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Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela

Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela

Isha Vela 100 Episodes Oct 10, 2026

Waking Up Wealthy is a podcast hosted by Isha Vela, a trauma psychologist and financial professional, that explores unconventional approaches to building wealth. The show offers practical money tools and business strategies aimed at creating ethical and empowering financial growth. It targets visionaries and rebels seeking to transform their relationship with money and generate positive collective impact.

Episodes

6.18 | Mycelium Lore and Trust Origin Story with Magdalene Bandorai
6.18 | Mycelium Lore and Trust Origin Story with Magdalene Bandorai Oct 10, 2026 32:29 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
6.17 | Building an Ungovernable Business Using PMAs with Angela Merzib
6.17 | Building an Ungovernable Business Using PMAs with Angela Merzib Sep 26, 2026 44:44 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
6.16 | Matriarchy as a Marketing Tool
6.16 | Matriarchy as a Marketing Tool Sep 11, 2026 30:46 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
6.15 | Building the Muscle of Reciprocity
6.15 | Building the Muscle of Reciprocity Aug 28, 2026 36:17 A matriarchal economy requires us to see ourselves in that bigger web of relationship, of which trust is the foundation, simultaneously releasing our patterns of transactional exchange. In this episode, you'll learn:  -the differences between transaction, reciprocity and extraction; -why you default to transactional exchanges vs trusting the greater web of relationship; -the 5 relational archetyp
6.14 | Starving the Machine, Matriarchally
6.14 | Starving the Machine, Matriarchally Aug 12, 2026 36:17 And the question of how to withdraw from the machine, strategically, structurally, collectively, is one of the most practically urgent questions available right now, perfect for today's eclipse. In today's episode, I show you exactly how to:  -withdraw your life force from the machine,  -make the machine lose its leverage (based on its four favorite weapons) -build the alternative infrastructure
6.13 | The Signs of Hidden Financial Abuse
6.13 | The Signs of Hidden Financial Abuse Jul 29, 2026 36:25 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
6.12 | Four Models of Matriarchal Wealth Redistribution
6.12 | Four Models of Matriarchal Wealth Redistribution Jul 14, 2026 31:32 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 distributi
6.11 | 4 Practices That Break The Scarcity Cycle
6.11 | 4 Practices That Break The Scarcity Cycle Jun 29, 2026 31:29 The energy that drives the matriarchal economy is GENEROSITY. Not performative, one-off donation kind of generosity that happens once a blue moon when the spirit moves you.  I'm talking about the structural, consistent, normalized assumptive generosity of a woman who moves money through community. And internalized scarcity is what stops generosity cold. It doesn't matter how aligned you
6.10 | When Generational Wealth Comes With Generational Scarcity with Marina Pearson
6.10 | When Generational Wealth Comes With Generational Scarcity with Marina Pearson Jun 15, 2026 56:46 What would you do if you lost a parent and suddenly inherited a massive amount of money? What feelings might it bring up for you? Who do you talk about it with? OR: what if you were a recipient of the Great Wealth Transfer, where $34 trillion in investable assets are moving into women's hands by the end of this decade? Even though many people say they would love to be in that position, i
6.9 | Matriarchy is a CHOICE
6.9 | Matriarchy is a CHOICE May 31, 2026 47:28 One thing that's become increasingly clear to me over the last several weeks is that some aspects of creating a matriarchal economy are a CHOICE.  And that by making these choices on the daily we can create the matriarchal economy. I know that sounds too simple, but it's not. Look, I have no doubt that exiting the matrix will absolutely involve a fight in some ways. We will have to fight
6.8 | Financial Fawning Has A Price Tag with Wren Farris
6.8 | Financial Fawning Has A Price Tag with Wren Farris May 16, 2026 54:48 I sat down with Wren Farris (Season 6, Episode 2) to talk about money mistakes.  Money mistakes can mean LOTS of things, like not separating your personal and business expenses, underpricing your services, not setting aside money for taxes.  I thought that was the conversation we're having, but something completely unexpected came up, and you can detect the exact moment it occurred. When
6.7 | Build a Body That Can Hold the Matriarchy
6.7 | Build a Body That Can Hold the Matriarchy May 1, 2026 01:02:02 You cannot build the matriarchy out THERE if the patriarchy is still running the operating system in HERE. That's what this episode is about. Yesterday I recorded something I've been working with for a long time: the six shadows of patriarchal programming that keep you loyal to a system designed to extract from you and hold you in a vibration of fear. In your relationship with money, wit

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