How your family’s capitalist money stories can hold you back
What did you learn about money growing up?
I’d venture to guess that you’ve heard at least one of these:
- “You have to work hard to make money.”
- “Money is the root of all evil.”
- “Good people don’t care about money.”
- “There’s only so much money to go around.”
- “Women are bad with money.”
To make things even more complicated, dominant culture sends conflicting messages with the way the rich and famous are worshipped, taken down, then worshipped again for their wealth.
Maybe you already know that untangling these beliefs is essential to having a healthy money mindset and building your income.
But when you’re an anticapitalist, it can get even trickier to reconcile making more money with making the change you believe in.
Look, I’m all for taxing the shit out of the rich, including myself as my income grows. It is unethical to hoard money, especially when so many people don’t have enough to even survive.
Policies for redistributing wealth, paying reparations, giving workers more than a living wage, and providing real, material improvements to folks’ lives must all be part of fixing the immoral income inequality that’s only growing each year.
What’s also true is this:
My money baggage has gotten in the way of
- negotiating salaries and charging for my work
- saving money for a cushion when the shit hits the fan (hello, mental health crisis of 2021)
- having liquid cash to send to mutual aid, political candidates, abortion funds, etc. at the level I want to
Over the last few years, I’ve learned a lot of tools for untangling my anticapitalist, antiracist values from my ability to earn well for what I do.
Not only is money mindset work essential for taking up space and making an impact, but I’ve embraced at it as my responsibility as a person with so much privilege and access to money that I was previously leaving on the table.
I’m not saying that you have to view earning money exactly the same way that I do.
I am saying that with some money mindset work and strategies for building your income, anticapitalists like us can do a whole lot of good for our communities.
Enter… Money Mindset for Anticapitalists: a TAKE UP SPACE Pop-Up!
In this two-part workshop, I show you how to…
- Unlearn limiting beliefs about money
- Build your income as an anticapitalist
(Btw, if you’re a current TAKE UP SPACE member, you get free access. Check the “Workshops” section inside Circle and you’ll see it!)
♡
Lauren (she/her)
