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Karen Santos @karen__santos 1 (4) - Berna Anat

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CEO & Founder of Sweet Mango Therapy Group, Inc.

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CEO & Founder of Sweet Mango Therapy Group, Inc.

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IG @christine.r.melendres

@sweetmangotherapy

@therapinxy

www.sweetmangotherapy.com

https://fylpro.org/

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Third-gen Perfumer & Founder of Karl Marie

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Third-gen Perfumer & Founder of Karl Marie

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Berna Anat is an award-winning author, producer, speaker, co-founder, rich auntie in training, and Financial Hype Woman—which is her made-up way of saying she creates financial education media for young BIPOC.

A proud Filipina-American daughter of immigrants, she taught herself how to pay off over $50,000 of debt and did what any Millennial would do: Yell about it on the internet.

Berna’s 2023 debut book with HarperCollins, MONEY OUT LOUD: All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us, is a Bookshop.org BESTSELLER and has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist.

Berna is the co-founder and Head of Community & Culture at New Dimes, a network for first-generation breadwinners moving past stability to generate wealth and make progressive change.

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Sylvia L. Blalock is no stranger to the Empowering Womxn of Color conference.

Sylvia has been a committee member for EWOCC as well as workshop presenter, open mic performer, Theme artist and audio-visual coordinator.

Sylvia was empowered by her experiences with EWOCC to make a pivot on her own trajectory.

In 2020, she fired her job and launched Queendom Network, in an effort to utilize her skills as a graphic designer and writer to bring women and paying projects together.

She has provided opportunities for poets, artists, musicians, chefs and more through coordinating meetups, interviewing people live on her show, Poetry in the Raw or otherwise facilitating connection.

Sylvia considers the Empowering Womxn of Color Conference to be one of the most cherished and pivotal events of every year she has attended.

Sylvia Blalock is a student at Diablo Valley College, pursuing a degree in Business Administration.

She is the owner of Queendom.Network and the author of "Uprising: A book of Poetry".

When not planning for the next chapter of life with her husband and business partner, Stevan Edgecombe, she works on building community alliances and artistic opportunities for resistance.

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IG @houseofkarlmarie

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Christine R. Melendres, LCSW, is the Founder of Sweet Mango Therapy Group, Inc., a psychotherapy group practice dedicated to serving the Filipina/x/o and AAPI community.

With a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an MSW from San Francisco State University, Christine specializes in empowering Filipina and AAPI women through culturally responsive, trauma-informed care.

A Certified Brainspotting Therapist, she addresses issues such as burnout, anxiety, depression, trauma, and imposter syndrome.

As the Bay Area Chapter Lead for Therapinay and a board member of the Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO), Christine advocates for mental health and wellness within the Filipinx community.

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Kyra Lumpkin is a third-generation perfumer with over 20 years of aroma chemical experience.

Growing up, Kyra Lumpkin lived in pretty much every major city in the United States. With every new environment, she quickly learned that the concept of home had to mean more than just four walls.

“I had to make peace with the idea that home was not going to be a place for me,” says Lumpkin.

“It was always going to be an ideal or set of people or a moment in time.

Fragrance is my way of keeping a little bit of every home I've ever had."

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http://www.queendom.network

https://www.youtube.com/@SylviaBlalock0111 https://www.facebook.com/authorsylvialblalock https://www.linkedin.com/in/slblalock/

IG @sylvia.blalock

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IG @heyberna

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So no one taught you about money, either?
We got you.

In this fully-illustrated, deeply-unserious guide to money, Berna Anat-aka, the Financial Hype Woman-freaks out her immigrant parents by doing the unthinkable:

Click a seller below to pre-order
MONEY OUT LOUD

Hitting shelves April 25, 2023

WHAT'S A BERNA?

Berna Anat, aka @heyberna, is a first-gen Filipina-American producer, author, rich unmarried auntie and Financial Hype Woman. (She made that up, but it's her job now, so-- 🤸🏾‍♀️)

After teaching herself to pay off over $50,000 debt, she's been traveling the world trying to make money less male, pale and stale for young BIPOC everywhere. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes and Buzzfeed.

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Berna is the host and producer of the Money Please podcast with Betches
Media. She has been named the Plutus Award's Most Entertaining Financial Content Creator two years in a row, and was named one of ABS-CBN's Global Pinoy Idols, recognizing the most influential Filipinx folks in the United States.

... Yes, she's Filipina. Yes, she's sure.

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Berna paid off $50,000 in debt, and yeah, she'll teach you how she did it.

But the real gems are the personal community stories in every chapter, from students to influencers to Berna's own immigrant parents. (Yup.)

Every chapter starts with advice from our favorite financial experts (who are also all women, non-binary, and/or BIPOC). Every chapter ends with specific action steps to dig into your financial brain.

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So no one taught you about money, either? Let's figure this $h*t out together. In this fully-illustrated, deeply-unserious guide to money, Berna Anat-aka, the Financial Hype Woman-freaks out her immigrant parents by doing the unthinkable: Talking about money. Loudly.

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Many of us were raised in a culturally Matriarchal structure…

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Many of us were raised in a culturally Matriarchal structure…

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What advice would you give your younger self, about finding your sense of purpose in a Matriarchal system, while nurturing your own independence?

(IYKYK)

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The trials and tribulations of our ancestors shaped OUR current mental health + identity.

How can we break cycles of trauma, while honoring our ancestral roots?

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The current, political climate seems to be ushering in a new dynamic in women across all ethnic groups in the US.

More than ever, we need to connect, as there is strength in numbers.

How can we support and nurture these connections?

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How can we contribute to our community with appropriate boundaries?

(think ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’ book, or being viewed as a “cash cow”, opportunism)

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How can we shift engrained, generational patterns of “wealth mentality” for the benefit of our future selves?

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How do we keep the threads of network and connection strengthened between WOCI, EWOCC and its community supporters?

What can we proactively do to empower womxn of color between conferences?

We love the idea of continuing connections, but it fizzles after the conference is complete.

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Some consider their relationship with their inner child to be foundational: does this resonate with you?

If so, please share.

If not, has there been another moment where you reflected on your identities and reconnected back to your past or prior experiences? Your foundational experiences?

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How do you nurture your community with your career?

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Was there an occurrence in your youth that changed the way you choose to present yourself in society?

(think: masking, performative identity, code switching)