Hi friend, I’ve been in full book launch mode for three-and-a-half weeks. It’s everything I dreamed it would be and more. It’s pure chaos, but it’s exciting. I’m genuinely enjoying each opportunity to share and talk about Finance for the People. I’ve got some interviews, features, and upcoming workshops that I’ll be sharing down in the News & Events section below. However, I wanted to take this time to highlight a couple. I’m finally doing my first in-person workshop in I don’t even know how long. It’s on Sunday, Feb 20th at 3p in downtown LA. And thanks to the generous folks at Junior High and Shopify, it's free. RSVP here. In other exciting news, I’ll be on Good Morning America on Monday, January 31st, at the ungodly hour of 7:15a PT. It’s weird to admit that I enjoy marketing and publicity, but part of it is because I didn’t always feel like my voice mattered, so I don’t take opportunities to be heard for granted. And with that, I’ll leave you with an excerpt from Finance for the People: “Minding our relationship with money isn’t just about amassing wealth for wealth’s sake. It’s not just about deepening our dependence on capitalism for the sake of material gain. This work is one single yet powerful way for us to exercise power in a world that is hell-bent on denying power to many folks. It’s a way to use currency to amplify the values and ideas we want to see exist in the world. It’s one single area of our lives that we can practice the struggle of trying to change what is into what should be while realizing the paradox of this struggle. Minding your relationship with money is a radical and revolutionary act.” Your favorite finance friend,
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1. 🤔 How to End Our Unconscious Beliefs About Money (So Money Podcast) The lovely and talented Farnoosh Torabi had me on her podcast, So Money. We talked about the emotions of money and how our narratives (aka cognitive biases) around money impact our actions. 2. 🦺 A new era for the American worker (Vox) “The only fundamental way to change the economic livelihood and the rights of workers is through the union movement,” 3. 🐶 What it’s like to make $100k+ walking dogs (The Hustle) The economics of dog walking can be lucrative — but the profession comes with a myriad of wild encounters. 4. 💑 A Tinder Revenge Story (Intelligencer) The revolutionary dating app made a lot of people rich. Co-founder Sean Rad didn’t feel rich enough. 5. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - Why You Should Stop Doing Your Own Taxes (Especially if You're Self-Employed) (HYG Original)
6. 👨👨👧👦 Parenting in Utopia (The Cut) Raising kids in America can be, by design, crushing. But what if it weren’t? “The structure of the nuclear family has always made economic life and social belonging difficult for those who fall outside it, those who, for whatever reason, choose not to marry and have children or do so without a partner. But after decades of disinvestment in public education, rising child-care costs, and the increasing isolation of the nuclear family, even middle-class, two-parent households are struggling under the strain. The pandemic did not create this crisis, but it has exacerbated it and, in a sense, democratized it.” 7. 🤑 The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive (Gawker) “And this is why the future, be it NFTs or Memoji or the howling existential horror of the Metaverse, looks so ugly and boring: it reflects the stunted inner lives of the finance and technology professionals who produced it. As the visual manifestation of cryptocurrency, NFT art combines the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers. It is art for people whose imaginations have been absolutely captured by a new kind of money you can do on the computer.” 8. 🎬 Dear Celebrities: Please Stop Churning Out Beauty Brands (The New York Times) Co-signing on this request. “What most people don’t know is that a handful of companies have built many of the celebrity lines we see today. These brand factories, or “incubators,” specialize in creating several labels at once, and fast. They are either developed with a celebrity or designed with the intention of bringing on a celebrity afterward.”
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