🐚Topics covered

• Isha's journey from somatic psychotherapy to founding the Wealth Ecology Institute
• Six principles of wealth ecology: stewardship, sustainability, circulation, enoughness
• Relating to money as a lover rather than something dirty or shameful
• Why commitment, not inspiration, creates actual behavior change with money
• The spiritual bypass pattern of believing you're above money
• Decolonizing money: separating the energy of exchange from its historical abuse
• Ancestral colonial wealth & the grief work of tracing extraction in your lineage
• The great wealth transfer: trillions moving from boomers to women by 2030
• Funding women-led innovations in the Global South versus polished pitch decks
• Raising financially literate children equipped for matriarchal economic systems
• Matriarchies as ancient & ongoing, not a new invention

About Isha Vela

Isha Vela (she/they/feral) is a somatic psychologist, financial strategist, matriarchal wealth activist and founder of the Wealth Ecology Institute, where she teaches women to steward money in service of land, lineage, and legacy.

Isha helps women get feral with their money: shedding scarcity and individualism, building redistribution portfolios instead of empire portfolios. She believes the land is not an asset, but a relative, and that a satisfied woman is ungovernable.

Isha is a queer, world schooling parent of 2 neurospicy teens savoring a minimalist life.

Where to find Isha Vela

Instagram: @wakingup_wealthy

Facebook: Wealth Ecology Institute

YouTube handle: @wealthecologyinstitute

Website: www.wealthecologyinstitute.com

About the Host

I’m Iris Josephina, a functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, circadian biology practitioner, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones, and more.

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