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The Queer SpiritCare Chat: Navigating our Relationship to Money Care Chats are short, mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts. Join TanyaMarck + Nick + Hadassah Damien for this heartfelt chat about navigating our relationships to money, challenging capitalism and funding queer joy. Hadassah Damien (she/her) runs Ride Free Fearless Money, an anticapitalist financial education project for queer people, movement folks, and creatives. She is also a design strategist, innovation facilitator, award-winning LGBTQ+ artist, and longtime entrepreneur and business owner. She works with people who want to solve financial sustainability problems in ways that are values-driven. Over the 10 years at her practice, she’s coached ov...2025-04-3016 minThe Queer SpiritCare Chat: Navigating our Relationship to Money Care Chats are short, mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts. Join TanyaMarck + Nick + Hadassah Damien for this heartfelt chat about navigating our relationships to money, challenging capitalism and funding queer joy. Hadassah Damien (she/her) runs Ride Free Fearless Money, an anticapitalist financial education project for queer people, movement folks, and creatives. She is also a design strategist, innovation facilitator, award-winning LGBTQ+ artist, and longtime entrepreneur and business owner. She works with people who want to solve financial sustainability problems in ways that are values-driven. Over the 10 years at her practice, she’s coached ov...2025-04-3016 min
LOVELINKEp 62 — Hadassah Damien & Pippi Kessler — Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Career and Financial Coaching for a Good LifeIn this episode, we talk with career coach Pippi Kessler and financial coach Hadassah Damien about navigating career and financial shifts to create a more fulfilling life. We explore expanding your sense of possibility, embracing change, and breaking the myth that work only counts if it’s a grind. If you’re feeling stuck and ready for a change, Pippi and Hadassah offer insightful, practical advice delivered with warmth and humor. For more on redesigning your work and financial life, check out their podcast series, Have a Nice Life.LOVELINK is hosted by Brooklyn-based therapists Dr. Signe Simo...2025-03-1450 min
Wider RootsBuilding a business that resists capitalism (w/ Bear Hebert)“Reminding ourselves that, that commerce is not the same thing as capitalism. Buying and selling things is a really old thing that human beings have been doing for way longer than capitalism has existed.” Today's episode features anti-capitalist business coach Bear Hebert (they/them). We explore Bear's definition of capitalism as exploitation for profit and discuss principles for running an anti-capitalist business. We examine manipulative tactics often used by entrepreneurs and consider more justice-oriented alternatives.Bear and I discuss the pressure to have an "ideal" business and how to align money-making with our values. With over 20...2024-08-1359 min
Have a Nice LifeBecoming more Satisfied with a Return and Review + the Big RevealYou’re done! Kind of. What if you have made a Big Life Decision, but later you want things in your life to be different? That would make you NORMAL. As you grow and your life changes, your criteria will probably change. We want you to plan to evolve along with your life and be ready to continue to tell yourself the truth about what you want and need.Reflecting and learning - and letting it be ok that you get to change - will help! In this episode we tell stories about our own many ch...2024-05-2947 min
Have a Nice LifeFor now decisions, and how to know when you knowWhen we’re about to make a decision, it can feel high stakes. How do you REALLY know what direction to take - and what if you want to change later? What if your “knowing” or “deciding” buttons are frayed from trauma or operating in survival mode? In our last few episodes we’ve talked about how to reduce the risk of getting it wrong with criteria and prototyping, so today we talk about how to use that information, how to know you know, and what it means to give yourself permission to try a new thing. It’s y...2024-05-221h 00
Have a Nice LifeHow Pilots and Prototypes Will Help YouEven when you have a sense of what you want, it’s reasonable that gathering other kinds of information can be wise, before committing to a specific direction. Pilots and prototypes are kinds of experiments that help you try on or try out a way of living before you fully commit, and are excellent ways to learn things in your body that you can’t learn from imagination or research. We love them! In this episode of Have a Nice Live, Pippi and Hadassah tell stories of our own and some clients’ prototyping that gave us such im...2024-05-1540 min
Have a Nice LifeNetworking and Creating Productive ChaosIf networking sounds horrifying, do! not! fear! In this episode of Have a Nice Life you’ll learn how and why to talk to people and try stuff without any name tag or blazer, the superpower that is productive chaos, the secret stash of people who can help you, and why you don’t need to fake anything to get a lot out of chaos networking.Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a wo...2024-05-0837 min
