harmonious Wealth 

In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, Iyanna Vaughn interviews XayLi Barclay, a camera confidence coach and creator of Brave on Video, to explore how menstrual health impacts productivity and work performance. XayLi opens up about her personal experiences with painful periods and PMDD, and how she’s learned to harness the power of her menstrual cycle to optimize her business operations.

She breaks down the different phases of the cycle, offering practical advice on how to align business activities, eating habits, and movement to maximize energy and focus. XayLi also introduces a Notion template for cycle syncing to help track and plan effectively. Additionally, she shares how involving your partner in understanding and supporting your cycle can create a more harmonious relationship, emphasizing the importance of clear communication, intentionality, and grace.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how understanding and working with your menstrual cycle can boost productivity and business success.
• Discover how to plan your work activities based on the energy shifts in each phase of the cycle.
• Explore tips on nutrition and exercise to manage PMS and PMDD symptoms and improve well-being.
• Get insights into using a Notion template for tracking your cycle and optimizing your business workflow.
• Understand the benefits of involving your partner in the process to create a more supportive and harmonious relationship.
• Find out how to plan and organize your marketing efforts in sync with your cycle for greater consistency and results.
• Join us as XayLi shares her wisdom on embracing the rhythms of your body to thrive in both business and life.

In this episode of Harmonious Wealth, host Iyanna Vaughn sits down with Berrion Berry, a menstrual health educator and women’s health coach, to explore the deep connection between hormonal harmony and business success. Berrion breaks down the four phases of the menstrual cycle and offers practical tips on how to sync your activities, energy, and productivity with each phase to optimize both health and profit.

Berrion shares her personal journey from political science to women’s health advocacy, touching on how managing conditions like endometriosis, fibroids, and PCOS while running a business can be transformative. She dives into the role of key nutrients like zinc for heavy bleeding and vitamin D for hormone regulation, alongside her approach to hydration, remineralization, and nutrition optimization based on the cycle.

Additionally, Berrion emphasizes the importance of nervous system regulation, self-care, and releasing emotional trauma stored in the womb for overall well-being. She encourages women to prioritize their health, embrace the natural rhythm of their menstrual cycle, and use it as a powerful tool for rest, reset, and personal growth. This episode offers a holistic approach to achieving harmonious health and wealth, where physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being intersect.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Semaine: PMS & Period Support Supplement - Discount Code: BERRI15
• Recommended Vitamin D Supplements
• A Heavy Bleeders Guide to a Lighter Flo
• Berri’s Hormonal Health Community: Period Skool
• Berri’s Podcast: In a Phase

While there are things that we need to invest in to grow and sustain our businesses, overspending in your business is making it harder for you to scale. 

Because at the heart of overspending is a lack of skill around how to make the right financial investments at the right time, which leads to joining the wrong offers and not getting the return on your time and money. 

Investing in another coach because you “should have a coach” or because all of your biz besties have doesn’t mean it’s the right investment for you right now. 

In today’s episode of Harmonious Wealth, I’m guiding you through the 3-step framework for how to make financial-based decisions so you can stop overinvesting, confidently invest in the right offers at the right time, and actually see a return on your investment every time.  

03:12 — The exact questions to ask yourself to quickly determine if the offer is right for you right now 

09:18 — 3-step framework to use to evaluate an investment and understand the short- and long-term affects on your business

18:37 — How to use cashflow planning to understand your financial outlook

📚MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Cashflow Planner: lovelyfinancials.com/planner

• Profit First: https://amzn.to/3UQRFjE

🎉Enter the Harmonious Wealth Hour Giveaway! 

3 people will win a 1:1 Harmonious Wealth Hour call where we will identify your biggest financial goal for the next 12 months and create a plan for you to achieve it! 

1. Subscribe to Harmonious Wealth on YouTube and your favorite podcast app 
2. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
3. Take a screenshot of the review and submit in the Review Form here so we can email you if you win 

You have until Thursday, April 25th to enter and we'll select three winners,  who will be notified by email!

