Kareen MillsFounder & CEO, Friendsgiving Live® · Most Influential Filipina ’23 🏆 Founder of the World’s Largest Friendsgiving Festival for Women | Angel | Keynote | Sugar Mommy™ Media | Psalm 25:1 ✞

Heal Your Money Story, Build Your Future

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of Kareen Mills' YouTube video, the speaker recounts reviving the 2022 Friendsgiving Live event after a three‑year hiatus. She contrasts her earlier manual approach with the technology and automation skills she acquired during lockdown. She shares personal background, revealing childhood and money‑related trauma, and explains how these experiences shaped her decision to partner with Sunny, invest in new infrastructure, and turn the event into a sustainable business to cover high venue costs. The narrative intertwines personal healing, strategic planning, and the practical steps needed to modernize the event.

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And so we brought back 2022 Friendsgiving Live. But here's what changed. Remember, in the first 3 years, I was doing it all manually. During the lockdown, I actually figured out a lot of tech. And I did say to Sunny that if I was going to bring it back, because here's some money trauma that maybe some of you can resonate. I have a lot of childhood trauma and money trauma is one of them. My mind went directly to great view, brand new hotel is going to cost me An arm and a leg. So I communicated that to Sunny, and I said, Sunny, I would love to bring it back, but if I'm going to bring this one back, now that I know technology, automation, all the things, I'm going to build the infrastructure for it, and I'm going to create a business out of this because there's a lot of costs associated with the infrastructure that I have.