Friends That Invest Subtle Signs You’re Self-Sabotaging Your Finances, with Sahaj Kohli
Jul 14, 2025
Sahaj Kohli, therapist and founder of Brown Girl Therapy, explores how inherited beliefs and emotions derail financial choices. She discusses scarcity and risk behaviors, avoidance and shame around money, and reframing deservingness and ambition. Short takes on journaling, reparenting your money self, and aligning values with earning round out the conversation.
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Money As Power And Protection
- Sahaj Kohli internalized that money equals power and protection in her immigrant household.
- That shaped her drive to earn and maintain financial independence as emotional safety.
Waitressing, Failure, And Finding Independence
- Sahaj worked as a waitress despite her parents' embarrassment because she wanted her own money.
- She failed out of college and spent her 20s finding identity and financial footing while living at home.
Inherited Gendered Money Stories
- Sahaj describes inherited, gendered money stories that cause people to step back in financial conversations.
- These stories can make women feel they don't belong in money spaces even when excludedness isn't explicit.
