I Try to Be Transparent About My Level of Privilege
What We Spend
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🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Morgan works as a consultant, but her income is not the only thing making her life possible. She’s opening up about her financial privilege, her relationship to it, and why she thinks more people should do the same.
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| 0:00.0 | A heads up before you listen. This podcast is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. |
| 0:07.4 | We are not financial advisors. You should always do your own research and consult your own financial advisor |
| 0:13.3 | before spending or investing your money. Please note that all income, financial information, |
| 0:19.3 | and expenses in what we spend are self-reported. |
| 0:24.7 | Before our interview, I asked you to fill out a form with, like, all of your numbers and some |
| 0:30.4 | basic questions about your life. And one of the things that you said in that form that I thought |
| 0:35.9 | was so real was, I hope I don't get haters |
| 0:39.1 | from this interview. Why did you say that? Because I get haters all the time. I'm a woman who |
| 0:44.9 | exists on the internet and especially when I talk about money and privilege from the context of |
| 0:50.1 | this is kind of bullshit that I have this privilege. It's pure luck of the draw. It has a lot to do |
| 0:55.7 | with the color of my skin and the privilege that my parents were grown into. And people are |
| 1:00.4 | really upset to hear about that on both ends of the spectrum, whether they benefit from privilege |
| 1:04.8 | or whether they are knocked down by other people's privilege. |
| 1:17.2 | This is Morgan, and she's 41 years old. |
| 1:23.0 | And I'm spending this ski season in Bend, Oregon, but I travel full time, and I don't really live anywhere, or I live everywhere. |
| 1:24.9 | What made you decide to do that originally? |
| 1:27.1 | Well, I had owned property |
| 1:29.2 | before. I kind of hated everything about it, including the facts that I would have made way more |
| 1:33.7 | money if I'd invested in Bitcoin at the same time that I'd invested in my property. And it felt |
| 1:38.4 | very tied down. And so I sold those properties and decided I wanted to find a place where I felt less tied down. |
| 1:45.8 | And it turns out there's no one place that feels that way. |
| 1:48.8 | Morgan has also sought out work that makes her feel less tied down. |
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