Have a Nice LifeHow to change and learn safely, no net required.This episode is for anyone who wants to be better at changing and will not spout privileged nonsense about jumping and the net will find you, since that is simply not available to a lot of people. Instead, we’re going to teach you how to make trying things and building towards change safer to try.Change can feel - and be! - risky, but what can you do to reduce that risk and change safely for you? This episode tells stories that examine ways to do this: assessing two-way doors, taking little bites, learning within yo...2024-05-0139 min
Have a Nice LifePulling good-for-you ideas out of a brainstormSo you have a brainstormed and you have seven rough ideas of what your life could be - WELL NOW WHAT? Fear not: in this episode you’ll learn three ways to pull ideas that are good for *you* out of a brainstorm.Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can bu...2024-04-2522 min
Have a Nice LifeBrainstorming career ideasWhat to do with all your context, criteria, and research when you also know in your heart you want to be a sandcastle artist, poet, or person who wishes to preserve their creativity for after work? This episode dives into brainstorming your career ideas - and helps you get around the ways you might halt your brainstorm before it gets good.Have a Nice Life is hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same n...2024-04-171h 01
Have a Nice LifeResearch to expand your ideas part 3: Considering Self EmploymentBONUS episode! What if all your ideas and percolation lead you to wonder about self-employment? In this case, here’s a short series of questions to ask yourself and drive some research into if self-employment is a route you might want to consider. Pippi and Hadassah can both confirm it is both awesome and a ton of extra work. Is it the right thing for you? Listen to learn how to start to figure that out, for you.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational ps...2024-04-1325 min
Have a Nice LifeResearch to expand your ideas part 2: Types of JobsJobs, roles and titles - besides “postal worker” and “firefighter” and “teacher” what other kinds of jobs are out there – and how in the world do you find out what they are, what the people who have them do, and what they’re paid?? This episode details places you can drill into a job type search, to give you ideas for what your next job might be.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check...2024-04-1235 min
Have a Nice LifeExpanding your ideas part 1: Financial ImaginationThis episode walks you through data on the income people need to cover costs, holds your hand as you jump into a pool of numbers, and leads an exercise on how to expand your ideas of what kinds of income are real in the first place.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and organizational psychologist. This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook...2024-04-1025 min
Have a Nice LifeSetting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Going DeeperCreating a vision starts with the details and you’ll come up with more details about your life from these exercises! In this episode, Pippi and Hadassah introduce three more ways to come up with elements of your life - time, money, and imagination - which you’ll use later in the series to inform your ideas. The Have a Nice Life workbook has more detailed, visual versions of these exercises if you prefer to see them like that.Hosted by Hadassah Damien, a money coach and business strategist, and Pippi Kessler, a career coach and orga...2024-04-0635 min
Have a Nice LifeSetting Criteria to Have a Nice Life: Starting with Anti-ableist Self-Acceptance and a Values/Talents MapYou probably don’t know exactly what your ideal work + life shape looks like, and if so you are normal! You might not be sure how to start to imagine such things, or you suspect you’ve buried or cast aside some pieces that might be clues to what you need. In this episode you’ll learn two practices to set criteria about what you want: one about anti-ableist self-acceptance, and another about your values, talents, and desires. These are specifically grounded in what you need and who you are, so you can start to form the sha...2024-04-0335 min
Have a Nice LifeEight Step Framework to Figure Out Your Nice LifeIn this episode we explore the eight steps we’ll take you through in the rest of the series. Both Pippi and Hadassah work with a methodology called Design Thinking, and we’ll be leaning on it in this work, so we learn about how it’s going to be used to help you figure out how to Have a Nice Life [and without any unnecessary corporate lingo, fear not!]. If you're a visual learner and want to see a chart of the framework, you can find the Have a Nice Life workbook on pippikessler.org and rid...2024-03-2731 min
Have a Nice LifeWhy It’s Hard to Figure Out Work That You Want: Systemic ProblemsThis series is about finding jobs we’ll like that provide money to be sustained by; about how not to be ground down and instead more aligned with our values, regardless of how you feel about work. But why is this so hard?In this episode we examine the current moment and historical events that have lead to systemic barriers making finding work that works for you challenging for so many people.Listen to this if you are struggling with feeling like it’s possible to figure out work and money for yourself. And...2024-03-2034 min
