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 my sensitivity and how it relates to money. Each season is released as it’s ready in weekly batches.
Episodes
Kaeri Schaefer brings us “collaborative understory medicine”—a root-cause, relational approach that treats symptoms as body communication. Today we cover Kaeri’s path from family medicine residency to functional medicine, bodywork, and somatic practice, and how this reshaped the way she supports “chatty” bodies (often highly sensitive nervous sys...
Taylor Gilbert brings us into an exploration of what happens when a medical social worker brings courage, clarity, and financial literacy into one conversation. Together we unpack how negative money messaging shows up in social work, how salary transparency and negotiation can shift outcomes, and why values-aligned investing matters when your life’s work is caring for o...
In this episode, our guest Emily Rose and I sit down for a spacious, values-led conversation about how scarcity shows up—in people-pleasing, and overachieving—and what it takes to repattern those reflexes in the body and mind. I introduce Emily’s work with women and femmes at key life thresholds and we explore her ...
My guest Lina Blount has us explore how people-powered movements change what’s politically possible—especially when traditional advocacy hits a wall. I introduce the show’s focus on the emotional, ethical, and practical sides of money, and Lina shares how a 2011 nonviolent direct-action training sparked her path from volunteer to EQAT’s Direct...
In this episode, our guest Genet “GG” Gimja and I explore the gap between what we believe and what our money is quietly doing in the world. We dig into practical shifts and big questions alike: how banks leverage our deposits , the tools that make values-aligned portfolios more doable, the trade-offs inside the so-called American...
Listen in to hear Morgan Curtis’ story from climate activism, to fossil fuel divestment, to working with her people - inheritors with class privilege. We explore motivation: how guilt can open the door but love sustains transformation. We get practical about the gift economy at Canticle Farm, unpack the “activist with a secret trust fund” archetype, and follow the path...
In this episode, our guest River Nice and I explore what it means to take control of money while resisting the individualism that capitalism promotes. River shares how their journey began in the tech world, shifted after the 2016 U.S. election, and led to their decision to dedicate their skills to supporting queer and trans communities. With honesty and clarity,...
In this episode, our guest Shehara Wooten and I explore what it takes to build wealth with confidence and purpose, especially for Black women in STEM navigating promotions, pay raises, and the pressures that come with them. Shehara’s story of moving from engineering into finance reveals not just a career change but a mission: to help others see what’s possible with their money when...
In this episode, our guest Lauren LaSalle and I dive into the tender, challenging, and transformative path of early motherhood. Lauren shares her journey from feeling overwhelmed and second-guessing herself to finding confidence, peace, and joy as a mom. As a mentor for sensitive mothers of young children, she knows firsthand how difficult it can feel to balance carin...
In this episode, I explore three essential tools that can transform the way we experience money. Inspired by Le Petit Prince and the reminder that “we only see well with the heart,” I share how a heart-centered perspective can guide us through common struggles such as decision fatigue, overwhelm in money conversations, and the shame that arises when we recognize inequities in financial privilege. Thes...
In this episode, our guest Stacy Kellogg and I explore what it means to truly honor our capacity while still caring deeply for others. Stacy is a leadership coach and facilitator who helps high-achieving changemakers discover what they truly need and want—so they can contribute to the world from a place of abundance instead of exhaustion.
Together, we reflect on he...
In this episode, our guest Leo Aquino and I dive into a heartfelt conversation on how money intersects with identity, survival, and joy. Leo is a financial coach, anti-capitalist writer, and the founder of Queer & Trans Wealth. Their work centers people who have often been excluded from traditional financial spaces, and their approach is deep...
In this solo episode, I explore how each of us can make our money do good—starting right where we are. Using the five ways we interact with money—how we earn, spend, save, give, and invest. I share practical micro actions that align our finances with values of justice, care, and interconnection. This solo episode is rooted in my article The Interconnected Dollar and reflects on h...
Jordyn Middlebrooks and I dive deep into what it means to reimagine wealth, safety, and belonging. Jordyn is a financial coach, organizer, and the host of the podcast Reimagine Wealth. With roots in the Sunrise Movement and a background in both community organizing and financial advising, Jordyn brings a rich perspective on money, justice, and identity. As w...
In this episode, our guest Miriam Zoila Pérez and I dive deep into the emotional, cultural, and political layers of money, especially through our experiences of Latine children of immigrants. Miriam is a queer Cuban-American writer, activist, and budget coach whose career spans reproductive justice, feminist blogging, and Latinx music podcasting. To...
In this episode, our guest Dr. Shay Harris-Pierre and I explore the emotional and relational dimensions of wealth. Dr. Shay is a family legacy strategist and financial therapist with a background in marriage and family therapy. She shares her journey from training clinicians to working with families navigating sudden wealth, inheritance, and cross-class gro...
Della is a Renegade Economist who challenges mainstream economic assumptions through her coaching, teaching, and documentary podcasting. Our conversation spans from the personal, like her advocacy for alternative metrics of success, to the deeply political and degrowth economics.
Together, we explore her journey upstream from social work to systemic economic ...
In this episode, I open up about the foundational spiritual and money work I’ve done with Wisdom & Money. You'll also hear about the spiritual practices that helped me embrace both the structured and the intuitive sides of my financial work. From silent retreats to shadow play, and from difficult career decisions to joining a nonprofit board, this episode brin...
In this episode, our guest Nicole Stanley and I dive into the emotional, strategic, and systemic layers of personal finance. Nicole is the founder of Arise Financial Coaching and the creator of the Money Momentum Method—a system born from her own transformation from debt and anxiety to a thriving six-figure net worth by age 27. We talk about the real r...
In this episode, our guest DonJay Rice and I take a deep dive into the complex relationship between money, grief, and healing. Early in DonJay’s career as a wealth manager a series of personal and professional turning points led him to add behavioral coaching skills to his work, way before it was a common practice for wealth managers. In our conversation, he opens up about ...
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