A single-speaker YouTube monologue (by/posted by Anwar White) about "money wounds": the internalized beliefs formed by childhood experiences with money that can cause fear, low self-worth, and overreaction to mistakes. The speaker highlights that these wounds commonly affect women of color, contrasts different mindsets across socioeconomic backgrounds, and recommends developing an abundance mindset and small, regular self-care expenditures (e.g., hiring a cleaner, treating yourself weekly) to counteract scarcity-driven responses.
Chapters
OBC. How do you heal money wounds? By understanding what they are and how they, how they got there. Right. So like, how did, like, what did you think? How did you grow up with money? Did you buy thrift store stuff? Did you buy real stuff? Did you buy things on sale? Did you, did you have things as you went to school? Clothes, things like that? What did you make that mean? Because oftentimes, and this is so important for women of color, when you don't get to have the things that you want to have, you will think your kid brain will make you think that you're not worth it. And that will perpetuate itself in all aspects of your life. That's why, like, there's a complete. The rich black girls and the like, middle class and poor black girls. The mindset is completely different.
In, in love, not just in, like, work or other things. Yeah. So like you. One of the things that is going to be important for you, for many of you to do, because many of you are not impoverished, is like, to actually, like, look at what you have now and realize that, like, you're not gonna, you're not gonna be homeless if you make a mistake at work.
I know that when I was, when like 15 years ago, anytime I made a mistake, I was like, I'm gonna get fired. I'm not gonna have a home, I won't be able to eat. Like, my. Mine would spiral and it was because of my money wounds. So like, understanding that is really important. And also living your life in a level of abundance, one of the, one of the things that you can do, like right from the gate is like, find someone to wash your. Or clean your house. It's like 100, 200 bucks once a month. Doing things like that and treating yourself every week.
After you do that, you'll gain pleasure and you'll realize that, oh my God, I'm not poor. After I've done these things, I can do more of them. So you start to step into abundance, which is so important for black people, brown people especially, since we come from oftentimes places that are not that. So that becomes kind of our foundational mindset.
