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Hello pal,
I know a lot of creative professionals that struggle with facing their finances. Each person’s struggle has a unique story, but many have long believed they’re bad at math. Maybe it’s true that they struggle in an academic setting, but for so many of them, they create within the constraints of math every single day.
My friend Shaun Evaristo is no different….he might still believe the lie that he’s terrible at math, but his success as a professional dancer and choreographer proves otherwise. Like musicians, dancers understand math without a doubt — if you’ve seen a dancer move to music, you know that they understand it from inside their bodies…it’s beyond and before language. It’s an internalization that just is. From the space between notes to meter and tempo, dancers can play with time and space to convey a feeling.
I wanted to interview Shaun because despite his being bad at math, I’ve watched him become the kind of person who is not only good with money, but also with personal finance as a subject. I’ve watched him transform before my eyes. It took time, work, and lots of patience, but if Shaun can do it because he always could understand it, then I believe everyone can.
Your friend in finance,
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P.S. If you’re looking for a gift for recent, creative, self-proclaimed bad-at-math grads, please consider gifting them a copy of my book, Finance for the People.
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1. 🌟 Moving Through Financial Wins and Losses with Shaun Evaristo (Weird Finance) In this episode of Weird Finance, Paco talks to Shaun Evaristo about the path he took to become a dancer and choreographer, how he’s overcome his fear of numbers and the idea that he’s bad with math, and how he’s navigating through the biggest loss of his career thus far. This episode also features The Price Report, a short segment with Michael “Frosti” Snow where he takes us on a journey, examining the cost of one thing in the hopes that it helps us have a better understanding of well, everything.
2. 💰 Just Be Rich (Esquire)
3. 🎁 Why Stores Send You So Many Emails (The Atlantic) Your inbox is now a shopping mall.
4. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - Maximizing Your Revenue: A Guide to Invoicing and Collections for Creative Businesses (HYG Original)
5. 🍫 10 Things I Learned Starting A Vending Machine Business (Action Economics) I have always been curious about starting a vending machine business. If you have too, this is a great read to get an understanding of what it entails and the economics.
6. 🏡 A Crime Beyond Belief (The Atavist Magazine) A Harvard-trained lawyer was convicted of committing bizarre home invasions. Psychosis may have compelled him to do it. But in a case that became a public sensation, he wasn’t the only one who seemed to lose touch with reality.
7. 🚢 ‘The haves and have-yachts’: on the trail of London’s super-rich (The Guardian) “The most advanced form of gentrification – plutocratification – is creating whole areas of the capital that those from lower down the social ladder can now only enter as servants or labourers.”
8. 👔 A Sandwich Shop, a Tent City and an American Crisis (The New York Times) As homelessness overwhelms downtown Phoenix, a small business wonders how long it can hang on. “‘We’ve put all of ourselves into this place,’ Joe said. They didn’t have a pension. Their plan had always been to invest in the business, sell it and use that money to retire. They weren’t seeking any damages in their lawsuit, but instead were asking the city to remove the encampment and find a different solution to care for its occupants.”
9. ☀ Mental Health Awareness Month is a reminder that taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of your physical health (Better Help) With over 30,000 licensed therapists, BetterHelp has one that fits your unique needs. Sign up today and prioritize your mental health #sponsored
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