The Rich Hippie

In this episode I share why I will never make a "how to budget for your summer vacation" episode, what I actually do instead (including how my family buys one-way tickets to Delhi every summer and wings it from there), and why the thing you actually need to work on probably isn't a spreadsheet. Also: we hit 100 downloads! Ahh! Thank you for being here.

In this episode, we're talking about why traditional budgeting advice might actually be keeping you stuck - and what to do with that energy instead. If you've built something real, you're earning well, and you're still financially anxious despite doing all the right things, this one is for you. We get into the real opportunity cost of the subtraction mindset, why ikigai is actu...

The first thing I did this week was eat an Egg McMuffin. And that somehow managed to create a theme that I'll be exploring in this episode. What happens when we decide to indulge ourselves? What happens when we drop a ball? How do we reconcile wanting to live a rich, full life with the fact that we have responsibilities that demand more of us? I'm exploring all of that and more today. Be...

What if the most effective financial strategy isn't a budget? What if it was desire? This week, I ran an experiment. Every financial decision I made, I asked myself one question first: do I actually want this? Not should I want it. Not is it in the budget. Just... do I? What I found was counterintuitive and genuinely useful. In this episode: - Why there are three kinds of desire (and only one...

Do you feel fine about money - until you actually look at it? Or maybe you have a plan, you trust it, and somehow money conversations still make you tense. You're not broken. You're just missing one piece. This episode is about what that piece is, why it matters more than anything else in your financial life, and what it looks like when all three finally click into place.

Meera took a Pilates class this morning and almost didn't go, because the last time she tried Pilates, six years ago, she hated it. What changed wasn't the exercise. It was everything around it. In this episode, she unpacks why that matters for your financial life. A better financial advisor helps, but what if the whole model is the mismatch? What if the way mainstream finance was built...

A friend of mine is retired, sold his company for multiple eight figures, and recently told me that the worst place to be financially is between $10 and $100 million. Too much in taxes. Not enough freedom. I sat with that for a second. Because for most of us, a net worth anywhere near that range sounds like the finish line. But what that conversation revealed is something I see constantly: the fin...

I was not supposed to be a financial advisor. And I became one for the most unexpected reason: because I realized that money might be the most powerful tool for good, and that most women aren't using it yet. In this first episode, I'm sharing the origin story: the corporate finance firm, the Strengths Finder results that made my coworkers laugh (connectedness, positivity, belief - appare...