Disrupt Your Money: Liberation through Financial Education for Marginalized Business Owners
Disrupt Your Money is the unapologetic money podcast for marginalized small business owners who know that wealth building is a revolutionary act.
If you’ve ever wondered how to:
- Build a profitable, sustainable business that funds both today’s needs and tomorrow’s generational wealth
- Navigate systemic barriers while accessing the capital, resources, and opportunities you deserve
- Align your money moves with your values and community impact
- Protect your financial power in a system that was never designed for you to succeed
…you’re in the right place.
We believe economic equity is the key to reclaiming our financial power—and that dismantling and rebuilding our money systems is just as critical as making sales or filing taxes. Every week, we break down practical, shame-free strategies to help you grow, protect, and pass on wealth, so you can create a legacy that outlives you.
From pricing and profit strategies to money mindset and systemic change, we’ll talk about the real issues—without the jargon, judgment, or boring finance-bro vibes.
Whether we’re unpacking tax tips, demystifying investments, or calling out inequities in the financial system, our mission is simple: help you use your money to disrupt the status quo and build an equitable future.
Your business is more than income—it’s a tool for liberation. Let’s use it.
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Episodes
32 episodes
You Are Not Crazy: Money, Power, and Staying Human in Authoritarian Times
Some days it feels like the whole world is on fire and everyone in charge is insisting it is just a warm glow and you should smile more. If you have been wondering whether you are overreacting to the news, the policies, the creeping cruelty, th...
Money Talks: Dismantling the Taboo of Talking About Money to Build Generational Wealth
Most of us were taught that talking about money is rude, dangerous or selfish.So we keep quiet, guess in the dark and then blame ourselves when things feel hard.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg digs into how that silence ar...
Who Gets to Be “High Net Worth”? Redefining Wealth for Our Communities
Who decided “high net worth” starts at a certain dollar amount in an investment account, and why do so few of those definitions include us in the picture?In this episode, Meg takes apart the idea of being “high net worth” and asks a bigg...
Building Wealth Without Selling Out: Aligning Profit With Purpose
When you picture wealth, what do you see? If it’s a tug-of-war between “take care of my people” and “don’t sell my soul,” this episode is for you.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg digs into what it really means t...
Credit, Capital, and the Catch-22s: Accessing Money in a Biased System
Trying to grow a business when you can’t get to the money you need? That’s not a personal failure—that’s a design feature of our financial system. In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg talks about access to capi...
Burn It Down or Build It Up? Navigating Systems That Weren’t Built for Us
If you’ve ever been told “if you can’t beat the system, join it” and felt your whole body go NOPE—this one’s for you.Meg digs into a hard truth: most of the systems we move through every day—money, tax, healthcare, education, “justice”—w...
DIY or DIE Trying? The Double Standard of Entrepreneurship
When you hear “DIY entrepreneur,” what do you picture? Because somehow it’s scrappy and admirable for some people, and reckless or “unprofessional” for others.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we’re unpacking the double st...
The Big Beautiful Tax Bill Breakdown: What Small Biz Owners Need to Know
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we pull back the curtain on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA)—the shiny new “tax relief” law that’s being sold as a gift to families and small business owners… while quietly shoveling billions t...
Your Numbers Don’t Lie: Why Knowing Your Money Is the Ultimate Power Move
Most people would rather talk about sex than talk about their bank account. And honestly? Fair. Because when you don’t know your numbers, looking at them can feel like peeking into a financial jump-scare—you’re bracing for something awful.<...
Building Financial Power in an Unjust System through Equitable Wealth
When you hear the word wealth, who comes to mind? If your answer isn’t you—you’re not alone.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we unpack what equitable wealth really means and why reclaiming it i...
From Scarcity to Enough: Rewriting the Money Stories We Inherited
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we're diving deep into our inherited money stories and how they shape our financial behaviors as adults and how scarcity and shame around money impacts our financial lives. And of course we're ...
Rest as Resistance: Why Taking a Break is a Radical Act for Wealth Building
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we call BS on hustle culture—the toxic myth that being exhausted is somehow a badge of honor. Spoiler alert: it’s not. It’s capitalism doing what capitalism does best—keeping us too tired to question it.
Rich, White Guys Make Crappy Financial Advisors with Katy Chen Mazzara
Dave Ramsey has built an empire on “tough love” money advice. But what happens when that advice is rigid, shame-based, and completely ignores things like privilege, trauma, or the actual cost of living in 2025?In this episode of Disru...
Avoid Burnout by Making Bank: A Conversation with Tiffany McLain, LMFT
If you’ve ever felt guilty for wanting to make good money doing healing work, this conversation is for you.Meg sits down with licensed marriage and family therapist Tiffany McLain, LMFT to talk about raising fees in a way...
Investing 101: A Conversation with Chloé Daniels
If the phrase “investing in the stock market” makes your brain want to nope out of the conversation, this one’s for you. Meg sits down with financial educator and Money Bear podcast host Chloe (CloBear Money Coach) to talk about lazy...
What’s at Stake When the IRS Is Weakened: How Defunding the IRS Affects Small Business Owners and Financial Transparency
The IRS is nobody’s idea of a sexy topic. But if you’re a small business owner—especially from a marginalized community—what happens to the IRS is absolutely a money issue.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg breaks down wha...
Corporate Power and Political Influence: How Big Business Benefits from a Divided Government
Some people say our government is “broken.” Meg’s here with a spicier take: it’s working exactly as designed—for corporate interests, not for you.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, she goes full rage-with-receipts on dysfuncti...
Money Is our Most Powerful Tool - How Are We Using It?
Money isn’t good or bad—it’s power.And in a world where the economy was never built for most of us, that power can either quietly uphold the status quo… or help dismantle it.In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg breaks...
Trump's In Power and DEI is Over: What Do We Do Now as Small Business Owners?
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we’re tearing into Trump’s full-on war against Diversity, Equity & Inclusion—and why it’s not just a culture-war soundbite, it’s a direct hit to your money, your safety, and your community.
Self-Care, Saving & Smashing Debt with Bernadette Joy
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we sit down with personal finance powerhouse Bernadette Joy to blow up the myth that paying off debt means sacrificing joy, self-care, and everything that makes life actually feel good. As a first-gen Fili...
Trump’s Tariffs Are Back and They Brought Receipts
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we’re dragging tariffs out of the headlines and into real life—specifically, what Donald Trump’s latest tariff chaos means for your business, your bank account, and yes, your Nana’s 401(k). Meg...
The Real Job Killers: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Hurt the Economy
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we drag the real job killers: anti-immigrant policies. Meg breaks down how the current administration’s deportations, visa crackdowns, and weaponized bureaucracy aren’t just cruel; they’re activel...
Defunding Consumer Protection: How Weakening the CFPB Puts Marginalized Entrepreneurs at Greater Risk
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we rip the “boring policy” label off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and show you exactly how defunding it becomes open season on marginalized small business owners. This isn’t abstract pol...
Building Habits That Stick For Fitness and Finances with Mackenzie Holznecht
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, we bring your fitness habits and your money habits into the same room and gently (okay, lovingly) call them out. Meg is joined by health coach Mackenzie “Coach Mack” Holznecht of Running with Ba...
I Like Big Tax and I Cannot Lie
In this episode of Disrupt Your Money, Meg introduces herself as a CPA, entrepreneur, and loud-mouthed political nerd who actually likes tax (don’t worry, she explains), and lays out why this podcast exists in the first place: to help ...