NEWÂ FREE WORKSHOP

Claiming Your Ancestral Inheritance
— with Joey Liu PhD and Simone Seol
Most of what you’ve been taught about money comes from the colonial playbook.
The career paths. The business frameworks. The investment strategies and wealth-building hacks.Â
All teaching you the same thing: your safety comes from fitting into their economy, where they set the rules, reap the profits, on land they stole.Â
You’ve been trying to follow the playbook the best you can, with your humanity and values intact — and yet, you’re tired, stressed, and not where you thought you’d be.Â
That’s NOT because you’re doing it wrong, but because the game was rigged against you from the start.
That’s what we’re here to change.
Our upcoming class is called Unfucking Money.
But before we say more, we want to make something clear: this class is ONLY for people of the Global Majority.
That means people of Black, Brown, Asian, Arab, Indigenous and Pasifika descent, whose lived experiences and socialized interactions are inextricably shaped by these identities.
That means this is NOT for you if you have European ancestry and are racialized as white.
Here’s why we’re saying this clearly and upfront:
We – Joey and Simone – come from people who were colonized, whose ancestral lines were deliberately cut, whose inheritance was stolen, criminalized, destroyed, buried.
When we gather with others who share this experience, we need protected space to feel anger and grief without explaining ourselves or editing our expressions. We need to name the harm without managing anyone’s comfort. We need to envision receiving and stewarding money outside of the white gaze.
When a white person is in the room — no matter how aware and good-intentioned — it shifts the center. It makes us translate, self-censor, and manage.
And we’ve been doing that all our lives. We’re creating a place where we can stop.
If you’re white: We’ve written a Letter to White Siblings explaining more about this choice and inviting you to do parallel ancestral work.
Now, if you’re part of the Global Majority, please keep reading.
Because for too many of us, money is fucked.
And each of us needs to do something about it.
A lot of the moves you’re making in life are attached to hustling for more money… or avoiding it altogether.
Maybe you’re in constant hustle mode.
Working on weekends to make sure you’re “overdelivering.” Underpricing so no one thinks you’re greedy. Saying yes to every opportunity — because who knows if there will be another one? Checking your Stripe account obsessively, and constantly running the math in your head to see if you’ll meet your goal.
Or maybe you’ve shut down around money.
You don’t look at your bank account. You ignore bills and hope for the best. You avoid salary negotiations. You’d rather not think about money at all — even though, at some level, you’re never not thinking about it.
You don’t need to be a billionaire. You just want to have enough.
Except… what even is “enough”? Is it enough to not worry about groceries or rent? Enough to finally do the work you’re actually here for? Enough to stop worrying about retirement, or your kids’ future?Â
You tell yourself that life is about more than money. That your worth isn’t measured in dollars.
And that feels true. But if you’re being honest, your sense of freedom, your ability to show up for what matters, your capacity to be generous — it all feels bound to what’s in your bank account.
But we need to tell you something you may have forgotten.
Your ancestors have left you an inheritance.
Not necessarily in the form of cash.
We’re talking about ancestral genius, prophecies, protections, and blessings around money.
If you’re thinking: “What? What are you talking about?” — well, that’s fair.
You probably haven’t been explicitly told about this inheritance because the colonizers worked hard to sever it from you.
Most likely, your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents were forced to adopt Western languages and assimilate into Western cultures to survive.
Maybe they had no choice but to blend into Western institutions to gain legitimacy or leverage.
And in the process, so much has been forgotten, erased, distorted.
But here’s what we know about you, dear sibling:
Whether your ancestors are from Africa, Asia, the Arab world, or Indigenous lands across this earth…
Your ancestors knew how to petition the Heavens — and the Heavens answered.
They knew how to make it rain — literally.
They had brilliant strategies for collaborating with non-human kin to yield abundant harvests.
They knew how to grow, build, and trade.
They knew how to earn money, yes – but they didn’t just know how to earn. They knew how to bless, steward, and circulate what they earned.
They knew how to build sophisticated systems of commerce and exchange that generated prosperity for all.
And when terrible things happened — colonization, war, displacement, ethnic cleansing — your ancestors knew the stories and strategies of survival.
They knew how to weave hope from wounds. How to create healing potions from broken branches. How to make feasts from scraps.
They had deep subversive intelligence and a life force that saw no separation between itself and the wild abundance of the universe.
That’s your inheritance.
So most of us were taught about money by white men.
Maybe you took their online courses and attended their schools.
Maybe you read Think and Grow Rich, The 4-Hour Workweek, The Millionaire Next Door.
Maybe you were told to invest in index funds, max out your 401k, and buy real estate.
