BE FINANCIALLY WELL
Up your financial wellness knowledge through a lens that aligns with your identity, values, and goals. Walk away with a toolkit you can use in your everyday life, from strategies to up your rates to advice on salary negotiation, investing, and more.
This 12-week virtual class is on 1 weeknight per week. The curriculum below was for a previous cohort, and will be similar for future cohorts. Apply now.
Student intros
Class agreements
Group discussion on untangling the mental and emotional burdens of money, alongside capitalism, consumerism, and inequality
Answer assigned questions about your personal and professional relationship with money
Sareeta Lopez: Justice-Oriented Financial Coach
Creation of your own money goals
Discussion of your life goals and values and the role of money within them
Make a list of all the reasons why you will have money
Make a list of some beautiful things that have happened in this world thanks to money
Make a list of how you being rich will benefit others
Make a list of all the awesome things and experiences money will add to your life
List the five main things you remember your parents telling you about money
Alejandra Rojas: Founder of Money Mindset Hub
You’ll do a personal finance check-in to understand your current earnings, savings, and debt
Discussion on making weekly financial check-ins
Exploration of tools for tracking financial wellness
Set a weekly date and time to do your weekly financial check-in
Eugenié George: Author of Our Money Stories and Founder of Money and Flow
You’ll untangle the stickiness of the dreaded b-word: budgets
We’ll discuss how to create a realistic and sustainable budget, and reframe our understanding of savings
Exploration of easy and accessible savings tools
Establish your money savings game plan
Carmen A. Perez: Founder & CEO, Much
Unpacking our beliefs about earning money
Personal reflection on your earning power and processes for making money
Personal reflection on if your current income allows for healthy financial well-being, and if not, what amount of money you need to earn to feel like you earn enough
Deep-dive into experiments you can conduct to explore how you can earn an amount of money that is enough
Take a look at the current ways in your life you’re earning money and answer the provided questions
Using strategies learned from class, explore 1-3 new ways you can explore earning more money
Mykail James: Founder of The Bougie Budgeter, personal finance educator, content creator
We’ll do a deep-dive into the meaning of financial “success,” and reimagine what success and our relationship to it can look like
Exploration of money as a method for giving and receiving gratitude
TBD
Dez Davis: Consultant & Advisor, The Rich Witch
We’ll jump into strategies you can take for upping freelance rates
We’ll explore your current rates, make goals for where you want to take them, and set strategies for getting there
Partnered practice on communicating your rates with potential clients
Create a rate/compensation sheet you can use to send to potential clients
Tonya Rapley: Founder of My Fab Finance
We’ll dive into strategies you can take for upping your salary
We’ll explore your current salary, make goals for where you want to take it, and set strategies for getting there
Establish an action plan & future goal for your salary
Spend time finding 3-5 job descriptions that includes skills you currently have and skills you can easily upskill into
Cinneah El-Amin: Founder of Flynanced
We’ll jump into negotiation 101, and how to negotiate for both higher rates and salary
Exploration of negotiation scripts
1:1 negotiation practice with other students
Practice negotiating for a higher rate/salary with one to two people
Niani Tolbert: Founder and CEO of #HIREBLACK
We will explore tools for eliminating debt
We’ll talk about what it means to have a money mindset, and how we can lean into it to help us eliminate debt
Exploration of budget strategies for debt management
Create a debt elimination worksheet
Brielle Bryant-Erales: Founder of Your Healthy Wallet
Explore financial tools that can support our financial wellness, including professionals, investment tools, savings tools, and more
Discussion on why investing matters, and why you don’t need to be an expert to invest
Discussion of strategies for getting started in investing
Research at least one tool you can use to explore investing, savings, and more to share with the class
Leo Aquino: Finance Writer, Storyteller, Poet, @queerandtranswealth
Graduation activity!
None!
To be announced
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Monday to Friday :
10 am to 9 pm
Saturday :
10 am to 5 pm
Sunday :
12 pm to 5 pm