💸Register for the Free Webinar: Your Revenue Goals Don't Matter If You Don't Have the Lifestyle and Legacy Plan to Show for It

lovelyfinancials.com/openhouse

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Email Series - Heal your relationship with money and grow wealth through your business. Each week you'll receive tips on how to face your money, improve your profit, manage the money you have and, more importnately, harness the wealth within through your faith. 

Bookkeeping - Receive bookkeeping with NO tax surprises

Profit Planning Intensive - Increase your profit by 25%

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• YouTube
• Instagram
• Email
• Website

Another coach or service provider launched yet another offer that you know will help you in your business.

Impulsively, you purchase the offer only to immediately feel overwhelmed because you're on yet another payment plan. This time you're unable to pay yourself from your business.

You didn't realize how this investment would impact your cash and it shows up in your energy, leaving you unable to even implement what you're learning.

 You've been investing in yourself consistently because you believe you’re “worthy” of it, but really you're justifying spending.

In this episode, you’ll understand why you’re spending emotionally in your business — both from a sales psychology perspective and from a money mindset perspective. Plus you’ll hear 3 ways you can stop spending emotionally and know what and when to invest in something. 

📚MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love

🎉Enter the Harmonious Wealth Hour Giveaway! 

3 people will win a 1:1 Harmonious Wealth Hour call where we will identify your biggest financial goal for the next 12 months and create a plan for you to achieve it! 

1. Subscribe to Harmonious Wealth on YouTube and your favorite podcast app 
2. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
3. Take a screenshot of the review and submit in the Review Form here so we can email you if you win 

You have until Thursday, April 25th to enter and we'll select three winners,  who will be notified by email!

💸Register for the Free Webinar: Your Revenue Goals Don't Matter If You Don't Have the Lifestyle and Legacy Plan to Show for It

lovelyfinancials.com/openhouse

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Email Series - Heal your relationship with money and grow wealth through your business. Each week you'll receive tips on how to face your money, improve your profit, manage the money you have and, more importnately, harness the wealth within through your faith. 

Bookkeeping - Receive bookkeeping with NO tax surprises

Profit Planning Intensive - Increase your profit by 25%

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• YouTube
• Instagram
• Email
• Website

You’re likely idolizing sales in your business because the online business industry idolizes sales. 

When you idolize sales, it takes the place of your love for God and your higher purpose. That’s what leads to you becoming overly consumed with your business success and you unintentionally attach your personal value to what you achieve. 

Then when you have a month, quarter, or launch that didn’t go as planned, it derails your self-worth.

In this episode, Iyanna combines financial strategy with faith-based money mindset to help you stop idolizing sales and align your business with your higher self, detaching your sales from who you are. 

05:55 — Shift from focusing on what's happening in the business to what legacy your business makes possible 

07:40 — How you end up worshiping the worry when you hyperfocus on sales

11:37 — Normalize and prepare for inconsistency in your revenue and it won't be a source of stress

“Whoever loves money never has enough. Whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This, too, is meaningless. As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?”

— Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

✝️ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

• Matthew 6:25-26

• Matthew 6:34

🎉Enter the Harmonious Wealth Hour Giveaway! 

3 people will win a 1:1 Harmonious Wealth Hour call where we will identify your biggest financial goal for the next 12 months and create a plan for you to achieve it! 

1. Subscribe to Harmonious Wealth on YouTube and your favorite podcast app 
2. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
3. Take a screenshot of the review and submit in the Review Form here so we can email you if you win 

You have until Thursday, April 25th to enter and we'll select three winners,  who will be notified by email!

💸Register for the Free Webinar: Your Revenue Goals Don't Matter If You Don't Have the Lifestyle and Legacy Plan to Show for It

lovelyfinancials.com/openhouse

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Email Series - Heal your relationship with money and grow wealth through your business. Each week you'll receive tips on how to face your money, improve your profit, manage the money you have and, more importnately, harness the wealth within through your faith. 

Bookkeeping - Receive bookkeeping with NO tax surprises

Profit Planning Intensive - Increase your profit by 25%

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Connect with Iyanna:

• YouTube
• Instagram
• Email
• Website