Winter link flurry No. 2

A little love for your eyes, ears and heart in this sleepy time of year

Welcome to the second annual Healthy Rich winter link flurry! I’ll be completely off next week, claiming some rest and enjoying the near-universal quiet in my community while many others do the same.

Along with a round up of my favorite media hits of the year, this is also your annual reminder that you don’t have to earn rest, and rest doesn’t have to be a way to recharge for future productivity. Rest with me this week or any week because you’re a human in a body, and resting is part of that experience.

Last year’s ventures outside of Healthy Rich were about bouncing the idea of budget culture with folks outside of my head, hearing their questions and figuring out what my new take was all about. This year, I used the opportunity of writing a book to further process my approach to money. And I made room for conversations where I could share the budget-free approach, and I gathered my favorites for you below.

(If you’ve got a podcast or publication and want to talk about a new way to think about money, please get in touch! I especially love talking with folks outside of the personal finance space, where we can learn how money intersects with your interest or expertise in ways people don’t often think about.)

Share yours!

What’s something you want to celebrate this year? Leave a comment for the community to shout out to something you’re proud of — or something from someone else you think we need to know about.

Add to your podcast queue

I joined host Catherine Shen and fellow panelists Dr. Monette Ferguson and Nan J. Morrison on on Where We Live on WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio for a conversation about access to quality financial education.

I was delighted to join John Auten-Schneider and David Auten of Debt Free Guys on the Queer Money podcast to talk about budget culture, how to make peace with your debt and how to live without a budget!

I was on Women Awakening with Cynthia James to talk about my relationship with money growing up and learning to forgive and trust yourself around money.

Cristy De La Cruz

and I had a conversation on her podcast,

Our Somatic Wisdom

, about budget culture and the ways money feels in your body.

Robin Colucci invited me on The Author's Corner to talk about getting a book deal for You Don’t Need a Budget off a viral essay about budget culture!

I shared my new take on budgeting for Money Talk with Skyler Fleming.

I talked with Wade Brill on her podcast Centered in the City about how to lead with conscious spending so you can untangle yourself from a budget culture mindset.

Kathy Oneto invited me on Sustainable Ambition to talk about how we can pursue good work.

I joined Olivia Summerhill on Divorce for Wealthy Women to talk about how budget culture's restriction and shame impacts everyone across varying levels of wealth and income.

Thanks for featuring Healthy Rich!

💖 Thanks to Nicola Wynn at Podia for sharing my story and letting me reflect on what I learned while experimenting with how to build Healthy Rich throughout this year.

💖 Thanks to Karen Axelton at Experian for including us among lots of heavy-hitting personal finance sites for women — and thank you, if you became a Healthy Rich subscriber after finding us there!

💖 Thanks to Michelle Lee at Moxie for featuring Healthy Rich among resources for freelancers.

For your TBR list

I did much less freelance writing than normal this year as I focused on the book, this newsletter and taking over a business. But I’m still always delighted to have an opportunity to bring a new spin on money to any publication that wants it — especially when I get to team up with another Substack author!

I loved doing these Q&As for Substacks:

For

Keris Stainton

at

The Ladybird Purse • Opening up about money

:

“Money is not as important as everyone makes it seem.”

For

Kristi Koeter

at

Almost Sated

(love a diet culture/budget culture crossover!):

'I see our culture treating money and wealth exactly the same way we treat food and bodies'

For

Sri Juneja

at

Readable Moments Book Club

:

Making Cents Of Money: Financial Literacy For Kids

Plus…

I continued to write for Business Insider this year, including a reflection on my experience taking out a mortgage for the first time and why I have mixed feelings about financial literacy.

I was invited to be a founding member of the Kiplinger Advisor Collective last spring, and part of that membership includes publishing content for Kiplinger.com.

In September, I took over the long-running Dear Penny financial advice column, which is produced by The Penny Hoarder and syndicated across local newspapers. Catch my columns at The Penny Hoarder, and submit your money queries here.

Booked!

Before I dove deep into book mode, I joined several cool organizations to present talks or workshops on new ways to think, teach and talk about money. (If this is something your organization is interested in, let’s talk!)

Speaking about storytelling with financial educators at the Annual Conference on Financial Education in Puerto Rico in April.

Filming fin ed course content for the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in May (and looking very teachery).

And thanks to Moxie, Freelance Success, JustDane and Pollen for inviting me to speak remotely with your communities this year!

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