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Your business model specifies: What you do, who yo Your business model specifies: What you do, who you serve/your customers, the value they get, the mission and social value, and how you get revenue from all this! ⁠ ⁠ The purpose of a business model isn’t perfection - it’s learning, and I describe how to create an experimental one for yourself in detail on my blog (see the “Your Social Enterprise Startup Guide”) -- and as an exercise in the Money Like You Mean To business focused cohort.⁠ ⁠ The next session runs July 18-25, sign up in my bio! ⁠ #businessplan #MLYMT
If you can draw this, including the cash flow sour If you can draw this, including the cash flow sources and amounts, congratulations - you have a system for your small business finances!⁠ ⁠ Learn how to create a revenue model AND a system for that money in the upcoming small-business and freelance focused cohort of Money Like you Mean to group coaching starting July 18!⁠ ⁠ Link in bio⁠ ⁠ #smallbusiness #moneyplans #beyourownboss ⁠
How do you “value your labor”? In the current How do you “value your labor”? In the current episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars @bltdpodcast, Laura and Hadassah discuss the punkest things they did to avoid spending money, how weird it is to value time as labor, and the wildest earning imaginations of their 20’s.⁠ ⁠ #podcast #queerpodcast #punkmoney ⁠
Tomorrow, Sunday 6/6, I kick off another one-week Tomorrow, Sunday 6/6, I kick off another one-week cohort of Money Like You Mean To, focused on Personal Finances.⁠ ⁠ I LOVE these small group sessions, because they allow me to support people who want to shift perspectives and gain strategic vision and skills - in a no-judgement community setting. ⁠ ⁠ There’s one spot left for this cohort, if you sign up today, and the next ones are:⁠ July 18-25 focused on freelance and small businesses (with a different flow than pictured above)⁠ Aug 1-8 focused again on personal finance⁠ ⁠ 🔗🔗🔗 link in bio 🔗🔗🔗⁠ ⁠ #personafinance #moneygoals #moneycoach #financialfeminism #queermoney #moneyvision #moneystrategy #moneyskills
Tomorrow I’m talking about the five ways queer f Tomorrow I’m talking about the five ways queer folks are awesome at money in the Financial Feminist Summit - get the tea and the strategies from me, there. ⁠ ⁠ Thank you and see the whole line up at @webravelygo⁠ ⁠ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/financial-feminist-summit-tickets-148840478879 ⁠ ⁠
How do you value your time? Especially when we’r How do you value your time? Especially when we’re also forced to value our labor-time: does anyone really have a grasp on what “enough” money is, when it’s our lives we are trading it for? ⁠ ⁠ From the “biggest” salary they ever imagined for themselves in their 20s vs now as professional Ladies Who Crunch, this Bottom Lines Top Dollars episode grapples with ways to approach earning, and not having to earn, money -- and how that intersects with trying to have a “professional” money life in terms of advocating for salaries and wages. ⁠ ⁠ #podcast #queerpodcast #punkmoney⁠
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