How to be a Wallet Activist | Tanja Hester, Author of Wallet Activism
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Tanja Hester is the author of Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Changeand Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way. After spending most of her career as a consultant to Democratic politics and progressive issue campaigns, and before that as a public radio journalist, Tanja retired early at the age of thirty-eight. She documented the process on her award-winning financial independence/retire early (FIRE) blog, Our Next Life.
She's been an outspoken voice in the personal finance media community to consider systemic barriers and opportunity gaps, rather than simply pushing people with lots of advantages already to accumulate more wealth, part of why the New York Times called her "the matriarch of the women's FIRE movement." She hosts a podcast also called Wallet Activism, writes an occasional opinion column for MarketWatch.
To learn more about Tanja, including her public speaking, visit TanjaHester.com. You can follow Tanja on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter & YouTube. & be sure to purchase her new book here.
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| 0:00.0 | I think there's this idea that in order to do good with your money or your financial power, |
| 0:04.5 | that you have to be wealthy already. And I really wanted to dispel that myth with the book, too, because sure, there are some examples where you can do a little bit more if you have more resources. But often if you just opt out of something, you say, no, I'm not going to move out of the starter home. or no, I'm not going to move into the fancy apartment. |
| 0:01.8 | I'm not going to get a new car when my existing car works just fine. |
| 0:05.2 | All of that is... out of something, you say, no, I'm not going to move out of the starter home. Or no, I'm not going to move into the fancy apartment. I'm not going to get a new car when my existing car works just |
| 0:23.5 | fine. All of that is anti-consumerist and good for your own bank balance, investment balance, |
| 0:30.1 | whatever it is. You're listening to Yo Quiero Dino, a personal finance podcast for the modern |
| 0:37.0 | Latina. I'm your host, |
| 0:38.7 | Janice Torres Rodriguez, personal finance expert, speaker, writer, and business coach. |
| 0:44.3 | I teach women of color how to build wealth and gain financial independence through side hustles |
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