My name is Dana. I write about work, life and money, and my first book was published in 2024.
I’ve been writing professionally for 15 years, but writing is also my favorite hobby, form of self-expression and mode of self-discovery.
I created Healthy Rich to find and connect with my fellow artists, queers, autistics, feminists, leftists, self-employed, marginalized, racialized, paupers, activists and other misfits who’ve found ourselves at one time or another struggling and striving against a system that’s not made for us.
I’m entering midlife amid mounting political, social and economic uncertainty and finding myself and many people around me unable to find solid ground — frantically seeking clarity.
Healthy Rich is an space to — at least for a few minutes or a few hours of your week — replace that frantic seeking with comfort and peace.
In the face of uncertainty, I return to myself through writing. I this newsletter, I share that writing with you and make space for others to do the same. In the midst of the chaos around us, we can make our own peace through understanding and connection.
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Support diverse writers! Healthy Rich makes space for the misfit voices we don’t hear enough in media, including women and BIPOC, LGBTQ+, rural, working-class, neurodivergent and disabled people. Because of your subscriptions, I’m able to pay writers and interviewees competitive rates for their contributions.
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My money dates, where you can follow my personal experiences with money and talk with the community about your own.
Self-paced classes on making and managing money without restriction, shame or greed — things like How to Start Freelancing and Dealing with Debt without Shame.
Personal essays from my project Hi, I’m 40, exploring parts of our identities that usually stay masked, hidden, closeted or polished in public.
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Buying You Don’t Need a Budget, or another book from a friend of the newsletter through the Healthy Rich bookshop.
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Donating to my annual scholarship for LGBTQ+ and other misfit grads from my local rural high school.
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Contact
Email: hi (at) healthyrich (dot) co
