What if the reason you can't look at your bank account isn't laziness — it's a wound that's been centuries in the making?

Emily Ersher came to do Ashley's taxes. They ended up talking for two hours about shadow work, eagle spirit guides circling outside the window, and why the thing that makes you flinch every time wealth gets close might be the exact same thing that got women killed for centuries.

Emily is a CPA and tax strategist who believes money is taboo for a reason — and that reason goes a lot deeper than spreadsheets. She works with creatives, business owners, and neurodivergent humans across the US to turn taxes into a tool for empowerment, and she does it by holding both the strategic and the energetic in the same breath. She's also deeply intuitive, endlessly well-read, and the kind of person who sees ten eagles outside her window during your accounting call and knows exactly what they mean.

This isn't a financial literacy episode. It's a reckoning with every story you inherited about who gets to be good with money — and a permission slip to start building wealth from your whole, weird, witchy, fully integrated self.

We dive into:

• Why money might be more taboo than sex (and what that reveals about the systems we inherited)
• The safety prerequisite: why we literally cannot absorb new information, new wealth, or new connection until we feel safe enough to receive it
• Going from birthday candle to bonfire — and why a bigger light comes with bigger responsibility (and why that's actually the good news)
• The witch wound and the money wound as the same wound: the centuries-long history of being punished, silenced, and burned for being seen
• How hyper-independence shows up in your QuickBooks — and what to do about it
• The soul of money: why every dollar isn't the same and why intention is what actually runs the show
• Maslow's hierarchy, the indigenous wisdom of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in Alberta, Canada at its actual foundation, and why community is a survival need — not a luxury
• What it looks like to cast a literal spell on your taxes (yes, really)
• The trading economy question: what would reciprocity look like if money wasn't always the easy button?
• VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Association) and the resources that actually close the gap for early-stage business owners
• Why overspending and spending shame are often symptoms of the same wound

• Building a sustainable bonfire: why connection and collaboration are the kindling your business actually needs

This episode is for:

• The creative or business owner who hasn't opened their banking app in three weeks and genuinely cannot tell you why
• The one who grew up being "too much" — too loud, too energetic, too divergent — and somewhere along the way decided that's why they can't be trusted with money
• The neurodivergent human who's been trying to manage their finances the "right" way and keeps running into shame instead of systems
• The one who knows they want to build wealth but something in their body flinches every time they get close — and is finally ready to find out what that flinch is actually about

Connect with Emily:

Instagram: @thecreativecpa_

Work with Emily:

• Join the list
• DM Emily directly for tax strategy and intuitive financial coaching

About Emily:

Emily is a CPA and tax strategist focused on making wealth accessible to all, especially women & LGBTQ+ individuals. She works with creative individuals and business owners across the US to turn taxes into a tool for empowerment by making the system work for you. Known for her ability to simplify complex financial concepts, she helps clients understand the strategic and energetic components that contribute to financial success. Alongside her tax work, she also coaches individuals and business owners to uncover the root of what is holding them back from their full potential through an intuitive human-first lens.