Money stories surround us. Some we choose, others choose us. Either way, we are impacted. I’ve been wanting to explore money through the crucible of theater for several years, yet told myself in a stern and loving voice “not yet….not now, you have too much on your plate.” Then in January the time had come, keep reading »
Today I offer you an interview with Oralee Stiles… she is a spiritual director and minister, who lives life fully, isn’t above skinny dipping with twenty women half her age, and is newly engaged to her beloved, Harry. They’ve known each other since attending a church camp in Wisconsin when they were 13 years old, keep reading »
wo months into my year of Plenty I’ve already been transformed. On New Year’s Eve 2013 I did a ritual about stepping through my resistance to wealth and releasing my remaining business debt. What I noticed in 2013 was that my business revenue jumped 40%, but my own salary grew by less than 10%. I keep reading »
On Monday, our visual money inspiration came straight from my sketchbook. It’s a word-play image about what “Plenty” means to me. I’ve been allowing myself to explore, and thought to myself… maybe you too would like to play with Plenty! I’ve made a template that you can print out to fill-in your own Plentygram. Note: keep reading »
I’ve been thinking about freedom—and more specifically financial freedom. When I was in my early thirties I had a conversation with my therapist about freedom. I was in graduate school at the time, and was in a tug of war with the part of me that was a world traveling gypsy and the part of keep reading »
Introducing my first guest blog! Jackie Peterson, from Better, Smarter, Richer is my special guest this week! Jackie Peterson has been helping creative entrepreneurs develop business savvy for more than a decade. If only I’d known her, and learned from her when I was running my wearable art business! Oh, would I have keep reading »
I’m starting the party early! The party started the day my kickstarter campaign was successfully funded, allowing me to get 1,000 sets of my Wild Money books printed and shipped to me here in Portland. Kickstarter backers got rewards ranging from art prints from the book to sets of books and VIP invites to my keep reading »
We tend to be overly anxious and afraid to look at our money, or where the gaps are in our understanding of money. Fear influences the stories we tell ourselves which are often misleading, masking where we really are with imagined worst-case scenarios. Knowing where you are, on the other hand, brings some peace keep reading »