Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela

Isha Vela

Welcome to Waking Up Wealthy, the podcast for visionaries and rebels who are ready to revolutionize their relationship with money and create powerful collective ripples with the money they make. I'm your host, Isha Vela—trauma psychologist, somatic practitioner, financial professional, and minimalist—bringing you practical money tools, unconventional wealth perspectives, and Aquarian era business strategies to guide you in building wealth that's aligned, ethical, and empowering. Let's wake up to the true meaning of wealth together.

  1. 6 days ago

    6.19 | Rooted, Relational and Retired at 33 with Tay Nocktonick

    Isha talks to her mentor in business, Tay Nocktonick, founder of Breadwinner Energy®, a movement dedicated to helping women build economic power, create ownership & have more CHOICE in how they live their lives. As a business mentor, thought leader & advocate for women's wealth, Tay helps experienced femmepreneurs turn their stories, skills and expertise into recognizable intellectual property, scalable businesses and lasting impact. Tay's work is rooted in her Indigenous values of reciprocity, sovereignty and restoration, so making money is just the beginning. Through the power of relationships she's helped so many women create the freedom, resources and capacity to be financially uncontrollable.  In this episode she provides the framework that radically changed how Isha builds her business and that helped grow their online audience from 2,000 for 6 years to 60,000+ in 3 months (and counting). Tay shares her recent experience of the importance of building a business that functions beyond her. If you want to create a streamlined business rooted in Indigenous values that gives you freedom of choice, listen to this episode now and TAKE NOTES. Follow Tay https://www.instagram.com/itstaydaniels_llc/ and Breawinner Energy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/breadwinnerenergy.co/  Listen to Tay's podcast: https://breadwinnerenergy.co/podcast  Follow Tay to her website: https://breadwinnerenergy.co  Join her Breadwinner Academy:  https://ishav--breadwinnerenergy.thrivecart.com/breadwinner-energy-academy/ Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast   Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH   Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/financial-strategy-application-abndnc   Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/apply-to-join-our-team-abndnc   Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute

  2. 10 Oct

    Mycelium Lore and Trust Origin Story with Magdalene Bandorai

    Magdalene Bandorai and Isha Vela are releasing the full lore origin story.   Three months ago, they didn't know each other.   Today they're co-founding a global matriarchal community together.   For the opening of Mycelium, their global matriarchal community, they recorded an unfiltered account of how they found each other and why they decided to say "Fuck it, yes" and trust.   Because underneath all of it, TRUST is the thread that holds the whole thing together.   Trusting yourself when something feels right before you can explain why.   Trusting the process of building trust with someone new.   Trusting the universe when it puts the exact right person in your path at the exact right moment.   For the record, Magdalene is a feral, unhinged Capricorn stellium mama bear tending matriarchy. She has a background in corporate accounting and network marketing, where she built a multiple six-figure business before losing it all to betrayal, burnout, and long Covid. Creator of Matriarchal Communities Network on Facebook, Magdalene now uses her skills to create structures and systems that center life, mothers, and children.   This episode is fun, sweet, and real, the most honest BTS account of what it actually takes to build something matriarchal.   Follow Magdalene on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magdalenebandorai?_r=1&_t=ZP-9AKU6LAP7Hj   Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast   Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini-course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH   Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake   Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake   Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute

  3. 26 Sept

    Building an Ungovernable Business Using PMAs with Angela Merzib

    In this conversation with Angela Merzib, you'll learn how Private Membership Associations (PMAs) allow your business to exist in its own jurisdictional bubble where you can create your own rules about how you operate. Angela Merzib is the founder of Be Bold Branding and Sacred, where she teaches brilliant business owners to build businesses on their own terms, in the private domain. There are very specific steps you have to follow in order for your PMA to not cross into the public domain, where most businesses become subject to the registration and regulatory/tax framework of the state you're formed in. In 42 minutes, you'll have tools to create a legal business structure that's as sovereign as you are. Follow Angela to her website: www.beboldbranding.com   Get inside Sacred Rebellion, Angela's PMA mastermind community: www.thesacredrebellion.co   Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH   Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake   Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake   Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute

  4. 11 Sept

    Matriarchy as a Marketing Tool

    When everyone slaps "matriarchy" on a co-housing community, a leadership coaching course, and a business model without having the ACTUAL infrastructure, it dilutes both the meaning and the movement. Matriarchy is not vibes or an aesthetic.  It's a blueprint for a more humane and connected way of living.  On today's episode, we're talking about what matriarchy actually is and isn't. I outline the four must-have pillars of matriarchal infrastructure, in other words, what's required legally and somatically for matriarchy to become real and established for the long game: Ownership Governance Wealth Systems Embodiment In approximately 30 minutes, you'll know what gaps you need to close in your co-housing ownership structure, your leadership structures, in how you move money through your business, and in how you share power.  Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH   Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake   Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake   Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute

  5. 29 Jul

    The Signs of Hidden Financial Abuse

    This is the first time I tell the full story of my experience with financial abuse. Because 1 in 6 women experience it, and most think it'll NEVER happen to them. Because I, a psychologist, was one of the 3 in 5 women who don't see it until AFTER they leave the relationship. Because I've sat down with dozens of women who are experiencing the same things I did and they're NOT calling it financial abuse.  They're calling it: "The economy's bad and he hasn't been able to find work." "He's depressed and has a learning disorder that's made it hard for him to keep a job." "We haven't been able to get out of debt despite me making good money." "We constantly fight about money." "He refuses to sit down with anyone other than his advisor." Meanwhile, women are burning out under carrying the load of what they can't name as abuse because it doesn't fit the textbook definition. In this episode, I share:  -the process of moving from "what am I doing wrong" to "there's definitely something wrong here" that enabled me to leave; -my recommended GTFO plan; -other women's stories of financial abuse that they graciously offered over IG (and gave consent to share for this episode). In 30 minutes, you'll recognize the subtle signs of financial control in your relationship dynamics, inoculate yourself against financial abuse, and maybe even help someone who's in that sitch right now.  Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH     Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake   Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake   Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute

  6. 14 Jul

    Four Models of Matriarchal Wealth Redistribution

    I used to drool at the thought of becoming a professional philanthropist. I pictured myself donating my time, wads of money, energy funding women's businesses and ecological projects all around the world.  That image in my head felt like the peak experience, like if I could achieve that it would mean I'd arrived. But when I started studying matriarchal economics and specifically wealth distribution models, I had to rethink some things. Because philanthropy is the dominant model of redistribution inside the current economy and it is structurally designed to leave the power differential intact. In this podcast episode I dive into the four categories of redistribution that get collapsed under philanthropy, and each one's role in moving us from the control of the triangle (where power is concentrated at the top) to circle (where power is distributed through relationships). In just under 30 minutes, you'll understand how to balance your redistribution portfolio along with 4 steps to putting it in action in ways that distribute power. Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH   Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake   Apply to join my coven of financial revolutionaries on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake   Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute

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Welcome to Waking Up Wealthy, the podcast for visionaries and rebels who are ready to revolutionize their relationship with money and create powerful collective ripples with the money they make. I'm your host, Isha Vela—trauma psychologist, somatic practitioner, financial professional, and minimalist—bringing you practical money tools, unconventional wealth perspectives, and Aquarian era business strategies to guide you in building wealth that's aligned, ethical, and empowering. Let's wake up to the true meaning of wealth together.

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