Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here, and I am so excited about this week's guest.

It is Asia Evans.

She's a licensed mental health counselor, speaker, and author specializing in financial

therapy. We need her. After going through her own financial awakening, Asia realized the connection

between finances and mental health was much deeper than she realized. With over a decade of

experience, Asia is determined to help more people break the taboo of keeping money

and emotion secret. Her debut book, Feel Good Finance, guides the reader through connecting

their life experiences to how they spend their money. Additionally, Asia serves as a president

elect on the board of the Financial Therapy Association and writes a monthly newsletter, Finance and Focus

for Square. Asia has been featured in various major news outlets, including The New York Times,

Business Insider, Nerd Wallet, Time, Teen Vogue. Asia's on a mission to get more people engaged in

living their best lives while attuning to their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around money.

This conversation is so powerful.

We kick off with talking about some of the myths about money, some of the things that we are

telling ourselves are money stories, and it just goes from there.

Y'all get ready to have a beautiful week filled with gentleness and education and even joy.

All right, let's jump into the conversation with Asia.

Asia, it's so great to have you here today. And the topic that we are going to get into today is so important, even though it's probably one of the topics that we least want to talk about a lot of the times. But before we dive into how to feel good about your finances, how are you doing today? Welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. Thank you, Kelly, for having me. I'm doing pretty good. I am freezing. I'm outside of New York and, you know, we have been in the cold times and I'm just like really feeling it now. It was a slap of winter that just hit me. I was like, oh, but I'm freezing. But other than that, I'm doing great thriving. Had a great event last night for the book. So I'm feeling good. Winter is here. I'm in the D.C. area. And I, too, I'm freezing. This is, I've been here about six years. And this is the most snow I've seen since I've been here. This is the coldest it has been, I'm like, I'm not made for this, y'all. Even though I'm from cold country,

I thought I got away from this. And it's right back in my face telling me

winter is here. So thank you for coming in today and talking about finances and braving,

even though we're indoors, braving the cold, because I feel like just sitting in my

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