Taking Yourself on a Money Date

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:

• 💻 4 critical career & money reframes

• 📖 The best journal to reflect on this past year

• 💸 Take yourself on a Money Date

• 💜 Meet Katie Kirsch, Founder of lume & Forbes 30 Under 30 Lister

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🧪 Freedom Formulas

4 CRITICAL career & money reframes I wish I had known about earlier in my career:

💰 1. Don't use your salary to buy STUFF, use your salary to buy:

✅ experiences that either help you learn and grow OR allow you to create invaluable memories with loved ones

✅ assets that make you more money and compound over time

⏳ 2. Being busy doesn't equal being productive. Just because everyone around you is spending their time a certain way doesn't mean it is a good use of YOUR time.

✅ Become really freakin' good at identifying the true needle movers in your career and ruthlessly prioritize those every single week

✅ The Eisenhower Matrix & Pareto Principle are powerful tools to help you prioritize

❌ 3. Conformity comes with a high opportunity cost

✅ Conforming leads to you suppressing your values, creativity, and quite frankly your true potential - no job, company, or individual is worth that cost

✅ If you try to speak to or appeal to everyone, you end up speaking to no one. Being likable is not the goal. Having an impact - for yourself and for the people you serve - is the goal.

⚡ 4. Make asymmetrical bets where the potential upside is significantly greater than the potential downside

✅ Building a personal brand, investing in early-stage companies, creating content online, moving abroad - all great examples of where the potential upside far outweighs the downside

✅ Read up on Naval Ravikant's take on asymmetrical opportunities

Follow just one of these and you'll already stand out from the rest.

Follow all of them and you will become unstoppable.

❣️ Thamina’s Top Picks

🎙️ Two worlds collided: One of my mentors and role models interviewed another one of my mentors and role models - Two powerhouses in the online business world!

🫖 I’ve never been this excited about a household item - this is how you know you’re in your 30s - she’s such a beauty though

📖 One of my favorite journals & planners to reflect on the previous year and set goals for the coming year - I don’t keep up with a weekly or monthly journal (even though I should) but do like to buy one to reflect and make overarching goals over the holidays

🖋️ This would be a nice gesture to let your mentors/sponsors/biggest supporters know how much you appreciate them

✨ This week’s Moodboard

Post credits go to anne., ₊ ⊹ addi ⊹ ₊, Karen Lea, ☥

💸 Cooking up Wealth

Here’s why you should take yourself on a money date!

I do this once a month but here’s what’s important: