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🏳️‍🌈Queer feminist anticapitalist financial educator + business design consultant / facilitator/ podcast: Have a Nice Life / I contain multitudes
Allll the implications of being #nocontact with yo Allll the implications of being #nocontact with your family are in my mind these days, as more and more people find themselves there. Feeling behind. Unsure how to do life adulting things. Resentful of people with nice (looking) families. Wanting to create safeguards that's damn hard to do. Not sure when it's safe to move into self actualization... I'm not a therapist, but I've lived this experience and I see a lot of the outcomes of this in my coaching clients lived experience as well, so I'm drawing on those data sets.
Welcome: the loop! There is no permanent failure, Welcome: the loop! There is no permanent failure, no end to what's possible for you, no "too late", no red flag that can't be learned from...
Most people just need more money* Not therapy No Most people just need more money* Not therapy Not credit Not to "budget better" Juussttttt more money would fix a lot of folks problems *Alternatively: we could have a society where we don't have to pay for everything... Shared social housing, universal healthcare, free university... #ubi #universalhealthcare #socialhousing #wealthgap
... biz owners, I love you. You can reduce the cha ... biz owners, I love you. You can reduce the chaos. Set up systems to track invoices and automate accounting and money tracking. Take a walk when that meeting cancels 💐 #smallbusiness
... biz owners, you're in a polycule of pressures. ... biz owners, you're in a polycule of pressures. Open up to a circle of care 💞 You can figure out how much money you are making, how to save for pto and taxes, and take that stress off the kitchen table. #polyamory #smallbusiness
Oh hi, I didn't grow up with money or honestly muc Oh hi, I didn't grow up with money or honestly much adult support. Luckily I found my way to punk culture, to queer culture, and to a way of making art that gave me life.⁠ ⁠ And then...I asked more questions about what was possible -- What if...⁠ I tried to make my life less precarious and it worked?⁠ ⁠ I could find and do interesting work?⁠ ⁠ I got to have a future, like all my middle class friends?⁠ ⁠ I could have money without being an asshole?⁠ ⁠ I talk and teach about all this here at Ride Free - welcome, friend. You don't have to like this system to understand it and strategize with your values <3
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