EoR No. 19: Call for pitches — tell me your debt stories!
Plus, low-demand lifestyles, why using the library doesn’t hurt authors, another good take on girlbosses and more
Update 5/18/25 — Closed to pitches for now! Thank you so much for your interest and to everyone who has submitted your ideas and stories. Subscribe to the newsletter to keep an eye out for the next call for pitches.
Call for pitches!
I want to publish your debt stories ✨
Summers always make my availability really rocky, so I’m going to publish more essays from contributors from June through August. And since I’ve shown you mine, I’d love for you to show me yours — what have been your experiences with debt?
I’m looking for stories about the reasons you’ve deliberately chosen to go into debt, surprises you’ve faced dealing with debt, challenges you’ve had repaying debt, weird things you’ve learned about debt products and financial systems, life goals or transitions debt has helped you achieve, and more.
Our purpose is to reduce the stigma around having debt, so I’m looking for bold writers wiling to share the messy stories personal finance media usually ignores. I’m NOT looking for efficient-debt-payoff stories or snowball strategies or any other debt-shaming, budget-culturey stuff.
Pay is $200. Send pitches to pitch@healthyrich.co for consideration! (Not in a reply to this email; I’ll probably miss your pitch that way!)
🥑 ICYMI at Healthy Rich this week
🔗 Things to catch
How to set up a low-demand lifestyle to intentionally reduce stress if you’re autistic (or, truly, anyone).
Republican lawmakers will try to ram through wildly unpopular program cuts to support tax breaks for billionaires in their next budget bill — here’s what that means for student loans (and Medicaid and SNAP and other vital services).
“I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about.” (’hem, it’s in Republican-led counties.)
In case you’re a reader who ever feels bad checking a book out from the library instead of buying it — no need! Please keep doing it!
💬 Let’s discuss
What’s your favorite thing about spring?
It’s finally consistently warm and sunny in central Wisconsin, and this is my last day off before starting a new job, so let’s steal a lighthearted moment together. I die every winter and reanimate in the spring, when I remember that sun and green things and flowers and warm breezes and iced lattes and short sleeves and long walks exist. Anyone else? What do you look forward to every spring? (If it’s not spring where you are, take a second to remember what you have to look forward to!)
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In regards to the article from Bañez & Ain:
I am a student loan borrower and I already feel hopeless as it is. Why exacerbate an already delicate situation? I would understand if it were in conjunction with practical advice, but it's not.