 For many of us, managing personal finances and planning for long-term financial goals can be the cause of many sleepless nights. Whether you’re building an emergency fund, planning for a large purchase or looking to gain financial freedom, access to a financial advisor can help you get closer to these goals.
Financial advisors are financial professionals who are able to guide us in making the best financial decisions for the goals we are wanting to reach. But with this decision-making comes sharing confidential and often sensitive information. For Black LGBTQ+ womxn and non-binary people, finding a financial advisor becomes a more complicated task in that the advisor not only needs to be able to provide financial advice but also need to be an ally to the community to help create a space in which we feel comfortable in sharing the type of information needed to gain the most benefits from their services. That’s why we’ve put together four tips to consider when looking for your own financial advisor:  Some of the best novels were written by artistic and gifted Black women. Books like “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)” by Maya Angelou and “The Color Purple (1944)” by Alice Walker paved the way for Black female writers everywhere. Being able to depict unsettling and gripping retelling of their personal stories and fictional ones so intensely and vividly is one of the many reasons why books written by Black women have become the literary landscape of the 21st Century. We get to experience and explore dialogues on class, capitalism, race, family, love, and more.
We believe Black writers have some of the strongest and most vivid voices in literature so it is only right that we share with you some of our favourite reads by Black women so you can expand your library and immerse yourself in their stories.  As the year comes to a close, so does the very first run of our Financial Inclusion programme here at My Moon Landing. Over the past two months, we had the pleasure of interacting with our participants from London and Glasgow, as well as being a part of the incredible learning process that took place over the course of the programme.
My Moon Landing’s Financial Inclusion programme aims to provide Black women with the indispensable support and advice they need to kick-start planning for their personal financial future. In our final session in the month of November, titled “Financial Analysis”, we discussed the difference between income and wealth, and how to slowly but steadily improve your financial habits to increase both. With the help of our Financial Expert Fi Titus, participants went through the details of comprehensive personal budgeting tools, to keep track of day-to-day expenses while also planning for the future. 12/14/2022 Black British Women To Look Out For In 2023 We have always believed that in telling our own stories, we can finally see Black women in all of their fullness. We have to take it upon ourselves to document our own lives in order for our stories to stay alive and live on. This means we have to share and advocate our stories from our diverse communities into the mainstream more. Historian Jade Bentil shared with Refinery29 that “Black women’s historical narratives are either rendered completely visible under the gaze of whiteness, or an extremely sanitised version that flattens the complexities of our lives is authored by non-black gatekeepers, both within and outside the academy," Black women have been successful visionaries and pioneers in many white and male-dominated industries, and as the world evolves, Black women continue to create and contribute to sectors such as tech, finance, education, entrepreneurship, wellness, and many others. This article serves to recognise and celebrate Black British women who are presently building legacies and changing the narrative of what it means to be a Black woman. Please note, this order is in no way or form of any importance.  October was an exciting month for Do it Now Now’s initiative, My Moon Landing, as we officially kicked off our Financial Inclusion programme for Black womxn based in London and Glasgow. One of our key goals for the initiative is to help Black womxn build a strong financial future, and along with our sister programme at Black and Good which helps Black entrepreneurs develop business skills, My Moon Landing’s Financial Inclusion programme aims to provide Black womxn with indispensable support and advice they need to kick start planning for their personal financial future.
The programme was run in collaboration with our Expert in Residence Afiya Titus, whose work revolves around supporting self-employed and small business owners with finance and business development. With her support, we organised two sessions in the month of October themed on personal finance and growth. |