14. Sharing and Owning Our Money Stories with Eugenié George MBA, CFEI, Author, Our Money Stories
This week In The Suite welcomes Eugenié George into the guest chair. As a financial wellness specialist and educator, Eugenié helps corporate and private clients lead their best financial lives. Eugenié is a determined and refreshingly transparent woman who shares how she was able to move past feelings of unworthiness to knowing she was more than enough through her journey with money.
In her new book, “Our Money Stories,” Eugenié intertwines data and storytelling to help people understand how their personal history, ancestry, and environment play a role in their money habits. Eugenié has used her own history with money – which includes a life-defining moment where she found herself evicted and jobless – to inform her work.
In our discussion, Eugenié points out some of the nuances Women of Color deal with when it comes to accessing wealth, along with how all women can start reflecting on their stories to help write a better financial future.
Join the conversation to hear about:
- The life-defining moments that led to Eugenié’s career in financial services (10:00)
- What Eugenié did to move out of debt and better understand money (14:07)
- Why therapy is a necessary component for marginalized groups to better understand money (16:55)
- Why Black women are doubly emotionally taxed as they deal with money (22:07)
- How mainstream wealth conversations ignore the Black Tax (26:00)
- What is Adverse Childhood Experience and how it affects women (34:32)
- The money story that had the greatest impact on Eugenié (38:20)
- What goes into Eugenié’s 6-week financial wellness plan (46:55)
- Eugenié’s perspective on how to support Women of Color on Black Women Equal Pay Day (54:45)
- Eugenié’s superhero personality trait (61:25)
Referenced Materials:
- Eugenié George – Website
- Eugenié George – LinkedIn
- Eugenié George – Money and Flow Podcast
- Eugenié George’s Amazing List of Resources
- “Navigating the World as a Person of Color” by Eugenié George posted on Kitces.com – Michael Kitces
- Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2020 – August 13, 2020
- The Memo Book by Minda Harts
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- The Trauma of Everyday Lif
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