A Table for Honest Conversations
July 2026 Letter to Our Clients
What is the purpose of money?
Forget that question. It is a stupid question.
Okay, perhaps not stupid. But it will lead to soapboxing and pontificating.
What is the purpose of your money? What did you originally want from it? Is it giving you that? If not, what changes can you make so your money can help you get what you truly seek?
What is it you truly seek?
I love big, juicy questions. That is one of the reasons we started the Conscious Wealth Supper Club in Atlanta. These are the kinds of questions we gather around a table to explore.
This is not a networking event. It is not a presentation. We talk about money, enough, family, purpose, responsibility, and whatever sits underneath them. There is dinner. There is laughter. There are long silences. Occasionally, someone cries. No one rushes to clean any of it up.
Alissa Harper Pease, Director of our Relational Wealth services, and I put our Gestalt training to work by leading highly curated conversations with clear agreements and generous spaces of silence.
Our most basic agreement is that only one person speaks at a time.
Another is that we avoid using “you” when what we really mean is “I.”
“You know how it is.”
“You can see what is happening with kids these days.”
Instead, we speak from our own experience.
“I am scared about what is happening these days.”
“I need to take myself less seriously.”
No one is required to have an answer or share more than they want to. And what is shared around the table stays around the table.
These agreements may sound small. They are not.
When we keep our words rooted in our own experience, we become closer to one another. We don’t alienate others by projecting our feelings onto them. And we become closer to ourselves by owning what we believe, feel, and fear while allowing the person across the table to have a different set of beliefs, experiences, and values.
We do this work because honest conversation can heal. This work changes us, too. It can change the people around the table. And what begins there can ripple outward into families, friendships, businesses, and communities.
In a world that often profits from keeping us divided, sitting together, listening carefully, and speaking honestly can feel revolutionary.
Perhaps it is.
I am writing because I would like you at the table. Space is limited, so if you are interested in joining Alissa and me at an upcoming Conscious Wealth Supper Club in Atlanta, please contact our office.
And if Atlanta is not in your travel plans, bring a little of the Supper Club into your own home. Gather your family, friends, or loved ones around a table. Ask a big question. Speak from your own experience. Leave room for silence. Listen to what emerges.
Please come and join our revolution.
In Abundance,
Brandon Hatton,
CEO & Chief Investment Officer
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What is the purpose of money?
Forget that question. It is a stupid question.
Okay, perhaps not stupid. But it will lead to soapboxing and pontificating.
What is the purpose of your money? What did you originally want from it? Is it giving you that? If not, what changes can you make so your money can help you get what you truly seek?
What is it you truly seek?
I love big, juicy questions. That is one of the reasons we started the Conscious Wealth Supper Club in Atlanta. These are the kinds of questions we gather around a table to explore.
This is not a networking event. It is not a presentation. We talk about money, enough, family, purpose, responsibility, and whatever sits underneath them. There is dinner. There is laughter. There are long silences. Occasionally, someone cries. No one rushes to clean any of it up.
Alissa Harper Pease, Director of our Relational Wealth services, and I put our Gestalt training to work by leading highly curated conversations with clear agreements and generous spaces of silence.
Our most basic agreement is that only one person speaks at a time.
Another is that we avoid using “you” when what we really mean is “I.”
“You know how it is.”
“You can see what is happening with kids these days.”
Instead, we speak from our own experience.
“I am scared about what is happening these days.”
“I need to take myself less seriously.”
No one is required to have an answer or share more than they want to. And what is shared around the table stays around the table.
These agreements may sound small. They are not.
When we keep our words rooted in our own experience, we become closer to one another. We don’t alienate others by projecting our feelings onto them. And we become closer to ourselves by owning what we believe, feel, and fear while allowing the person across the table to have a different set of beliefs, experiences, and values.
We do this work because honest conversation can heal. This work changes us, too. It can change the people around the table. And what begins there can ripple outward into families, friendships, businesses, and communities.
In a world that often profits from keeping us divided, sitting together, listening carefully, and speaking honestly can feel revolutionary.
Perhaps it is.
I am writing because I would like you at the table. Space is limited, so if you are interested in joining Alissa and me at an upcoming Conscious Wealth Supper Club in Atlanta, please contact our office.
And if Atlanta is not in your travel plans, bring a little of the Supper Club into your own home. Gather your family, friends, or loved ones around a table. Ask a big question. Speak from your own experience. Leave room for silence. Listen to what emerges.
Please come and join our revolution.
In Abundance,
Brandon Hatton,
CEO & Chief Investment Officer
