You guys problems that you are to be concerned with, you don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.

You're a freak with a dark shame, both secret but you're not the only one.

Teach your inner financial fears to the blessed sun.

Now your healing has begun. It's back with money with Gabby.

Done.

Worry for Gen Z has been on the forefront of my mind during this year and a half of our global pandemic.

If you listen to my other podcast just between us, then you know that I've been speaking a lot on there about the trauma young people, especially Americans, must be sustaining during this time.

In particular, an article on ProPublica by Alec McGillis called The Lost Year, What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers, struck a real cord with me.

The piece is about the rise in teen suicides and small towns, mostly centered around the cancellation of the high school football season.

It's a very specific group that I think reflects the larger impact this pandemic will have on people in their teens and early 20s.

I was incredibly moved by the piece, so if you can handle it, please check it out.

I've been thinking about this since we first went into lockdown in March 2020.

To be completely frank, if I was a teenager during this time with all of my mental health issues unsorted, for those new to the show, bipolar disorder, largely being the main one, I don't believe I would have made it.

When I read that article, I had already become interested in the concept of financial trauma, and how it might long-term affect Gen Z.

In my research, I found Chloe McKenzie, a wealth justice activist who had written a piece for Amherst College's magazine called The Real Power of Money, where she explored Financial Trauma.

It was the first place I'd seen the term, which I'd been percolating on, used in an official capacity.

McKenzie is also the founder of BlackFem, a radically feminist, nonprofit organization that focuses on giving girls of color the confidence, skills, and resources to build and sustain wealth, according to the organization's website.

McKenzie believes in economic violence.

Another term that after seven seasons of doing this show, I fully agree with the use of.

It is not an exaggeration or hyperbole for young people right now to view their circumstances and situations this way, to name it, to face it as such, to treat it like what it is.

If you are a young person, and today I'm speaking primarily to Gen Z directly and those who know and love them, you are not alone, and your experiences are exactly as bad as you feel they are.

You don't have to downplay it, you don't have to say, well other people have it worse.

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