If I told you that today we were going to talk about money and investing, would your hands get clammy?

Even worse, would you think that this was a conversation that was just not for you?

If you said yes to either question, then it's important to me and to today's guess that we reckon

with that fear and the money wounds that drive it. Linda Garcia has been there. She is speaking

and writing from lived experience as much as expertise. And her new book, Wealth Warrior,

Eight Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market,

aims to pull back the curtain on basic principles,

while diving deep on the necessity of reckoning with our inherited beliefs about money.

Be sure to listen through to the end of the episode,

for what I would argue is Linda's life-changing way of framing and tension setting around wealth.

Linda, you and I share about 100 friends in common.

I don't understand how we have not become friends yet. I know. What's going on? I don't know either. As I was reading your book, I was like, this is a who's who of Latina

to Latina gas. And somehow Linda and I have never crossed us. We need to change that. We need to

change that. We're here today. So thank you for having me on your platform. I appreciate it.

Thank you and congratulations

on the book and getting it out into the world and getting this message out into the world.

I think it's super important. You start wealth warrior in a place that I actually don't think a lot of

people start this conversation, which is this idea of having money wounds and this idea of having

attitudes about money that you may not even realize have been

handed down to you by the people you love. What was your money wound? I had probably every

money wound that we can come up with, to be completely honest. I grew up in a house with a parents that were immigrants.

My mom cleaned houses, babysat, sold duckles, worked the graveyard shift at a factory,

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