I’m an anti-capitalist financial educator and small business owner in rural Wisconsin. I write about the ways capitalism impacts how we think, teach and talk about money.

Healthy Rich hosts a new kind of conversation about money, inviting voices we don’t hear enough in the personal finance space, including women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, rural, working class and disabled people. You’ll hear from me and from other writers and thinkers who are questioning and exploring their relationships with money beyond the status quo.

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I grew up in a working-class family in a small town. When I started writing for personal finance media in 2015, I found the niche led mostly by advice (and admonitions) from middle-class white men, ignoring our broad diversity and the systemic impacts on our relationships with money. After leaving a leadership position with a financial media startup and spending the next two years freelancing for sites chasing affiliate dollars and Google’s algorithm, I started Healthy Rich to change the way we talk about money.

My approach to personal finance lends an antidote to budget culture, the prevailing set of beliefs around money that relies on restriction, shame and greed.

This work is built around the budget-free framework, which examines common budget culture maxims — and gives you permission to throw them out. You don’t need a budget, there are no debt-free screams, we won’t teach you to be rich and you can buy the damn latte.

My stance is intentionally anti-budget, anti-poverty, anti-capitalist and anti-bias. I don't prescribe an alternative "right" way to manage money, because I know no way will ever be right for everyone. Instead, I explore how our financial systems work and make space for diverse perspectives so you can discover what makes sense for you. I trust the value of your wisdom to choose your next move; I’ll make space to help you tap into to it.

Through this newsletter, you’ll find:

• Essays exploring questions about economics, labor and personal money management.

• Resources and advice for financial educators, coaches and advisors.

• Conversations with smart and interesting people willing to teach us something about money.

For $10/mo. or $100/yr., paid subscribers also get:

• Behind-the-scenes essays on my experience as an author and rural business owner.

• Budget-free personal finance classes.

In addition to my work on Healthy Rich, I’m writing a book, due out in 2024 with Little, Brown Spark: YOU DON’T NEED A BUDGET organizes the explorations you’ll find in this newsletter and lays out in-depth (with worksheets! and activities!) my budget-free framework for approaching money.

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