Podcast Reviews
- Julie Penwell, Financial Advisor Highly Sensitive Money gives Highly Sensitive People (HSP) who are passionate about social justice resources to align their money with their values.
Join me, Diana Gisel Yañez, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, as I coach HSPs, interview experts, and share my own journey discovering the gifts of sensitivity and how it relates to money. New episodes are added periodically.
Highly Sensitive Money gives Highly Sensitive People (HSP) who are passionate about social justice resources to align their money with their values.
Join me, Diana Gisel Yañez, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, as I coach HSPs, interview experts, and share my own journey discovering the gifts of sensitivity and how it relates to money. New episodes are added periodically.

While this podcast can serve everyone, it's especially useful for:
- HSPs who want to add more depth and nuance to their money relationship.
- People who value social justice and understand that all of our well-being is interconnected.
- Money experts who want to bring more social justice to their work.
In the early 90s Dr. Elaine N Aron Ph.D. published research coining the term Highly Sensitive Person to describe the 15-20% of humans born with a trait that programs their nervous systems for heightened sensitivities to internal and external stimuli causing them to be deeply affected by sensations and feelings.
HSPs have stronger reactivity to pain, hunger, smell, light violence, and tension, but they also tend to be more creative and aware of subtleties in their environment. You may also see the trait called Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS). To learn more about Dr. Elaine N. Aron's work check out HSPerson.com

I define social justice simply: all of our well-being is interconnected.
A core value of my work as a financial planner and money coach is interdependence, and this podcast brings this focus to money. When my community is doing well I am supported to thrive, and in turn I can help my community.
As aboriginal activist and visual artist Lilla Watson says, “If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
- Julie Penwell, Financial Advisor 
For free money coaching:
Do you consider yourself to be more sensitive than most?
Do the complexities of money sometimes leave you overwhelmed?
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Please email me at diana@allthecolors.net to be part of the next season! Thank you for your support.

Wednesday Jun 10, 2026
Wednesday Jun 10, 2026
Beyond the Blank Slate: Honoring Your Needs as a Highly Sensitive Therapist with Andie Whitaker
Today I chat with Andie Whitaker, a therapist and founder of Spiral Tending, to talk about what it's like to navigate money as a highly sensitive person in a world where we are increasingly losing worker’s rights. Andie shares how they're creating spaces for therapists to explore money through art and creativity, build community instead of competition, and challenge the fragmentation that keeps helping professionals from advocating for themselves.
Meet Our Guest
Andie Whitaker is a therapist and coach who offers spaces for healers utilizing creativity, nourishment, compassionate business support, and somatics.
Episode Highlights
"We're not robots"—challenging the expectation that therapists should be blank slates
Recognizing financial needs after years of training to ignore them
The reality of not being able to hold 30 clients like other therapists
How therapist fragmentation prevents us from building workers' rights
Creating spaces for therapists to play, flow, and explore money through art
When stability allows you to access your intuition and sensitivity
How social justice education shaped Andie's worldview
Resources
WebsiteInstagram
Keywords
#TherapistBurnout #MoneyMindset #HelpingProfessions #CapitalismAndCare #WorkersRights #TraumaWork #SensitivityAsStrength #TherapistWellbeing #HighlySensitiveMoney
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday May 27, 2026
Wednesday May 27, 2026
If Anything's Possible, What Would You Love? Christine Farrugia on Career, Money, and Enoughness
Today we are joined by Christine Farrugia, an executive coach who spent 20 years climbing the corporate ladder before starting her own coaching practice. Christine opens up about growing up with financial instability and how that shaped her early relationship with money, leading her to prioritize safety above all else in her career choices. We explore how becoming an entrepreneur fundamentally shifted her relationship with money and conventional definitions of success. And we dive into her coaching work around helping clients define what "enough" really means for them, moving past society's endless pursuit of more.
