Hi, this is Major. I want to tell you about a podcast from Marketplace called

Financially-Inclined. Hosted by Financial Literacy Advocate Janelli Espinal,

Financially- teaches listeners money lessons

to help young adults live life their own way. The new season of Financially

inclined out now covers topics ranging from how to build credit

and avoid online scams to how to outsmart impulsive buying.

Financially Incl inclined is presented in partnership with Green Light, the debit card and money app for teens.

Green Light helps teens learn to earn, spend wisely, and invest.

Tune into financially inclined, wherever you find your podcast. I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

I spend the summer.

I spend the summers and winter holidays in Vermont on the side of a mountain.

It's the closest I come to living off the grid.

I romanticize disconnecting but could never commit. I love modern

amenities too much. I'm not a reckless. I really enjoy being around people.

Yet the wild outdoors gives me a perspective on it all that I find hard to gain while in the stream of my city life.

One British poet wrote in another century that there is pleasure in the pathless woods.

Here I encounter bears, wild turkey, great-gray owls, foxes, and moose.

Instead of street noise, the chattering of the red-eye vario, nut hatch, chickadee, and many other birds

fill the air. I can meditate for days in the quiet of the forest. But it is here too that a

snowstorm and heavy rains have cut me off from the rest of the world.

For nearly four days my off-grid living ramped up.

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