Boost Net Worth & Serendipity + a Forbes Feature

Hi Sheconomist Insider 👋 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:

• 🫧 How can you create a larger surface area for serendipity?

• 💫 A vision board template you’ll 💚

• 💰 My net worth increased by $85k in 2024 with little effort - this is how you can set yourself up for financial success early

• 📰 Find out why Forbes quoted me!!

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🧪 Freedom Formulas

I love this story of how a female founder got her products to sell at Bloomingdale’s.

She has a skincare brand.

And built her brand and customer base primarily on TikTok.

One day, this founder is going to the nail salon for a manicure.

A few minutes in, the lady next to her strikes up a conversation:

“Are you Jade?”

“Yes, I am.”

“I have seen your videos and love them. I’m a buyer at Bloomingdale’s. We should chat.”

Well, and the rest is history.

Why am I sharing this story?

Because it demonstrates that being brave enough to put yourself out there can pay off massively.

Building a personal brand and creating moments of visibility for yourself and the things you deeply care about creates a larger surface area for serendipity.

And in this oversaturated world, we can all use a little more serendipity.

So next time you’re coming up with yet another excuse for why you can’t show up on social media (we’ve all been there 😉), ask yourself this:

What will have the bigger impact on my career?

Starting to build a personal brand or attending yet another meeting that could have been an email instead?

❣️ Thamina’s Top Picks

💫 I loooove Simran Kaur’s (Founder of Girls That Invest) vision board template. I just created mine and highly recommend you do the same!

🎁 My partner gifted me this BEAUTIFUL necklace as an early birthday present and I’m obsessed. (woman-founded + Emma Watson is a customer!!)

🍸 My friend Aish is the Co-Founder and CEO of "A Fresh Sip”, a non-alcoholic beverage shop and I adore their new branding. (As someone who rarely drinks alcohol anymore, I love all of these tasy N/A alternatives)

🎙️ How Rebecca Minkoff and Ali Wyatt Are Cultivating a Community of Powerful Female Founders (CEO School podcast by Suneera Madhani)

✨ This week’s Moodboard

Post credits go to @poiseparadise via etsy, @TheDigitalSideChick via etsy, Lexi Monroe, storenvy.com

💸 Cooking up Wealth

My net worth increased by $85,000 over the last 6 months alone. If I had to start from scratch, here’s what I would do to set myself up for financial success in my 20s: