EP 19: The Spiritual Money Codes Every Woman Needs with Erin West

So many of us were never taught to build wealth.

We were taught to save, to spend on staying beautiful, to hand the finances to someone else and hope for the best. Somewhere along the way, the disconnect between women and money became so normalized that most of us don't even realize we've been living inside it.

Today I'm joined by Erin West - a Princeton graduate, former intellectual property lawyer, single mom, and public intellectual working at the confluence of women, money, soul, and sovereignty. After her 20-year marriage began to dissolve, Erin walked away from a high-achieving path that left her numb and redesigned her life from the ground up. She began slow traveling the world with her two kids, world-schooling them while learning to trade stocks for income - and discovered that the markets were not just a financial tool, but a gateway to deep inner work. In early 2022, she started teaching other women what she'd found, and that became Humans Who Trade - an eight-week course and global community where she guides women toward financial sovereignty through the body, the nervous system, and the subconscious. She now trades just a few hours per week and spends the rest of her time living what she teaches.

We explored the conditioning that keeps women financially disempowered - from how girls are socialized differently around money starting in childhood, to why the patriarchy is structurally invested in women not building wealth. We talked about what happens in the body when we try to receive without effort first, why self-sabotage often shows up right at the edge of expansion, and the spiritual dimensions of money.

One of the biggest themes we kept circling back to was enough-ness - and how deeply most of us have been wired for scarcity. Erin shared her own story of being on track for a $13 million year and then watching herself unconsciously dismantle it overnight because her nervous system couldn't hold that identity. This talk was one of the most honest reflections on wealth, worth, and the body I've yet to have - and I know it's going to land for so many women who are navigating their own edges around money and receiving

By the end of this episode, my hope is that you feel something shift in how you relate to money - from a place of remembering that your body already knows more than you've been taught to trust.

We also talk about:

• Why women are socialized to save while men are taught to expand - and how that starts in childhood

• The market as a field of collective nervous systems and what happens when women learn to feel it

• How your relationship to loss, receiving, and worth shows up in every financial decision

• The $54 trillion wealth transfer coming to women and what it means for our collective future

• How to begin healing money trauma through the body and the subconscious

• Lauren's personal story of watching her father lose everything in the market - and how that shaped her relationship with money

Episode-Related Resources:

• Read the blog post for this episode!
• Listen to the referenced episodes for Emily Michelle (EP: 4) and also Sarah Evangeline (EP: 16)

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Guest Resources:

• Check out Erin's Place Your First Trade Masterclass where she will walk listeners through placing their first trade using imaginary money so they can see what feminine, supported trading feels like in their bodies: https://www.erinwest.co/first-trade-oi