If you’ve ever been told “if you can’t beat the system, join it” and felt your whole body go NOPE—this one’s for you.

Meg digs into a hard truth: most of the systems we move through every day—money, tax, healthcare, education, “justice”—were never designed to make space for us. They were designed to protect wealth, maintain power, and then gaslight us into thinking our struggles are personal failures instead of predictable outcomes of a rigged game.

In this episode, you’ll hear how that rigging shows up in credit scores, redlining, business funding, healthcare premiums, and student loans—and what it really means to “burn it down” versus “build something better.”

⏱️ In This Episode:

00:00 The System Was Never Built for Us

01:35 The Economy Built on Stolen Land & Labor

02:42 Playing a Rigged Game: Credit, Banking & Redlining

03:00 Entrepreneurship Under Biased Systems

04:53 Healthcare Costs, Premium Tax Credits & the Price of Freedom

06:48 Mutual Aid, Co-ops & Building New Systems

07:59 What You Can Control vs What You Can’t

08:41 Our Own Systems: Lending Circles, Rest & Ethical Wealth

10:52 Anger as Sacred Fuel & Building What Comes Next

🔗 Mentioned in This Episode:

👉 Mutual aid networks & community care
👉 Cooperative business models & community banks
👉 Worker-owned companies, credit unions & local businesses
👉 Informal lending circles, bartering & community markets
👉 Community investment funds, universal healthcare, debt forgiveness & fair lending as policy goals

💬 Connect with Us:

🌐 Website → https://equitablemoneyproject.com
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🎧 Podcast → https://equitablemoneyproject.com/podcast

🚀 Your Next Step:
Ready to make your money match your values and help build the next system, not just survive the old one? Download our free Wealth is Resistance Action Kit → https://equitablemoneyproject.com/kit