Meet Our Guest
Christine Farrugia is a passionate leadership coach and esteemed executive. She has 20 years of real world experience leading teams of up to 300 people at major Canadian companies, including Wealthsimple, Loblaws, and KPMG. She has successfully pivoted her career in different industries, functional areas and starting a coaching business by tapping into the work that brings her energy and joy. She has an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and is a Certified Khan Method Coach.Leveraging peak performance coaching, Christine helps her clients gain clarity, build confidence and take action to build a career they love, while staying true to who they are. Christine believes that everyone deserves to feel fulfilled in their career. Through empathetic guidance, she helps people let go of the "shoulds" so they can tap into what they truly want in order to create a career and life that makes them excited to get out of bed every morning.
Episode Highlights
At 22, Christine wanted to be a life coach but thought it wasn't a "real job"
Growing up with financial instability shaped Christine's early money relationship
"Am I running toward something or away from something?"
When "how's your business going?" became a painful question about income and self-worth
"If anything's possible for me, what would I love?"
Most people already have more than enough from a material perspective
Social justice work starts with just getting involved
Equating being busy with feeling important
Resources
WebsiteLinkedInInstagramThe Gap and the Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan
Keywords
#ExecutiveCoaching #MoneyMindset #Entrepreneurship #Enoughness #FinancialSafety #HighlySensitiveMoney #SelfWorth #WorkLifeBalance
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday May 13, 2026
Wednesday May 13, 2026
Wednesday May 13, 2026
From Insurance Analyst to Advocate: Tony Steuer on Curiosity and Financial Literacy
Today’s guest, Tony Steuer shares about his transformation from numbers-focused insurance analyst to passionate financial literacy advocate. Tony shares how witnessing clients make seemingly "illogical" financial decisions led him to explore behavioral finance and the emotional drivers behind our money choices. We discuss how financial predators target vulnerable communities, particularly widows and people of color, and how Tony channeled his anger about these injustices into advocacy work that centers curiosity and empowerment.This conversation beautifully illustrates how sensitivity to suffering can become a catalyst for meaningful change in the financial services industry.
Meet Our Guest
Tony Steuer, CLU, LA, CPFFE is an internationally recognized Financial Preparedness Advocate, award-winning author, and host of Get Ready: Before Life Happens. Through his books, playbooks, and podcast, Tony is leading a global movement to help people navigate life's what-ifs and build their own Financial First Aid Kit—so they can protect what matters most with clarity, confidence, purpose, and integrity.Tony collaborates with advisors, educators, and changemakers worldwide to elevate financial fluency and change the way we think about money. His thought leadership has earned recognition from ThinkAdvisor's LUMINARIES, the Plutus Awards, and the California Department of Insurance Curriculum Board. A trusted media expert featured by The New York Times, CNBC, Fast Company, and ABC's Seven on Your Side, Tony continues to empower individuals and professionals to ask better questions—and be ready before life happens.
Highlights
Behavioral finance unlocks the concept of emotions and money stories that drive financial decisions
Money looks like math, but people's decisions don't follow the "right answer"
Life insurance is often sold by friends and family, adding complex dynamics to financial decisions
Tony's weekly newsletter highlights diverse voices doing important work that doesn't get enough attention
How financial predators trick people through community links
Tony’s realization that he’s highly sensitive during our time together
The strongest power you have is the power of curiosity about your money
Resources
WebsiteLinkedIn The Get Ready Money Podcast on YouTube and Apple PodcastsThe Tony Steuer Podcast with Phuong Luong: Creating a Just Economy with Financial Education
Keywords
#BehavioralFinance #FinancialLiteracy #FinancialJustice #MoneyPsychology #HighlySensitiveMoney #FinancialAdvocacy #InsuranceIndustry #FinancialEducation #CuriosityAndMoney #DiverseVoicesinFinance
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Apr 29, 2026
Wednesday Apr 29, 2026
Wednesday Apr 29, 2026
Insecurities as Gateways: Trusting Yourself Through Transition with Corinne Gardner
In this second conversation with Corinne Gardner, we pick up where we left off and go deeper into the relationship between intuition, identity, and money. Corinne shares how her decision to leave nursing — despite the fear that it would upend her sense of self and earning capacity — became one of the most honest acts of self-advocacy she'd ever taken. Together, we explore how insecurities can be gateways to human potential, what it means to "douse" our intuition, and how the path to embodied wealth begins with learning to hear — and trust — what our bodies already know.
