Better sleep, better you: Apollo's wearable trains your body to sleep better so you can feel better. |
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Hi pal,
Early in my career, I was laid off from two jobs and came close to a third. In each instance, I felt one person controlling my livelihood. Even if that wasn’t the case, it still felt that way. Today, I can draw a clear line between those fears of scarcity and feeling powerless to the decision to start my own business.
Like many young adults in their 20s, scarcity was a common refrain for me. It’s a tune that sometimes still gets stuck in my head, despite my abundant reality.
This is something I hadn’t anticipated — It hadn’t occurred to me that my present inner peace could be derailed by the phantom lack in recent years. But now, in the ripeness of my 30s, I realize… that’s life’s whole damn deal… we must constantly untangle the knots of our past to be free in our present.
iO Tillet Wright is an expert at this type of untangling. He is an author, screenwriter, producer, podcast creator, and friend. So much of his work is an exploration of these knots. From his childhood, where he was constantly steeped in extreme scarcity and poverty, to his peaceful, abundant, present… I hope iO will make you believe that no matter what’s happened in your past, who you’ve been, and what you’ve been through… safety, security, and inner peace are all things each of us can have and hold onto.
Your friend in finance,
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1. 💸 How to Navigate Abundance When You Grew Up In Scarcity with iO Tillet Wright (Weird Finance) In this episode of Weird Finance, Paco talks to iO Tillett Wright about his childhood in New York, how growing up in the scarce environment and surrounded by poverty has shaped him, his journey to homeownership, how he cultivates abundance and inner peace in his life, and the importance of community-oriented work. This episode also features The Economic Outlook with financial astrologer Susan Gidel.
2. 💻 What YouTube Hustlers Can Teach Us About AI (Intelligencer)
3. 🔗 Financial dependency: 23% of couples stay because of money (CNBC) "Marriage is a union of love, but it’s also an economic arrangement [...] and we don’t think about the money part until there are issues and problems."
4. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - Bookkeeping Basics for Creative Agencies (HYG ORIGINAL) Bookkeeping is a critical part of running a business, but it can be overwhelming if you're not familiar with the terminology or concepts involved.
5. 🔇 The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won. (The Atlantic) “Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it. Our tolerance for poverty is very high, much higher than it is in other parts of the developed world. I don’t know if it’s a belief, a cliché, or a myth. You see a homeless person in Los Angeles; an American says, What did that person do? You see a homeless person in France; a French person says, What did the state do? How did the state fail them?”
6. 📺 The Binge Purge (Vulture) “Once, in a more rational time, there was a direct relationship between the number of people who watched a show and the number of jets its creator could buy. More viewers meant higher ad rates, and the biggest hits could be sold to syndication and international markets. The people behind those hits got a cut, which is why the duo who invented Friends probably haven’t flown commercial since the 1990s. Streaming shows, in contrast, have fewer ads (or none at all) and are typically confined to their original platforms forever. For the people who make TV, the connection between ratings and reward has been severed.”
7. 👜 The expensive, unrealistic, and extremely white world of "momfluencers" (Vox) “The momfluencer, obviously, is not a real person. She’s a construct, created by real mothers in the mid-aughts, in concert with tech companies and consumer brands, as a way of making a living on social media. Today, momfluencers are big business for advertisers, since women make the majority of household purchasing decisions, and moms in particular are often the ones choosing big-ticket items such as strollers and cribs. They also hold cultural importance — more than ever, they’re the ones communicating messages to the rest of us about what motherhood should look like.”
8. 👗 Status and the Illusion of Progress (More To That) “Status is ultimately a fight between who you think you are (internal), and how you think you’re perceived (external). This is why the moment you desire approval from others, an immediate tension arises. It’s your body’s way of asking you, ‘Hey, what about you isn’t enough?’ And the more you ignore that question and push forward to obtain that approval, the more you lose the sense of who you are.” 9. 😴 Discover the wearable that improves sleep and reduces stress (Apollo) Apollo's touch therapy technology calms your nerves with soothing vibrations, resulting in 40% less stress, 25% more focus, and 30 extra minutes of sleep. Save $40 today! #sponsored
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