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I’m Rahkim Sabree, a financial trauma expert, keynote speaker, and author. I help audiences and teams understand why money feels the way it does, and what to do about it.
“I read this and finally understood why I felt panic looking at a bank balance that was perfectly fine. It wasn’t about the math. It was never about the math.”
Budget. Save. Invest. We hand people the rules, then wonder why they can’t follow them. The advice treats money as math. Your habits answer to something the spreadsheet never sees: what you lived through.
Money beliefs and wounds handed down through your family.
What you absorbed watching someone else struggle with money.
What scarcity and debt leave behind.
Underpayment and job insecurity that follow you home.
Harm from systems that were never built for you.
The money stories handed down by family and culture.
Financial trauma is real, and you can heal it. This book gives what you have been carrying a name and a way through. Written for anyone who was told they were just bad with money.
My work rests on two frameworks. One helps individuals heal. The other helps advisors and organizations do that work without causing more harm.
The framework at the heart of the book and course. It moves you from naming the wound to rebuilding how you handle money, starting with safety.
For advisors, coaches, and teams. Learn to create safety with clients who carry financial trauma, and lead money conversations that don’t reopen the wound. Taught through keynotes and workshops.
Rahkim gave language to something I’d carried my whole life. After the keynote, our entire team talks about money differently — with less shame and more honesty.
The most important voice working at the intersection of money and mental health right now. Essential for anyone who serves clients around their finances.
I finally understood why I felt panic looking at a bank balance that was perfectly fine. It wasn’t about the math. It was never about the math.
This work meets money where it really lives: in your body and your history, not your spreadsheet.
I’m Rahkim Sabree, a financial trauma expert, author, and speaker. I help people and organizations get to the root of their money struggles through speaking, workshops, and writing. My work has appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, TIME, Black Enterprise, and beyond.
Beyond the book, I work directly with organizations and individuals, using the same frameworks behind it: The 3E’s™ and The TRUST Framework™.