Have a Nice LifeWelcome to Have a Nice Life: Meet your HostsWelcome to Have a Nice Life! A miniseries on career changing, from career coach and organizational psychologist Pippi Kessler, and money coach and business strategist Hadassah Damien, two lefty queers who’ve both taken a winding path to good work and stability.In this intro episode we share our backstories and why we’re making this series.This podcast is a companion to a workbook by the same name - check it out if you want more exercises, insights, or guidance.You can buy the workbook on Pippi or Hadassah's webs...2024-03-2036 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsLive Debate: Can you have an anticapitalist business? Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #5In this episode, we discuss the conflicting leftist desires behind wanting to start or scale a business in order to avoid working for the man – and fearing you might turn into “the man” you’re trying to avoid in the first place.We look at the anxieties that come up: exploiting others, making enough money / charging, earning money feeling somehow inherently wrong, being a good boss not a shit one.We also talk the ways running your own business can still be better than other options: sourcing locally, paying living/thriving wages, creating a workplace that doe...2022-06-011h 03Bottom Lines Top DollarsRetirement, or Life After Work: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #4Retirement, the state of having worked in the past but now being done with working, is a troubled concept. Given that it is a marginally possible golden carrot dangled in front of working life, how do you prepare to make it happen, when do you want it to happen, and how can you craft a post-work identity - when it happens or otherwise?For a lot of people, not working is the thing people talk about with the most anxiety.In this episode, we look at the history and concept of retirement in order to...2022-05-251h 19Bottom Lines Top DollarsWooing the unholy trinity to achieve a financial goal: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #3How do you prepare for a big financial purchase? Besides dreaming you also need to scheme because it’s all about putting yourself in a position to woo the unholy trinity: credit, capital, and income. FUN TIMES.We tell you how to get in the best position to get that sweet bank money – yes, get into debt, on purpose – so you can get that tricked out van/pirate sailboat, cooperative farm, or just a regular house or business loan. Learn how to eat the bran muffin of improving your credit, fancy bankerspeak, and get excited to move from t...2022-05-181h 10Bottom Lines Top DollarsAvoid Despair and Dig out of Shitty Debt: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #2Much like the undead, debt can haunt and stalk you and limit what’s possible in your life - that is shitty debt. And however you got this shitty debt, which may be some bullshit: now it’s your bullshit - so now what?This episode guides you through mindsets and steps to deal with the feelings and face debt head on. You’ll learn how to understand your finances in terms of choice and how to use that framework to slay your debt and set yourself up to get ahead - so you can jump on the ac...2022-05-111h 15Bottom Lines Top DollarsGetting a Job That Doesn’t Suck: Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism #1Bottom Lines Top Dollars third season focuses on Practical Ways to Thrive in Capitalism. First - you don’t have to love work, but you don’t want to hate your life. NOW WHAT?In this episode, we explore Jobs That Don’t Suck. Specifically: what makes a job be awful and not, how to get one of these jobs, and what to think about as you’re on your way to the negotiating table for that job. This episode will be relatable if the idea that you’re going to have a job you’re going to love so m...2022-05-041h 25
Cosmic LeadershipMoney Wise with Hadassah DamienHadassah Damien, financial coach, financial planner, technologist and capitalism hacker is on the podcast today! She has also been my best friend for 34 years:) We met by dropping the offering plate in church together, dying laughing and getting kicked out. Good times! In this episode, we discuss both the light and the heavy: -How trauma formed around money can interfere with it showing up and staying in your life; -Our shared cult/religious backgrounds and how they impacted our view of money; -Hadassah’s amazing advice to me as I was trying to fi...2022-05-0347 minBottom Lines Top DollarsListener Mail: Taking Care of your Small Business, from Season Two of Bottom Lines Top DollarsListen up small business owners and future owners, this episode is for you!Having a business can directly grind against punk-credible assumptions and preferences: you’ll have to work with government systems and try to make money after all. Cuz if you fail, you [and your employees!] may have to work for The Man again.We’re here to help in this episode. Learn how to manage the Ways You Might Have to Interact with the Government as a Small Business, and How To Provide For Myself and Others Doing Something I Like Without Feeling Icky...2022-04-271h 24
