🙌  On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Shehara Wooten, author of In The Meantime: Own Your Financial Narrative and founder of Your Story Financial Academy about changing the way we think about money and our financial story.

🧐 In this episode we discussed:

🔹 Why you should own your financial narrative.

🔹 Recognizing that money is a tool.

🔹 Why the Black community’s ability to achieve wealth has been excluded.

🔹 The importance of knowing what is your why.

🔹 Why giving is a great practice. 

🔹 Look at the possibilities of life.

 🎥 Watch this episode below: 

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🎧 Listen to the podcast below or on your favorite podcast app.

Connect with Shehara Wooten, CFP: 

Website: https://www.yourstoryfinancial.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shehara/

 Book:

 In the Meantime: Own Your Financial Narrative (Amazon)

Mentioned on the podcast:

Tulsa Race Massacre Books:

•  The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History by Karlos K Hill (Amazon) 
•  The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E Jones Parrish (Amazon) 

Also:

•  The Art of the Sabbatical: A Money and Mindset Guide for Your Next Work Break by Cady North (Amazon) 
•  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s newsletter website (here)
•  Go Up For Glory by Bill Russell (Amazon)   

Bio:

Shehara L. Wooten, CFP® is a professional speaker and author of “In the Meantime: Own Your Financial Narrative”. Shehara is also the founder of Your Story Financial Academy, she is committed to helping mid-career successful, ambitious Black and BIPOC STEM Professionals who are feeling ashamed, stuck, and experiencing constant panic about their personal finances developing an action plan that inspires them so that they feel safe, secure, confident, motivated, financially independent and has peace of mind which helps them know that they don’t have to rely on anyone for their financial future and security.