Meet Our Guest
Corinne Gardner is a connector facilitator by heart, a women's health and relationship coach; aka a Shame Shedder. She founded Evulva Wellness to reimagine how women speak of themselves, as a pathway of believing in our worthiness without struggling as 'lone wolves' in our transitions and conscious pivots. She encourages women to practice self-appreciation. Bridging the fields of architecture, designing spaces for nurturing real connections and clarifying our wants and needs, Corinne encourages women to notice, honor and voice our natural embarrassment, shame, and distress to people who will really listen, trusted mentors, coaches and friends, we can shift and revel in being ourselves without apologizing for our ever-evolving uncertainty, needs and desires.
Corinne believes and has experienced herself, that when women feel safe, heard and well-supported in their flourishing as a judgement-free process then we can safely shift from focusing on 'figuring things out or constantly doing' to nurturing aligned Self pleasure practices to evolve. For Corinne's fuller BIO click here.
Highlights
Hydrating the parts of ourselves connected to money, intimacy, and boundaries
Conversations with a former nurse and Ayurvedic practitioner that helped Corinne hear her body
The irony of sacrificing her own mental health while caring for others
The privilege and courage it takes to pivot — and the cost of staying
Exploring what it means to doubt our gut knowing and what trusting it looks like
Corinne's reminder that there's no one-size path — each person's timing is their own.
Resources
WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn
Keywords
#EmbodiedWealth #HighlySensitiveMoney #WomensFinancialHealth #IntuitiveDecisions #MoneyAndIdentity #SelfAdvocacy #ConsciousPivot #SheddingShame #SensitiveAndSavvy #WomensWellbeing
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Apr 15, 2026
Wednesday Apr 15, 2026
Wednesday Apr 15, 2026
Learning to Ask: Financial Literacy as an Ongoing Practice with Corinne Gardner
In this episode, I sit down with Corinne Gardner, a women's health and relationship coach who helps women shed shame and practice self-appreciation. Corinne shares how her journey toward financial literacy paralleled her journey toward embodiment—both requiring her to ask uncomfortable questions and find mentors who would truly listen.
We talk about the women in her family who modeled both overgiving and resilience, how she discovered values-aligned investing through asking questions she wasn't sure had answers, and why receiving is a skill many of us have to consciously learn. This conversation is for anyone who's ever felt like a "lone wolf" in their growth and is ready to find support.
Meet Our Guest
Corinne Gardner is a connector facilitator by heart, a women's health and relationship coach; aka a Shame Shedder. She founded Evulva Wellness to reimagine how women speak of themselves, as a pathway of believing in our worthiness without struggling as 'lone wolves' in our transitions and conscious pivots. She encourages women to practice self-appreciation. Bridging the fields of architecture, designing spaces for nurturing real connections and clarifying our wants and needs, Corinne encourages women to notice, honor and voice our natural embarrassment, shame, and distress to people who will really listen, trusted mentors, coaches and friends, we can shift and revel in being ourselves without apologizing for our ever-evolving uncertainty, needs and desires.
Corinne believes and has experienced herself, that when women feel safe, heard and well-supported in their flourishing as a judgement-free process then we can safely shift from focusing on 'figuring things out or constantly doing' to nurturing aligned Self pleasure practices to evolve. For Corinne's fuller BIO click here.
Episode Highlights
Financial confidence and literacy as an ongoing practice, not a destination
The dissonance between seeing her nanny’s self-fulfillment while the women in her family struggled with financial secrecy
Witnessing chronic doing, overgiving, and self-abandonment in the women around her
Receiving as a skill learned through conversations with women outside her family
Discovering that values aligned investors exist
Corinne's reminder that everyone's path to financial empowerment unfolds in their own timing
Resources
WebsiteInstagramLinkedIn
Keywords
#FinancialLiteracy #ValuesAlignedInvesting #ShameWork #WomensEmpowerment #FinancialMentorship #Embodiment #SelfAppreciation #HighlySensitiveMoney #FinancialHealing
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
What Happens When You Invest in Your Own Backyard with Angela Barbash
Angela Barbash grew up watching her parents file for bankruptcy over and over, and as a young adult, she made a lot of the same money mistakes because no one had taught her differently. After spending years in traditional finance, she kept running into the same wall: clients asking how they could invest locally, and firms telling her she couldn't talk about it. So in 2013, she started Revalue, an investment firm that helps everyday people align their investments with their values. We talk about her start in financial services, what it takes to build a marketplace from scratch, and why she refuses to turn anyone away.
