30: Money and Purchasing Power

Women control $20 trillion in annual consumer spending, and it was estimated in 2009 that this figure would climb to 28 trillion in five years. What if we used our purchasing power to…Be a steward of mother earthTake hold of the patriarchal system and dismantled it from the insideLeverage our purchasing power and redistributed the wealth by giving back to BIPOC and women-owned small businessesResearch and give our money to companies and industries that uphold mutual valuesEnsure our voices were heardGive microloans to businesses who are need of a jump startAll the while doing so in money covens, investment circles, service-based communities that value the discussion around money/finance/and abundance. Sora, if we were to come together in a money circle, what questions would we pose?What is money, and why is it valuable?How does currency flow, and can it flow to me with grace?What would I do with the money? How much money do I need and why?Why is generational wealth a way to heal ancestral wounds? Can I co-create money instead of having to “make it” all by myself?Is the construct of money stemmed from the patriarchy, and if so, how do we dismantle it?What does it mean to build new earth with no monetary systems, and is that the way?What does it mean to break the system from within by using financial literacy as a powerful mechanism? Remember. What we purchase matters.Who and what we support matters.Where we spend our money matters. And most importantly - we matter.