SYNARCHY: Social Impact Growth Strategy and Immigrant Wealth Building

Lasting, revolutionary, disruptive change increasingly requires getting SUPER creative about financial strategy, business and legal structures, and values alignment in this day and age, where as a society we face massive challenges to individual's rights, opportunities, and freedoms. Social entrepreneurs with big visions like our guest in this episode, So Good Pupusas and Pupusas for Education Founder Cecilia Polanco, don't allow themselves to be put in a box. Instead of being restricted by the limitations of existing paths and models for social change, they create NEW ONES. They leverage what's available to create structures that allow for innovation and transformational change. In this episode, listen to Cecilia's story of how she has followed her life experiences and purpose to create self-sustaining educational scholarships and jobs for her community, leveraging BOTH for-profit business and non-profit organizational models. Free weekly trainings for heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup/ Learn more about Cecilia's work: So Good Pupusas - http://www.sogoodpupusas.com Pupusas 4 Education: https://www.pupusas4education.com Cecilia S. Polanco is a local Durham community organizer and proud graduate of Durham Public Schools who believes #TheRevolutionWillBeWellFed. She is a daughter of the Salvadoran diaspora and indigenous peoples of El Salvador, a long time Durham resident, and local small business owner of So Good Pupusas social justice food truck, and founder of Pupusas for Education non profit community organization. She works in the fields of mental health advocacy, food and environmental justice, economic community development, youth development and organizing, and more just philanthropic and nonprofit systems. She values racial equity and anti-racism, intersectionality, the path from DEI to liberatory systems, building bridges of solidarity, freedom dreaming around decolonized strategies and systems, radical joy and celebration, and a visionary for a healing path forward together. As a facilitator she believes in co-creating brave spaces to grapple with both having experiences and being agents of harm, channeling our inner child in our work, and slowing down to prioritize connection, relationship, and heart centered work.

Investing: it’s not about the money. It’s about expansion. Most people invest because they want more money. Why? To feel safety and security. THE ACTUAL TRUTH is... investing for these reasons can actually be RESTRICTIVE and severely LIMIT the potential of your investment earnings and growth. Money is a made up human concept. It’s actually just a symbol to exchange value. As long as our sense of safety and security is based on it, we’ll never feel safe. Instead, we can see money and investments as always expanding and growing, just like nature and the larger universe. Listen to episode 183 of the Finance Business & Purpose Podcast to explore investing from a place of expansion, instead of restriction. Stay tuned for guided journaling questions at the end of the episode to help you APPLY this powerful reframe to increase the power of your investing strategy! >>P.S. Message me on IG @adinaappelbaum or @immigrant.finance to share: What's your EXPANSION-based reason for investing?

We stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community during these difficult times. The many escalating violent attacks against the AAPI community are one of the many manifestations of the white supremacist culture and systemic racism in this country. As described by Whitney Parnel of Service Never Sleeps, scarcity mindset - the idea that there are scarce resources, not enough for everyone, and that resources have to be taken away from others to have enough - is the source of racism. It's also the same mindset that blocks us from thriving and building wealth. Believing there are not enough resources for us is the source of many money mindset challenges. But scarcity mindset is a myth. There are enough resource for everyone. The natural state of the world and each of us comes from a place of abundance. All human lives deserve to thrive, be free, and be valued equally. There is enough for everyone in our shared humanity. Everyone should be able to live their best lives and reach their fullest potential. That is justice. Sign on to Asian American Advancing Justice's Collective Statement - "A Community-Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities." Offer a resource to support the community Donate to support Georgia’s Asian American Community.