Meet Our Guest
Angela is a mom, anthropologist, entrepreneur, and an unabashed challenger of the status quo. She has dedicated over 20 years in service as an investment advisor in the Metro Detroit region, including founding Revalue as a values-driven investment firm in 2013. Angela has contributed countless hours to field building, public education, and infrastructure development to help build a more compassionate industry centered on solidarity economy principles. You will often find her educating on the topics of financial resiliency, community capital, and conscious business management. When she's not sleeping and breathing regenerative finance, she can be found playing with her husband and two kids, enjoying the fresh air of the outdoors, or playing D&D with her family.
Highlights
How clients asked Angela to help them invest locally instead of Wall Street—and why traditional finance had no answer
Why four different firms told Angela they loved her work but she couldn't talk about local investing or holistic wealth
Crying and leaving a regional meeting where advisors talked about golf while clients were losing everything
Building Revalue as an employee-owned cooperative where seven of ten team members are owners
The network of activists and allies who helped Angela survive the brutal first five years of building her business
Why community investing is more relational and human-centered than Wall Street—and why that's actually a good thing
Three strategies Revalue uses to help non-accredited investors access community investments
Breaking out of intergenerational poverty cycles
Angela's unwavering commitment: serving anyone who comes to Revalue, even with just a thousand-dollar Roth IRA
Resources
ReValueLinkedInNational Coalition for Community CapitalWorkforce Intelligence NetworkKingscrowd Honeycomb Credit Republic We Funder
Keywords
#CommunityInvesting #LocalEconomy #ValuesAlignedInvesting #FinancialAccessibility #RegenerativeFinance #EmployeeOwnership #SolidarityEconomy #IntergenerationalWealth #CommunityCapital #WealthBuilding
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Angela Barbash appears here as a guest, not a client of Natural Investments. No compensation was exchanged in connection with this episode. Angela and Diana are colleagues in the values-aligned investing space — that professional relationship is disclosed as a potential conflict of interest.
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Anne Symens-Bucher: Building Community Through Trust, Not Transactions
I’m thrilled to bring you a conversation with Anne Symens-Bucher, co-founder of Canticle Farm and former executive assistant to Joanna Macy. We explore her 15-year journey of fundraising for Canticle Farm, an intentional community in Oakland.
Anne shares how the realization "I can't do this alone" became the foundation for a completely different approach to money—one rooted in relationship, gift economy, and the courage to receive. We talk about unhooking the exchange between giving and receiving, the intimacy required to truly ask for support, and what it means to practice faith in abundance even when the path forward isn't clear.
Meet Our Guest
Anne Symens-Bucher was Joanna Macy's executive assistant for 20 years before Joanna's death in July of 2025. Prior to that Anne worked for 25 years for the Franciscan Friars of the St. Barbara Province, primarily as co-director of their Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Office. In the 1970s, she lived at the New York Catholic Worker with Dorothy Day, and subsequently founded the Oakland Catholic Worker. She co-founded the Nevada Desert Experience, organizing events at the Nevada Test Site and serving on the NDE Board for 3 decades.
Anne and her husband, Terry, are the founders of Canticle Farm in Oakland, an intentional community experimenting at the intersection of faith, social justice, and Earth-based nonviolent activism. Canticle Farm is rooted in Franciscan spirituality and the Work That Reconnects, a body of teachings of which Joanna Macy was the root teacher. Anne & Terry have been married for 39 years and are the parents of five children and grandparents of three.
