Beyond Sight: Money in the Dark

Financially Growing

Beyond Sight: Money in the Dark isn't a personal finance show, it's the friend who finally tells you the truth. Hosted by Ashlee Richards, a certified financial educator living with progressive vision loss, each episode follows one woman rebuilding after loss, diagnosis, or heartbreak. No lectures. No worksheets. Just real stories about money, faith, marriage, and motherhood, for cycle-breakers and anyone who's ever felt like financial advice was never built for a life like theirs. I walk with you.

Episodes

  1. Aug 19

    The Diploma That Couldn't Balance a Checkbook

    Tasha did everything right. Honor roll every semester, scholarship offers, the kid every relative brags about. Then a phone call at 11:40pm, a declined card, a stack of overdraft fees, and a son who's never once had to track a running balance in his life. This episode is about the eighth skill: the ongoing money conversation almost no school, and almost no family, ever builds on purpose. It's about the locked room we don't know we're handing down, and the one text message that finally opened the door. Timestamps:0:00 The 11:40pm call · 1:03 Intro · 1:53 Where the gap came from · 4:39 The phone call, in full · 7:05 The turning point · 9:08 The Eighth Skill · 11:10 My own locked room · 12:20 Discussion question · 13:15 Outro Resources: MoneyRoots Starter Kit: financiallygrowing.com/starterFree Sample Lesson: financiallygrowing.com/walkWebsite: financiallygrowing.comInstagram: @financiallygrowing "Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person." — Colossians 4:6 NASB #TheEighthSkill #RaisingFinanciallySmartKids #GenerationalWealth #ProblemAFriend #FinanciallyGrowing #BeyondSight

  2. Aug 5

    Loved First: The Mother Who Finally Stopped Earning It

    Dana has spent her whole life auditioning for love, as a daughter, a wife, a mother. One ordinary Tuesday night, her eight-year-old asked her a question that cracked the whole pattern open. This is her story, and the framework it revealed: Loved First, Built Second. Timestamps:· 0:00 Dana at the sink · 0:47 Permanent Intro · 1:34 Bridge into the episode · 1:57 Where the scorecard came from · 4:41 The Tuesday night scene · 7:26 The turning point · 10:33 Loved First, Built Second: the takeaway · 13:41 My own scorecard · 16:25 Discussion question · 17:59 Outro Resources: Loved First Bridge Workbook: financiallygrowing.comMoneyRoots Starter Kit: financiallygrowing.com/starterWebsite: financiallygrowing.comInstagram: @financially.growing "Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person." — Colossians 4:6 NASB #LovedFirstBuiltSecond #MotherhoodUnfiltered #BreakingCycles #ProblemAFriend #FaithAndFamily #FinanciallyGrowing #BeyondSight

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    Why This Show Exists

    Why This Show ExistsBeyond Sight: Money in the Dark | Financially Growing LLC Before I ever tell you about a friend, I want to tell you about a parking lot. The morning I signed my divorce papers. The same week a doctor told me my vision loss was permanent. A job lost just days before. Three losses, one month, and honestly, not even the first hard things I'd ever survived. This episode is the why behind everything else on this show, the childhood I had to survive, the first marriage that wasn't safe either, and the decision I made completely on my own to build a floor under my life for the first time. No one showed up to rescue me. I went back to school. I built something new. This is where Loved First, Built Second actually came from. Timestamps:· 0:00 The parking lot · 1:00 Intro · 1:15 Bridge: "This one is mine" · 1:45 Before the parking lot: why I never had a floor · 4:30 The scene, in full · 7:30 The turning point: the decision nobody made for me · · 10:30 Why this show, why this format · 14:00 What's coming this season · 16:00 Outro Resources: Website: financiallygrowing.comInstagram: @financially.growingMore episodes coming biweekly, starting August 5 "Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person." — Colossians 4:6 NASB #WhyThisShowExists #TheParkingLot #FaithAndFinance #BuildingTheFloor #ProblemAFriend #FinanciallyGrowing #BeyondSight

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Beyond Sight: Money in the Dark isn't a personal finance show, it's the friend who finally tells you the truth. Hosted by Ashlee Richards, a certified financial educator living with progressive vision loss, each episode follows one woman rebuilding after loss, diagnosis, or heartbreak. No lectures. No worksheets. Just real stories about money, faith, marriage, and motherhood, for cycle-breakers and anyone who's ever felt like financial advice was never built for a life like theirs. I walk with you.

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