What if your shame around debt isn’t really yours?

In this episode, Adina breaks down how debt shame is strategically manufactured to keep historically marginalized communities in silence — and in survival mode.

She shares a personal story of a recent financial spiral, what it triggered emotionally, and how she navigated it without bypassing the real fear, frustration, or guilt.

From there, she unpacks how generational money trauma, internalized high-achiever pressure, and systemic financial exclusion are all entangled — and why rewriting your beliefs about debt is one of the most powerful things you can do on your wealth-building journey.

Whether you’re currently in debt, avoiding the topic altogether, or helping your clients move through their own shame… this is a reclamation conversation.

Because financial healing is activism.
Because you are allowed to be human.
And because the shame was never yours to carry.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why shame around debt is designed to keep you small — and quiet

• How to distinguish your beliefs from inherited or projected ones

• A trauma-informed process for breaking the spiral and re-regulating

• The difference between reacting in fear and responding with clarity

• Empowering reframes for anyone working through debt or other financial challenges

• Why financial flexibility is wealth

• And how wealth-building can start with one belief shift at a time

Resources Mentioned:
→ Message Adina on Instagram: @adinaapplebaum or @immigrantfinance to Book a Financial Counseling Session

→ Join the 2025 Immigrant Finance Certification Cohort: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/immigrant-finance-certification-program

🔥 If this episode gave you a new perspective or moment of relief, share it with someone you care about.

You’re not alone. And you don’t have to carry shame with you on the path to liberation.

We talk about justice.
We talk about money.
But rarely do we admit: there’s no justice without wealth.

In this episode, Adina shares a bold reframe on what financial liberation really means — especially in a world where our communities are under constant attack.
Because true justice isn’t just legal. It’s also financial.
And financial work is justice work.

Whether you're quietly budgeting for the first time, helping your community build wealth, or building a social impact organization or business — this episode is for you.

You’ll hear:

• Why financial disempowerment is a deliberate tool of oppression

• How trauma around money gets passed down — and how we heal it

• Financial empowerment as a form of activism

• How financial coaching, community education, and building businesses can shift generations

• What we’re building through Immigrant Finance & International Empowerment — and why it matters now more than ever

This episode is a grounding force and a rally cry.
You’re not behind. You’re part of a bigger movement.
Financial healing is activism. Let’s build together.

🔑 Takeaways:

• Financial trauma doesn’t stop with one person — it echoes for generations

• Wealth-building is resistance

• Systems create justice — and we’re building them now

✨ Want to go deeper?
DM Adina the word LIBERATION on Instagram @adinaappelbaum

Learn more about the Immigrant Finance® Certification Program: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/immigrant-finance-certification-program

What happens when one Latina posts a TikTok out of corporate loneliness — and accidentally starts a nationwide movement?

In this episode, Adina sits down with Sophia Zarate, founder of Corporate Pero Latinos, a nonprofit creating professional and social connection points for the Latino community — while fueling massive impact behind the scenes.

📍Started as a Facebook group.

🏆 Won a grant from Bad Bunny + Cheetos.

📈 Now spanning 4 chapters (and counting), CPL leads national initiatives like scholarships for DACA and undocumented students, alongside chapter-led local programs such as ESL classes in NYC, where volunteers teach English to hospitality workers—all rooted in community and courage.

Sophia is a true model of a changemaker.

She didn’t wait for the “right time.”

She took the leap — before she had it all figured out.

Tune in for a conversation that’s equal parts inspiration + strategy. Because the future of movement-building doesn’t look like a boardroom. It looks like this.

🔑 In this episode:

• How Corporate Pero Latinos grew from one TikTok post into a nonprofit with 20K+ supporters
  

• The surprising moment that pushed Sophia to quit her 9–5 and bet on the mission
  

• How they’re building wealth and giving back through a unique triple-mission model
  

• The real reason “giving back” felt out of reach for so many — and what her community did instead
  

• Advice for changemakers afraid of being visible online (and what to do instead)
  

💥 Whether you’re building a business, nonprofit, or movement — this is your reminder that:

You don’t need a perfect plan. You need a clear why — and people who believe in it with you.

🎧 Listen now and share with someone who needs to hear it.

📍Follow Sophia @sophiealamexicana

🌍 Follow the org @corporateperolatinos

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