How do you build generational wealth when you’re supporting family, navigating life in Canada, and creating a financial foundation without an inheritance?

In this episode of the Nana Yaa Yeboaa Podcast, financial educator and Chartered Professional Accountant Lianne Hannaway joins Nana Yaa for a conversation about building Black wealth, financial security, and family legacy in Canada.

We explore the realities facing first-generation wealth builders, including cultural expectations, supporting aging parents, sending money “back home,” and balancing personal financial goals with family responsibilities.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• The money beliefs we inherit—and what we may need to unlearn
• The difference between earning a good income and building lasting wealth
• Financial boundaries, family support, and the pressure to provide
• Immigration, identity, and what “back home” means
• Balancing debt, retirement savings, and children’s education
• Lianne’s Bridge System and planning for family financial responsibilities
• Teaching children healthy money habits and preparing a meaningful legacy

Whether you’re starting your financial journey or reassessing your priorities in your forties or fifties, this episode invites you to consider the financial story you want your family to inherit.

What money lesson do you want to pass on to the next generation? Tell us in the comments.

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Learn more about Lianne: https://www.liannehannaway.com

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🎧 Welcome to The Nana Yaa Yeboaa Podcast — where real stories meet transformation.

Hosted by Nana Yaa Yeboaa, a nurse, life coach, author, and storyteller, this podcast dives into the heart of immigrant life, identity, purpose, and leadership.
Each episode brings powerful conversations with Black women, immigrants, entrepreneurs, and change-makers who are building life on their own terms.

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The Nana Yaa Yeboaa Podcast explores what it means to belong, heal, and grow.
Through storytelling, coaching insights, and candid interviews, we unpack:

Immigrant experiences in Canada & beyond

Women’s empowerment and mid-career pivots

Cultural memory and African storytelling

Wellness, mindset, and healing practices

If you’re an immigrant, Black woman, or purpose-driven dreamer, this space is for you.

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Dr. Adeanna Tazell’s research on guarding the Black womb challenges us to confront an uncomfortable but necessary truth: melanin, while biologically protective in many ways, becomes a marker of risk within maternal healthcare systems that are not designed to serve Black women equitably. Her work does not argue that melanin itself is inherently dangerous, but rather that the presence of melanin exposes Black women to systemic disparities, implicit bias, delayed diagnoses, and inadequate care.

Through a critical lens, Dr. Adeanna highlights how clinical assessments often overlook symptoms in darker skin tones, how pain is underestimated, and how structural inequities compound during pregnancy and childbirth. The result is a disproportionate rate of maternal morbidity and mortality among Black women.

Guarding the Black womb, then, becomes both a medical and social imperative—one that calls for culturally competent care, policy reform, and a re-centring of Black women’s voices in healthcare design and delivery.

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On the latest episode of the Nana Yaa Yeboaa Podcast, I sat down with Vladimir Jean-Gilles, a film critic, journalist, and cultural commentator whose work lives right at that intersection. Our conversation explored what it really means to engage with film beyond entertainment—how criticism can be personal, how identity informs taste, and why global perspective matters more than ever in media.

Vladimir shared thoughtful insights on navigating major media platforms while staying true to your voice, the responsibility that comes with cultural commentary, and how travel can deepen—not flatten—our understanding of stories.

This episode is for anyone thinking about representation, storytelling, and how culture quietly shapes our values. It’s a reminder that film isn’t just something we watch—it’s something we live with, learn from, and question.

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