Bottom Lines Top DollarsThe Old Punks Guide To Your Future After No FutureThis is our final episode of Season 2 and our final journey through this season's theme of punk storytelling as a mechanism for understanding our own relationships with money. And in this episode, The Ladies Who Crunch give our dear listeners an end-of-season parting gift: A guide to building a strategy to change your life! From the lofty process of visioning all the way back down to earth-bound planning tools, this episode's goal is an old school DIY workshop for giving yourself a future after the punk paradigm of "no future" stops working for you. Using our own e...2021-07-1559 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsBorn to Lose: Is "The Game" Rigged Against Us? And Other Punk Bedtime StoriesLeonard Cohen said, “the poor stay poor, the rich get rich, that’s how it goes, and everybody knows”. Well, once you know, then what? In punk culture, there's a general understanding that the world is fucked up and unfair. But what does that actually mean? If the outcome of the game is predetermined (and you are pretty sure you are a born loser), then what do you do? Do you walk away from the table? Flip it? Set it on fire? Try to cheat? If winning this game makes you a capitalist pig but losing means you don...2021-07-0848 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsA Guide to Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Death and MoneyIn this episode the Ladies Who Crunch go deep into the dark topic of dealing with death, both that of the people you are connected to in this life and (eventually) your own. Whether you are terrified of talking about it or you’re that goth kid who loves to talk about it or you’re just that punk for whom living fast and dying young just didn’t happen (yet), this episode gets hella practical about the money issues that intersect with death: funerals, wills, settling an estate, inheritance, and that one other unavoidable aspect of live: TAXES.I...2021-06-2457 min
SheVenturesWhy LGBTQ+ Distrusts Big Finance and What’s Next With Hadassah DamienTwenty percent of LGBTQ+ people say they are “much worse off” financially because of the pandemic, compared with only 11 percent of the general population. Hadassah Damien, queer femme writer, digital technologist, and financial strategist joins us to provide actionable tips for the LGBTQ+ community to take control of their finances today. Damien grew up in a single-parent household where she experienced financial challenges. She entered adulthood believing money was unattainable. But as Damien embraced nonprofits, community art, archiving and #vanlife in her 20s, she taught herself personal finance basics — and put herself through grad school. When Da...2021-06-2153 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsLove, Hate and Tips: How Variable Earnings Are Rigged to Make it Risky to WorkIn this episode the Ladies Who Crunch reflect on the coolest and best paid jobs that we all worked (or wanted to work) in our punk days, which were all strangely gigs that involved earning tips (bartenders, strippers, fancy restaurant workers), and ask, "was that shit actually as good as we thought?" And from that starting point, we go deep into the economics of tipping cultures: the good, the bad, the inequitable!In this episode we discuss: How jobs compensated by tips create income precarity for the worker in the present and (potentially) in the future H...2021-06-1739 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsPunk House of My Dreams: Living With Others in Collective Financial Bliss (or At Least Not Pain)Under capitalism we are all supposed to be self-sufficient, competitive and selfish individuals if we want to ensure we have (more than) what we need in life. Punk culture has long defined itself in opposition to this, choosing to build up beautiful communal sand castles. But how do we continue to work towards building communal wealth with lovers, partners, friends and our overall community without falling into all the same old conflicts that led the punk houses of our youth to fall apart? In this episode of BLTD, the Ladies Who Crunch explore tactics for creating harmonious c...2021-06-1054 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsThe Trick to Figuring Out "Your Worth" in the Market When That Phrase Makes No Damn Sense To YouHow do you value your time? Especially when we’re also forced to value our labor time: does anyone really have a grasp on what “enough” money is, when it’s our lives we are trading it for?This episode grapples with ways to approach understanding whether what we are earning is "enough" (or maybe even too much?) to sustain what we want and need in life, especially if you are struggling to transition from a punk/artist/non-profit or otherwise alternative economic lifestyle to one that doesn't force you into unhealthy precarity. The Ladies Who Crunch walk you...2021-06-0351 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsDebt Cancellation and Exploring the Ethics of DebtWestern narratives LOVE the “hero,” but it’s much more punk to be in touch with the reality of the many people who feel they are losing out.In this day and age, that means people who have burdensome debt. 13% of Americans expect to be in debt the rest of their lives, and most people with student loans feel confident they will never go away. This experience is in stark contrast to the methodology of leverage that wealthy individuals and well-capitalized organizations employ, using debt as cheap capital and not a life sentence.In