Disrupt Your Money: Liberation through Financial Education for Marginalized Business Owners
Disrupt Your Money: Liberation through Financial Education for Marginalized Business Owners
Meg K. Wheeler
Who Gets to Be “High Net Worth”? Redefining Wealth for Our Communities
15 minutes Posted Feb 3, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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Who decided “high net worth” starts at a certain dollar amount in an investment account, and why do so few of those definitions include us in the picture? In this episode, Meg takes apart the idea of being “high net worth” and asks a bigger, better question instead: what does wealth actually mean for our communities? She looks at how the financial industry use labels like “mass affluent” and “HNW” to decide who gets access and support, and how those labels were built on stolen land, unpaid la...