Welcome back to the Smart & Soulful Money® Podcast: the Aligned Inheritor Series! Today we're focusing on exploring the two sides of money, the personal and the technical.

Tune in to hear about:

- Deep dive into the personal side of money and how it relates to your emotions, hopes & dreams, self-esteem, well-being and values

- Noticing, naming and identifying how to connect the two sides of money and bring in support

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Learn more about Susan Bradley and "Sudden Money"

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Listen to Episode 19: The Aligned Inheritor - Moving Away From & Moving Toward - An Inspired Process

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Welcome back to the Smart & Soulful Money® Podcast: the Aligned Inheritor Series! Today we're focusing on exploring and naming what you want to move away from and what you want to move toward in your money life. I've provided a helpful worksheet you can download to guide you in this process.

Tune in to hear about:

- Prompts and examples to help you name three things you want to move away from and three things you want to move toward

- A personal story from Carrie about her experience with this process

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Download the "Moving Away from & Moving Toward" Worksheet

Learn more about Bari Tessler (books & offerings)

Learn more about working with Carrie

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Listen to Episode 18: The Aligned Inheritor - Navigating Relationships with Communication

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Welcome back to the Smart & Soulful Money® Podcast: the Aligned Inheritor Series! Today we're focusing on relationships, communication, and the tools you can use to support yourself in confidently stepping into your money life as an inheritor. Without solid communication, the relationships in our lives can get a bit sticky. When an inheritance is involved, an additional charge makes it all the more crucial to build the skills we need to have those necessary conversations.

Tune in to hear about:

- The 2 tools Carrie recommends to navigate communication and relationships.

- Limiting self-judgment in the face of patronization

- The key relationships that an inheritor should prioritize

- Leaving a legacy

- The importance of asking questions

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Listen to Episode 17: The Aligned Inheritor - Finding Your Voice on Your Financial Journey

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Welcome to a brand new season of the Smart & Soulful Money® Podcast! We're doing things a little differently this time around and diving deep into the real-life experiences of what it can be like for an inheritor as they navigate their financial transitions. Major life shifts within an ever-changing world can result in some powerful inner shifts, as well. In this episode, Carrie is sharing an important experience that every Aligned Inheritor seems to go through and what suggestions she has for someone going through this phase of the experience.

HIGHLIGHTS

• What is a Sudden Money Experience?
• How GoFundMe campaigns represent the newer sudden money, and the importance of building a trusted team to handle the windfall experience
• Susan talks about navigating the opportunity of sudden money as well as the challenges, particularly when someone receives a settlement from a traumatic event
• What are the phases of Transition?
• Navigating COVID through the lens of transition
• How does a CeFT® support a client to Shape Change?
• Susan talks about challenging the SYSTEMS that can be attached to an inheritance, particularly for women, and the importance of asking questions and doing the work of moving forward to create change

• Read Susan's book - "Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall" - https://suddenmoney.com/buy-the-book-sudden-money-managing-a-financial-windfall/
• Watch Susan's TEDx Wilmington Women talk, "Change launches you into the next great chapter of your life, whether you like it or not" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcf7zbW1C7Y
• Learn more about Christina Baldwin - https://peerspirit.com/

Connect with Susan & Sudden Money® Institute:

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HIGHLIGHTS

• What does it mean to be a Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur or to have a Soul-Sourced Business? How is it different from the typical way of having a business?
• What is the benefit of living life in a spirit of creativity vs. reactivity?
• Christine shares stories about what has helped her personally and to teach others about how we reconnect to the power of our presence.
• What is the relationship between women, money and power?
• How working with coaches has taught Christine that "we lose our power because we believe our thoughts and our emotions"
• What does the "I'm IN" stand for at Uplevel You™?
• Christine talks about coming back to center - rooting into our authenticity and continuing to ask "What do I really want?" as we navigate transitions in our lives and in business.
• "Imperfect Action" & "Embrace the Funk" - breaking out of old patterns and moving forward through mistakes, shame and self-doubt
• Christine talks about her favorite coaching tools - the Enneagram and the Kolbe A™ Index

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Read Christine's book - "The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur: An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sensitive, and Wildly Ambitious" - https://soulsourcedbook.net/soul-sourced-book/
• Listen to Christine's podcast, "The Soul-Sourced Business" - https://christinekane.com/podcast/
• Learn more about Christine's "Uplevel Your Life Program" - https://uplevelyourlife.com/
• Read "Profit First," by Mike Michalowicz - https://mikemichalowicz.com/profit-first/
• Learn more about the Enneagram - https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/
• Learn more about the Kolbe A™ Index - https://www.kolbe.com/

Connect with Christine: WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN

HIGHLIGHTS

• Esther describes her work with Cienega Capital.
• Why is Regenerative Agriculture Cienega Capital's chosen focus?
• What does it mean to be Regenerative?
• Esther talks about change: What changes are needed? How is change happening?
• How working with Sallie Calhoun has opened Esther's eyes to the benefits of paying attention to soil
• What is the #NoRegrets Initiative?
• Capitalism: Reformation or Revolution?
• "Vulture Capitalism" vs. "Emergent Changemakers" - the shift from exploitive and extractive to investment in positive change
• Esther talks about two businesses Cienega Capital is currently investing in and how it parallels moving from monoculture to a diverse ecosystem.
• How COVID has exposed lack of resilience in our food system, and how (surprisingly) inefficiency can help
• Exploring the idea of "What is enough?"
• How are women playing a key role in innovation at the forefront of both Regenerative Agriculture and Investing?
• "The Third Way" - how rejecting a dichotomy of choice framework paves the way toward creative solutions

