I’m Dr. Shay!

With my background in Marriage and Family Therapy, 10 years clinical experience as a counselor, certification as a Financial Therapist, and expertise as a professor and researcher, I work at the intersection of feelings and money.

I’m passionate about reducing shame through having conversations about money and learning through those conversations. Shades of Wealth is the platform I’ve created to destigmatize money conversations and financial issues through normalization and education.

Our money decisions and behaviors are seldom linear nor do they exist in a vacuum. In fact, all of our decisions and behaviors surrounding money are inextricably tied to our relationships, internal anxieties and fears, and myriad other emotional aspects of our selves. Each of these influences provide a different tint to the glasses through which we view the world and our wealth.

Shades of Wealth follows Dr. Shay Harris-Pierre, financial therapist, educator, and consultant, as she helps real people discover the different covert influences impacting their money behaviors. Through her raw and in-depth interviews with real people as well as finance and mental health professionals, Dr. Shay shows us how nuanced and unique each of our money stories are.