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) Begin ancestor communion practice (unsupervised, required)

This is your foundational prerequisite — the practice of establishing a living, direct relationship with your ancestors. Using our Communing with Ancestors: Practice Guide & Foundations guidebook, you'll choose a ritual practice, commit to it 3-5 times per week, and begin documenting your experience in a living guide. This work teaches you how to listen, ask, and receive guidance from those who came before. Everything else builds on this foundation.

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: Ancestral Wealth—A Cosmology of Return

We start by reorienting your entire relationship with wealth—re-rooting into the interconnected web cosmology that guided our ancestors. You’ll shift from separated-self ontology (capitalist individualism) to interdependent web ontology. From "How much should I give?" to "What does the flow need?" From formulas that ignore context to context-sensitive stewardship.
Building 7-figures without massive privilege requires extraordinary kinetic energy - you’ll learn cosmological principles that guide your wealth-building work without extraction. You'll discover what "enough" actually means through relational assessment based on your actual web of relationships and responsibilities.
This unit weeds out elements of capitalism hiding in "liberatory" work and grounds all wealth stewardship in lived-out realities of interdependence.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Interconnected Web Map—For whom, with whom, and by whom do you steward wealth?

WEEK 2: Your Revolutionary Role is Ancestral

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. You won't be able to unsee it. This is where you stop seeking permission from systems and build internal authority that flows from knowing what you're here for.

This clarity translates into everything you do: what you build, how you offer it, and what you build to sustain your biggest vision. You'll learn to see how your lived experiences connect you to who needs you, how your gifts equip you to serve them, and how your location positions you to reach them.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Ancestral Assignment Statement—the specific liberatory wealth-building work you're marked for (think a whole lot bigger), refined, claimed with authority, and informed by your ancestor communion practice.

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

No live calls. This is community field work where you collectively calculate your Liberation Number with your people, elders, and ancestors. This is where individual assignment meets collective need.

The Shift: From individual burden and guessing at needs to collective wisdom grounded in actual community need.

You'll engage your people through intimate conversations—not extractive interviews, but dreaming together. You'll have three types of conversations: surveying what exists and what's helped, dreaming about what's possible, and hearing how they see your specific contribution. You'll learn decolonial methods of narrative inquiry and story work that ground your ongoing self-determination practice in community wisdom and ancestral guidance.
Flexibility: Choose your engagement track—deep field work with 5-7 people, lighter track with 3-5 key stakeholders, or research-focused mapping.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Annual Liberation Number—calculated WITH your community. What infrastructure does your community ask you to bring into existence? What does it cost? Who can commit to you as you do this work?

WEEK 5: Claiming Collective Wealth

This week is spiritual, somatic, and integrated. You have the number. Now you learn to HOLD it. You’ll shift from money as profane, capped by capacity ceilings → money as sacred flow through expanded capacity. This is the end of "worthiness" (a colonial trap) and the beginning of stewardship.

This week teaches you to develop the discernment to refuse corrupting wealth. You'll learn to work with multiple forms of capital, understanding that what you steward extends far beyond dollars. And you'll restore intimacy with desire rooted in care and interconnectedness, discovering that wanting good things for yourself and your people isn't greed when grounded in collective flourishing.

You'll expand your whole interconnected being to hold Liberation Numbers that feel impossibly large. You'll untangle old money narratives inherited from family, class conditioning, and colonial systems. Most importantly, you'll return to YOUR lineage to find the sacred money practices that belong to your people — what your ancestors used to bless wealth and ensure its sacred circulation.

PRACTICUM OUTPUT: Your Collective Wealth Manifesto — grounded in your ancestral rites, community relationships, and unique assignment.

WEEK 6: Commerce as Communion – Scaling with Redistribution

This week, you’ll map how to generate your liberation number, year after year, without exploitation. You’ll shift from scaling through extraction to scaling through depth and communion. From redistribution as afterthought to redistribution AS the business model.

You'll learn ancestral pricing — making financial decisions in communion with lineage, not capitalist markets. Rather than benchmarking against industry standards or charging what you think people can afford, you'll consult elders and ancestors to discern what's energetically right, what the work actually is, and what serves the assignment itself.

You'll discover how to scale through depth – maintaining quality as you grow, keeping real relationships rather than building funnels, and choosing sustainable pace over exponential growth that burns you out. And you'll learn to build redistribution into your business model from day one – practices that create margin for both your sustainability and collective work, not separation of "making money" from "giving back."

PRACTICUM OUTPUTS:
Your Ancestral Pricing Framework
Your Scaling Strategy Map—bringing all the math together to reach your Liberation Number sustainably

WEEK 7: How We Build the World that Ends Capitalism

You step into your role as a member of the council that designs and maintains post-capitalist infrastructure. You’ll shift from individual builder to council member. From "my business" to "our collective infrastructure." You'll learn what infrastructure actually is – not just programs, but systems that serve collective liberation across generations. You’ll design your business as a resource generator to sustain movements.

This week teaches you how to collaborate without transactionality – building with shared values, clear agreements, power-sharing, and transparent resource flow. You'll understand how to mobilize multiple forms of capital in service of collective building. And you'll develop both the hard skills (financial literacy, research, systems building) and soft skills (spiritual depth, energetic capacity, relationality) required for collaborative world-building.

PRACTICUM OUTPUTS: Your Liberated World-Building Skills & Capital Assessment, Your New Ancestral Infrastructure Sketch, Your Co-Funding Agreement Frameworks