168: Dana Miranda: The Intertwined Realities of Work, Money, and Wellness

Overview

Our work and our finances are inextricably linked. Our financial wellness impacts how we view our work and shapes the choices and trade-offs we make, whether we’re aware of it or not.

So how can we approach financial wellness with a lens that allows us to be conscious of our intentions, decisions, and behaviors so that our work works for us?

Return guest Dana Miranda joins me for a conversation about what it means to craft a life with work that we truly want and works for us. In today’s episode, we discuss how embracing the link between financial wellness and our work can actually help us find more flexibility and peace in our choices as we navigate the inevitable ebb and flow of energy and ambition in our lives.

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More About Our Guest

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance®, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don’t Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money with Ease. She's been writing about making and managing money as a staffer, freelancer, author and creator since 2015.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

• Three levels of financial wellness to consider when making decisions about work and life

• Why Dana uses the broader scope of occupation rather than career or work when discussing financial wellness

• What is “financial oxygen” and how this framing can bring purpose and peace to a “paycheck job”

• How Dana reminds herself to be conscious of how she’s prioritizing and dividing her energy

• Why the “right” job probably doesn’t exist and how we can better accept the fluid nature of modern work

Learn more about Dana Miranda:

• Healthy Rich

• Substack: @justdanamiranda

• Connect with Dana on LinkedIn

• You Don’t Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money with Ease

Resources Mentioned

• 102. Money Mindset: Understanding Your Relationship with Money, Work, and Ambition with Dana Miranda

• Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, Tom Rath, Jim Harter

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