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Just a casual to-do list happened over here...will Just a casual to-do list happened over here...will catch y'all up as I catch my breath!
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Our final episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars Seas Our final episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars Season 2 tells our stories in the form of a guide to change your life after the punk paradigm of "no future" stops working for you, as it did for us. Using our own experiences as punks who had "oh fuck" moments that motivated us to change our careers pretty drastically as examples, this episode is full of our hard-won wisdom about making big changes in life. From the lofty process of visioning all the way back down to earth-bound planning tools, this episode's goal is an old school DIY workshop for giving yourself a future - especially if you didn't think you were going to get this far. Listen to An Old Punks Guide to Your Future After No Future on the Bottom Lines Top Dollars podcast! #punkbutold #podcast #livefastdieoldanyway
Over my career I’ve grown parallel paths: one, a Over my career I’ve grown parallel paths: one, as a progressive personal finance educator, and another as a human-centered designer. As I’ve gone deeper into both roles, big crossovers in methods like design thinking, frameworks like behavioral economics, and the importance of strategic decision-making stand out to me.⁠ Above is one of my favorite frameworks - and those of you who’ve worked with me have definitely heard about others!⁠ Tell me your fav decision frameworks, or read more in my blog post, “Using Design Thinking on Your Money Problems” see link to blog in link tree⁠ #designthinking #strategist⁠
I mean, anyone can have $5 billion dollars, if you I mean, anyone can have $5 billion dollars, if you:⁠ 1) open a ROTH IRA⁠ 2) start a startup ⁠ 3) put your very cheap startup equity valuation in the ROTH ⁠ 4) make your startup wildly successful for multiple decades⁠ ⁠ Easy peasy - get to it! Anyone can be rich - right? Right? RIGHT??!!!⁠ ⁠ Look - that guy found a loophole and I can’t hate on hacks in capitalism. But those taxes would have funded a LOT of schools and libraries and free vaccines …⁠ ⁠ #ROTH #LordoftheROTH #billionaires⁠
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