We recently had the chance to connect with Danielle Sheree Brown and have shared our conversation below.
Good morning Danielle Sheree, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
Integrity, without question.
You can be intelligent and full of energy, but what happens when no one is watching? For me, integrity is the foundation of everything—especially in the work I do as a Financial Healing Architect. I’m entrusted with people’s most private details—their finances, their fears, their business dreams—and that kind of access requires a deep sense of honor and ethical responsibility.
Integrity shapes how I lead, how I serve, and how I show up for others. It’s not just about doing what’s right when it’s easy, but maintaining honesty, compassion, and accountability when it’s hard. Intelligence can be taught, and energy can be renewed—but integrity is who you are at the core. That’s what sustains trust, credibility, and impact.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Danielle Sheree Brown, Founder of DSB Solutions, a boutique accounting and advisory firm I started back in 2007. Over the years, DSB Solutions has evolved from merely helping people manage numbers to assisting them in understanding the story behind those numbers. Today, I call myself a Financial Healing Architect™ because my work sits at the intersection of financial fluency, emotional healing, and leadership.
I’ve spent more than twenty years helping business owners, executives, and impact-driven individuals not only organize their finances but also rebuild their relationship with money. Many of my clients are brilliant leaders who have achieved success on paper but still carry unhealed financial trauma—such as fear, guilt, or shame tied to their money story. My work helps them move from financial survival to financial peace.
What makes DSB Solutions unique is our heart. We combine accounting, compliance, and tax expertise with compassionate strategy and mental wellness awareness. We speak the language of money—but we do it with empathy, cultural understanding, and spiritual depth.
Right now, I’m expanding our Financial Fluency Pathways and Liberated Leader Program, which helps leaders build sustainable wealth while also addressing the emotional weight that often comes with leadership. I believe financial healing is not just about profit—it’s about peace, purpose, and legacy.
Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before the world told me who I had to be, I was seen, I was heard, and I was unapologetically me. I was sassy, confident, and curious—I did what I wanted, when I wanted. I grew up surrounded by power, money, and influence, so I saw early on what success could look like, but I also saw the pressure that came with it.
Somewhere along the way, life started teaching me to shrink, to adjust, to play roles that made other people comfortable. Healing changed that for me. Healing helped me remember the version of myself that didn’t need permission to exist fully. It reminded me that the goal isn’t to become someone new—it’s to return to who you were before the world told you otherwise.
That’s really what my work as a Financial Healing Architect is rooted in—helping people restore their original selves, the parts of them that were confident, curious, and free before fear and expectations took over. When you start healing, you begin to lead, live, and even manage money differently. Healing restores the truth of who you are.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me what success never could—that pain is my superpower.
I still train under my coach, Dr. Marcea Whitaker, but it was during her three-day Create Your Stage bootcamp that I first learned that truth. She helped me see that pain isn’t something to hide or survive—it’s something you can stand on. That realization completely changed how I view my story. Every moment of hardship, heartbreak, and healing has equipped me to lead, love, and serve with deeper purpose.
My pain taught me how to be a great mom, how to love harder, and how to stand up for myself and others. It made me empathetic, discerning, and unafraid of what’s next. It also made me adaptable—I call myself a chameleon. My parents acted like the Cosbys—respectable, hardworking Black professionals—but behind closed doors, life looked more like Menace to Society. Drugs, violence, and instability were part of my reality. That contrast gave me range. I can connect in the boardroom or on the block because I understand both worlds.
My therapist, Dr. Schultz, once told me, “It’s not the year of the car, it’s the miles.” That stuck with me. I may be young, but I’ve covered a lot of miles. I’ve been around money and business my entire life. My first job at 16 was working for a family friend, James Wright, at his tax and accounting firm in Hazel Crest, Illinois. That’s where I fell in love with numbers—but over the years, I realized numbers also carry emotion. They tell stories about people’s fears, dreams, and sense of worth.
And I’ll never forget what Serita Love taught me—to use my full name, Danielle Sheree Brown, because it carries power, purpose, and legacy. That affirmation helped me reclaim the parts of me that pain tried to silence.
As the Founder of DSB Solutions and a Financial Healing Architect™, I use what pain taught me to help high-achieving leaders—especially women and people of color—heal from the emotional and financial trauma that success alone can’t fix. So many of them look successful but feel unseen, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their peace. My mission is to help them rebuild both their finances and their faith in themselves.
Pain taught me compassion. It taught me courage. It taught me vision. Success gave me visibility—but pain gave me depth. And that’s where my actual power lives.
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes—and no. The public version of me is absolutely real, but it’s not all of me. What people see is the healed, evolving, purpose-driven version of Danielle—the woman who turned pain into power and learned to lead with both strength and softness. That’s real. But there are layers beneath that public version that most don’t see.
The public sees the Financial Healing Architect™, the speaker, the woman who helps others find peace in their finances and their lives. But privately, I’m still doing my own healing work. I still sit with my therapist, train under my coach, and have moments where I remind myself that the girl who survived so much deserves to rest and receive too.
What makes me proud, though, is that the public and private versions of me are aligned in integrity. I don’t pretend to be perfect. I share the wins, but I also share the wounds. I’ve learned that authenticity doesn’t mean telling everything—it means telling the truth about what you do share.
The woman people see in public is me walking with purpose. The woman behind the scenes is me staying grounded in the process. Together, they make up the real me. Both are sacred, both are honest—and both are free.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
I was born to do this. I was called to this. I was chosen for this. And I am equipped to do this work.
Everything in my life—every experience, every setback, every victory—has prepared me for this exact assignment. I didn’t just stumble into accounting or financial work; I’ve been around money, taxes, and business since I was a teenager. But the deeper calling came later—when I realized I wasn’t just managing numbers, I was helping people heal.
As a Financial Healing Architect™, I help high-achieving leaders—especially women and people of color—find peace where pain once lived. I teach them to rebuild trust with themselves and their money, transform financial confusion into clarity, and reconnect their purpose with their profit. My work bridges two worlds: financial fluency and emotional wellness. I help people understand that healing and stewardship are not separate—they’re sacred partners.
So yes, I’m doing what I was born to do. I was told to be successful, but I was born to be significant—to serve, to heal, and to lead others into freedom. This isn’t just my career—it’s my calling.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.dsbsolutions.net
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dsbsolutions
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dsb-solutions
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DSBSolutions01
Image Credits
Headshot – FMK Media
Flyers, etc – DSB Solutions c/o Virtual Assistant Forte
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