Sensuality, Spirituality, and Spreadsheets: Reclaiming Financial Leadership in a Way That Feels Like You

Your Way of Doing Money Was Never Meant to Fit Their System

When you come from a community where financial survival meant sacrifice, and where ancestral wisdom was passed down in food, rituals, faith, and fierce resourcefulness—you understand that money is more than math.

It’s memory. It’s culture. It’s resistance.

For many of us in the West Indian diaspora—and for those from other historically excluded communities—traditional financial education never felt like it was speaking to us. It wasn’t built for our nervous systems, our lived experiences, or our way of relating to abundance.

The Brown Girl CFO™ exists to change that.

Sensuality Is a Sacred Response to Colonized Capitalism

In many West Indian households, pleasure with money was taboo.

We were taught to stretch a dollar, not enjoy it.

To survive, not thrive.

But your body remembers softness. Your senses crave presence.

Bringing sensuality into your financial practices isn’t selfish—it’s decolonial.

Sensuality in money might look like:

• Lighting a candle while reviewing your income

• Checking your accounts in clothes that make you feel powerful

• Listening to Soca, Chutney, or dancehall while closing out your books

• Sipping something sweet while giving thanks for what’s flowing in

This is sacred reclamation. Pleasure is not the opposite of discipline—it’s how we stay in relationship with what we once feared.

Spirituality Anchors You to Something Bigger

Whether you connect to Spirit through prayer, the ocean, ancestral altars, astrology, or your grandmother’s voice, your money doesn’t need to be separate from your spiritual path.

Spirituality gives your money context. Purpose. Ground.

A spiritual money practice might include:

• Tracking income during the Waxing Moon

• Honoring your ancestors when you invest in your business

• Speaking to your money like it’s a living, breathing relationship

• Dedicating your earnings to something beyond survival—like joy, art, or legacy

For many of us, spirituality was how we survived what systems tried to erase.

Let it also be the container that holds your expansion.

Spreadsheets Can Be Sacred Too

You might not have grown up seeing spreadsheets.

Maybe money felt confusing, intimidating, or like something you should leave to someone else.

But knowing your numbers is not assimilation. It’s sovereignty.

When you tend to your money, you’re tending to your voice, your boundaries, and your future.

Building financial structure can feel like:

• Clarity after confusion

• Peace instead of panic

• Power instead of avoidance

Spreadsheets don’t erase your culture.

They hold it—when you’re the one leading them.

Let This Be the Start of Your Sacred Money Leadership

You don’t need to erase who you are to lead your finances.

You don’t need to do money like “they” do it.

You don’t need to shrink, harden, or compromise your softness to show up as the CFO of your life and business.

Inside The Brown Girl CFO™, we teach financial education through a culturally affirming, spiritually grounded, decolonial lens. You’ll learn to lead your money in ways that feel both sacred and strategic—without letting go of your identity, your intuition, or your roots.

This is not about perfection. It’s about presence.

You are already the one you’ve been waiting for.

For more culturally rooted financial education, spiritual business strategy, and sacred money content, follow along at @thebrowngirlcfo.

To Love, Money, and Magick,

Karen Gargiso