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:

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Music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian.

Resources:

Support (or if you're a tenant organizer get support from) HouseUs

Mobius Organizing and Consulting (Kevin's Website)

NPQ Article: From Policy to Power: Centering People by Supporting Tenant Unions

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 Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC)

5) Moonsoon Fund

I’m grateful that a few of these governing members came on the show to share more about the Fund and their work. You’ll get to hear from:

Camryn Smith, Executive Director at Communities in Partnership and involved with Equitable Food-Oriented Development (EFOD)

Trisha Chakrabarti, Managing Director at Equitable Food-Oriented Development (EFOD)

Lauren Ressler, Reinvest in Our Power Project Coordinator at Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)

Lupe Romero, Reinvest in Our Power Co-Director at Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)

Everything shared is intended to be an example only, it is not an investment recommendation and should not be interpreted as investment advice.

About The Show:

Subscribe to the Reimagine Wealth Substack (episode transcriptions can be accessed through the episode page on the Reimagine Wealth Substack).

Check out the Reimagine Wealth website for more information about my work.

Music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian.

Resources:

Just Transition Integrated Capital Fund

The JTIC Fund Tool Lending Library

Just Transition Investing Academy and Funder Organizing Institute

Equitable Food-Oriented Development (EFOD)

The EFOD Fund Playbook

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)

Right to the City (RTTC)

East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC)

In the Media:

Impact Alpha: Financing a just transition means rewriting the rules: Here’s the toolkit

Proximate Investing: Liberating Wealth with Justice Funders

Nonprofit Quarterly: How to Flip the Script

Nonprofit Quarterly: Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

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 Collective.

I welcome additional input and clarification from folks involved in creating or stewarding this framework.

About The Show:

Subscribe to the Reimagine Wealth Substack (episode transcriptions can be accessed through the episode page on the Reimagine Wealth Substack).

Check out the Reimagine Wealth website for more information about my work.

Music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian.

Resources:

Movement Generation & Climate Justice Alliance’s Just Transition Framework // la versión española

Movement Generation’s Just Transition zine: From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition // la versión española

Movement Generation

Climate Justice Alliance

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)

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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 the loop!

I look forward to sharing more stories, examples, and models with you all in the next season. Sending you all a lot of care and resilience till then.

music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks - you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian

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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, how she orients to enoughness, and how keeping everyone in our heart can be a catalyst for transformation.

music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian

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resources and links lifted up in this episode:

All the Colors website

LinkedIn

Instagram

Highly Sensitive Money YouTube

Highly Sensitive Money Podcast

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 and co-editor of a multimedia project called Organize the Rich that includes a Substack publication, a podcast, and most recently the book Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People: An Organize the Rich Anthology (preorder here)!

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music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian

resources and links lifted up in this episode:

Organize the Rich substack, podcast, and book

Organize the Rich resources

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 privilege

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music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian

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resources and links lifted up in this episode:

Natalie’s website

wondering if you might be in the top 10%? check out Resource Generation’s Got Class Privilege Quiz?

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, and extensive experience in grantmaking.” it is a way of accompanying social movements beyond making a financial contribution and,  “takes the critical view that our collective liberation is bound up with one another, and that neither donors nor social movements alone can overcome  the contradictions and the challenges of our current moment of acute overlapping crises.”

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music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian

resources and links lifted up in this episode:

Solidarity Philanthropy (stay tuned, Grassroots International will be sharing more resources about Solidarity Philanthropy soon!)

Grassroots International website

get involved and support their incredible work!

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.

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music produced by my brother, Joshua Middlebrooks, you can find him on Soundcloud at Intothegerogian

resources and links lifted up in this episode:

Saltbox Financial

take action: contact Congress to speak up against the Big Beautiful (Billionaire) Bill