Episode Highlights
The moment "I can't do this alone" changed everything about fundraising
"You are already further along than you realize"—trusting what's already happening
As a fundraiser, it's your job to ask, their job to say yes or no
Why the "no" makes it easier to trust the "yes"
Canticle Farm as a platform for the Great Turning
Gifts just move—they don't need to be forced forward
How to receive a sacred gift: pausing to honor the exchange
Making the leap of faith before the path appears
Resources
Canticle FarmsJoanna Macy
Keywords
#Fundraising #GiftEconomy #IntentionalCommunity #JoannaMacy #CanticleFarm #SocialJustice #Abundance #Relationship #AskingForHelp #ReceivingGifts
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Mar 04, 2026
Wednesday Mar 04, 2026
Wednesday Mar 04, 2026
The Paradox of Sensitivity: Thriving as a Caregiver Without Burning Out with Amy Pinnell
Amy Pinnell shares with us the unique intersection of high sensitivity, caregiving professions, and financial wellbeing. Amy shares her journey from burning out early in her social work career to creating a sustainable practice that serves highly sensitive helpers and healers. We explore why sensitive people are both naturally gifted at caregiving and more vulnerable to burnout, the role financial stability plays in preventing burnout, and how to release the martyrdom mentality that tells us service requires self-sacrifice. This is an essential conversation for anyone in a helping profession who's trying to honor both their calling and their own needs.
Meet Our Guest
Amy Pinnell is a Registered Social Worker, Clinical Therapist, and the founder of Sensitive Social Worker. She is on a mission to help tender-hearted, deep-feeling helpers and healers engage in meaningful, social-justice oriented work, without burning out. Through her private therapy practice (Brave Spirit Counselling), online courses and live workshops Amy has helped 100s of helpers and healers release martyrdom mentality and embrace their sensitivity so that they could continue showing up whole-heartedly for their communities and for themselves.
Amy is the creator of the Love Notes for Social Workers Card Deck, a pocket-sized support for busy Social Workers which has been purchased by Social Workers worldwide. Amy has a Masters of Social Work from the University of Victoria and has 10+ years of experience working as a Social Worker in the areas of mental health and addictions.
Episode Highlights
The childhood memory that revealed early money beliefs: "My parents would not be able to afford all those gifts"
Realizing the two options presented in childhood: spend as little as possible or use credit
The challenge of asking clients for money in private practice after years of free services
How learning about high sensitivity felt like "a missing puzzle piece"
Why 50% of therapy clients are highly sensitive, even though only 15-20% of the population is
The critical difference between burnout prevention and burnout recovery
Why reducing stimulation matters: highly sensitive people can't filter out noise, lights, smells, and energy the way others can
"The personal is political"—bringing social justice into personal finance decisions
Resources Referenced
Sensitive Social WorkerInstagramBrave Spirit CounsellingThe Highly Sensitive PersonSensitive Strengths Instagram
Keywords
#HighlySensitive #BurnoutPrevention #SocialWork #FinancialWellbeing #EmotionalBoundaries #SelfWorth #HelpingProfessions #SocialJustice #SustainableCaregiving #MartyrdomMentality
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
Wednesday Feb 18, 2026
The Nervous System's Role in Financial Decision-Making with Sarah Carr
Today I speak with Sarah Carr about the intersection of trauma, neurodiversity, and financial well-being. Sarah shares her journey from growing up in a high-demand high-control religious environment to becoming a financial therapist who helps clients—particularly women and neurodivergent individuals—reclaim their relationship with money.
We discuss how trauma responses show up in our financial decisions, why income became Sarah's security blanket after leaving an oppressive marriage, and how raising two children on the autism spectrum taught her about nervous system regulation and the beauty of different ways of thinking.
Meet Our Guest
Sarah is a Certified Financial Therapist®, Certified Financial Planner®, and wealth manager committed to helping people rewrite money stories, deconstruct old patterns, and cultivate embodied financial well-being without shame.
