Winter link flurry No. 3 (book launch edition!)
A little love for your eyes, ears and hearts in this (usually) sleepy week of winter
Welcome to the third annual Healthy Rich winter link flurry! This is becoming my favorite newsletter tradition because 1) it only happens once a year (i.e. ease), and 2) it’s an annual reminder to claim your right to rest, even if your job or our culture doesn’t want to make room for it.
Despite a book launch just two days ago, I’m mostly away from my desk this week enjoying food and family. I hope you’re getting some time off, too, whether you’re celebrating a holiday this week or just enjoying the quiet as tons of other folks take time off to celebrate.
The winter link flurry is an opportunity to highlight and celebrate all the places that have welcomed our anti-budget message throughout the past year — articles I’ve written, writers who’ve quoted me, publications that have featured me and podcasts that had me as a guest.
This year is extra exciting, because for the past couple of months, I’ve had the help of a publicist and an assistant to help spread the word about You Don’t Need a Budget. I also had the benefit of a whole book to hand people before they talked to me, so some of these conversations are rich deep dives into the philosophy of budget culture and an alternative budget-free approach — I truly can’t think of any way I’d rather spend my time.
Please read, listen, like, subscribe and share these pieces to send a huge thank you to all the editors, writers, podcasters and journalists who made space for this new kind of conversation about money in their corners of the world.
Share yours!
What’s something you want to celebrate as we wrap up 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’ve been delighted to get back on the mic and chat with these folks about money!
🎧 I joined my friend Carmen Lezeth and her co-hosts Rick and Cynthia on their All About the Joy livestream to talk about the absurdity of credit scores, the utility of debt and whether it’s time for Cynthia to replace her iPhone from 2005?! Catch the audio wherever you get your podcasts or watch the video on YouTube.
🎧 I talked with a very kind but skeptical Matt and Joel on How to Money to share an anti-budgeting perspective that’s at odds with what they normally teach — really appreciate them being game!
🎧 Jen and Jill used my article on budget-free money management as a guide for their episode on how to thrive without a budget.
🎧 Skyler Fleming welcomed me back to Money Talk to talk about budget culture, debt and viable alternatives to investing (spoiler: not a lot!).
Substack friends
I’ve been grateful to connect with these lovely newsletter writers through book promotion.
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had my partner and me to talk about how we divide domestic labor as a child-free couple.🧡
invited me for a Q&A at about wellbeing, my message for the world and something contrarian that I passionately believe.🧡
had me for a Q&A at about how to develop a healthy, positive relationship with money.🧡
let me kick off her Q&A series to talk all about my relationship with the kids in my life as a child-free Auntie.Thanks for featuring You Don’t Need a Budget!
Huge thanks to these journalists who interviewed me or featured my book in their articles!
💖 Sawdah Bhaimiya on overcoming toxic budgeting with “intuitive” spending for CNBC Make It.
💖 Sheiresa McRae Ngo on “slow shopping” for Bankrate.
💖 Holly Johnson on when to switch banks for CNN Underscored.
💖 Publisher’s Weekly included YDNAB in a round up of six new books that offer compassionate financial advice.
💖 The Next Big Idea Book Club included YDNAB in its list of December’s must-read books!
💖 Stirring the pot! Lindsay Dodgson challenged the idea of intuitive spending for Business Insider, but gave YDNAB and me a nice shout out in her lede. 🤷
💖 Charlotte Cowles on being OK with debt at The Cut.
For your TBR list
Here’s some stuff I’ve written this year.
👩💻 I wrote an essay for TIME on why budgeting doesn’t work — because we approach it like dieting.
👩💻 I’ve been a regular contributor to Salon’s newly re-launched money and business vertical since September. I’ve been grateful for an editor who welcomes my budget-free perspective, including how I raised my credit score 250 points without getting better with money and how to reduce financial stress when you believe you’re “bad with money.”
👩💻 I continue to contribute to Business Insider, and was happy to turn a generic plug for a credit card into a story about how my partner and I are dealing with (some of) the debt from our 2023 business purchase.
👩💻 My tips have been featured in a few Kiplinger Advisor Collective round ups, including how to jumpstart your teenager’s financial future and making homeownership a reality when you can’t save up a down payment.
👩💻 I’ve been offering advice as Dear Penny for The Penny Hoarder for just over a year, and I still love the opportunity to see readers’ money questions! Some of my favorite weekly columns: finding employment with a criminal record, dealing with debt when you’re broke and splitting financial responsibilities with a partner who makes way more money than you.
👩💻 I’ve been writing for CNET Money since I went all-in on freelancing in September, and I was happy to address a lot of folks’ financial fears in covering what a second Trump term might mean for your money.
Great to hear the word is spreading!