Hey everybody, Sean King here. We're rerunning some of our favorite episodes of the breakdown

and other North Star podcast. The breakdown.

Is the act of creating generational wealth and active healing?

How do we consider the financial components of wellness when we are talking about healing while black?

I'm your host, Brandon Jennings, and on this episode of Sick and Pire, we are talking about

what the progress of financial wellness has looked like for black folks.

And what progress we can make to set the next generation up to succeed without financial burdens.

Today is an extra special episode. I'm going to share a powerful and candid conversation I had

with two brilliant financial experts, Tiffany Hawkins and Alan Boomer, who together host a podcast

called the Momentum Advisor Show. Today they school us on where a lot of our black

dollars are going today and how to reroute our millions back into our own communities.

They also give us a glimpse of what they hope the future of black financial wellness looks like.

Can you all tell me what did finances and economic wellness look like for y'all when you were growing up?

It's interesting that you asked that, right? Because I don't think I knew what my financial

situation growing up looked like until I became an adult. I always assumed that we were middle class,

based on the neighborhood that we were raised in, both of my parents had good jobs. I didn't

feel any financial struggle growing up, but it doesn't mean it wasn't fair, right? So that's

what I mean. I probably didn't know what our financial standing was until I became an adult and

realized the sacrifices that were being made around me. I went to college, my parents did not pay

for college. I do have student loans. There were no wealthy people in my family. I was the first

person in my family to graduate from college. And everybody was just getting by. We didn't struggle to

eat or to cover our bills or anything like that. But, you know, I'd never seen wealth in my own

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