Raising and educating two neuro-diverse children, Sarah has learned more about the impacts of Autism and ADHD on her clients' financial lives and relationships. Sarah serves on two non-profit boards: Reclamation Collective, a national community advocacy organization providing resources and support for those harmed in religious and spiritual contexts, and Endless Mountains Pride, a local non-profit providing education, advocacy, and connection for the LGBTQ+ community.While Sarah works with clients across the country, she resides in upstate New York where her favorite place to recenter is along one of the many waterfall trails she loves to hike.
Episode Highlights
Growing up in high-demand, high-control religion shaped Sarah's early beliefs about women and money
The identity crisis of becoming a stay-at-home mom after having financial independence
How leaving an oppressive marriage revealed her money script that income equals security
Discovering financial therapy while navigating early motherhood
Processing personal trauma while learning about son's autism diagnosis
Working with women leaving high-control religious systems and neurodiverse clients
How trauma creates stuck emotions and disrupted agency
Permission slips and questioning deeply held beliefs about capability
We don't heal individually—we heal collectively
Resources
WebsiteLinkedIn InstagramFacebookReclaiming Financial Agency: An Interview with financial therapist Haylie Castillo The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge by Ted Klontz and Brad Klontz Truth and Repair by Judith Herman
Keywords
#FinancialTherapy #ReligiousTrauma #Neurodiversity #MoneyMindset #FinancialEmpowerment #TraumaHealing #NervousSystemRegulation #FinancialWellbeing #WomenAndMoney #HighlySensitive
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.

Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
From Avoiding Bank Statements to Financial Therapy Pioneer: Bari Tessler's Journey
Bari Tessler is a financial therapist and pioneer in merging emotional literacy with financial literacy. We talk about her 26-year journey creating the Art of Money methodology. Bari shares how she went from throwing away bank statements in graduate school to falling in love with bookkeeping and developing a somatic-based approach to financial therapy.
We explore her current year-long sabbatical, the importance of adapting business models to different life phases, the practice of money dates with candles and chocolate, and why checking in with our bodies is essential to our relationship with money. This conversation offers both practical tools and deep wisdom about honoring our rhythms, redefining success, and bringing our whole selves to our finances.
Episode Highlights
Bari's identity as a highly sensitive person since childhood
How Bari has adapted her business model five different times over 24 years
The power of group work for unshaming money stories
The courage required to pivot when business models stop working
How Bari's father shaped her early relationship with work and money
The ritual of money dates: candles, chocolate, and celebrating small steps
Why 85-95% of money decisions are based on emotions
Money as a doorway to understanding relationships, intimacy, and worth
Meet our Guest
Bari Tessler, M.A. is a Financial Therapist and a pioneer in the Financial Therapy field. She has a Masters degree in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University, 1998. She then ran a bookkeeping business for therapists and artists. In 2001, she merged all her training and created a somatic-based Financial Therapy methodology that she has been teaching for 24 years. She is also the founder of The Art of Money, a financial therapy program and a Mentor Program for therapists, coaches and financial professionals.
Bari is the Author of two books: The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness and The Art of Money Workbook. Her work has been featured on Oprah.com, Inc.com, US News & World Report, Reuters Money, The Fiscal Times, USA Today, The Cut, Girlboss, Nerd Wallet, Real Simple, MindBodyGreen, and REDBOOK. She has also been featured on the cover of Experience Life and Mindful. Bari loves to read, dance and enjoy dark chocolate. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband, son, many cats + a big puppy. You can find her here.
Resources
Website InstagramCheers to 10 Years of Money Memoirs"The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness" by Bari Tessler"The Art of Money Workbook" by Bari Tessler
Rick Kahler on the importance of money emotions in financial planning
"Women Who Run with the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Keywords
#FinancialTherapy #ArtOfMoney #SomaticFinance #MoneyDates #HighlySensitiveMoney #Sabbatical #EmotionalLiteracy #FinancialLiteracy #BusinessPivots #MoneyAndEmotion
Click here to watch our interview on Youtube
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.
Diana Gisel Yañez is an Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments PBLLC. Natural Investments is an independent Registered Investment Advisor. All the Colors is not a registered entity and is not an affiliate or subsidiary of Natural Investments. See our Disclosures and Disclaimers and read our Form CRS.