Waking Up Wealthy with Isha Vela

Isha Vela

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Welcome to Waking Up Wealthy, the podcast for visionaries and rebels who are ready to revolutionize their relationship with money and create powerful collective ripples with the money they make. I'm your host, Isha Vela—trauma psychologist, somatic practitioner, financial professional, and minimalist—bringing you practical money tools, unconventional wealth perspectives, and Aquarian era business strategies to guide you in building wealth that's aligned, ethical, and empowering. Let's wake up to the true meaning of wealth together.

Recent Episodes

OCT 10, 2026
6.18 | Mycelium Lore and Trust Origin Story with Magdalene Bandorai
Magdalene Bandorai and Isha Vela are releasing the full lore origin story. Three months ago, they didn't know each other. Today they're co-founding a global matriarchal community together. For the opening of Mycelium, their global matriarchal community, they recorded an unfiltered account of how they found each other and why they decided to say "Fuck it, yes" and trust. Because underneath all of it, TRUST is the thread that holds the whole thing together. Trusting yourself when something feels right before you can explain why. Trusting the process of building trust with someone new. Trusting the universe when it puts the exact right person in your path at the exact right moment. For the record, Magdalene is a feral, unhinged Capricorn stellium mama bear tending matriarchy. She has a background in corporate accounting and network marketing, where she built a multiple six-figure business before losing it all to betrayal, burnout, and long Covid. Creator of Matriarchal Communities Network on Facebook, Magdalene now uses her skills to create structures and systems that center life, mothers, and children. This episode is fun, sweet, and real, the most honest BTS account of what it actually takes to build something matriarchal. Follow Magdalene on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@magdalenebandorai?_r=1&_t=ZP-9AKU6LAP7Hj Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini-course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute
32 MIN
SEP 26, 2026
6.17 | Building an Ungovernable Business Using PMAs with Angela Merzib
In this conversation with Angela Merzib, you'll learn how Private Membership Associations (PMAs) allow your business to exist in its own jurisdictional bubble where you can create your own rules about how you operate. Angela Merzib is the founder of Be Bold Branding and Sacred, where she teaches brilliant business owners to build businesses on their own terms, in the private domain. There are very specific steps you have to follow in order for your PMA to not cross into the public domain, where most businesses become subject to the registration and regulatory/tax framework of the state you're formed in. In 42 minutes, you'll have tools to create a legal business structure that's as sovereign as you are. Follow Angela to her website: www.beboldbranding.com Get inside Sacred Rebellion, Angela's PMA mastermind community: www.thesacredrebellion.co Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute
44 MIN
SEP 11, 2026
6.16 | Matriarchy as a Marketing Tool
When everyone slaps "matriarchy" on a co-housing community, a leadership coaching course, and a business model without having the ACTUAL infrastructure, it dilutes both the meaning and the movement. Matriarchy is not vibes or an aesthetic. It's a blueprint for a more humane and connected way of living. On today's episode, we're talking about what matriarchy actually is and isn't. I outline the four must-have pillars of matriarchal infrastructure, in other words, what's required legally and somatically for matriarchy to become real and established for the long game: Ownership Governance Wealth Systems Embodiment In approximately 30 minutes, you'll know what gaps you need to close in your co-housing ownership structure, your leadership structures, in how you move money through your business, and in how you share power. Get the transcripts and learn more on my website: www.ishavela.com/podcast Ready to move money like a matriarch? Access FLOW, my free email mini course that'll change how you think about financial stewardship forever and have you moving money like a matriarch within the week: https://links.eschub.com/widget/form/TvsJJKnkNzW8C3R7VGUH Apply to book your customized, complimentary financial strategy session: https://www.vortex-collective.com/client-intake Apply to join my coven of financial matriarchs on a mission to create lineage and legacy wealth: https://www.vortex-collective.com/expansion-intake Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wealthecologyinstitute
30 MIN