Highly Sensitive Money for Highly Sensitive People who want to align their values with their money
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.
Episodes
In this episode, our guest Leah Hadley and I explore what happens when divorce, money, identity, and major life transitions collide.
Her path into this work is both professional and deeply personal: after beginning her career as a teacher, moving into investment research and financial advising, and eventually experiencing her own divorce while rai...
In this episode, our guest Lori Robinson and I explore how sensitivity, spirituality, and lived experience shaped her journey from journalism to founding VidaAfrolatina, an international women’s fund supporting Black and Afro-descendant women-led organizations across Latin America.
Lori explains how participatory ...
In this episode, our guest Besan Abu-Joudeh and I explore how money, education, spirituality, and social impact can come together to create more liberatory ways of working and learning. Besan shares how her training in economics led her from management consulting and international development to co-founding BuildPalestine—and how ...
In this episode, psychologist and Certified Financial Therapist™ Huong Diep explores how family history, cultural identity, and inherited beliefs around scarcity shape our financial lives — and why financial stress so often lives in the nervous system long after someone becomes objectively successful. Together, we unpack the tension between high sensitivity an...
In this episode, our guest Lynn Festa and I explore how money, work, identity, and well-being intersect for people who process the world deeply. Lynn shares how her career as an occupational therapist, her own experience of burnout, and her training in coaching and positive psychology led her to support people in creating sustainable, meaningful lives.
...Danielle Howard shares how more than 30 years in financial services led her beyond transactional advice and toward conversations about money stories, identity, values, and financial wellness. She also reflects on selling the financial planning practice she built and entering a new chapter focused on consulting, education, and helping people integrate financial health into...
In this conversation Alicia DeLia and I explore what it means to move money in ways that are relational, reparative, and non-extractive. Alicia is the founder of Buen Vivir Capital Institute, and her work sits at the intersection of philanthropy, impact investing, social movements, and community-rooted leadership. This conversation brings our show&rsqu...
Have you heard these myths about conflict and money?
Myth 1: Conflict is always bad and should be avoided at all costs.
Myth 2: Generosity means giving away all of your money.
Myth 3: Talking about money only leads to arguments.
Lily Kerrigan will share the truth about navigating conflict and money for highly sensitive individuals.
You can watch our conversation here.
In this episode, you will be able to:
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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 in...
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 choi...
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 predat...
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 sh...
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 abo...
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. S...
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 t...
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 caregi...
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 ...
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 therap...
In this episode, I talk with Chantel Chapman, founder of the Trauma of Money Institute, about how trauma—both personal and systemic—profoundly shapes our relationship with money. Chantel shares her journey from financial literacy educator to developing the Trauma of Money after recognizing that traditional approaches couldn't addre...
In this episode, I sit down with Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, author of "Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul," to talk about how highly sensitive people can engage in meaningful social justice work without burning out completely. Dorcas shares her own experiences with severe burnout in the nonprofit sector and how she learned to create sustainabl...
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