Episode 138 is all about how to be a wallet activist, featuring Tanja Hester, author of Wallet Activism!
Tanja Hester is the author of Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change and Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way. After spending most of her career as a consultant to Democratic politics and progressive issue campaigns, and before that as a public radio journalist, Tanja retired early at the age of thirty-eight. She documented the process on her award-winning financial independence/retire early (FIRE) blog, Our Next Life.
She’s been an outspoken voice in the personal finance media community to consider systemic barriers and opportunity gaps, rather than simply pushing people with lots of advantages already to accumulate more wealth, part of why the New York Times called her “the matriarch of the women’s FIRE movement.” She hosts a podcast also called Wallet Activism, writes an occasional opinion column for MarketWatch, and lives in a burgeoning permaculture food forest she’s growing in North Lake Tahoe, California, with her husband, Mark Bunge, and a flock of tiny rescue dogs.
To learn more about Tanja, including her public speaking, visit TanjaHester.com. You can follow Tanja on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter & YouTube. & be sure to purchase her new book here.
Episode 138 Highlights:
- Her introduction to the FIRE movement
- What life after FIRE looks like
- Understanding your why
- The concept on building wealth
- Using money to change the world and what that looks like
- Her inspiration for her new book, Wallet Activism
- Focusing on your financial values
- Asking the bigger questions
- You have more power than you think
- And much more!
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Until next time, stay empowered, stay inspired & #staypoderosa ✨💎
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