Melanated Financial Checkup Diagnosis Workbook

Stop putting pain and struggle before Wealth & Prosperity!

In the real world, we are bombarded with negative images. Especially as black people. We feel like success is a luxury, almost as though it is something we can only dream about. We put pain and struggle before Wealth and prosperity. The concept of wealth is accompanied by privilege, power, and control. These are things that, as an “oppressed people”, we consider to be negative. We have come to feel pained by the effects of the control and power that white society has over us. Internal and personal control is a foreign concept that we do not understand. We don’t understand that to have internal privilege, power & control is what will reconfigure our minds to the point of success.

As I was growing up, my dad always told me “Spend some, save some, share some, not necessarily in that order”. So I created a plan in what I believe is the best order based on my experience. 

We are wired differently. We can find a grassy spot, a BBQ grill and some good music and have the time of our lives! We don’t need to spend a lot of money to have fun and we don’t need a fancy venue to have a party! We have to stop thinking that we are like other cultures and accept who we authentically are. Take our wealth and build our communities to the point where we will flourish and won’t need to ask anyone for a dime!