Breaking Cycles, Building Wealth: The Financial Echo System of the Black Community

Grove DBA, Leon

ISBN 10: 180721415X / ISBN 13: 9781807214159

Published by Red Rock Publishers, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Breaking Cycles, Building Wealth: The Financial Echo System of the Black Community
• Publisher: Red Rock Publishers
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 180721415X
• ISBN 13: 9781807214159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Breaking Cycles, Building Wealth: The Financial Echo System of the Black Community examines the recurring financial behaviors that shape Black households across generations — patterns rooted not in personal failure, but in inherited history. Dr. Leon Grove identifies five financial “echoes” — Scarcity, Distrust, Invisibility, Burden, and Silence — that trace a direct line from redlining, contract buying, and the Freedman’s Bank to the financial decisions Black families make today. Written as both diagnosis and prescription, the book moves from naming each echo to offering practical, faith-centered tools for interrupting it: a Five-Ring Ecosystem for building generational wealth, strategies for cooperative economics, and a framework for treating wealth as worship rather than burden. A companion volume to The Revival, this book serves as both a community blueprint and a financial literacy textbook, equipping readers to break inherited cycles and build a lasting legacy for their families and communities.

About the Author

Dr. Leon Grove is the founder and CEO of Grove Financial Group Inc., a Gulf Coast retirement income planning firm he has operated since 1997, and holds the ChFC(R) and RICP(R) designations. A service-disabled U.S. Marine Corps veteran, former college finance professor, and lecturer, he brings decades of financial planning expertise and lived community experience to his writing. Dr. Grove is the author of The Revival, the first book in the Grove Trilogy, and leads Grove Family Worship in Mobile, Alabama, where he regularly teaches on faith, family, and financial stewardship. Breaking Cycles, Building Wealth continues his mission of equipping Black families and communities with the tools to build lasting generational wealth.