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

Overview

In today's episode, I'm joined by Dana Miranda. 

Dana is the author of the forthcoming book, You Don't Need A Budget and her work brings visibility and voice to the diverse experiences we have with money and finance that aren't currently being recognized and expressed in our culture.

You might find for yourself that traditional financial and money management tips don't resonate with you, and Dana is offering new perspective through her media company, Healthy Rich.

My hope is that this episode offers at least two pieces of value for you. First, that it starts to get you to think about how your view of money and financial management can support your Sustainable Ambition. And the second is to raise your awareness around creating a more inclusive world around money and finance, and what might be your part in that.

What you'll hear in today's conversation is how our work is inextricably tied to money, and our relationship with money is inextricably tied to both our histories and personal experiences and the goals we set for our lives. Getting comfortable with our own views on money can be foundational to our Sustainable Ambition.

Let's hear how with Dana Miranda.

More About Our Guest

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® (CEPF®), an author and a personal finance journalist. She’s the founder of Healthy Rich, a platform for inclusive, budget-free financial education, where she works with organizations, schools and companies dedicated to making money better for folks who are often left out of the conversation about money.

Dana has written about work and money for Forbes, Insider, Culture Study, the New York Times, CNBC, The Motley Fool, NextAdvisor, USA Today and Inc. magazine, among others.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

  • What our budgeting culture has in common with dieting

  • What a story about buying toilet paper can tell us about the necessity for diversifying finance media

  • How Dana is making Healthy Rich a more inclusive and intersectional kind of finance media

  • Why Dana takes dollars and cents out of thinking through a well-rounded approach to money

  • Why Dana says there are no hard and fast rules about money

  • Breaking down the relationship around shame and debt

  • How we can begin to broaden our conception of personal financial responsibility and agency to account for systemic issues

  • Why pursuing “good work” is inextricably tied to your relationship with money

  • Why Dana says that personal finance and Sustainable Ambition are two sides of the same coin

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