During this live recording from the bigBANG! Mainstage, Think will interview Jasmine Rashid, bigBANG! Speaker, on her recently published book The Financial Activist Playbook
We don’t need to choose between creating meaningful wealth for ourselves and our families today, or supporting social movements creating a better tomorrow. We don’t all need to become certified financial “experts” to be economically empowered and make a real difference in our communities. And we’re far from powerless when it comes to changing the financial system, just because we don’t happen to belong to the 1%. Quite the opposite.
Financial activism is how everyday people radically reimagine money as a tool for widespread well-being, instead of a weapon of absurdly increasing inequality. It’s the antidote to traditional finance that evokes confusion, trauma, and (in the best-case scenario) straight-up boredom. It’s how we—the underestimated—collectively resist systems that cause harm to people and the planet for the sake of profit, reclaim wealth that’s been stolen, and redesign our relationships with capital and one another, in ways big and small.
Going beyond tried financial literacy, The Financial Activist Playbook offers eight accessible, actionable, “choose-your-own-adventure” strategies for readers to experiment with. Drawing on timely insider knowledge from the worlds of impact investing, social justice, and more, Rashid illuminates a treasure trove of stories: demonstrating how people power can flow big bucks out of extractive industries, and into the economy of care and abundance we deserve.
Robert A. Hunt
Director of Global Theological Education,
The Perkins School of Theology, SMU (moderator)
District 4 County Commissioner Dallas County Commissioners Court
Rev. Irene Sessions
CEO, DreamBIG
Rev. Mitchell Boone,
Senior Pastor, First UMC
Chris Duffy
Comedian,Television Writer, and Radio/Podcast Host