The point is: we were taught that if we work hard enough, if we serve capitalism well enough, we’ll be safe.
But that safety never comes. Because the structures themselves were designed to extract from us, not liberate us.
This is what we’ve been given, but this does not belong to us.
It’s everywhere, and it feels inescapable — but it’s not our inheritance.
We don’t have to keep carrying it.
We can choose something different.
That world as we know it is ending.
Capitalism is collapsing under its own violence. The climate crisis is already resulting in mass deaths and displacing entire communities. Democracies are failing.
The systems that have been stealing from us for centuries are breaking down in real time.
We’re in a prophetic moment.
The old structures are dying, but the new ones have not yet been born.
And dear sibling: we are the ones who will birth them.
We have future-making and culture-making work to do.
It is on us to build communities that can not only survive what’s coming, but flourish in the aftermath.
Did you know that you have a specific role in this work?Â
The ancients understood this. The original Latin word “genius” actually meant “innate spiritual power that watched over a person from birth.” In Chinese, the same idea is called “heavenly talent/portion.”
We’re not talking about a vague “calling,” but an actual job that only you can do. A prophetic vocation. One that your ancestors have marked you for.
We will help you name it.Â
Your specific gifts and even struggles, your lived experience, your location — all of it has been preparing you for work that’s yours alone.
You might not know what that is yet. You might feel it but can’t name it. Or, you might know it but feel terrified to claim it.
That’s what this class is for.
And once you begin to see your role clearly, something becomes obvious:
You can’t do this work without resources.
The vision you’re being called to build. The communities you’re meant to serve. The leadership you’re being asked to step into.
All of it requires actual material wealth.
Money.
Power.
Capacity.
This class will show you how to build differently — rooting our work in reciprocity, relationality, ancestral wisdom, and our ancestrally appointed purpose.
We will equip you to build your chest.
Who are Joey and Simone?
Joey Lieu is an educator, writer, and mama based on her ancestral homelands of Taiwan. Holding a Ph.D. in Culture & Curriculum, her narrative research centers on radical learning spaces grown from Indigenous and collective peoples’ communities. Her current work continues to intersect with decolonizing, healing, storytelling, cultivating communities of belonging, and stewarding our planet - asking: “How can we become the people we need to be to shift paradigms & sustain a healthy world?” As an online educator and coach, she teaches heart-led change-makers to channel their important wisdom and richest stories into powerful self-expression for collective liberation.Â
Simone Seol is a coach who bridges Korean spiritual wisdom with marketing and creative strategy. She came to coaching after graduate research on mental health disparities in marginalized populations and years raising funds for community health initiatives. Drawing from that foundation and multiple generations of Korean spirit workers in her lineage, she teaches entrepreneurs and creatives to build profitable businesses through decolonial frameworks that center community, reciprocity, and ancestral wisdom. Based in Seoul, she teaches globally and has mobilized well over a million dollars in community support for justice and ecological movements.
What happens in class:
This is an initiatory ritual for those who are exhausted from trying to build wealth using tools that were never made for them.
We are starting from the foundation: your relationship to your lineage.
When that relationship changes at the root level, your relationship to money changes. And when that changes, everything else does.
We won’t get there through launch strategies, business frameworks, or investment schemes.
Instead, you will discover the authority that comes from living into the role your ancestors marked you for.
You come from brilliant strategists, visionaries, and wealth-builders. You will begin to remember what they knew.
When we talk about ancestors, we’re not talking about lighting candles, making altars and meditating (though, of course, there’s a place for that, too).Â
This is about how you show up RIGHT NOW. How you price. How you negotiate. How you lead. How you hold power.
Your ancestors live in how you DO business, channeling a legacy of genius that predates capitalism itself.
When you remember this, everything shifts.
We will walk you through that threshold.
You will leave with a different center of gravity. A recalibration so deep that the old questions stop making sense.
From that space, new ones emerge.
This is what will inform every money decision you make from here forward. Who you work with. What you charge. What you build. What you refuse.
This is how we take back what was stolen. This is how we build what comes next.
The time is now.
The work is ours.
Claim your seat.
For $0.
Unfucking Money: Claiming Your Ancestral Inheritance
Wednesday, October 22, 2025: 8 - 9:30 PM EDT
A note about what comes next:
This masterclass stands on its own. It’s not a sales pitch — it’s real initiatory work that will shift something foundational in you.
That said, for those who want to go deeper, this 90-minute class is also the gateway to our 5-week immersive program, Ancestral Wealth, where we guide you through the full process of building wealth rooted in your lineage and purpose. We’ll share details after the masterclass.
Come for the free class. Take what serves you. And if you feel called to the deeper work, we’ll be here.
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