This is a new kind of conversation about money.
I’ve been a personal finance journalist and author since 2015. I’ve learned a ton of “rules” about money throughout my career, and they never seem to work for me — or a vast array of folks who aren’t like the typical middle-class dudes who peddle most financial advice.
I created Healthy Rich to find and connect with the artists, queers, autistics, feminists, leftists, self-employed, marginalized, racialized, paupers, activists and other misfits who are tired of struggling and striving against a system that’s not made for us.
What if we didn’t have to follow their rules?
Typical financial advice offers up broad strokes and binaries, a one-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t leave room for the diversity of our relationships with money. Through Healthy Rich, I shine a spotlight on the nuances of work and money and critique conventional advice by making space for perspectives we don’t hear enough in conversations about money.
In this newsletter, you’ll find:
Essays on our culture of money (like We’ve got to stop ignoring politics in personal finance and Are we still just saving for retirement like it’s going to work?).
Q&As with community members about their relationships with money. (Like platonic co-parent Amrita Vijayaraghavan, autistic author Marian Schembari and financial therapist Rahkim Sabree).
Behind-the-scenes money dates to look at my personal experiences with money. (paid only)
Healthy Rich podcast
Every other week, I publish podcast episodes offering advice for all of your personal finance questions.
Classes
As a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, I offer self-guided classes and live sessions on my budget-free approach to money management — without restriction, shame or greed. Paid subscribers have access to all Healthy Rich classes.
P.S.
Some other places you’ll find me: I write the Dear Penny advice column for The Penny Hoarder, I’m a founding member for Kiplinger Advisor Collective, and I’m a regular contributor to Business Insider, Salon and CNET Money.
My book, You Don’t Need a Budget, examines toxic budget culture and offers an alternative, budget-free approach to money for those of us who’ve been left behind by the personal finance industry.
📚 Visit the Healthy Rich bookshop for books from all of our Healthy Rich guests and friends!
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Email: hi (at) healthyrich (dot) co
