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### :eyes: **Your role during session**
- Observe how your studio reacts to the compensation models discussion where do they light up? Where do they tense up?
- Listen for financial information gaps who has financial literacy? Who doesn't?
- Observe how your studio reacts to the compensation models discussion where do they light up? Where do they tense up?
- Listen for financial information gaps who has financial literacy? Who doesn't?
- Note whether anyone avoids the personal financial sustainability question
- Watch the IP ownership discussion this can surface unexpected disagreements, especially if someone brought existing work into the project
- Watch the IP ownership discussion this can surface unexpected disagreements, especially if someone brought existing work into the project
### 👆 **Your role after session**
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### :world_map: **Context**
Money is where values meet reality. This studio support meeting helps the studio have the financial conversations that most groups avoid. Your role is to create enough safety for vulnerability while pushing past surface-level comfort. These conversations don't need to reach decisions today they need to *happen*.
Money is where values meet reality. This studio support meeting helps the studio have the financial conversations that most groups avoid. Your role is to create enough safety for vulnerability while pushing past surface-level comfort. These conversations don't need to reach decisions today they need to *happen*.
### **👆 Before the session**
- Check in with each studio member (or the group) about whether they've started reflecting on the homework questions
- Review the studio's governance draft what did they decide about financial decision-making?
- Be prepared for this session to be emotionally charged. Money reveals power dynamics and personal vulnerabilities.
- Check in about whether they've started reflecting on the homework questions
- Review the studio's governance draft what did they decide about financial decision-making?
- Be prepared for this session to be emotionally charged
### **🌊 Session flow**
#### **Check-in (5 min)**
"The session covered a lot of ground about money. What's sitting with you? Anything surprising or anything you're dreading talking about?"
"The session covered a lot of ground about money. What's sitting with you? Anything surprising or anything you're dreading talking about?"
#### **Financial transparency (15-20 min)**
Start with the personal reflection prompt from Session 5 homework:
"What financial information have you never been allowed to see at work — and what would have been different if you had?"
"What financial information have you never been allowed to see at work. What might have been different if you had?"
Let each person share. This grounds the conversation in lived experience before it becomes abstract.
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**Practical questions:**
- "Who currently knows the most about the studio's finances? Is that a choice or a default?"
- "If you were to do open books what would that actually look like? A shared spreadsheet? Monthly summaries? Full access to accounts?"
- "If you were to do open books what would that actually look like? A shared spreadsheet? Monthly summaries? Full access to accounts?"
- "What's one step you could take this week toward more transparency?"
Don't push anyone to share financial details they're not ready to share. The goal is naming the discomfort, not forcing disclosure.
Don't push anyone to share financial details they're not ready to. The goal is *naming the discomfort*.
#### **Compensation models (15-20 min)**
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- "What feels fair to you? Where do you notice tension between 'fair' and 'comfortable'?"
- "What would you need to know about each other's situations to decide together?"
- "Which model aligns best with your stated values?"
- "Which model aligns best with your values?"
**Dig deeper:**
- "If you chose equal pay, what happens when one person is working 40 hours and another is working 15?"
- "If you chose needs-based, who decides what counts as a 'need'?"
- "If you chose role-based, who decides which roles are worth more and doesn't that recreate hierarchy?"
- "If you chose role-based, who decides which roles are worth more and doesn't that recreate hierarchy?"
You don't need to reach a decision. You need to surface where assumptions differ.
You don't need to reach a decision.
#### **IP ownership first pass (5-10 min)**
#### **IP ownership first pass (5-10 min)**
If there's time, and only if the studio is ready:
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- "Has anyone brought existing work into the project? What happens to that?"
- "What happens to IP if someone leaves?"
If these questions create tension, name it: "This is exactly the kind of conversation that gets harder the longer you wait. You don't need answers today — just notice where you're not aligned."
If these questions create tension, name it: "This is the kind of conversation that gets harder the longer you wait. Notice where you're not aligned."
#### **Close (5 min)**
- "What's one financial conversation your team has been avoiding?"
- "What's one concrete step you can take before next session?"
- Remind them: Session 7 is about conflict and money is often where conflict shows up first
- Remind them: Session 7 is about conflict and money is often where conflict shows up first
### :star: **Tips**
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If the group avoids specifics:
- "Saying 'we'll figure it out later' is the most common way studios avoid financial conversations. What's one specific thing you can decide or discuss today?"
- "Saying 'we'll figure it out later' is a to avoid financial conversations. Try to think of a specific decision to discuss today."
If one person has significantly more financial literacy:
- "Part of transparency is making sure everyone can participate in financial decisions. Can you explain that in simpler terms?"
- "Part of transparency is making sure everyone can participate in financial decisions. Can you explain that in plain terms?"
If there's a clear financial power imbalance:
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### **🏁 After the session**
- Note how the financial conversations went where was there openness vs. avoidance?
- Note how the financial conversations went where was there openness vs. avoidance?
- Note any power dynamics around financial literacy or financial resources
- Note any IP ownership disagreements these need to be resolved before incorporation
- Note any IP ownership disagreements these need to be resolved before incorporation
- Bring observations to your PS check-in
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- One person controlling all financial information or decisions
- Someone minimizing their own financial needs to match the group
- "We don't need to talk about money yet" avoidance that will become a crisis later
- "We don't need to talk about money yet" avoidance that will become a crisis later
- Financial plans that assume best-case scenarios with no contingency
- Major gaps in financial literacy that no one is addressing
- IP ownership assumptions that haven't been discussed especially if someone brought pre-existing work
- IP ownership assumptions that haven't been discussed especially if someone brought pre-existing work
- Compensation discussions where one person's opinion is treated as the default