It’s a source of stress, excitement, embarrassment, joy, shame, fear and anxiety. It can breed family tension, cause fights and ruin friendships. Or it can be how you express gratitude, support others, and create something meaningful. It can make you jealous of your peers (or your peers jealous of you). It may even be how you were taught to measure your success at work and in life.
We’re talking about money. And we all have complicated relationships with it.
Our emotions and money are deeply interlinked, yet money is still a very taboo topic for many people.
But how can we solve a problem if we don’t talk about it?
How can you make very personal decisions —asking for a raise at work, buying your first home, lending money to family, you name it — without talking about it?
How can you benefit from the collective financial wisdom of women who’ve already gone through what you’re going through, who understand how you feel and want to help …. if you don’t talk about it?
These are the questions and challenges we’re striving to solve with our series, “Insights & Outcomes: Conversation Circles for Women.”
Insights & Outcomes is a series that The Humphreys Group has been hosting for over five years. Our Conversation Circles provide an opportunity for women to have authentic discussions about money — our fears, our successes, our memories, and the attitudes, behaviors and legacies we’ve adopted over the years. We won’t be talking about spreadsheets or investment strategies. Instead, the Circle is for learning from each other and from ourselves.
At our Conversation Circles, we listen and provide each other support constructively and nonjudgmentally. Our circles consist of a group of 12–15 women sitting together and talking about money and everything that goes with it.
Each Conversation Circle is guided by a specific topic, such as “Let’s Get Curious! What’s Your Money Story?” or “Navigating Difficult Money Conversations with Loved Ones.” During the two-hour event, we also participate in activities like writing exercises or breaking into pairs to share experiences or discussing research on the topic to put it into a broader context. Our conversation circles are currently virtual, but when we hold our circles in person, we always end with food, beverages and more thoughtful conversation.
We continue to be inspired by the impact that a group of women, talking together, can create. We have seen, time and again, that self‐reflection begets self‐knowledge, which in turn boosts self‐confidence. Such conversations lead women to engage more confidently with their financial lives, improve their relationships and feel good about money once and for all.
Are you interested in participating in a future Conversation Circle? Want to partner with our team to host a Circle of your own? Contact us today.
It’s time we talked about personal finance beyond the numbers.
We are all learning firsthand the essential nature of human connection and the crucial role that technology can play in fostering it.
Our Circles are now virtual due to the pandemic, but we’ve found that these conversations have been just as thought-provoking, moving, and unifying as our in-person gatherings. We would love for you to join us at one!
Reach out to our team today to take part in our next Virtual Conversation Circle.
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