My Story and My Money Comeback
I didn't figure this out in school. I figured it out the hard way.
And now I'm passing on everything I wish someone had told me.
Let me be real with you from the start: I am not a certified financial planner. I don't have a degree in finance. What I have is something a lot of those people don't — I've been in the actual hole.
I've ignored bills. I've had collection calls I didn't pick up. I've filed for bankruptcy. I've sat with the particular shame of not knowing how I got so far behind — or how to get out.
And then I decided I was done.
Not in a dramatic, movie-moment kind of way. In a quiet, "I'm going to figure this out one step at a time" kind of way. I started reading everything I could find. I pulled my credit report for the first time and actually looked at it. I made a list of every debt I owed — the real list, the one that scared me to write down. And I started working it.
Within months, my credit score was moving. Not because I had extra money. Not because I found some loophole. Because I understood, for the first time, how the system actually worked — and I stopped being afraid of it.
That's when I knew I had to share this.
Why Black women specifically?
Because I am one. And because I know how different our relationship with money can be — shaped by what we watched growing up, what we were told (or not told), the weight of being the one everyone else leans on, and the very specific exhaustion of trying to hold it together when the numbers don't add up.
We are not bad with money. We were handed less, taught less, and expected to figure it out anyway. That's not a personal failure. That's a system that wasn't built for us.
My Money Comeback is built for us.
What I believe:
You can change your financial situation at any age and any starting point.
Shame is the biggest obstacle — not intelligence, not income.
You don't need a financial advisor to take your first (or next) ten steps.
Small, consistent moves create real change. Every time.
You deserve to stop dreading your own bank account.
What I offer:
Practical tools, honest conversation, and a community of women who are all starting somewhere — some from scratch, some from the middle, some from further back than they want to admit. All of them moving forward.