How we got here

Professor Joey's path: Two decades of teaching in systems designed to break people. Watching brilliant students from the Global Majority shrink themselves to fit white academic frameworks. Years of somatic healing after her body said enough to colonial violence. A PhD investigating how colonization lives in our curriculum, our classrooms, our very conception of what "knowledge" is.

Then: the decision to leave. To return to Taiwan. To raise her children on land her Hakka ancestors knew. To build education that liberates instead of extracts.

Professor Simone's path: Studying liberation theology and researching community mental health, before being led back to her ancestral lands to start a business under the guidance of elders. Building a coaching business to eight figures, while seeing the teachings of Eastern traditions get appropriated and distorted by opportunistic white leaders – while practitioners of color were relegated to the sidelines. Witnessing the vast gap between how her culture has taught her to instinctively enjoy and redistribute wealth, and Western money mindsets rooted in scarcity and separation.

What brought us together: bone-deep knowing that we were tired of teaching people to succeed in broken systems.

We wanted to teach reconstruction.

The shoulders we stand on, and the lineages we carry

We undertake this work, but the work does not belong to us. It belongs to the ancestors who built economies before capitalism taught us to call them "superstitious" and "primitive."

It belongs to the Indigenous teachers who've been screaming that land, lineage, and liberation are inseparable — and who've been systematically erased, tokenized, or ignored.

Professor Joey carries the Hakka lineage of migration, resilience, and radical community care. The Irish lineage of storytelling as resistance. The teachings of Kanaka Maoli elders who taught her that land remembers, that protocol matters, that reciprocity is law.

Professor Simone carries Korean lineage of shamanic and Buddhist practitioners and teachers. The lineage of men and women who survived war, occupation and poverty through sheer spiritual fortitude and creativity. 

We are NOT inventing this work; we are answering to our ancestors, who call upon us to teach this work.

They tell us it will reach the ones who are marked for it.

Our Curriculum 

Before the course starts

(1) Ancestor communion practice (unsupervised, required)

Upon enrollment, you'll receive the pre-requisite teaching. You'll learn methods for establishing direct relationship with your lineage and develop your own working theory of ancestral presence.  You practice alone before the cohort convenes.

Why? If you don't have an actual practice for communing with your ancestors, the language of this work becomes metaphor—poetic but powerless.

(2) Complete the free course: Building Post-Capitalist Wealth. 

You work through the four workbooks that establish the foundation.

The 8-week structure

The actual course spans 8 weeks, including:

• 5 live teaching & coaching calls* (2 hours each)
• Ongoing asynchronous coaching throughout (not just on call days)
• 2 weeks of community field work** outside of the classroom (no live calls)
• 1 integration week (dedicated asynchronous support as you complete your manifesto)

* Each teaching week begins with pre-work — shifting beliefs and closing knowledge gaps before the live session. You arrive to the call ready to go deeper, not hearing concepts for the first time.

** During field work weeks, you will: conduct needs assessments in your actual community, interview community members and elders, and calculate collective liberation budgets through field research.

Live sessions

Each call consists of:

• Interactive teaching where Joey and Simone bring big-picture inspiration and reverse-engineered scaffolding, breaking down complex ancestral wisdom into practical, actionable steps
• Spotlight coaching where you share your work in real time — presenting your calculations, receiving feedback, being seen as you step into your expanded capacity

Then comes the vital work of lasting integration: somatic practices, ritual, ceremony, and lineage research that move this wisdom through your body and into your relationships. This isn't intellectual understanding, but embodied knowing.

Each week includes "Practicum Work" — tangible outputs you create. By the end, your workbooks will be full of YOUR specific work, not generic templates.

Professors Joey and Simone teach together as living proof of non-transactional, decolonized collaboration. Their partnership models what's possible when we build outside capitalist extraction.

This course is counter-pedagogy to the white-co-opted spirituality dominating the coaching industry. It's designed to apprentice you into the necessary wealth stewardship work that actually liberates you and your people.

Weekly Curriculum

WEEK 1: Reclaiming What Was Stolen

Your lineage's financial history includes systematic theft and interruption. We start by seeing exactly where your ancestral wealth trajectory was cut off. You'll discover what your ancestors knew about abundance, trade, and collective wealth before colonization tried to destroy it. You'll learn to use imagination the way your forebearers did: as sacred technology that changes material reality. The inheritance waiting for you is far greater than cash — it includes prophecies, protections, and blessings. By week's end, your ancestors become your living reference point, not theory.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Wealth Recovery Number — the exact dollar amount your lineage needs you to reclaim.

