🫧 5 Things I've Stopped Doing at Work to Protect my Ambition & Peace

Hi Sheconomist community 👋 It’s Thamina, Founder of The Sheconomist. This is your bi-weekly dose of celebrating the female economy where I help ambitious, purpose-driven women like yourself flip the script on money, career & wellbeing conventions so you can live life on your own terms.

TLDR:

• 🫧 5 things I’ve stopped doing at work to protect my ambition and inner peace

• ♻️ Introducing my Referral Program (you can win prizes!!)

• 💫 This week’s Moodboard is about confidence & alignment

• 💰 Being disciplined with your financial goals

• 🦄 Serena Williams is invested in how many unicorns?!?!

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🧪 Freedom Formulas

5 Things I’ve Stopped Doing at Work:

Overrated: Habitually conforming.

Underrated: Protecting your ambition and peace.

It’s so easy to succumb to what most people expect you to do.

Especially when you’re working a corporate job.

But guess what?

Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn’t mean it’s serving you and your priorities.

Here are 5 things I have stopped doing at work

(and what I’m doing instead):

Becoming more protective of where and how you spend your time and energy can truly accelerate your career AND positively impact your wellbeing.

There is no one size fits all.

Some people might love taking early meetings or drinking alcohol.

What’s important is that you take ownership of YOUR time and how YOUR actions impact your professional and personal trajectory.

🏆 Win Prizes for Referring Your Friends

I’m committed to making this newsletter the best it can be. And I want YOU, my incredible community, to be a part of this journey.

Which is why I want to reward you for sharing The Sheconomist with your friends. Each of you will have their own unique referral code that allows me to keep tabs on how many people you’ve referred to this newsletter.

Here are the different Tiers for May 2024 and what each threshold will get you:

• 5 Referrals: A list of some of my favorite personal finance & investing books, podcast episodes, calculators, money trackers & apps

• 10 Referrals: You will be entered into a raffle for a $50 gift card for your woman-owned brand of your choice (note: in order to qualify, you must refer 10 people by May 31)

• 17 Referrals: You will get 45 minutes of 1:1 time with me over Zoom ($350 value). I can answer any questions you might have about personal finance, investing, career development, building a personal brand. I take very few networking these days, so opportunities like these are rare and usually reserved for friends and paying clients.

Please note: This referral program is only available to email subscribers so if you are accessing this post via the web version, unfortunately you won’t have access.

❣️ Thamina’s Top Picks

🎙️ Breaking the Silence: Why our Female Friendships Need More Conflict + Communication (Almost 30 Podcast)

📚 Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey (my therapist recommended this to me)

📽️ Obsessed with this Reel (some serious Hype Woman energy 🔥)

✍️ My Rule for Avoiding Lifestyle Creep: Don’t Live Beyond Your Assets (Money with Katie Blog)

✨ This week’s Moodboard

Post credits go to @babyyyriii, @newhappyco, @WeAmourAmara via @the_female_lead, @such_an_aries

💸 Cooking up Wealth

Being disciplined when it comes to your financial goals

Last week, I shared that I had reached a significant financial milestone on my Instagram story: Having funded more than half of my “Fuck You Fund” (more on why I strongly believe EVERY woman should have a FU Fund here).

One of my community members replied to my story asking how I was able to be disciplined enough to not just spend that money and splurge.

And because I thought this question might be relevant to more people, I wanted to pull back the curtain and share the brief conversation we had with all of you.

Key takeaways and questions you should ask yourself:

• How can I make my savings less accessible so I can pretend the money doesn’t even exist to prevent temptation? (I, of course, would highly recommend putting it in a High Yield Savings Account - I personally use this one)

• If I were to visualize my future, what higher purpose would these savings serve? (Are you saving for your dream home, a sabbatical, turning your passion into your career, traveling around the world, retiring your parents?)

• Saving is not about depriving yourself. It’s about having a real honest conversation with yourself about what actually adds value to your life and prioritizing and de-prioritizing accordingly.

I don’t believe in money shaming. Shame and guilt are indicative of a scarcity mindset. An abundance mindset is what will lead to true wealth, wealth that you and your loved ones can actually enjoy.

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it’s meant to be educational only, always do your own research.

🌊 Women Making Waves

• 🦄 Play To Win: Serena Williams Invested In 14 Unicorn Companies - She launched Serena Ventures in 2014, a venture capital fund aimed at supporting women and founders from underrepresented groups

• 🎨 Artist Andrea Jacobsen is Painting 100 Women in Dresses and it’s beautiful Her shop only opens up a few times a year and the next opening is May 3-5

• 🩺 Virtual Care Provider Midi Health Secures $60M in Series B Funding to Advance Perimenopause and Menopause Care Over 1.2 billion women globally will be experiencing menopause by 2030, with a majority facing disruptive symptoms that affect their quality of life

Enjoyed this? Don’t forget to refer a friend (or five 😉) to start winning prizes. You can find your unique referral link below.

In abundance,

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