Get Ready: Before Life Happens Podcast
Get Ready: Before Life Happens brings together diverse voices, guides, and changemakers from around the world who are helping people and professionals navigate life’s what-ifs with clarity, integrity and confidence.
Hosted by Financial Readiness Advocate Tony Steuer, the show explores the insights, stories, and tools that strengthen financial readiness and reshape how we think about money, life, aging, caregiving, resilience, and purpose.
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Get Ready: Before Life Happens Podcast
How Highly Sensitive People Can Align Money
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Money decisions are rarely just about numbers. They’re shaped by identity, lived experience, values, and psychology, especially for people who are highly sensitive or hold marginalized identities.
In this conversation, Diana Yanez, Certified Financial Planner and host of the Highly Sensitive Money Podcast explores how understanding who you are and what you care about can help you build a healthier, more values-aligned relationship with money.
🔹 Aligning money and work with your values builds clarity, energy, and purpose.
🔹Highly sensitive people relate to money through empathy, overwhelm, and deep processing.
🔹Community investing uses money to strengthen solidarity and shared good.
🔹Knowing who you are helps clarify who you are best positioned to serve.
🔹Values-aligned investing can be simple, starting with where you choose to invest.
🔹Marginalized experiences shape money beliefs through both harm and resilience.
🔹Self-trust is key to money confidence
🔹Your worth is not your net worth
💭 Tony’s Take: Financial readiness includes emotional safety and self-trust. When people understand that money is a psychological and values-based decision rather than a measure of worth, they gain permission to engage with it on their own terms.
Connect with Diana Yanez, MA, CFP:
Highly Sensitive Money Podcast:
Referenced:
- Impact Philanthropy Advisor program - Daylight Advisors
- How Financial Trauma Shapes Our Relationship With Money with Rahkim Sabree on the Get Ready Before Life Happens Podcast
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Bari Tessler
Bio:
Diana Gisel Yañez, CFP®, is a money coach at All the Colors and wealth manager at Natural Investments. As an individual and group coach, Diana specializes in helping women of color entrepreneurs create sustainable money systems for themselves, their loved ones and their communities. Through Natural Investments, Diana supports impact investors in aligning their values and investments. Diana is also the host of Highly Sensitive Money, a podcast that provides resources for highly sensitive people to align their money and their values.
Diana earned her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Practitioner designation and the Registered Life Planner™ designation. Diana completed Compassionate Inquiry™ training to enhance her facilitation skills in a trauma informed way.
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The Get Ready Money Podcast and its guests do not provide investment advice. All content is for educational purposes. Guest opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Get Ready Money Podcast and Tony Steuer.