this episod...2021-05-2744 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsOur Tragic Minimum Wage Jobs and the More Tragic History of Minimum WageIn this episode, the Ladies Who Crunch explore minimum wage, living wages, and the idea of maximum wages. Income inequality in the US and Canada is worse than it was in the 90s, and we were mad about it then, when we worked minimum wage jobs.Stories you’ll hear include: what minimum wages jobs we’ve had, who was the last person in your family to make minimum wage, and were they able to live off it? You’ll learn how minimum wage relates to living wages [hint: it’s lower than the basic minimum needed] and how...2021-05-2146 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsOrigin Stories: From Queer Punk Anti-capitalist Outsiders to Finance Insiders?!Kicking off BLTD’s second season on punk and money, Laura Boo and Hadassah go back into their punk origin stories from the 90s to analyze the time-hardened debate: is it more punk to drop out of society and not work, or to “robin hood” your employment and extract from the extractors while doing the minimum?Outsider experiences have a lot to tell us about the underbelly of our social systems, and for decades punks and other counterculture types have cultivated lives outside the work+spend til death norm. Values like anti-oppression, anticorporate, antiauthoritarian, anti-consumer, anti-globalization, and on dri...2021-05-141h 00
Bottom Lines Top DollarsMutual Aid, Gift Economies and What Comes After the PandemicIn our final episode of Season 1, we take a hot minute to reflect on the year that was 2020 and what it might mean for our future. Specifically, we dig into the massive wave of grassroots and hyper-local mutual aid responses to the COVID19 crisis and how these events are both tied to a deep and rich history but also potentially to a better future. We discuss how disasters and moments of crisis can create turning points of change, and how that change grows upward from community responses rather than coming from the top down. We connect this back to...2020-12-1652 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsListener Mail: Tax Tips for the Self-Employed, Book Recommendations & Money Psychics!In this episode the Ladies Who Crunch open up the mail bag and answer questions sent by listeners! This episode includes: Some great end-of-year tax tips for those who are self-employed (aka "sole proprietors") A dive deep into the murky world of tax write offs and how they are both legit and necessary for anyone running a business and also ripe for abuse by those with the means to get away with it. A list of book recommendations about envisioning post-capitalist worlds, alternative ways of exchange, eco-activist personal finance theories, debt forgiveness and revolutionary histories. Psychics! If you have questions, don't...2020-12-0943 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsIs There Such a Thing as Ethical Investing?In this week's episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars we discuss a question that many punks, weirdos, leftists, environmentalists and anti-capitalists ask themselves when they become financially stable: what do I do with my extra money? Investing your excess cash is an important way to save towards retirement, but can it be done ethically? Is it possible to grow your savings without contributing to bad things in the world (massive carbon emissions, pollution, unfair and exploitative labour practices, etc). Concerns about the ethical implications of investing your money can sometimes keep people from taking action for their own futures. In...2020-12-0250 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsClimate NihilismThe climate crisis is here and it is scary as hell. So scary that it is tempting to close your eyes (and maybe even scroll past this episode). But please don't do that. Instead, let the Ladies Who Crunch walk you through where those feelings of climate despair, grief and nihilism come from, strategies for facing them (surprisingly similar to strategies for facing down your personal finance fears) and concrete actions you can take to use your personal economic power to fight climate change. Questions we ask in this episode include: What is climate nihilism and how do...2020-11-2549 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsReparationsThe Black Lives movement and other grassroots movements for racial justice have worked tireless to push the issue of reparations for descendants of enslaved people into the spotlight of American politics. In the last year the issue has been hotly debated with some insisting on their necessity and others disqualifying them as impractical or impossible. In most instances when politicians or others don't support reparations, it is for issues of economic impracticality. And this is where the Ladies Who Crunch step into the debate. In this episode we ask: What are reparations? What is their purpose and g...2020-11-1847 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsElection Campaign MoneyA special episode for election day! As you are waiting in endless lines to cast your ballot or obsessively refreshing your browser waiting for the results, tune in to The Ladies Who Crunch as they dig into the money behind the candidates. What is the history of campaign election financing in the United