• Visit the Cienega Capital website: https://www.cienegacapital.com/
• Learn more about the #NoRegrets Initiative: https://www.noregretsinitiative.com/
• Learn more about Paicines Ranch: https://paicinesranch.com/index.php
• Read about Sallie Calhoun and Esther's work, highlighted in Joel Solomon's book, "The Clean Money Revolution:" https://joelsolomon.org/book/
• Read "Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds," by Adrienne Maree Brown: https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

Connect with Esther & Cienega Capital: FACEBOOK | LINKEDIN

HIGHLIGHTS

• Stacy describes her work with individuals, teams and organizations.
• Navigating volatile, uncertain, chaotic and uncertain circumstances - "You are better prepared than you realize."
• Stacy talks about activism and how "anybody who's moving in the direction of something they want to see in the future has to disrupt whatever's happening in the moment" and how it relates to innovation and leadership.
• How is it possible to live into values that don't just make your own world better, but make a much broader set of people's better?
• Localized vs collective focus: How Rugged Individualism can lead us to make choices that disadvantage and create unintended disproportionate impact downstream and how raising awareness around the collective can help to position others for more possibility.
• The importance of asking the question, "What aren't we talking about?" to help get to the root of problems.
• "I know I've gone too far if I get kicked out of a room" - Stacy's challenge to manage her fears around provoking new ideas.
• Women, Power and Leadership: What are Stacy's three Dimensions of Power and how can they help women recognize the patterns and narratives that impact them in order to embody the idea of full spectrum power?
• Stacy talks about making money choices that align with her values.

• Visit the Knowetry Consulting website: http://www.knowetryconsulting.com/
• Visit the Dignitas Agency website: https://dignitasagency.com/

Connect with Stacy: LINKEDIN

HIGHLIGHTS

• Why does it matter where we bank?
• What are 'big banks' and what's wrong with them?
• Sarah describes how 'better banking options' make sure that our money, while it's in the bank, is doing as much good as possible.
• What is the issue with transparency in the banking industry? What can we do about it?
• What is the difference between a bank and a credit union?
• What is the mission of Better Banking Options?
• Sara talks about the four criteria Better Banking Options uses to evaluate banks and credit unions.
• Better Banking Options offers a helpful search engine tool for finding a bank whose practices align with your values. Who should use it? What does it do?
• What's the difference between choosing a bank with a local or regional presence versus some of the online bank options that are marketing themselves as more socially and environmentally focused?
• Sara talks about how she has brought her commitment to social justice and her talent and passion for writing into her work and why it's important to her.
• What is the next set of goals for the Better Banking Options project?

• Visit the Better Banking Options website, https://www.betterbankingoptions.com/
• Learn more about the Hope Federal Credit Union: https://www.betterbankingoptions.com/post/hope-credit-union
• Utilize the Better Banking Options search engine: https://map.betterbankingoptions.com/
• Since the recording of this episode, Better Banking Options has developed resources for supporting racial economic equality with your deposits: https://www.betterbankingoptions.com/post/black-banks-list | https://map.betterbankingoptions.com/taglist?tags=bankblack
• Get step-by-step instructions for how to move your money to a bank or credit union that aligns with your values: https://www.betterbankingoptions.com/post/How-to-Move-Your-Money

Connect with Sara and Better Banking Options: FACEBOOK | TWITTER

HIGHLIGHTS

• What is Clean Money? What are the characteristics of clean money?
• Joel describes the difference between an extractive and generative economy.
• Joel has been on a lifelong journey of working with systems change and going within for his own personal development work - why has this been important for him to do both?
• As an inheritor, Joel experienced a special opportunity to work alongside Carol Newell to help support her in creating positive impact. Joel describes how he was able to get clear on his values and channelled it into action in ways that reflected his values.
• Joel talks about his visioning experience at Hollyhock with Carol. Has there been an underlying core that has stayed constant?
• What can investors - whether they have $500K, $5M, $50M or more - learn from Joel's experience working with Carol on how to create impact?
• What does 'finding your enough' mean for Joel and how has he helped others find their enough as a part of creating impact in the world with their assets?
• As a pioneer, working alongside other pioneers in the space of impact investing, socially responsible investing, social enterprise, local investing, and impact work in philanthropy, how have community and relationship been important parts of creating change?
• Joel talks about Renewal Funds, a mission venture capital firm he founded, and how it is taking a different approach to catalyzing positive social and environmental change.
• Why is it important to avoid the idea of perfection in order to create change?
• "Staying true to your values is powerful, particularly in the face of skepticism about what you know in your bones to be correct."
• Joel talks about how he has helped strategically invest in Stonyfield Farms, Alter-Eco, Seventh Generation, how capital works behind the scenes of their favorite companies and how important it is.

• Visit Joel's website, https://www.joelsolomon.org/
• Learn more about Joel's book, "The Clean Money Revolution:" https://www.joelsolomon.org/the-book
• Learn more about the work of Renewal Funds: http://www.renewalfunds.com/
• Learn more about Joel's work with Vision Vancouver, Tides Canada, and Hollyhock: https://www.joelsolomon.org/legacy
• Contact Joel: https://www.joelsolomon.org/contact
• Contact Renewal Funds: http://www.renewalfunds.com/contact/

Connect with Joel: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN | INSTAGRAM