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

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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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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

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)

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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:

Ancestors & Money website

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 taxes.

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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:

The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions

Chuck’s website and writing

Inequality.org

Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism by Brooke Harrington

Gene Sharp’s Pillars of Support (that uphold a system of support)

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

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 a tangible example of what a regional solidarity economy - quite literally rooted in place - can look like.

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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:

Food Forest Website and more about its lore is on the FAQ page

take a virtual tour of the forest!

come to a FBFF event!

FBFF’s fiscal sponsor: Fruitful Commons

Sociocracy

People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER)

PODER’s Struggles & Victories, including the Holly Power Plant Shutdown

TreeFolks

Austin’s History regarding the 1928 Master Plan

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.

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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 the episode page on the Reimagine Wealth Substack).

Reimagine Wealth website

resources and links lifted up in this episode:

Pérez’ website

their YNAB Coaching profile

their recently published YA novel: Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters

their free newsletter about money management

their article they referenced in the conversation, Why I Don’t Want to Hear about Your Vacation to Cuba (an about Cuba politics from the perspective of a progressive Cuban American)

YNAB overview (TikTok)

Ramit Sethi and his podcast Money for Couples with Ramit Sethi