States? How does it compare to other democratic countries? Does the candidate with the most money always win? Or does the flood of big campaign donations just indicate who people think is most likely to win (and therefore who they want to curry favor with)? Do m...2020-11-0331 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsBillionairesWhich group of 2604 people made $900 billion so far during the 2020 pandemic while 400 million people around the world experienced income loss? Which group of people have, in the last 12 years, grown their ranks by more than 250%? Which group of people does the world love to hate but maybe secretly wish they were a part of, even if it is totally against their current self-interest? You guessed it! BILLIONAIRES. This echelon of the global elite has wealth that is beyond comprehension, but what does having so much wealth concentrated in the hands of the few do to the world? In this...2020-10-2955 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsUniversal Basic IncomeUniversal Basic Income (UBI) has a reputation as a fringe idea that would be impossible to implement in the real world. But when the pandemic shutdown sent the global economy into freefall, both Canada and the U.S. stepped in with direct payments to their citizens that came very close to a national UBI model. Was this the unintentional experiment that proved the viability of the theory? After six months of economic upheaval and staring down the barrel of potentially worse to come, UBI is being discussed by economists, activists, academics, and (finally!) politicians from both sides of the...2020-10-2141 min
Bottom Lines Top DollarsHousing & the PandemicWhether you are a renter or a homeowner, housing is probably your largest single expense and maybe one of your biggest stress points. The strain of meeting rising housing costs has been a hot topic ever since the great recession, but since the pandemic started, things have only gotten more difficult. In this inaugural episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars, the Ladies Who Crunch talk about how the pandemic has affected the economics of housing. Issues discussed include rent strikes, housing bubbles, how interest rates and housing supply has caused a spike in the price of homes, big-city exoduses...2020-10-141h 03
Bottom Lines Top DollarsPre-show (why are we making this?)One afternoon in early Fall of 2020, two friends talk casually over zoom about why they want to make a podcast about money, (anti)capitalism, economics, and politics from a queer and working-class perspective. Unscripted and not originally intended for distribution, this pre-show lets you get to know The Ladies Who Crunch (Hadassah Damien & Laura Boo) before they became the hosts of Bottom Lines, Top Dollars. 2020-10-0529 min
Bevin: A Femme Over 40 and her Friends39. Hadassah Damien on Bossing Up in Finances and Creating the Life of Your DreamsHadassah Damien founded Ride Free Fearless Money in 2015 with the goal to help folks understand finances and get out of the ACK! that so many of us feel when looking at our bank statements. In this episode we talk about her rise to financial literacy through many permutations. Raised evangelical Christian and poor, to coming out as a queer, getting into DIY media then eventually tech and now working as a banker with her side business helping folks feel more confident with money. She is a true glitterdone queen and shares her strategies for time management!
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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern RelationshipsMoney & Multiple PartnersThis week we're joined by Hadassah Damien to talk about money and finances! Hadassah is the founder of Ride Free Fearless Money, a finance consulting firm that helps empower people's relationship to money. During this episode, she gives some valuable insight and tips for non-monogamous people struggling to deal with money, especially when discussing it with partner(s). Visit Hadassah's website, ridefreefearlessmoney.com, to get access to her blog and for some great financial resources. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free...2020-05-261h 11
????Resilience is Ours: Voices from the Allied Media ConferenceResilience is deeply necessary for us to survive and thrive, but it can often be imposed, distorted, or misunderstood. So we wanted to hear from our people what it means to them, and how they cultivate it for themselves.
This past June, our podcast volunteer team from all over the country took a trip to Detroit together for the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference (AMC), and hosted a workshop called Healing Justice Podcast Story Lab. We set up recording booths and asked participants to share the experiences, practices, and relationships that sustained them in their justice journey on the mics. I...2019-03-0629 min
Money-Wise WomenMoney Conversations for Economic Justice with Hadassah DamienYour silence will not protect you from economic tyranny. Talking about money is essential, even when it’s uncomfortable. I’m not suggesting that you discuss exclusively personal finances. Let’s also talk about debt as a system of domination and how we cooperate in a post-growth economy. Let’s learn to disengage from predatory systems and liberate […]
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