What is abundance culture? And what does pausing have to do with sustained abundance? These are some of the questions Vanessa Molano (our resident party animal + book nerd) asks us to explore in this conversation.

"I designed a spreadsheet to help you manage your bone$ and circulate that shit."
- Vanessa

Madd Question Askin' from this convo:

• What are some of the alternative ways we can do what we’re trying to do, without the harm?
• How do you manage money in a way where you measure success by the way your relationships feel?
• How do we practice reparations?
• How do we practice valuing healing as the center of financial management?
• How do we do financial management in a collective way? with foundations for inter-class solidarity.
• How do we practice “small is all”?

Highlights from this convo:

7:20 - 7:24 “what’s the point of being alive if you don’t have yourself?” VM

25:59 - 26:02 “For unschooling entrepreneurs, financial creativity is really at the heart of self-direction” ASR

30: 48 - 30:51 “authenticity is the most important thing we have” VM

31:08 - 31:17 “if you turn on the abundance lens, you’ll see that there’s a lot more support for the world that we want” - VM

Links from this convo:

• Vanessa Online
• Akilah’s Content Trunk
• Emergent Strategy by adrienne marie brown

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