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🏳️‍🌈Queer feminist anticapitalist financial educator + business design consultant / facilitator/ podcast: Have a Nice Life / I contain multitudes
You know what it's like to step away from the comp You know what it's like to step away from the computer and social media for a week? ....yeah I had forgotten what it was like too until last week. I wrestle with the role of a social media creator. I like live life things best. I'm not interested in making people spend more time engaging with Internet machines. I don't feel the need to put up an ooo before I go away, nor do I feel I owe readers explanations for how or when I choose to create content or not. But l do think role modeling can be powerful. I'm a queer woman who doesn't apologize for her desire, ambition, or ideas. I take breaks to enjoy life because I know we're not here to work, we're here to be in our purpose and in connection. I grew up in a resource scarce environment where you couldn't be who/whatever you wanted, and I became who I wanted to be anyway. I stay on a path of growth because life is change, and because there's people who'd rather see me quiet, flailing, and falling in line. I won't be doing that. I also refuse to step on people on my path and instead lift others up because there is enough for all of us, even if it's unevenly distributed at this time. I teach strategy because we rise together; lifting one lifts many since we are connected to other people. And, because we are all time and resource limited, live in a marginalizing and traumatic world, I work with intentional experiments, learning from failure, and a fierce commitment to the fact that everyone deserves to thrive.
Money is fake but yet we persist in figuring it ou Money is fake but yet we persist in figuring it out...
How's #layoff season treating everyone? How's #layoff season treating everyone?
What creates confidence about your security? ⁠ H What creates confidence about your security? ⁠ Hint: it’s not an always-increasing number in the bank...⁠ ⁠ #enough #scarcity
Do you share money with a partner or partners? How Do you share money with a partner or partners? How's it going?? There's lots of ways to do it, and to do it right.⁠ ⁠ I talk to lots and lots of partners about what's challenging them in their path together, and have a digital workshop, a conversation guide, and a offer coaching if that's supportive!
Inside me are two wolves. ⁠ One is a regular wol Inside me are two wolves. ⁠ One is a regular wolf and the other is in a human meat suit being told it has to make money. ⁠ ⁠ Apparently the one that wins is the one that’s fed but if I don’t make money neither one gets fed so both the regular wolf and the meat suit one are sad.⁠ ⁠ #feedthewolf
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“This class was designed for people like me! Damien shares my values of social justice, and helped me to figure out fair, ethical ways to relate to money.”
– Dara B., dareconsulting.com

“I feel more calm about money after this. I realized that I don’t have to use the same symbols and judgements that everyone else seems to use when they talk about this stuff. That’s really powerful.”
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