CHANTEL CHAPMAN
Founder & CEO Trauma of Money
Financial Educator & Speaker
Disrupting Patterns, Overcoming Financial Shame, Avoidance & Money Trauma
Financial shame is common in our challenging economic culture, leading to behaviors like money avoidance, hoarding, or compulsive spending. Trauma survivors may even feel shame when positive financial events occur, such as getting a raise or building wealth, which can sabotage their financial dreams and well-being. Our relationship with money is more complex than the amount we have; it involves cultivating healthy beliefs and behaviors and working through financial trauma. This talk is open to anyone looking to start or advance their journey to sustained financial independence and well-being
MONEY TALK / The Trauma of Money
WORKSHOP / Money + TRAUMA
Unpacking Financial Fawning: Empowering Women to Overcome Money Trauma
Only 36% of women have asked for a raise, not because they are too meek or suffer from “imposter syndrome.” This systemic problem cannot be reduced to a lack of confidence or financial literacy. Many of us learn to financially fawn by prioritizing everyone’s comforts over our own, even at financial risk, often due to an original trauma that could be relational, societal, or generational. If the underlying belief is that it’s selfish and greedy to ask for money or to create your own financial wealth (because you’re not caretaking), money trauma could be present. Join Chantel Chapman, founder of Trauma of Money, as she compassionately guides us through identifying and disrupting these patterns while simultaneously creating more agency around our financial pathways.
In this workshop, we will compassionately explore research-based ideas around:
• Common money disruptions experienced by women
• Financial fawning as a trauma response
• Identifying and disempowering financial trauma and scarcity mindset
• Actionable steps to decrease shame and increase discernment around money
BIO
Chantel Chapman is the CEO and co-founder of the Trauma of Money—an accredited course certifying professionals in trauma-aware and trauma-informed approaches to finance. Drawing influence from 14 years of experience as a mortgage broker, 10 years as a financial literacy consultant, and extensive research in addiction, behavioral science, trauma, community economic development, and mindfulness, Chantel is renowned for her cutting-edge, relatable, and trauma-informed money guidance. Chantel has taught and written personal and entrepreneurial finance curriculums for organizations, universities, and accelerator programs such as Humber College, Wilfrid Laurier University, Adler University, United Way, Simon Fraser University, YPO, American Psychological Association (APA), NDN Collective, YWCA, REDF and EntrepreNorth. Chantel was the lead player on building Canada's first-ever, award-winning digital mortgage experience with free credit score, and a consultant on several other innovative products for one of Canada's largest Fintech brands. Chantel is also a member of the National Task Force for Economic Justice, supporting CCFWE's mission to end economic and financial abuse by empoweing all women and those who identify as being women. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Real Simple Magazine and Refinery 29.
Chantel is a settler of European descent who works and resides on the stolen traditional lands of the Kwantlen (kwaant·luhn), Musqueam (“mus-kwee-um”) and Tswassen (saa·wa·sn) peoples.