WEEK 2: Your Niche Ancestral Assignment

This is where thinking small powerlessly dies. You've been measuring yourself by colonial metrics: productivity, credentials, market value. This week, we shift you into a deep self-belief you've never felt before. It happens when you discover your genius/"heavenly portion"/mana — the specific work only you can do, which your ancestors have marked you for. Your suffering, gifts, and location have prepared you for this exact work. You won't be able to unsee it, and this will translate to unshakeable clarity in everything you do: what you build, how you offer it, and what you ask for from those who are changed by it. This is where you stop seeking permission from systems and build internal authority that flows from knowing what you're here for.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Ancestral Assignment Statement — the specific work you're marked for (think a whole lot bigger), named with unshakeable authority.

WEEKS 3 & 4: PRACTICUM FIELD WORK — Collective Liberation Math

No live calls. This is community field work. You take what you've learned into your community and collectively calculate your Liberation Number. This is where individual assignment meets collective need.

You'll engage with your people — conducting needs assessments, consulting elders, receiving ancestral guidance — to uncover the real number your prophetic work requires. Not what you've been told to want, not what seems reasonable, but what it actually takes to do what you're marked for in service to collective liberation.

You choose your level of engagement: full field work with 10-15 community members, a lighter track with key stakeholders, or research-focused mapping of existing systems. AI can serve as your research partner. This practicum honors participation sovereignty — you design what serves your assignment and capacity.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Annual Liberation Number — calculated with your community, elders, and ancestors. This is what your post-capitalist world-building work actually costs.

WEEK 5: Claiming Collective Wealth

There's a real number. An actual dollar amount your work requires. You calculated it. Now you claim it.

This week, you learn to hold Liberation Numbers that feel impossibly large. You discover how to communicate your needs without shame or apology. You'll see the direct line between the money you make and your people's freedom in specific and material ways. You learn ancestral pricing frameworks — making financial decisions in communion with your ancestors, not capitalist markets.

This is the end of "worthiness" (a colonial trap) and the beginning of stewardship. This is the end of negotiating with scarcity, and the end of liberation as a metaphor or a "vibe." We build power with numbers.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Ancestral Pricing Framework — how you make financial decisions in communion with your lineage — not capitalist markets — to sustain the redistribution channels you're marked to become.

WEEK 6: Commerce as Communion

If marketing feels exhausting, makes you shrink, and doesn't bring in a flowing stream of ample money... this week, we offer you a paradigmatic shift.

Your ancestors knew how to build relationship, reputation, and resources in a way that made people want to stay, return, and bring others. They practiced invitation and reciprocity, not interruption and convincing. They integrated material and spiritual wealth as one sacred system. This week, you learn to do business the way they did.

You'll also learn to practice refusal as ancestral protection — because not all money is good money. You'll establish sacred money rituals for receiving, holding, and redistributing wealth. This is the end of performing, convincing, and chasing. Money will find you, because it won't be able to help itself. You become the invitation.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Reciprocity Map + Sacred Money Rituals — who you're inviting in, how resources flow, how to communicate your work with your people, and the ceremonies that keep you aligned.

WEEK 7: How We Build the World that Ends Capitalism

You've been taught that money is dirty. Corrupting. That caring about it makes you less spiritual. That's colonialism, not your ancestors.

Your lineages blessed money and honored resources. They stewarded both as sacred. This week, you learn what that actually means — and you step into your role as a member of the council that designs and maintains post-capitalist infrastructure.

You'll learn to think in generations, not quarters. You'll understand how to mobilize all forms of capital: financial, social, cultural, human, natural, built, political, intellectual, and spiritual. You'll identify a system you could steward and create a feasibility sketch — not a launch-ready plan, but groundwork for collaborative world-building.

Money will move through your hands with purpose. It will free everyone it touches, every place it lands. THIS is how we end capitalism — not as solo entrepreneurs, but as council members building together.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your New Ancestral Infrastructure Sketch — a real system for you to steward, with collaborators identified, co-funding structures mapped, and feasibility tested. 

WEEK 8: Integration & Manifesto

You'll receive personalized guidance from Joey, Simone, and peers, and submit your complete portfolio for feedback. You will also participate in an asynchronous completion ceremony. 

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Ancestral Wealth Stewardship Manifesto — your living commitment to post-capitalist wealth stewardship.

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